Dana Lok's Layered Landscapes at Clima Gallery, Milan

Clima Gallery in Milan presents a solo exhibition by American artist Dana Lok (born 1988 in Berwyn, lives in New York). The show occupies three interconnected rooms that the artist deliberately disconnects from one another. In the farthest room, a large backdrop with a defining, lucid language conceals depth lines and multiple reading levels that shift the viewer's gaze into the landscape depending on their position. The flat appearance, composed of long vertical and horizontal warm-colored stripes, stratifies interpretations of small-to-medium-sized paintings. These windows obliquely open onto fragmented natural consistencies, where performative elements emerge both from wild strokes of color on white canvas and from pictorial puzzles in which architectures and geographies loosen boundaries, like sentences spoken in a dream. The exhibition was reviewed by Ginevra Bria, art critic and curator at Isisuf – International Institute for Futurism Studies in Milan, specializing in contemporary Latin American art.