LAURA RATHE FINE ART

BEYOND REVERIE
Interference
Nina Tichava and Lucrecia Waggoner.

October 5, 2024 – November 9, 2024

Laura Rathe Fine Art announces Beyond Reverie a two woman exhibition featuring new works
by Nina Tichava and Lucrecia Waggoner. LRFA will be hosting the opening reception on Saturday, October 5th from 5:00 – 8:00pm at their Dallas Design District gallery.

Beyond Reverie celebrates two artists’ relationship with the natural world and the meditative processes inspired therein. Working in-between the physical and incorporeal world, Nina Tichava and Lucrecia Waggoner form delicate yet purposeful compositions.

Turning to her picturesque surroundings in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Nina Tichava combines mediums and techniques that pull from printmaking, textiles, and architecture. While her work seems geometric at first glance, further inspection reveals the organic textures that blend and soften the perfect circles and parallel lines. Reconciling natural elements with man-made, Tichava builds complex layers that harmonize across the composition. Dreamy fields of color mesh with thousands of beads of paint, meticulously placed one by one as Tichava works in a meditative reverie to complete her vision.

Each hand-thrown vessel of Lucrecia Waggoner’s sprawling installations is a monument to her connection to the earth. While she molds porcelain into shapes inspired by nature, Waggoner balances abstract representation and organic serenity. Each piece is one of a much larger whole as Waggoner’s dynamic installations activate their environment, transforming the space in a lyrical dance of porcelain, precious metal leafing, and vibrant oil paint. Waggoner’s vessels spill across the wall in constellations of delicate forms, mapped with deep reverence for the world around us.

Beyond Reverie will be on view until November 9th, 2024

ABOUT NINA TICHAVA
Nina Tichava was raised in both rural northern New Mexico and the Bay Area in California. She was influenced by her father, a construction worker and mathematician and by her mother, who is an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities—country to city, pragmatist to artist, nature to technology—are essential to and evident in her paintings. Nina is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award Grant in 2007 and has exhibited professionally since 2009. She received her BFA from California College of the Arts [+ Crafts] in San Francisco/Oakland.

ABOUT LUCRECIA WAGGONER
Dallas-based artist Lucrecia Waggoner discovered ceramics at the age of seven while taking an arts and crafts course at the Museo Nacional de Antropología. She later moved to Dallas earning her BFA in ceramics at SMU. Previously a student of Parsons School of Design in New York, Waggoner has also continued her studies with courses and workshops in France, Germany, and Hong Kong. Her work is a part of numerous private and public collections, including Toyota, BBVA Compass, Virage Capital Management, Plains Capital Bank, Chileno Bay, Cabo and Norwegian Cruise Lines.

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