The Energy Within

Paintings and works on paper by Amy Marino Lyons and Christina Sucgang

Opening reception Friday, May 13, 2022, 6-9 pm

Exhibition dates May 14, 2022  to July 1, 2022

Meantime Co. is pleased to present a two person exhibition of paintings and works on paper by 

Amy Marino Lyons and Christina Sucgang titled The Energy Within. These artists share an interest in the conveyance of ethos through the depiction of space.

Marino Lyons was first inspired by a desk she stumbled upon. Like an archaeologist, she observed the tools, notes and stashes, and took a photograph to preserve the moment. Similarly, she noticed the disappearance of older homes in her Brooklyn neighborhood. She began painting these buildings as an attempt to not only preserve them, but to capture the personality they exude. Like the desks, she gazes upon an intimate space, giving us an alternate portrait of the owners. Capturing the energy of the spaces and places with line and color, Marino Lyons faithfully depicts them as emblems of that place and time, and the people who inhabit them. 

Working within a set of self prescribed constraints, Sucgang starts a painting with a grid, and then begins to create disruptions to the structure. She breaks it down, opens it up, and changes the direction of the lines to articulate dimensionality, render abstraction, and convey energy and emotion. Using line, color, and texture, the dichotomies of chaos and order are made explicit. Sucgang’s paintings circumvent language to express a sense of being alive. She regards abstraction as the conveyance of deeply human ethos- such as the experience of beauty and spirituality. Like Marino Lyons, Sucgang’s work aims to make the invisible, visible. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Amy Marino Lyons holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2002 she earned a coveted place in the United Scenic Artists local 829 union apprenticeship program and works as a set painter, muralist, and illustrator. In 2017 the Leonard branch of Brooklyn Public Library commissioned Marino Lyons to paint a mural depicting scenes from the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Subsequently, Marino Lyons was hired by HarperCollins to illustrate the cover for the 75th Anniversary edition of the book.

Christina Sucgang was born in Manila, Philippines and moved to Southern California in 1992. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sucgang has exhibited her work at galleries in California, Chicago, Philadelphia, Florida, and New York. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

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