SEXY SEX
February 14–March 14, 2021
Online exhibition
Gallery Perchée is pleased to present “Sexy Sex”, a dyonosian, poetic, and uncanny celebration of desire explored by contemporary artists through sculpture, photography, painting, video, and writing.
At a time of chaos, loss, isolation and disconnection, how do artists preserve the vital feeling and memory of love, desire, pleasure, lust, happiness and ecstasy? These artworks grasp, recall and collect relics of these sensations, emphasizing the quintessential power of the erotic, celebrating the sharing of joy beyond memory, distance and difference, and offer the empowering creative energy, humor and harmony of the erotic and romantic.
This exhibition features the work of Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Selva Aparicio, Lex Brown, Dominic Chambers, Derek Des Islets, Tim Enthoven, Samantha Franklin, Katya Grokhovsky, Isaac Soh Fujita Howell, Icinori, Alex Jackson, Nicole Kaack, Bonam Kim, Sarah Lasley, Young Joo Lee, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Jenny Sayaka Nono, Catalina Ouyang, Res, Douglas Rieger, Shavana Smiley, Masha Vlasova, Ye Wang, Erica Wessmann, Nelly Zagury
SEXY SEX
February 14–March 14, 2021
Online exhibition
Gallery Perchée is pleased to present “Sexy Sex”, a dyonosian, poetic, and uncanny celebration of desire explored by contemporary artists through sculpture, photography, painting, video, and writing.
At a time of chaos, loss, isolation and disconnection, how do artists preserve the vital feeling and memory of love, desire, pleasure, lust, happiness and ecstasy? These artworks grasp, recall and collect relics of these sensations, emphasizing the quintessential power of the erotic, celebrating the sharing of joy beyond memory, distance and difference, and offer the empowering creative energy, humor and harmony of the erotic and romantic.
This exhibition features the work of Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Selva Aparicio, Lex Brown, Dominic Chambers, Derek Des Islets, Tim Enthoven, Samantha Franklin, Katya Grokhovsky, Isaac Soh Fujita Howell, Icinori, Alex Jackson, Nicole Kaack, Bonam Kim, Sarah Lasley, Young Joo Lee, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Jenny Sayaka Nono, Catalina Ouyang, Res, Douglas Rieger, Shavana Smiley, Masha Vlasova, Ye Wang, Erica Wessmann, Nelly Zagury
Selva Aparicio has been collecting teeth from her lovers over the years, when they came back from the dentist. She then made a necklace out of them.
Bianca Abdi-Boragi, Epiphany, 2021, Video art
The Night Needs You from Jenny Sayaka NONO on Vimeo.
Katya Grokhovsky,
Untitled, 2020
"I girlcott V day every year and instead, I celebrate the autonomy, agency and sexuality of single by choice wxmen. " (Katya Grokhovsky)
Untitled, 2020
"I girlcott V day every year and instead, I celebrate the autonomy, agency and sexuality of single by choice wxmen. " (Katya Grokhovsky)
Lex Brown, Bathtub Music
Erica Wessmann
Filling Holes, 2021
Erica Wessmann's work focuses on material explorations that interrogate the bodies' relationship to the world, seeking to push a perspective outside of the self and alter assumptions of fixed realities. Filling Holes presents three players; the bifurcated reductive abstract form; the disembodied arm; and the camera as witness. Each remains autonomous while affecting the other through proximity and shifting relations.
Filling Holes, 2021
Erica Wessmann's work focuses on material explorations that interrogate the bodies' relationship to the world, seeking to push a perspective outside of the self and alter assumptions of fixed realities. Filling Holes presents three players; the bifurcated reductive abstract form; the disembodied arm; and the camera as witness. Each remains autonomous while affecting the other through proximity and shifting relations.
Seduce the Image from Wang Ye on Vimeo.
