Heliotuduc : Isa Newby Gagarin

The White Page gallery presents Heliotuduc, a solo exhibition by Isa Newby Gagarin. In this new body of work, Gagarin draws personal connections between heliotropism, solar eclipses, and forgeries of Anatolian rugs through painting and mixed media. Vibrant spectrums of color are overlaid on selected imagery from Gagarin’s research process. Contrasting this brightly colored series are the artist’s “solar exposures,” an ongoing exploration of newsprint as a photosensitive material. Accompanying the exhibition is an assembled text which includes excerpts from Gagarin’s October 2015 conversation with Shadia Habbal, solar physicist and faculty chair at the Institute for Astronomy at University of Hawai’i.

About the Artist
Isa Newby Gagarin (b. 1986 Guam, USA) lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has a BFA in Painting from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Gagarin’s solo exhibitions include: Occultation, Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud (2012), Sea of Fecundity, 3rd Floor Emerging Artist Series, Rochester Art Center (2011), When Her Son Flies in the Sky, Dressing Room, Minneapolis (2011), and Beru, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2009). She has participated in group exhibitions at Waiting Room (MN), David Petersen Gallery (MN), the Soap Factory (MN), Soo Visual Arts Center (MN), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Chicago Artists Coalition, Synchronicity (Los Angeles), and Grimm Gallery (Amsterdam). Gagarin’s work is published in several artist books.