Past Exhibitions
BONNIE MORANO
Exhibition Dates
September - November 2024
Bonnie Morano is a native New Yorker currently living and working in Brooklyn. She creates hard-edge abstract paintings that explore the life force symbolized by the belly button, the central source of growth and life. Her work blends organic and geometric forms, using symmetry, doubling, and reflection to evoke a mystical balance between joy and devotion, and the physical and spiritual. Morano's paintings are characterized by maximalist rapture, thick paint materiality, and a tension between the wondrous and the ominous. Bonnie made her LA gallery debut in Summer 2024 in a three-person exhibition with Rhett Baruch Gallery titled “Luxury Repeat.” Bonnie's guidance and inspiration are from her strong religious faith and her rich ethnic culture.
JEN SHEPARD
Exhibition Dates
March - April 2024
Jen Shepard is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist originally from East Texas, now based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work delves into the mysteries of the universe, exploring parallel realities and imagined worlds. Her solo exhibition, Big Universe, showcased a captivating blend of mixed-media paintings and sculptures that invited viewers to contemplate these cosmic realms. Shepard holds an MFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Texas at Tyler and an MS in graphic design from Pratt Institute. She has participated in residencies and exhibited in New York, Miami, and Rhode Island.
SUZANNE KIGGINS
Exhibition Dates
October - November 2023
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught Brooklyn-based artist who works primarily with acrylics and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from everyday experiences and imagery, dreams, feelings and moods they evoke. Kiggins’ work is celebrated for its captivating blend of fantastical imagery, animals, and technology which invites audiences to embark on a journey through her perception of the world and the enigmatic emotions that defy definition. Her work transports viewers to ethereal realms where dreams and reality intertwine, awakening the viewers’ sense of wonder. Her bold use of color and instantly recognizable style has cemented her as a force in the contemporary art scene.
ZACK LOBDELL
Exhibition Dates
March - April 2023
The work is about emotion. Emotion in the energy of the marks and brushstrokes. Emotion prescribed for the viewer by the colors used and the intensity of the composition. Emotions we’re all circulating as the world edges towards climate catastrophe and social upheaval.
Zack Lobdell’s prolific work reaches back over 20 years. Never settling into a single style or medium, he believes the keys to creativity and inspiration are exploration, experimentation and consistent evolution.
Zack’s work has been collected, exhibited and represented internationally, including Singapore, London, Miami, New York City and throughout the United States. He can be found in his home and studio in Washington County New York, uncovering his next exciting movement.
TOM BURCKHARDT
Exhibition Dates
October - November 2022
Tom Burckhardt's intricate works bridge absurdity with elements of figuration through his abstractionist approach. In his recent work, Burckhardt uses stretched linen with hand cut stretcher bars, the wobbly edges giving them a uniqueness and a persona as opposed to a simple object. Burckhardt strives to keep things off balance and awkward in his work, oftentimes revising and editing until a piece eventually finds its resolution. The works teeter between recognizability and visual wandering, encouraging its viewers to perceive and further interpret the images. The nine works of Tom Burckhardt included in this exhibition explore these ideas of abstraction, figuration, recognition and visual wandering and we are excited to share them all with you.
JUDI KEESHAN
Exhibition Dates
October - December 2021
Judi Keeshan grew up in a 1970's suburbia neighborhood of Houston, Texas. Her house was filled with reproductions of paintings that were hung salon style. She would stare at the prints hanging in our house with an intense curiosity about art. Judi’s favorite painter was El Greco. As a child, she attended art classes at The Houston Museum of Contemporary Art where the students made abstract art and learned about contemporary art trends.
Originally Judi intended to study biology in college. her ceramics class sparked my interest in art. Ceramics inspired Judi to make abstract paintings with organic shapes and decorative patterns. She also made expressionist figurative painting while the majority of the students made abstract minimalist work. Her BFA in Fine Arts was completed at Texas State University and she attended painting classes in Barcelona, Spain. Judi’s education continued in New York where she received a MFA at School of Visual arts in 2001.
HEIDI HOWARD
Exhibition Dates
February - July 2020
"I paint portraits of close friends. Traditionally, a figure is depicted in a landscape or a room and the space in the image is created by the illusion of light falling on the figure and in the rest of this setting. My paintings do not rely on creating an illusion of light to conjure a figure. Because my marks do not aggregate to form an illusion of light, they are more evident. They make the process by which the painting is made transparent. The viewer can more easily see the marks come together to form the final image. This evidence of the passage of time, and the process of creation, is an invitation to share my experience. The structure of each painting is based on the color feelings, style, and images inherent to the sitter. Through this approach each sitter is reflected not only in an outward likeness, but also via the paint application. The occasion of painting a particular person, for me, is an occasion to create a new abstract space. I also encourage the viewer to engage with my subjects through close observation of the paintings and/or by googling the paintings’ titles on the Internet. Recently my portrait projects have expanded to a 40 foot high by 100 foot long wall painting/ collaborative sound installation and directing an interactive performance."
HILARY DOYLE
Exhibition Dates
October - November 2019
Hilary Doyle lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her MFA at RISD and her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her multidisciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, sculpture and digital collage.