Tim Enthoven
Study for Love Squad, 2021
Watercolor on Toyobo etching on 300 gr Somerset paper, Print size: 7 x 9 in, Paper size: 10.5 x 19 in, Edition of 60 + 5 AP
Study for Love Squad, 2021
Watercolor on Toyobo etching on 300 gr Somerset paper, Print size: 7 x 9 in, Paper size: 10.5 x 19 in, Edition of 60 + 5 AP
VLM (Virginia Lee Montgomery)
MARBLE PONYTAIL, HEDONE, 2021
Sculpture; marble, string, miniature lace lingerie, 26" x 3" x 3"
MARBLE PONYTAIL, HEDONE is named for the Greek goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight born from the union of the Greek gods Eros and Psyche in the realm of the immortals. This sensually ambiguous stone sculpture is hand-carved, hand-polished, and designed to be viewed 360° in the round. Each Marble Ponytail is unique and hand-sculpted by stone sculptor VLM (Virginia Lee Montgomery).
MARBLE PONYTAIL, HEDONE, 2021
Sculpture; marble, string, miniature lace lingerie, 26" x 3" x 3"
MARBLE PONYTAIL, HEDONE is named for the Greek goddess of pleasure, enjoyment, and delight born from the union of the Greek gods Eros and Psyche in the realm of the immortals. This sensually ambiguous stone sculpture is hand-carved, hand-polished, and designed to be viewed 360° in the round. Each Marble Ponytail is unique and hand-sculpted by stone sculptor VLM (Virginia Lee Montgomery).
Icinori
La Mère
40 x 30 cm
La Mère
40 x 30 cm
Catalina Ouyang
Dad Animals Entering Helmut Newtons (Lion), 2014
scanned Helmut Newton photograph printed on Hahnemuhle, Baltic birch plywood, extruded polystyrene, plaster, gypsum, acrylic, steel, 60 x 50 x 24 in
"When I was a kid, my dad and I spent time drawing animals together—I would draw an animal, and he would draw its butt—and appreciating Helmut Newton, separately." Catalina Ouyang.
Dad Animals Entering Helmut Newtons (Lion), 2014
scanned Helmut Newton photograph printed on Hahnemuhle, Baltic birch plywood, extruded polystyrene, plaster, gypsum, acrylic, steel, 60 x 50 x 24 in
"When I was a kid, my dad and I spent time drawing animals together—I would draw an animal, and he would draw its butt—and appreciating Helmut Newton, separately." Catalina Ouyang.
Sarah Lasley
How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years
video art
Blending personal narrative with shared pop cultural experience, the artist makes manifest a longheld childhood fantasy set within the love scene from Dirty Dancing (1987). How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years juxtaposes pre-pubescent sexual desire with that of a woman descending her sexual peak. Fantasy is both a balm to religious piety and an act of resistance to reproductive pressures put upon women approaching middle age. Here the digitally simulated image, in its wavering visual verisimilitude, exposes our willingness and desire to believe.
How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years
video art
Blending personal narrative with shared pop cultural experience, the artist makes manifest a longheld childhood fantasy set within the love scene from Dirty Dancing (1987). How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years juxtaposes pre-pubescent sexual desire with that of a woman descending her sexual peak. Fantasy is both a balm to religious piety and an act of resistance to reproductive pressures put upon women approaching middle age. Here the digitally simulated image, in its wavering visual verisimilitude, exposes our willingness and desire to believe.
Shavana Smiley
Blue Undies
25" x 30"
Blue Undies
25" x 30"
Douglas Rieger
Hard Apple Flesh
12 x 12 x 20.5 in, wood, paint, felt, sock, rubber band, bead chain, rubber gasket N/A
Hard Apple Flesh
12 x 12 x 20.5 in, wood, paint, felt, sock, rubber band, bead chain, rubber gasket N/A
Nelly Zagury
CUPID’S ARROW (BOW DOWN BITCHES), 2019
Clay, crystals, cowry shells and elastic thread
"Perhaps destiny
Plays with gravity
In that loud cloud sky
Cupid’s arrow standing up
Ready to fuck u up"
Poem by Nelly Zagury
CUPID’S ARROW (BOW DOWN BITCHES), 2019
Clay, crystals, cowry shells and elastic thread
"Perhaps destiny
Plays with gravity
In that loud cloud sky
Cupid’s arrow standing up
Ready to fuck u up"
Poem by Nelly Zagury
Samantha Franklin
First Night, 2015
48 x 34 in
First Night, 2015
48 x 34 in
Res
The Recycling, 2018
The Recycling, 2018
January 2021
Ammo, by Nicole Kaack
Kathy-with-a-K guesses the reservoir’s width from the overlook. She looks over to the man she has come
here with, intending to draw him into her curiosity. He is looking away at the thorny oaks and the
mountains beyond. Maybe he is bound that way, she doesn’t know. Below, a heron hovers over the water.
