Ario Elami: Numinous Altars

Bio

Ario Elami is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts’ graduate program in Boston, MA. Elami works exclusively on paper in an often limited palette, with the resulting works resembling prints or bookplates. They appear to be timeless, as if found from a remote past in a secret library. Each piece resembles the type of anthropological or archeological drawings made to document temples, palaces, sacrificial sites, or necropolises found in jungles, and not fully understood by their discoverers. Elami, in depicting undefined architectural sites of relics or ruins, allows us to dream of uses both sacred and profane; to explore the tension between human design and nature on the verge of reclaiming its primacy. Elami’s latest art has developed in tandem with an understanding of the earliest architecture as numinous altars, and a perception of nature as a roiling mass of aggressive life, perpetuating itself through overabundance. In this vision, architecture manifested out of violent, spiritual rituals, externalizing what is internal. Elami sees architecture, revitalized with its primitive and mythopoeic qualities, as a portal back to a cosmos overflowing with meaning and mystery.

Courthouse Gallery
1 Lower Amherst Street
Lake George, NY 12845
518-668-2616

Hours: Wednesday – Friday: 12:00 – 5:00 PM Saturday: 12:00 – 4:00 PM

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outside of gallery hours please contact
June Waters, Director of Exhibitions june@lakegeorgearts.org 518-668-2616

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