"The commute is something almost every person experiences vividly daily and yet it is a place where most shut themselves into phones or earbuds each in their own world. For the last 6 years Doyle has commuted extensively: traveling up to 20 hours a week by train, bus and shuttle to teach at Brown University and Purchase College and more recently to teach at Rhode Island School of Design and NYC Crit Club. This time has been important to generating ideas for the show which started with sketchbook drawings and iPhone drawings created from observation while commuting. Next these elements were source material for a monotypes, collage or sculpture to add chance and process. From these large gestural paintings were made. Often several moments, people or spaces are combined in one image."
JEN HITCHINGS
Exhibition Dates
July - September 2019
Jen Hitchings is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, and arts administrator. She graduated with a BFA in Painting & Drawing from SUNY Purchase in 2011 and received a certificate in Small Business & Entrepreneurship from Hunter College in 2018. Hitchings is a curatorial member of Transmitter, based in Brooklyn, NY.
My work investigates aspects of our contentious relationship with nature through depictions of environments such as flooded towns , neon rivers, campgrounds, logged forests, and detritus ensnared on tree branches. Visual depiction of space infiltrate some works through distorted compositions and at times individual elements are repeated or mirrored in unnatural ways. Human-made objects such as tents, telephone wires, decrepit vehicles, fences, or ropes make subtle appearances and act as metaphors for interpersonal relationships and psychological states. Using surreal and at times psychedelic color palettes, the environments appear simultaneously celebratory and post-apocalyptic.
BECKY YAZDAN
Exhibition Dates
January - March 2019
"When I paint I try to find the balance between intuition and intellect, so that the process of painting becomes an active dialogue with the phenomena of nature. By not dictating the end result I am receptive to a deeper understanding of the world around me. The paintings are like dreams – the events of the day reorganized and combined with other events and memories until a new, often surprising, reality has taken shape."
NICHOLAS CUEVA
Exhibition Dates
September - November 2018
Nicholas Cueva, born 1983 in Dana Point, California, is an artist currently living in Brooklyn. His casual but specific approach to painting is conceptually bound into the physicality of space in image. Receiving his MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he moved to New York in 2011, where his constant approach to the current languages of construction and loss have gone on to influence and dialogue with the Bushwick scene.
JARED DEERY
Exhibition Dates
July - September 2018
Jared C. Deery, born in Philadelphia in 1980, moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1998, where he lives and works. Deery received his BFA with honors in 2001 from Pratt Institute and his MFA at Hunter College in 2009. He has exhibited across the US, Europe and Japan. His work is in private collections in New York, Chicago, Denver, Japan and Italy.
Deery's work is characterized by a proportionately hermetic sense of mark making and repetition, and a balance between the familiar and the esoteric with a strong commitment to the unknown. The wide range of media in his artistic practice combines painting, installations, drawing, sculpture, and films. His work can best be connected by motif, mood, color, and process. It can be viewed individually, in dialogue with a group installation or seen as part of a larger long-term project.
JOSH REAMES
Exhibition Dates
January - March 2018
Josh Reames was born in 1985 in Dallas, TX. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Reames received his BFA from the University of North Texas and later received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
RYAN JOHNSON
Exhibition Dates
November 2017 - January 2018
Ryan Johnson was born in 1978 in Karachi, Pakistan. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Johnson received his BFA from Pratt Institute, NY and later received his MFA from Columbia University, NY.
Johnson's sculptures are "made from a variety of materials, among them wood, medical casting tape and sheet metal," and they have been described as having "strange spatial compressions, surreal displacements and quasi-Futurist illusions of movement."
MATTHEW F FISHER
Exhibition Dates
September - November 2017
Matthew F Fisher was born in 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Fisher received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design and later received his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.
PATRICK BERRAN
Exhibition Dates
July - September 2017
Patrick Berran currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Painting and Printmaking Department and later received his MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in the Visual Arts Department-Painting.
AUSTIN EDDY
Exhibition Dates
April - June 2017
Austin Eddy lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in Painting in 2009 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The paintings and sculptures fluctuate between the worlds of representation and abstraction. They are rooted in narrative images, but have simplified and been broken down beyond initial recognition. The work is exploring the vulnerability and anxiety of the human condition though images and objects.
JJ MANFORD
Exhibition Dates
March - April 2017
Jonathan "JJ" Manford lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from Cornell University, College of Art, Architecture and Planning and later received his Post-Bac in Painting from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Manford then went on to receive his MFA in Painting from Hunter College.
Manford describes his body of work that elaborates upon his preexistent lexicon of forms, towards a more overtly representational painterly language, which includes: Spindly, wire-sculpture-like depictions of aging & solitary wanderers, meditatively poised plant goddesses, esoteric language plants, geometric structures, and a Quixote-esque horseman traversing primordial-hieroglyph forests.
CAROLINE LARSEN
Exhibition Dates
January - March 2017
Caroline Larsen received her MFA with honors at Pratt in 2015 and has exhibited widely since, including solo exhibitions in 2018 at Andrew Rafacz in Chicago, Dio Horia in Mykonos, Greece and General Hardware in Toronto. Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv and Craig Krull in Santa Monica both presented solo exhibitions in 2017 and for our part “Kabloom!” introcued our audience to her work summer of 2016. She currently has work in “The Beyond: Georgia O’Keefe” at the North Caroline Museum of Art, a traveling exhibition curated by and beginning at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AK. She has participated in group exhibitions at Guerrero Gallery and Greenpoint Terminal Gallery and has work in the Dean Collection, the Aisthti Foundation, JB Art Collection Miami, TD Canada, the Donovan Collection and numerous other public collections around the world.
