ROTATING EXHIBITION

Ephemeral Traces: Time, Memory, Perception"

‍Park House Houston opens the fall season with a group exhibition featuring works of contemporary art by Yifan Jiang, Cody Trepte and Johannes Wohnseifer, represented by Los Angeles/Dallas-based Meliksetian | Briggs. The artists’ shared exploration of ambiguity, memory, and the interplay between the tangible and elusive creates striking conceptual and visual relationships in contemporary art.
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The Artists
New York-based Yifan Jiang constructs psychological landscapes that mirror dreamlike structures, weaving personal experiences with philosophical inquiries into cultural memory and language, proposing new ways of seeing the world. In the painting Nap, Jiang creates a dreamlike seascape of a marching band traversing undulating waves as a tiny figure sleeps on a duck pedal boat.Emerging from the fluffy clouds, a cat sleeps peacefully in Travel Pillow. In contrast, Drive captures the dynamic sensation of speeding in a Lamborghini, rendered in an energetic, futuristic style.

Drawing from philosophy, physics, and astronomy, Texas born, Los Angeles based Cody Trepte explores the contradiction between chance, and time as fixed or predetermined. For instance, From Both Moments of Another features an algorithmically altered found image of a stone ruin, silkscreened with ink which shifts from black to magenta based on the viewer’s angle, lighting, and time of day, embodying the unfixed and conditional nature of perception and time. Trepte’s panel works, Again And Almost Always explore contradictions between random and fixed positions.

‍Johannes Wohnseifer investigates the construction of memory, how subjective perception makes time pass quickly or slowly in a world of shifting cultural values, drawing on consumer imagery and references from Cherry Coke, the Rolex “Daytona” and his friend and mentor Martin Kippenberger’s Capri paintings, to dreams, disco, the latest memes, word play, codes and riddles, all of which are synchronized, consolidated and fused into these works. By blending digital and analog processes, Wohnseifer, who is based in Cologne, Germany explores themes of memory, representation, and the intersection of technology and traditional art forms, creating works that oscillate between the familiar and the cryptic. Together, these artists offer profound reflections on the mutable nature of time and memory.

About Meliksetian | Briggs

Meliksetian | Briggs was founded in 2012 by Anna Meliksetian and Michael Briggs in Los Angeles. Featuring a conceptually driven program of international artists and now Dallas-based, the gallery intends to be a site of discovery, experimentation, and cultural and educational exchange, while working closely with and supporting artists, helping them achieve their ambitions.

Park House Art Advisor
Jennifer Klos, founder of Collector House, is an art advisor, independent curator and lecturer based in Dallas, Texas. With her experience as Curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Jennifer gained an in-depth knowledge of museum best practices and developed relationships in the art world that inspired her to start her own business. Her skills include curatorial research, and collection management services such as shipping, storage, installation, insurance, and documentation. She offers a full range of art advisory, collection management, and strategic consulting for private clients, corporations, and institutions.For inquiries or to purchase works of art, please contact Meliksetian | Briggs
‍info@meliksetianbriggs.com or (323)828-4731

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