Upcoming and Recent Events
Entanglement Theory
Recent work by Krista Machovina
On view April 21st-May 3rd
Artist’s reception Saturday April 25th 5-8 pm
Closing Reception Sunday May 3rd 1:00-4:00pm
Gallery hours: 12-5pm Tuesday-Saturday or by appointment
Keystone Art Space 338 S. Avenue 16, Los Angeles, CA 90031
info@kristamachovina.com
@seaskyart
Observing intersections between skies and power lines, Krista Machovina finds meaning where the celestial and the human sphere appear to meet. In Machovina’s current exhibition, Entanglement Theory, these two elements take turns as figure or ground. The utility lines criss-crossing the sky both frame and stand between us and the infinite, creating a skyward game of cat’s cradle.
The wires attempt to box up and tether the amorphous trying, just as Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote, “to catch a cloud and pin it down.” These intersecting marks even recall language of the body: lifelines and love lines etched into the palm, mythologized maps of potential fates carried with us.
Although they interrupt the view of rolling clouds, the random matrix hints at means of communication, conduction of power, connection across space, and perhaps time.
Quantum physics entanglement theory describes how once linked particles can maintain that link even at a distance and continue to affect one another. While outside of the physicists’ domain, connection over miles and years makes sense for anyone who has received an unexpected phone call from someone that had just crossed their mind. Ultimately in this exhibit, Machovina’s motifs of power lines and unbounded skies coalesce into visual representations of these intangible yet impactful intersections.
Entanglement Theory can be viewed at Keystone Art Space Gallery from April 21st-May 3rd, with an Opening Reception Saturday April 25th from 5:00-8:00.
Bio
Krista Machovina is a Los Angeles–based artist whose oil paintings and mixed media works explore themes of resilience, relationship, and memory. Her work incorporates elements both natural and constructed to reflect back the emotional and psychological frameworks that shape human experience.
Machovina earned a BFA in Art Education from the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign and a MA in Art Therapy from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Since 2011, she has sustained an active studio practice alongside a consistent exhibition record, developing bodies of work that reflect long-term engagement with material, process, and perceptual inquiry.
Currents
Recent work by Krista Machovina
On view March 1st-March 9th
Opening Reception Saturday March 1, 5-8pm
Closing Reception Sunday March 9, 1-4pm
Keystone Gallery is pleased to present Krista Machovina’s solo show Currents, a new body of work that deepens her exploration of time, memory, and personal history. The exhibit opens to the public March 1st and is on view in the gallery through March 9th, 2025.
Machovina has consistently explored the weighty nature of memory, and how we try to hold and store away moments like water slipping through our fingers. In Currents, she turns her attention to the ways in which we create narratives over time.
Using a combination of oil, mixed media, and distressed surfaces, her colors and imagery reflect the complexity of recall. Her use of photographs and weathered materials incorporates elements that suggest erosion and containment. Some details remain sharp, while others dissolve into abstraction.
Machovina continues her focus the sea as both subject and metaphor. As with the ocean’s currents, memory is never static. It changes and reforms in unexpected ways. Currents invites viewers to immerse themselves in this movement, drifting through the layers of personal, selective and collective memory.
On view March 4th-March 19th
Opening Reception Saturday March 4th 5:00-8:00
Closing Reception Sunday March 19th 1:00-4:00
Gallery hours: 12-5pm Tuesday-Saturday or by appointment
Keystone Art Space 338 S. Avenue 16, Los Angeles, CA 90031
www.keystoneartspace.com
Media Contact: Krista Machovina info@kristamachovina.com
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