Ponnapa Prakkamakul + Steve Sangapore: 'Phantasm'

Ponnapa Prakkamakul + Steve Sangapore: 'Phantasm'
Fountain Street Gallery | SoWa

March 31–April 25

Left: Ponnapa Prakkamakul, "Planet 3." Right: Steve Sanapore, "Collapse: Of the Environment #4." (Courtesy Fountain Street Gallery)

In “Phantasm,” artists Ponnapa Prakkamakul and Steve Sangapore present work in radically divergent styles. Sangapore tends toward the super-realistic combined with surrealism, while Prakkamakul, who is also a landscape architect, creates work that is more dreamily abstract with some figurative elements. What they have in common is an interest in nature, science, illusion and imagination. Prakkamakul uses natural elements, like groundwater and rust from found objects, to create the “paint” for her landscape scenes. Sangapore combines hyperrealism and abstraction to address links between the observer and the object being observed. Although they work in distinctive styles, they cap their show with a collaborative piece, suggesting their views are just the opposite sides of the same coin.

Left: Ponnapa Prakkamakul, "Planet 3." Right: Steve Sanapore, "Collapse: Of the Environment #4." (Courtesy Fountain Street Gallery)

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