Art Miami Magazine’s Top Pick: A Must-See Exhibition

Art Miami Magazine Review: Opening Reception of “Dualities” at Stanek Gallery

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It was a privilege to be part of the exclusive opening of Dualities at Stanek Gallery on January 25, 2025. The exhibition, featuring the mesmerizing works of Michael Bartmann, Stanka Kordic, and Katherine Stanek, delved into the intricate interplay between reality and imagination. Each piece on display, with its profound depth and introspective qualities, drew the audience into the artist’s creative processes, making it an unforgettable experience.

Art Miami Magazine’s Top Pick: A Must-See Exhibition

While the artwork was exciting overall, Michael Bartmann’s piece particularly captured my attention. His oil paintings on firm support create industrial interiors that are familiar and entirely fictional, born from urban compilations only found in his mind. In this new collection, the window plays a prominent role, acting as a metaphor for time and space, questioning the barriers that separate us. Bartmann masterfully blends layers of technique and color, rendering architectural compositions that invite the viewer to wander through empty spaces, both in their recollections and within his uniquely nostalgic, forward-looking world. His work brings the exhibition to life, offering an introspective journey through a newly informed reality, stimulating the mind with its thought-provoking themes.

The intimate atmosphere at Stanek Gallery, located at [address], in Little River, provided the perfect setting to connect with the artists and fully immerse oneself in the concepts they explored. Clearly, this exhibition, the gallery’s first in Miami, will be remembered as a key event in the city’s art scene. If you haven’t yet visited, I highly recommend it—the show continues until March 15, 2025.

The exhibition left me eagerly anticipating more from these incredible artists. I’m sure their future works will continue to captivate and inspire.

Statement

Stanka Kordic, Michael Bartman and Katherine Stanek reshape reality with their layered techniques that weave a rich dialogue between past influences and future visions in this intimate, contemplative journey of becoming.

Stanek Gallery Miami is pleased to present Dualities, a three-person exhibition examining our domain over reality, memory, mind and matter. Featuring new work by Michael Bartmann, Stanka Kordic, and Katherine Stanek, the exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists weaving unique approaches to dialogue exploring process vs intention, decision vs. evolution and becoming vs belonging, while creating an intimate, contemplative space where reality and imagination intertwine to shape something entirely new.

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Michael Bartmann

Bartmann works in oil on firm support to create innately familiar, yet completely fictional industrial interiors forged from urban compilations found only in his mind to create a newly informed, forward-looking yet remarkably nostalgic reality. In his new collection, the window is a prominent character that serves as a metaphor for both time and space questioning barriers that separate. He satiates his appetite for color while expertly rendering these architectural compositions encouraging you to wander the empty spaces in your own recollection as well as in his two-dimensional world. 

Katherine Stanek

Stanek’s sculpture in concrete with exposed steel, bronze and other media demonstrate a masterful ability to create enigmatic depths that entice intrinsic and existential dilemma of what can be seen and what is hidden, what is ours by passage and what is fated. By allowing her work to be process driven, Stanek uses decisive destruction to incorporate fractures, fragments and the natural tendency of the material as part of her visual language, leaving room for questions, new perspectives and personal connections, merging and layering these different visual codes in works that seem simultaneously contemporary and classical. 

Stanka Kordic

Kordic’s figures are graceful experimentations of characters emanating through the space between imagination and nescience, holding you in their gaze as if coming or fleeting events are casting their light and shadows before them.  Using oil on various supports, she fuses highly emotional moments with her visceral decisions as reactions to the evolving imagery. The protagonist is a feeling, an expression, an overwhelming sense of fragility in the attempt to create an experience and emotion rather than a specific person from her memory.

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