Moments later it stands in the shallows, surrounded by a network of ripples that catches the filtered light
of the setting sun. The Diablo winds have gone with the long summer days and the air is rich with the
dust from their footsteps, with eucalyptus and the honey of weeds. When she turns again, the man is
beckoning her to go, his hand making a motion like waves folding onto themselves. She remembers a
time last year when she had driven two days south through shoreline and desert to an inland sea. Knelt in
the radiant heat on a beach salted by the husks of dead crustaceans, she had watched an insect move
across the slick surface. Glassy, the water hadn’t moved at its touch.
Picking her way amongst the tall thorny brush, Kathy follows the man back to his car under the trees
weeping their pink, dusty bark. She pauses at a sound, looks around for its source. In the speckled light,
her knees shake under an elemental pulse. The animals or the trees, she thinks. She keeps walking.
In the car, he wants to fuck before they drive away. She thinks of the texture of his jeans. They look soft
and worn in a way that could be expensive or just aged. She doesn’t mind the car, or his cock. But she’s
not really paying attention to any of that. She had seen all of this happen when he offered to drive her
home two hours ago. He had smiled at her from a few steps below on the stair that led into the breakfast
joint where she works. Blinking into the afternoon sunlight, she looked to where her car was parked in the
lot, then back at him. She had guessed the sunset, the hilltop off the highway, the walk, the proposition.
And she had decided that she liked his hands. She had watched them, while he smoked standing next to
his car in the parking area outside the restaurant. She’d never seen anyone like him, but somehow, with
the cigarette in his hand, he looked like her father when he was young and he looked like some actor who
had killed himself before she was born.
At the reservoir, some time passes. From above, the car’s windshield is dark in the early evening light,
blushing blue at its upper edge. A sodium lamp ignites overhead, casting the evergreen bushes and basin
below into monochrome shadow. Kathy steps out of the passenger door holding a cigarette which she
lights with care, facing away from the wind. She smokes efficiently, the cigarette caught in the plane of
her hand. When done, she stands on the ash until it is dead. She turns to the car, gestures to the trees, I
need to—, before walking briskly towards them.
Among the trunks, hidden from the yellow cast of the street light, the sound is louder. The trees are still
weeping their soft, fragile skin, only now, in the dark she can’t see the raw colors of that flesh. From far
below, she can hear the splash and lap of the water at its shores, but she can’t see anything. She imagines
the sound without corresponding motion, sees a dark boat slip through a surface of stone. She looks back
to the sound, the glossy orb of it, watches the tree branches catch at themselves in the reflective surface.
In the nighttime breeze, Kathy holds her breath as though trying to mimic the absence of anything.
ARTISTS BIOS:
Bianca Abdi-Boragi works across media using sculpture, video, installation, and painting to enact representations of self and others, often using found materials and landscapes as receptacles to address different states of being, with a specific focus on alienation and territory. Tending towards the absurd though with care and respect, her works respond to the contemporary political and social environment in the United States, France, and Algeria, engaging with themes of gender, violence, and migration while linking this moment to the historical repercussions of post-colonialism.
