ARTISTS
Amy Butowicz
Amy Butowicz was born and raised in Akron Ohio. She received a BA in Studio Art from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Her practice moves fluidly between painting and sculpture to create allegorical narratives that explore the sexual body and its degeneration. Butowicz has been awarded several fellowships, scholarships and residencies including the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Summer Studio Program. She was also a 2019 nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Her recent solo exhibitions include Pantomime at The Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado, Inhabit at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, A Room to Hoist at Hunter College, New York City, New York and Hiding in Plain Sight at Underdonk, Brooklyn, New York.
Jerry Blackman
Jerry Blackman was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from Cooper Union in 2006 and his MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2014. He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, both domestically and abroad. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Kevin Darmanie
Kevin Darmanie is a figurative painter whose works explore intersections in painting and digital media implicated by his relationships both personal and societal. Working largely in watercolor on paper the Trinidad & Tobago born Newark NJ native uses tropes of digital platforms and media sharing to inform his images before rendering them in paint. He has exhibited at Paul Robeson Gallery, (Messier Gallery at Express Newark) at Rutgers University, The Reginald Ingraham Gallery CA, The Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery at New Jersey City University, Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn, Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ and Ramapo College, Ramapo NJ and the Utah Arts Center, UT.
Graham Durward
Born in Scotland, and now based in New York, Graham Durward creates enigmatic oil paintings infused with sublimity, sensuality and psychological tension. Basing his works on pre-existing imagery – including reproductions of paintings, photographs, film stills and anonymous pictures from the internet – he transposes his subjects into an ethereal, otherworldly realm, seeking to conjure what he describes as an ‘Ethernet aura’. Fascinated by the way in which images are processed in the contemporary age, he transforms his flat sources into seductive, immaterial mirages: aloof, intangible and forever just beyond our grasp. Durward has exhibited widely in London and New York, and his works are held in institutions including the British Council Collection and the City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Georgia Elrod
Georgia Elrod is an artist based in the Hudson Valley and New York City. Her work posits physicality as a kind of living abstraction and poetic space, presenting bodily forms that can be both known and unidentifiable. The works express fleeting moments in time within and between bodies, their narratives often embedded with autobiographical meaning. Elrod's work has been exhibited in New York and abroad, in solo exhibitions at Peninsula Art Space and John Davis Gallery, as well as in group exhibitions at spaces including Momenta Art, The Painting Center, and RH+ Gallery in Istanbul. Her work has been featured in ArtMaze Magazine, Big Bell Magazine, and New American Paintings. Georgia is currently a co-director of the artist-run gallery Underdonk, and co-curated at Heliopolis Gallery from 2012-2015. She received her MFA in Painting from Hunter College.
Whit Harris
Whit Harris’ (b. 1985, Brooklyn, NY) is a multi-disciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, and ceramic media. Her work features representations of the dissoluted experience through disjointed depictions of the human body. Figures stretch, recline, wriggle, twerk and otherwise contort themselves in exaggerated expressions that oscillate between naturalistic and cartoonish forms, and recall the DuBoisian premise of “double consciousness” underlying contemporary Black identity. These figures become metaphors for the artist’s psychological adaptation to unpredictable and hostile environments borne out of anti-black social structures, and reflect the tenacity and ingenuity of Black femme imagination as political resistance. She has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle and Munich. Harris holds an MFA at Hunter College, NY, and a BA from Stony Brook University, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Johnny G. Mullen
Johnny G Mullen was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland and currently lives and works in New York. Mullen creates works that engage with the sign process, through the activity of painting, producing active fields in which the expression of feelings and ideas are given intensity by the use of distinctive styles and rhythms. Utilizing primary forms and signs, his works force a focus on painting’s basic elements and their relationships to structure, language, and meaning. He attended Chelsea School of Art, London, and Central Saint Martins, London. Mullen’s work is represented in several private and public collections and has been exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions in New York and in Europe. His work has been written on in The New York Times, Frieze Magazine, The New Yorker, The Observer, Time Out New York and others.
Mike Olin
Mike Olin’s paintings challenge our notion of a single reading. The work is an embrace of abstraction and landscape with narrative possibilities. They invite the viewer to approach and absorb the works in a variety of ways. The layering of symbols and materials, which range from painterly spidery forms, to glass shards and coins force us to read multiple signs at once creating new archetypes of signification and interpretation. Olin has shown his paintings throughout New York City for two decades.
Scott Pfaffman
Scott Pfaffman was born and raised in Albany, Georgia, and he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Pfaffman looks upon drawing as a scale with which to measure and clarify, (and sometimes render meaningless) the ways of seeing. A drawing should be consequential and shed that energy continuously; stasis, mass, space, time, are the escapements which connect energy and vision. Drawings are maps, equations, diagrams, alphabets, symbols of every stripe, the Jung around the daisy, figure ground, dance drawings, dream catching gestures, vision poems and visual salves, quaquaversal parallelograms, sacraments on cathedral walls and scraps attached to bulletin board. Blank paper is a passage to any destination. A drawing is a punched ticket, a trip completed, where only a memory still moves.