“I was nervous at first, especially since I was planning the exhibition set-up from afar, basing all the decisions on a floor plan,” says gallerist Rachel Rillo.
“The two artists have worked together for a show in Manila,” Rillo says. “They speak about very different things but have one common denominator, which is working with the community. I was confident that the work would play well together; that they’d have a conversation with each other easily.”
But business wasn’t always easy. Though Lorenzo has dreamed of opening a gallery in Chelsea since studying at Parsons, the cards never seemed to be in her favor. “In 2004, I was invisible here,” she says. “I was the wrong everything: the wrong gender, the wrong Asian, the wrong minority. People weren’t interested.” She also noticed a siloing of disciplines in many major galleries that ran counter to her own wide-ranging interests.
Now, Silverlens is ready to make a more lasting mark on the New York scene, and expand the audience for Southeast Asian artists. Much of the work from that area “is directly connected to the natural world. The materials are domestic and humble in a similar fashion to Cuban minimalism, when work was made out of bedsheets” Rillo says. “There’s also a deep sense of urgency. Artists don’t have decades to iron out an idea. It’s about the now, and with the now comes a high level of authenticity.
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