August 7 - September 5, 2023

Adriana Meunié, Lisbeth McCoy, Lisa Eisner, Setsuko Morita, Tamiko Kawata, and Saskia Freidrich

Onna House is pleased to present Supernatural Beauty, a group exhibition of work by Lisa Eisner, Saskia Friedrich, Tamiko Kawata, Lisbeth McCoy, Adriana Meunié, and Setsuko Morita. Ranging from natural-fiber textiles to handmade jewelry and metal sculptures, each of these works celebrates the pleasure of discovery—artists dedicated to exploring the delicate and intricate qualities of their medium and encouraging audiences to draw their own stylistic and thematic associations from their work. 

When unifying metals and stones for her bespoke jewelry, Lisa Eisner allows nature to guide form. She sees each piece as a sculpture or talisman that will be passed down through generations, accentuating the unique qualities of turquoise, white and black jade, sun stone, imperial topaz, citrine, malachite, and simbercite. Saskia Friedrich conceives of her work as an environment, a space in which she translates impressions from nature and her psyche into meditative compositions of simplified shapes. Each artwork—rendered in earth-toned mixed media—resembles a stone, and is influenced by architecture, ecology, sustainability, urbanism, as well as Sufi mysticism and whirling. 

Tamiko Kawata’s creative practice lives in the cross-cultural dialogue embedded in her identity as a Japanese-born American immigrant. Working in a variety of media, Tamiko’s artwork is a visual diary of observations from her adult life in the United States—creating intimate works from everyday objects that are often overlooked in order to explore the plentiful and wasteful dimensions of American life. For Lisbeth McCoy, art is a place to contemplate the existential: who we are and how we are shaped by life and experience. She communicates these sensations of interconnectedness through sculptures that bend, curl, and spiral—forms that, like memory, are fluid and can shift perspective. 

Adriana Meunié was drawn to making textiles as they gave her the opportunity to explore vegetal textures and shapes, striving to achieve what she describes as a “monstrous elegance.” Working with materials like wool, esparto, carritx, and raffia sourced from the land around her home in Mallorca, Adriana presents fibers in their raw form—celebrating ancient traditions and admiring forces of nature. Setsuko Morita’s sculptures are ornate webs of copper and iron wire. Positioning spotlights on suspended mobiles, each sculpture forms a shadow, a dimensional piece that invites the audience to contemplate themes of reality, fiction, and transience.

As Onna House’s final exhibition of the 2023 season, Supernatural Beauty furthers their mission to support and inspire curiosity, inquiry, and sanctuary for contemporary women artists and designers based locally and internationally. Onna House founder and curator Lisa Perry explains “I love the idea of bringing together six women artists from multiple disciplines and backgrounds to find in essence they all speak a similar language with the common goal of seeking beauty in the ordinary and the extraordinary.”