escape to the sun

Capturing the reflective nature of water, Escape To The Sun features a palm tree overlooking a California-inspired pool motif with sleek, architectural curves encompassed by intricate linework recalling historical brick cladding. The result of a unique design process using a vast array of technologies, the graphic silhouettes manually embossed onto this highly textural sheen velvet canvas appear to morph as the viewer changes position.

Lior Modan is a Tel-Aviv born visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York whose critically acclaimed abstract works play on the intriguing contrasts between painting and object, abstraction and figuration, gestural and surreal. Modan's current body of work employs compression using various vacuum casting methods of hand-dyed velvets to create a pillowy aura around graphic silhouettes of everyday objects.