Abdi-Boragi is a French-Algerian/ American artist and curator who received her MFA from Yale School of Art, Sculpture, in 2017, and obtained her BFA from ENSAPC. Her shows have been featured on Artnet, Artspiel, Taggverk Magazine amidst others. Solo shows include the Border Project Space Gallery and CADAF Art Fair, she has exhibited with the Immigrant Artist Biennial, NARS Foundation, The Border Project Space, VCU Arts, NURTUREart Gallery, Chashama Gallery, Field Project Gallery, Galerie Protégé, The Clemente Soto Velez Center NY, throughout the United States and internationally and has screened art films at Anthology Film Archive, UnionDocs, Video Revival, NY, the Whitney Humanity Center, and Loria Center, New Haven, CT. Abdi-Boragi was the recipient of the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights from the Yale Law School and was recently in residency at NARS Foundation and previously at MASS MoCA's studios, the Centquatre, Paris, France, Pact Zullverein, Essen, Germany, Cal'Arts, Los Angeles.
Selva Aparicio’s received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015 and her MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2017, her work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; Yale Center for British Art; Can Mario Museum, Spain; CRUSH Curatorial, New York; Roots & Culture, Chicago; The Kyoto International Craft Center, Japan; Instituto Cervantes, New York; and the Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona. She was awarded the JUNCTURE Fellowship in Art and International Human Rights in 2016, the Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize in 2017, and received a MAKER Grant from the Chicago Artist Coalition in 2020. She was also named one of the 2020 breakout artists in Chicago by NewCity Art and is a current artist in residence at BOLT.
Lex Brown is an artist, musician, and writer. Her work is informed by the omnipresence of data, information, media, and how its images condition our bodies and language. Brown builds new characters, expansive fictional worlds, and unexpected linguistic relationships in order to dismantle internalized racism and sexism within the mind of herself and audience. Fluctuating between humor and seriousness, the work opens up a space for spirited examination, often drawing on family history and current, and historical events. Her work plays with the scale of personal and emotional experience in relation to large scale systems of social and economic organization.
Brown has performed and exhibited work at the New Museum, the High Line, the International Center of Photography, Recess, and The Kitchen in New York; REDCAT Theater and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore; and at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. Brown holds degrees from Yale University (MFA) and Princeton University (AB). Consciousness, a survey of Brown's work spanning the past 8 years, is in the collections of the Whitney, MoMA, and Met museums. It is available in a limited, hand-bound edition from GenderFail Press. Her first paperback work in fiction, My Wet Hot Drone Summer, a sci-fi erotic novella that takes on surveillance and social justice, is available online.
Brown teaches at Harvard University as a College Fellow in Theater Dance & Media and Art, Film & Visual Studies; and at Princeton University as a Lecturer in Visual Arts.
Dominic Chambers received BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2016 and is a 2019 MFA graduate from the Yale University School of Art. The artist has exhibited his work in exhibitions in the US and Europe including a solo show at August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, PA as well as group shows Abstraction of Black Citizenship: Art from St. Louis curated by Jasmine Jamillah Mahmoud at Seattle University; Black Voices / Black Microcosm curated by Destinee Ross at CFHILL Stockholm, Sweden; Painting Is Its Own Country curated by Dexter Wimberly for the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC. He has participated in a number of residencies, including the Yale Norfolk summer residency and the New York Studio Residency Program in Brooklyn, NY.
Derek Des Islets Lives and works in Brooklyn New York. Des Islets’ received his BFA from the University of North Florida. His paintings are intuitively formed and spiritually guided visual descriptions of the quantum nature of reality. Using images of scientific instruments as a compositional bedrock shows the path of energy/thought/feeling through the work. The fusion of the biological signature of a beating heart denoted as an electrocardiograph measurement and using lines as time is, in essence, a visual description of life. These linear elements are used as metaphorical “packets” of memory/emotion with differing values of length, width and hue. The globular (bulbous) elements serve as a spiritual capacitor on canvas and are a catalyst for the emergence of the connections within the paintings. These works aim to act as a codex to the universe in a language that is unable to be comprehended. His art has been exhibited in numerous venues in New York and around the world including Paris, Hong Kong and Miami. The art of Derek Des Islets is an uncensored vision from the mind and heart.
Samantha Franklin is a New York City based artist whose work explores the complexities between sexuality and gender norms. Delving into the erotic nature of dominant versus submissive roles, she challenges society's preconception of male and female identities. Franklin graduated in 2015 from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts with a BFA in Painting where she received the Hiram Gee Award for a senior in painting. Since then, Franklin has participated in local group exhibitions and is currently the Executive Assistant at Nahmad Contemporary.
