LVL3 is proud to present as a sort of cloud rather than a bubble, a two-person exhibition featuring work by Juan Neira (Chicago) & Clare Gatto (Detroit).

In this exhibition the artists grapple with the boundaries between the body and nothingness, and between organic & material form. Neira’s sculptures place the viewer face-to-face with the abyss, a heavy emptiness. Material pulls and puckers within the reflective darkness, drawing us up into an abstract and abject tug-of-war between expansion and contraction. Up against an ineffable border, Gatto’s meandering forms, amorphous bodies, & oothecae slide in and out of our view. Drawing inspiration from natural spawning structures and transient orifices, their sculptures take viscera seriously, pointing out precarity in 2d & 3d realms. The interstitial space Neira & Gatto’s works inhabit permeates the line between external & internal. In as a sort of cloud, the artists cruise the seductive ambiguity of the void and what lies…