Friday, March 20th, 2015

Mika Horibuchi & Dan Rizzo-Orr

Horibuchi and Rizzo-Orr are painters who understand painting’s ability to deliver a picture; they know too that the window of space a painting depicts is but an ephemeral illusion. Rather than despair at painting’s difficult ontology, these two artists revel in the space between painterly picture and contemporary art object. Horibuchi glides between geometric abstraction and trompe l’oeil painting while Rizzo-Orr simultaneously seduces with both articulated figures and gestural marks. Each work in View with a Room showcases this painterly range. The singularity of their practices dissolves into a shared interest in illusionistic illusions. Horibuchi and Rizzo-Orr work together in a single studio and their seemingly disparate images reveal the unexpected possibilities that may dance shift across a painting’s surface. This is their View with a Room. Both Mika Horibuchi and Dan Rizzo-Orr are Chicago-based artists and hold BFA degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Horibuchi was born in 1991 in San Francisco, CA and Rizzo-Orr was born in 1989 in Phoenix, AZ.