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SHADOW MOON
MARY DEVINCENTIS
ARCYLIC ON EMBROIDERY CANVAS, 2018

Mary Devincentis

EXHIBITION DATES
September - November 2023

"I am very interested in the stories we humans tell about ourselves and others and about the world we live in. Whether myth or memory, imagined or experienced, personal or societal, our stories connect us to our core concerns, our deepest aspirations and the fears that we all have. I love the challenge of taking the elemental aspects of a narrative and creating work which I hope both transmits and transmutes and brings something that is fresh and relatable to the viewer.

Though the backstory of each painting is essential to me, I want the viewer to be free to approach the work from their own individual perspective, from their own history and sensibility. I love it when someone finds something in my work that is new to me. Narrative is a structuring device for me, suggesting imagery, an emotional tone and a formal approach for each individual painting.

Striving for a dynamic tension between form and content in my work, I try to tap my most deeply available self to create work that strikes a wordless chord of recognition in the viewer, as I believe that the idiosyncrasy of the personal, deeply and truthfully excavated, expresses the universal. I appreciate seeing indications of the artist’s physicality, their unique fingerprint, as evidenced in brush-stroke and mark-making. Paint is kin to skin, viscera, blood, mineral, plant and stardust."

Learn more here: https://www.instagram.com/mairedev/

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GREEN IDENTITY
18"X 24"
OIL ON CANVAS 2023

Lauren Reid

EXHIBITION DATES
February - May 2023

Lauren Reid is a 23-year-old painter from White Plains, NY. She holds a dual bachelor's degree in Art and Psychology from Ithaca College. While her artwork ranges from charcoal drawings to pastel drawings, her primary medium is oil painting. Lauren Reid’s art is about understanding herself and others while connecting the role of hurt in a beautiful life. Lauren’s paintings serve as a vehicle for social change by expressing emotion and capturing the beauty of the human experience. Lauren wants to rewrite the backstory of the struggle in life’s hardships instead of the hardships writing the backstory, accomplishing this through the development of pieces that involve people reflecting on emotions and coping with troubles. She aims to show beauty without omitting the harsh. Creating art has influenced her life by giving her a sense of who she is and is becoming. She dreams of creating spaces and experiences that will serve as both a liberation and outlet for expression.

Learn more here: laurenreid.art

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STRIATED BOX CAR PAINTING - 24 X 30 - 2019

JOHNATHAN "JJ" MANFORD

EXHIBITION DATES
October - November 2022

JJ Manford (b. 1983, Boston, MA) received a BFA from Cornell University in 2006, a post-Baccalaureate certificate from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009, and an MFA from Hunter College in 2013. Most recently, his work has been featured in solo presentations at Harper’s, Los Angeles and East Hampton (2022 and 2021); Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2021 and 2019); and John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY (2016 and 2012). A catalog, Greenport Magic, accompanied an exhibition of the same title at Arts + Leisure Gallery, New York, in 2017. Manford has participated in group exhibitions at The Hole, New York (2022); Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (2022); The Pit, Glendale and Palm Springs, CA (2022 and 2021); Harper’s, Los Angeles (2021); 1969 Gallery, New York (2020); and Alexander Berggruen, New York (2020), among other venues. Reviews of his work have appeared in numerous publications including New Yorker, Artnet News, and KCRW. Manford lives and works in Brooklyn where he is a co-founder of the artist collective Underdonk.

Learn more here: https://jjmanford.com

 

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Someone More Thoughtful (Here Goes Everything)
Acrylic & watersoluble crayon on linen
17" x 13" inches, 2021

MARTHA LEE

EXHIBITION DATES
March - May 2022

Marta Lee (b. Moscow, ID) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She has participated in several residencies including Fire Island Artist Residency, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Hercules Art Studio Program, and most recently, the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts. Lee has exhibited nationally and internationally in Chicago, LA, Austin, New York, London, and Shenzhen. She also works collaboratively with Anika Steppe under the moniker Frances Brady.

Learn more here: https://www.martaleeart.com

 

Red-Still-Life

"RED STUDIO STILL LIFE"
LAUREN WHEARTY
2019, OIL ON CANVAS, 30" X 36"

LAUREN WHEARTY

EXHIBITION DATES
February 1st - May 1st, 2020

Lauren Whearty is a Philadelphia based painter, curator, and educator. Her observational and memory based works use ubiquitous objects and imagery that relate to lived experiences and narratives to investigate sensational and material qualities of paint and process. She received her BFA in Painting from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and has attended Yale’s Summer School of Art through the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center residencies.

Her works have been featured at such venues as the Woodmere Museum of Art, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Vox Populi, Bridgette Mayer Galleries in Philadelphia, The Painting Center and Ortega y Gasset Projects in New York, Satellite Contemporary in Las Vegas, as well as ROY G BIV and Ohio State’s Urban Art Space in Columbus. Lauren received her MFA in painting from The Ohio State University where she received a Graduate Teaching Associate Award, an Arts and Humanities Research Grant, and was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.

Lauren currently teaches at Tyler School of Art and University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA and is a Co-Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, a non-profit artist run gallery and curatorial collective in Brooklyn, NY. Lauren has been selected by an independent selection committee for the 2020 Golden Foundation for the Arts Residency Program. Lauren will be attending the residency in June.

Learn more here: https://www.laurenwhearty.com

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"I'd Do It All Again"
Will Hutnick
2017, oil on canvas, 84" x 66"

WILL HUTNICK

EXHIBITION DATES
February 16th - April 27th, 2019

Will Hutnick is interested in flux, play, and impermanence which manifest in boldly colored mixed-media abstractions. The large-scale, collage-like results boast interrelated networks of solid and patterned surfaces that are at once exuberant and controlled. Hutnick’s work recalls puzzles and stencils from his childhood as well as camouflage, graffiti, and topographical maps. At times the work seems archaeological, like fanciful cross-sections of rocks, fossilized trees, or walls of chipped paint revealing wondrous surfaces beneath.

The title of Hutnick’s exhibition, Somewhere in the Half Light, comes from Rostam Batmanglij's 2017 album Half-Light. An accomplished cellist as well as an artist, Hutnick is frequently influenced by music.

Based in Wassaic, New York, Hutnick - an artist and curator - is the Residency Director at Wassaic Project and a Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute. Yaddo, Governors Island, Wassaic Project, and Vermont Studio Center are among the prestigious residency programs he has attended.

Learn more here: https://www.willhutnick.com

 

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