Margot Samel is pleased to announce a two-person presentation with Cathleen Clarke and Diana Sofía Lozano at NADA Miami 2024. Composed of vibrant intricacies, steeped in both nature and synthesis, Lozano’s sculptures lay afloat alongside the textural hauntings of Clarke’s painting. Both artists simultaneously work with delicacy and power; each figure in Clarke’s paintings contain their own life-long narrative, as do each piercing angles of Lozano’s sculptures.
Diana Sofía Lozano (b.1992, Cali, Colombia) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work uses the language of botanical hybrids; the naturally occurring, genetically modified, and the imagined. Lozano presents biomimicry as metaphors for identity construction at the intersections of gender, sexuality, and the politics of difference. Lozano’s work explores the deconstruction of botanical taxonomic failures and reveals and redefines the boundaries of colonial identificatory practices and geopolitical borders.
Diana Sofía Lozano received a BFA from The Cooper Union, New York, NY and an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Heuristic Ecologies, Proxyco Gallery New York, NY (2023); Perennial Pyromancy,Parallel Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico (2022); Suspended in the Iris, Home Gallery New York, NY (2021); Sub Rosa, Deli Gallery Brooklyn, NY (2019); CONDO, Company Gallery (2018).
Cathleen Clarke (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Starting from old photographs given to her by friends or family members that connect her present to the past, Clarke abstracts familiar subjects to describe thresholds, particularly ones based in age or growth. Allowing for inspiration to interject with reality, illustrated children’s books from the artist’s childhood such as the compilation The Tall Book of Make-Believe originally published in 1950 by Harper & Brothers, play significant –even subconscious– roles in each work’s development.
Cathleen Clarke received a BFA from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include The Night Grows Long, Margot Samel, New York, NY (2024); Hungry Soul, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Whatever Hour You Woke There Was a Door Shutting, Fou Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021). Clarke has an upcoming solo exhibition at Night Gallery, Los Angeles in 2025.
