Tia Factor and Daniela Naomi Molnar: “the shimmer”

August 14 - September 5, 2021

AVA welcomes Portland-based artists Tia Factor and Daniela Naomi Molnar for “the shimmer,” an exhibit about when two things say “yes” in different directions. The yeses are simultaneous, symbiotic, and opposed. Rather than neutralizing each other, they amplify each other, creating peril, possibility, instability, indeterminacy, and iridescence.

Tia Factor’s and Daniela Naomi Molnar’s paintings engage the shimmer both conceptually and materially. Conceptually, both artists are fascinated by the indeterminacies and possibilities of place: how human intervention shapes place; how notions of natural/unnatural shape our understanding of place and self; how the climate crisis is reshaping our understanding of place, nature, and self; and the ways that a painting can be itself a sort of place. Visually and materially, they use iridescence, chromatic play, and self-contradictory spatial constructions to create paintings that move in mysterious and intentionally indeterminate ways.