Geo Form

NAVA Contemporary is pleased to present Geo Form, a group exhibition that delves into the profound dialogue between artistic creation and the monumental timescales of geology. The featured artworks do not merely depict the landscape—they emulate its rhythms, forms, and processes, elevating it from a backdrop to a dynamic, living archive of transformation.

Geo Form features artwork by SoHyun Bae, Tracie Cheng, Fernando Mastrangelo, and David Mohr. Drawing inspiration from landforms, waterways, organic materials, and topography, the works in this exhibition mirror the forces that shape our planet. While some artists reconstruct geological formations through layered materials and textures, mimicking the slow accumulation of matter across millennia, others use abstraction, mapping, or raw materials to explore natural forms or the tension between permanence and decay. Geo Form is not only an artistic exploration but also a form of listening—to the ground, to time, and to the vast, patient forces that shape our world.

SoHyun Bae layers rice paper and pure pigment to create expressive canvases. Inspired by the Jewish Mystical understanding of why we have suffering in this universe, Bae’s Nature of Water series examines the fragility of life and the strength in vulnerability through depicting shards found in our natural world.

Tracie Cheng’s work portrays otherworldly organic forms inspired by the multilayered dimensions of topographical maps. Woven into the very essence of each work is the idea that there is always more than meets the eye.

Fernando Mastrangelo's striking sculptures occupy a fluid space at the convergence of art and design. The artist uses materials common to quotidian life but entirely atypical of fine art, including salt, coffee, sand, glass and cement. He then combines the raw materials with resin, and other industrial components, to create deeply textured and evocative works.

David Mohr’s stark and evanescent canvases are created through a combination of techniques, tools and elements, including the selective use of charcoal, sand, acrylic gel and ink. Central to their composition is a complex spatial quality, at once suggestive of depth and flatness.