B. Ingrid Olson

August 18 - 24, 2024

B. Ingrid Olson implements elements of photography, sculpture, and performance in an ongoing exploration of the perceptual and conceptual relationships between bodies: her own, viewers’, architectural, and textual. Whether captured with a camera, machine carved or cast, her work tests the capacities of bodies and the space around them.

Solo exhibitions include two simultaneous exhibitions at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University (2022); Secession, Vienna (2022), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2018). Olson's work was featured in a two-person exhibition at The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2022); The Inconstant World, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2021); Dependent Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2021); New Visions, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway (2020); Being: New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018); Lost Without Your Rhythm, Aspen Art Museum (2018).

Leeza Meksin

August 11 - 17, 2024

Leeza Meksin is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, public art and multiples. Her work investigates parallels between conventions of painting, architecture and our bodies. Meksin has created site-specific installations for The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Academy of Design, The Uptown Triennial, NYC, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, BRIC Media Arts. She has exhibited her paintings at Regina Rex Gallery, Thomas Erben Gallery and Brandeis University. In 2021 Meksin was awarded the NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work, and in 2015 received the emerging artist Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant. In 2019, Meksin was artist-in-residence at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX. Her work has been featured in Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Chicago Tribune, and The Village Voice. In 2013 Meksin co-founded Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn that she continues to co-direct. Meksin received a MFA from Yale School of Art, a BFA from The SAIC and a BA/MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago. In 2021 she joined the faculty at Cornell University in the College of Architecture, Art, Planning (AAP).

Eric J. García

August 4 - 10, 2024

Eric J. García uses history and a graphic style to create political art that confronts our understanding of the present. Using printmaking, drawings, murals and multimedia projects that use very specific meaningful materials, he aims to prevent historical amnesia and cultural erasure. By reexamining forgotten stories in an accessible and visually striking way, his work can be a tool with which to share, to learn from and to spark critical dialogue. He received his BFA with a minor in Chicano studies from the University of New Mexico, and earned his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Garcia is a teaching artist, a member of the Veteran Art Movement, and one of the newest members of the Justseeds Print Cooperative. Garcia has exhibited nationally and can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Library of Congress.

Cynthia Alberto

July 28 - August 3, 2024

Cynthia Alberto—artist, designer, and founder of the Brooklyn-based Weaving and Healing arts studio Weaving Hand—bridges traditional and contemporary techniques, drawing inspiration from ancient communities of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Alberto developed "Weaving Together:”  a series of ongoing collaborative events that focus on healing the community and create interpersonal relationships through the act of weaving together. "Weaving Together" events were held at the Museum of Arts and Design, Cooper Hewitt, Barnard College, Pratt Institute, Earth Day Initiative, Pioneer Works, Queens Museum, Ace Hotel, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and Bldg 92 ­Brooklyn Navy Yard. Alberto is a recipient of the Dan River Weaving Award (1998);  Peters Valley Craft Center Art Educator Scholarship (2008); The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2009); Museum of Arts and Design—Open Studio Artist Residency (2008 & 2018); and Ace Hotel Artist in Residence (2015 - 2016); Artshack Brooklyn, Artist in Residence (2021). Since 2009, Alberto has been a Resident Artist at League Artists Natural Design, a studio and gallery in Brooklyn that features work by adult artists living with disabilities. Alberto has conducted lectures and workshops at the Queens Museum of Art, Tyler School of Art, Pratt Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, Brooklyn Fashion and Design Accelerator, Sheridan College Textiles Department, and Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture.

John Kilduff

July 21 - 27, 2024

John Kilduff AKA Mr Let’s Paint is best known for the cable access tv show titled “Let’s Paint TV”, where Kilduff combines painting with performance. His first love in art was painting the landscape from life (Plein air painting), something that he has done for over 40 years. Today, Kilduff goes back and forth between these two disciplines in the making of his art.

Kilduff received a BFA in Fine Art from Otis/Parsons School of Design (Los Angeles) in 1987. After school, he became interested in performance and took acting (Los Angeles City College) and improv classes (Groundlings). After doing some movie background work he started doing cable access tv in 1995. His first show was titled “The Jim Berry Show”, than in 2001, he started “Let’s Paint TV”. In 2008, Kilduff graduated with a MFA in Fine Art from UCLA.  Kilduff has exhibited and performed all over the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Abigail Lucien

July 15 - 20 , 2024

Abigail Lucien is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist. Working across sculpture, literature, and time-based media, their work addresses themes of (be)longing, futurity, myth, and place by considering our relationship to inherited colonial structures and systems of belief/care.

