THE BEAUTY OF THE TEAR:
LANDSCAPES & NATURE
RUVAN Wijesooriya
canopy arts, 2022
Canopy by Hilton Jersey City Arts District is pleased to announce its second artist edition for 2022 with New York-based artist Ruvan Wijesooriya co-curated by Nicole Ianniello and DK Johnston. His exhibition The Beauty of the Tear: Landscapes & Nature opens at Canopy by Hilton Jersey City Arts District on May 11th. Ruvan's narrative approach to photography is an all-inclusive, metaphoric documentary of our general surroundings. A calmer side to his visual language has been evolving parallel to his more famous work in nightlife, music, and fashion. The breadth of this calmer work - from scenes in nature to editorial and ethereal points of view - is propelled by his ongoing investigation of timeless space through the magnificence of composition. This is made clear in the new works in The Beauty of the Tear: Landscapes & Nature. Wijesooriya has taken timeless moments caught while traveling in the Yucatan in Mexico, watching sunsets on his local Hudson River, and journeying across The American West. The half-ripped, paired photos create an abstract image that speaks to how time and space affect how we see and experience reality. "A beam of sunlight is a flower from another……perspective in time and space. … The painter Lucio Fontana cut into his paintings to create space; the tears open up the photographs, allowing them to be completed by parallel moments in timeless space. The work emits the feeling of transformation and rebirth."- Wijesooriya.
As the world stumbles from one global crisis to another, nature has become highly healing. Putting two broken images together feels as if the world is being put back together anew. These harmonic outlines of nature are meditations on palm leaves, landscapes, water, sun, and flowers. Ripping apart two photographs and putting one next to the other invites a discourse between two moments, permitting them to coincide and persistently banter together: The Beauty of the Tear.
The Sun/Flower (2017) masterpiece is a focal point where Wijessoriya conveys his signature mark. One side radiates a sun from the Yucatan, while another displays a fullbloomed flower. Together these photographs create a substantial uniformity of warmth and love. The solo exhibition reminds viewers that the artist's composition is a dramatic illustration of deconstruction and reconstruction. These photographs demonstrate how different and distant images can be combined into a unified work of art displaying togetherness rather than forever being separate. Perhaps the differences among cultures may become as unifying as the artist's disparate photographs.
Canopy by Hilton Jersey City Arts District will host a reception open to the public on Wednesday May 11th from 6-8pm.
Featured Works
About the Artist
Ruvan Wijesooriya came into the world in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1977. He had a migrant childhood as an offspring of Sri Lankans who joined the US Foreign Service. Following a degree in Political Economy and Gender Studies in 1999, Ruvan moved to New York City, establishing himself as a cutting-edge photographer by making public establishments, occasions with performers, and utilizing innovation to encounter his work. Ruvan's story method for managing photography examines our overall environmental factors' general and nostalgic visual language. His scenes, portrayals, aeronautical perspectives, nature series, and article work are pushed by his ongoing examination of greatness and stylishness.
