AF #1: False Idols
AF #1: False Idols is the inaugural exhibition at Agatha Falls, featuring works by Julia Dzwonkoski, Paul Knopf, Shyanna Merced.
The three-person show will be on view from February 23rd – April 5th, 2024, during regular gallery open hours, special events, and by appointment. Come by for a visit!
Julia Dzwonkoski
Julia Dzwonkoski’s work explores the comedy and poetry of everyday life and language. She studied art at SUNY Buffalo and UC San Diego. Her recent book, Two Eyes in An Environment is available through Model City Books.
Shyanna Merced
Using the interdisciplinary approach to save souls, Shyanna Merced creates works that eliminates the fine line between love, and everything disguised as such. Exploring the daily shortcomings of man, and what that does to the masses. What that does to hearts. Shyanna Merced uses her practice as she uses her lungs to breathe. It is vital.
Based in Earth, Shyanna Merced grew up in Buffalo, New York. Being a Puerto Rican woman, Shyanna understands the importance and need of representation and diversity within opportunity for artists who look like her, and who don’t. Holding that awareness, she also finds no identity within appearance or within her human body.
Primarily in the visual arts, mediums range from paintings to literature, performance, textiles, etc.
Paul Knopf
With a background in architecture, Paul Knopf explores how form and materiality are connected to both dreams and memory, as well as inform identity. Just like ruins served as quarries, his installations and sculptures are informed by building elements and domestic objects which serve to question the integrity of the home and its narrative as a self-made, Arcadian refuge. Although working with materials and artifacts relating to the domestic, their surfaces are often the product of digital manufacturing processes situating the sculptures in the ambiguity between physical and digital. The resulting instability of belonging is central to his work. Yet, he combines temporary fasteners and joining techniques originally used for furniture, and visibly applies them in a repairing and prosthetic manner to construct a fragile reality.
