Jeffly Gabriela Molina Venezuela, b. 1989
Mirror, 2017
Oil on linen
54 x 54 in
137.2 x 137.2 cm
137.2 x 137.2 cm
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Jeffly Molina’s paintings wrestle with the alchemy between seeing and feeling—that is to say, between precise optical perception and the fleeting moments of memory and emotion that fill everyday life....
Jeffly Molina’s paintings wrestle with the alchemy between seeing and feeling—that is to say, between precise optical perception and the fleeting moments of memory and emotion that fill everyday life. Each composition is an amalgam of poetry, memory, personal experience and communal relationships—a metaphysical data point; a captured glimpse of a half remembered day dream.
Like Marianne Moore, Molina’s favorite poet, who was known both for imaginative language and precise diction, Molina developed an aesthetic position that is both poetic and structured. Her work is haunting, dreamlike, and conceptually open—yet meticulously constructed and thought out. She is inspired by the challenge of expressing ideas, which are inherently abstract, as pictures, which are inherently concrete. She strives to make each picture come alive, so viewers will see in it something that reminds them of themselves.
Like Marianne Moore, Molina’s favorite poet, who was known both for imaginative language and precise diction, Molina developed an aesthetic position that is both poetic and structured. Her work is haunting, dreamlike, and conceptually open—yet meticulously constructed and thought out. She is inspired by the challenge of expressing ideas, which are inherently abstract, as pictures, which are inherently concrete. She strives to make each picture come alive, so viewers will see in it something that reminds them of themselves.
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS2018 Suspiro, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 Efforts of Affection, Kruger Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 My Business is Circumference, Kruger Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 The Moth & The Light, Maybe Sunday gallery, Chicago, IL | Curators: Jason Guo, McKenzie Thompson
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Chicago Show, 56 Downing St, Brooklyn, NY | Curator: Madeleine Mermall Please Touch: Body Boundaries, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ | Curator: Ysabel Pinyol
2017 Fabricating Truth, COMO Metropolitan Miami Beach, FL | Curators: Ysabel Pinyol, Alexandra Fowle Wasteland Dream, LVL3, Chicago, IL City Remix, Concrete Space & Ker Gallery, Doral, FL | Curators: Christopher Barake, Marcelo Llobell Wild Cuts, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 ADAD/ a Soiree in Commemoration, Abteilung für Alles Andere, Berlin, Germany MFA Show 2016, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, Chicago, IL
2015 Printing Strategies - The Voice of the Medium, Salzburg International Academy, Salzburg, Austria
2014 ‘Yes, you’re in Heaven’ Chicago, IL | Curator: Sara Van de Walle and Jeffly Gabriela Molina
2013 3rd Nadine’s Gallery Annual Exhibition for Female Artists, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain| Curator: Nadine AlShaikh
2012 People Vs. Space, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL | Curators: Bo Rodda, John Manning, and Jaume Plensa Where you and I End and we Begins, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, USA | BFA Exhibition Fall 2012
2011 Chairtime, Public Performance & Installation Art, Chicago, IL USA
2009 Magick Night, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL USA | Invitational Drawings & Paintings, Artseen, Miami, FL | Jurors: Aramis O’Reilly, Associate Professor, and Maggy Cuesta, Dean of Visual Arts, NWSA
2008 Being a box in a BOX, Performance Installation, Miami Dade College, Wolfson, Miami, FL Rising Stars, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL | Jurors: Mark Coetzee, Rubell Family Collection Director, and Maggy Cuesta, Dean of Visual Arts, NWSA
2006 Actualidad Plastica Tachirense, Manuel Osorio Velasco Gallery, Táchira, Venezuela | Invitational Arte Vertice Gallery, San Cristobal, Táchira, Venezuela | Curator: Freddy Pereira