Press Release: Mira Dancy | See-Thru Palm: Mira Dancy at Dio Horia Gallery Acropolis, June 17 – July 29, 2023

Dio Horia is pleased to present Mira Dancy’s See-Thru Palm, a solo show by the Los Angeles-based artist known for figurative paintings and site-specific installations incorporating plexiglass and sand elements. See-Thru Palm will include a new group of paintings, large format ink drawings, as well as textual and vinyl window additions, on view at Dio Horia Gallery Acropolis, June 17 – July 29, 2023.

Dancy’s work is animated by a play of superimpositions and oppositions. The works in See-Thru Palm continue this exploration symbolically. The paintings and ink drawings include a playful exchange of motifs – the palm frond and the palm of the hand – both graphically disembodied – enter Dancy’s swirling pictorial world. Interpretations of seeing through water, watching a bird enter a flower, and the contemplation of the lines in one’s own palm give rise to the layered compositions of the paintings, as well as to the more subtle architectural interventions in the gallery. Shaping a visual experience through a combination of color, language, and spatial gestures suggests a telescoping corollary between inhabiting a body, a poem, or a room.