Tim Enthoven's practice lies a cognitive dissonance: he approaches people and other animals with empathy, but simultaneously with a clinical distance. He explores the collision of system and individual, and their cross pollination.By juxtaposing crisp, mundane images and abstract ideas he creates dark poetry. Bodies are building blocks, architecture is a metaphor for the mind.
His work is often handmade and labour intensive, and is characterized by a frequent use of repetition and a preference for systems.
Tim Enthoven (1985) is a visual artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. He works with drawings, paintings, and installations. He received his MFA from Yale and a BA in communication from Design Academy Eindhoven. In recent years Enthoven exhibited at Fons Welters Gallery in Amsterdam, Yve Yang Gallery and SPRING/BREAK Art Show in New York City, Antenna Space in Shanghai, Loyal Gallery in Stockholm, Balcony Gallery in Lisbon and at the Lisbon Architecture triannual. He has published two books. and received multiple awards and grants, amongst which a Plantin-Moretus Award, the Rene Smeets award, a Prins Bernhard Culture Fund scholarship and a Mondriaan Fund stipendium.
Icinori is a French illustrator duo composed of Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller they both received their MFA from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, France. United by their unbridled love for print. They create some of the most beautifully considered, traditional publications, pamphlets, concertina books and posters around. Where before they drew inspiration from ancient visuals and historic illustration, the pair are now exploring more modern details and aesthetics. Their new work is straying further and further away from illustration and showing the world that they can attack pretty much any brief that gets handed to them.
Several awards for their children’s books including CJ Book Seoul 2011 and Bologna Ragazzi Award for theirs books Issun Boshi and Et Puis. They have been commissioned by Le Monde, New York Times, Wired, New Yorker, Le Temps, Dazed, Harper Magazine among others. Their passion for design, image and form culminates in their publishing projects which has seen them produce over 30 books. And recently they made the Travel book Seoul by Louis Vuitton for which they exhibited their work in the renowned Gallery Martel Paris in December 2020. Recently, they drew a series of designs and patterns for the prestigious brand of upholstery fabric and Italian wallpaper Dedar
Isaac Soh Fujita Howell is a Japanese-American multidisciplinary artist. Howell received his BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2015 in Studio Art and Comparative Arts, and his MFA from Yale University in 2017 for Painting and Printmaking. Howell has exhibited at the Fondation des États-Unis, and Kisskissbankbank / Maison de Crowdfunding in Paris, and has completed residencies at the Wave Hill Winter Workspace, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, and Yale Norfolk.
Alex Jackson currently lives and works in the Philadelphia area. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for his BFA (2015) and received his MFA from Yale University in 2017. He has attended residencies at Yale Norfolk, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and The Royal Drawing School at Dumfries. He is currently represented by Zevitas Marcus Gallery in Los Angeles and has participated in several exhibitions both in the northeast as well as the west coast.
Sarah Lasley is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist from Louisville, Kentucky and an Assistant Professor of New Media at University of Texas San Antonio. Her films have screened internationally at film festivals and universities, notably the Cannes Art Film Festival in France and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. She holds a BFA from University of Louisville and an MFA from Yale School of Art.
Young Joo Lee is a visual artist from South Korea, currently living and working in Cambridge, MA and Los Angeles. Her work deals with personal narratives about her experiences of being an immigrant in Europe and the US, a woman, and a cultural nomad. In her recent moving image works, these personal narratives interweave with the current and historical narratives in order to investigate the issues of cultural colonialism, alienation, and assimilation processes.