Lucien received the 2023 Sondheim Award, was named to the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, is a recipient of a 2023 Ruby’s Award, 2021 VMFA Fellowship and the 2020 Harpo Emerging Artist Fellowship. Past exhibitions include SculptureCenter (NY), MoMA PS1 (NY), MAC Panamá (Panamá), Tiwani Contemporary (London), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta, GA), Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA). Residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Madison, ME), Amant Studio & Research Residency (NY), the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts (Wrocław, Poland), The Luminary (St. Louis, MO), Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM), ACRE (Steuben, WI), and Ox-Bow School of Art & Artist Residency (Saugatuck, MI).

Lucien is currently based between Baltimore, MD and Brooklyn, NY and teaches as an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Hunter College in NYC.

You-Ni Chae

June 30 - July 6, 2024

You-Ni Chae, born in Daegu, South Korea. She lives and works in Queens, New York. She earned her BFA(2006), MFA(2008) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008. Her intimate abstract paintings are highly aware of basic pictorial structure, movement and color through improvisation, repetition and spontaneity. They are drawn from both Eastern and Western artistic traditions. In her works, brush work and process are held in close tension with image and perception. She grapples with history and identity to create works that simultaneously hold seemingly competing thoughts, places and intentions. Recent solo/ two persons exhibitions include: Fata Morgana at Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY, You Ni Chae and Brad Mildrexler at Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR, On the Umber Rim, Guertin’s Graphics, Red Hook, NY, Plants, Window, Cloud, Tails, Adds Donna Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Motif Painting, 65Grand Gallery, Chicago, IL, Groundless Beef, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL

Nate Young

June 23 - 29, 2024

Bio coming soon…

Alex Bradley Cohen

June 16 - 22, 2024

Alex Bradley Cohen (b. 1989) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Alex utilizes painting to visualize the push and pulls of political life. Working with acrylic paint on canvas, he depicts friends, family members, and himself in scenes that foreground everyday moments. Materializing from personal photographs and memories rather than direct observation, each painting serves as an exercise in imaginative world building. Recent group exhibitions include In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; State of the Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; and Triple: Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis Fratino, and Tschabalala Self, University Art Museum at the University of Albany, NY. Other exhibitions include The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; and The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, among others. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and was an artist-in-residence at the Ox-Bow School of Art.

Michael Mahalchick

June 9 -15, 2024

Michael Mahalchick is an artist from Pottsville, PA . He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His works typically center around sculpture, collage and performance. Working primarily with found materials his work engages with themes of value, memory, temporality, identity and chance.

He received a 2010 Bessie New York Dance and Performance Award for his work with choreographer luciana achugar and in 2021, Canada, his long standing gallery, published a monograph chronicling nearly twenty years of his visual and performance work. His work has been noted in The New York Times, Artforum, and Frieze and has performed at The Tate Britain, The Walker Art Center, MN, The Whitney Museum, NY, The Kitchen, NY, Danspace Project, NY, and Movement Research, NY among others. He received a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA in 1993 and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 1995.

Tammie Rubin

June 2 - 8, 2024

Tammie Rubin is an artist who considers power objects, coded symbols, Black American migration and citizenry, rituals, and magical thinking. Rubin employs ceramic conical forms, raised maps, and murals to create spaces of physical, metaphysical, and spiritual escape. Rubin holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington in Seattle and a BFA in Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Rubin has exhibited widely; selections include Project Row Houses, Houston, TX., the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY., Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN., The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX., and grayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX., and Rivalry Projects Buffalo, NY. She is represented by C24 Gallery, New York, NY., and Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX.

Her artwork has received reviews in publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Brooklyn Rail, Glasstire, Austin American-Statesman, Austin Chronicle, Sightlines, fields, Conflict of Interest, Ceramics: Art & Perception, and Ceramics Monthly. Born and raised in Chicago, Rubin lives in Austin, Texas, where she is an Associate Professor of Ceramics and sculpture at St. Edward's University.

Anna Betbeze

May 26 - June 1 , 2024

Anna Betbeze is a visual artist whose experimental work involves exploration of haptic sensation, arriving at new forms that combine elements of sculpture, painting, puppetry, and pedagogy. Betbeze considers the ephemerality of lived experience alongside the supposed deathlessness of artistic creation. Betbeze’s work has been shown at institutions such as MoMA PS1, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, The Hessel Museum at Bard College, and The Power Station, Shanghai. Her project Touch Workshop was featured in TDR (The Drama Review) (Fall 2021). Betbeze lives and works in Los Angeles and is faculty at University of California–Riverside.