Young holds an MFA in Sculpture at Yale University and an MFA in Film at Academy of Fine Arts Städelschule Frankfurt. She currently is a Visiting Lecturer in Animation at the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. She was a College Fellow in Media Practice at Harvard University (2018-20), a Fulbright Scholar in Film & Digital Media (2015-18) and a recipient of DAAD artist scholarship (2010-12). Her work has been exhibited in national and international institutions and film/video festivals. https://youngjoolee.net
Katya Grokhovsky was born in Ukraine, raised in Australia and is based in NYC. She is an artist and a Founding Director of The Immigrant Artist Biennial. Grokhovsky holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from Victorian College of the Arts and a BA in Fashion from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Grokhovsky has received support through numerous residencies including The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) Studio Program, School of Visual Arts (SVA) MFA Art Practice Artist in Residence, Kickstarter Creator in Residence, Pratt Fine Arts Department Artist in Residence, Art and Law Fellowship, The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Studios Program, BRICworkspace Residency, Ox-BOW School of Art Residency, Wassaic Artist Residency, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Studios at MASS MoCA, NARS Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, Watermill Center and more. She has been awarded the Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, ArtSlant 2017 Prize, Asylum Arts Grant, Australian Council for the Arts Grant, Freedman Traveling Scholarship for Emerging Artists and more. Her work has been exhibited extensively.
Nicole Kaack is an independent curator and writer. Kaack's writing has been published by Whitehot Magazine, artcritical, Art Viewer, SFAQ / NYAQ / AQ, Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Sound American, and BOMB. She has also contributed texts to I will set a stage for you (HOLOHOLO, 2019), Recto / Verso (Hauser & Wirth, 2018), and has edited collections including Twelve Month CRUSH (HESSE FLATOW, 2020). Kaack has organized exhibitions and programs at Small Editions, the Re: Art Show, CRUSH CURATORIAL, NURTUREart, Assembly Room, The Kitchen, Hunter College, A.I.R. Gallery, and HESSE FLATOW. Kaack's projects include of missing out, prompt:, and Not Nothing.
Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM) is a Video Artist, Stone Sculptor, and Visual Storyteller working between Austin, Texas and New York, NY, USA. She received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture in 2016. Her artwork interrogates the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures. She has had solo exhibitions with New Museum (NY), Times Square Arts (NY), Museum Folkwang (Germany), Wright Lab at Yale University (CT), The Lawndale Art Center (TX), False Flag (NY), and Hesse Flatow (NY). She has exhibited internationally at institutions including Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark), SculptureCenter (NY), La Panacée-MoCo (France), The Hessel Museum at Bard College (NY), The Banff Centre (Canada), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), The Shaker Museum (NY), and The Menil Collection (TX), among others.
Jenny Sayaka Nono is a video artist based in Los Angeles. Self taught while living in the 11th dimension, Jennys work is filled with dysphoria and claustrophobia even though she loves life and wants to live forever. She has done a handful of screenings and group exhibitions in the last 7 years primarily in Los Angeles, New York and Berlin. As far as solo goes, she has done a month long residency at the Coaxial Arts Foundation and 2 separate 1 night only solo shows at Human Resources. Sometimes she makes music videos for friends.
Catalina Ouyang’s solo exhibitions include: cunt waifu at Lyles & King (New York, NY); THE SIREN at Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT); it has always been the perfect instrument at Knockdown Center (Queens, NY); marrow at Make Room (Los Angeles, CA); fish mystery in the shift horizon at Rubber Factory (New York, NY); blood in D minor at Selena Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); and an elegy for Marco at the Millitzer Gallery (St. Louis, MO). Ouyang’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), François Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), BRIC (Brooklyn, NY), Helena Anrather (New York, NY), fffriedrich (Frankfurt, Germany), like a little disaster (Polignano a Mare, Italy), Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico), projects+gallery (St. Louis, Missouri), No Place (Columbus, Ohio), Field Projects (New York, NY), Gallery 400 (Chicago, IL), and others. Ouyang has attended residencies at Shandaken: Storm King (New Windsor, NY), the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), OBRAS (Evoramonte, Portugal), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (New Smyrna Beach, FL), with residencies forthcoming at the Vermont Studio Center and MASS MoCA. Ouyang is a 2020-21 Studio Artist at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY). Ouyang has received awards from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, the Puffin Foundation, the Santo Foundation, Real Art Ways, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. Ouyang received an MFA from Yale University and is based in New York City.
Res is a queer artist and curator working primarily in photography. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Res holds a bachelor’s degree from Smith College and a master of fine arts from the Yale School of Art, where they were awarded a Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies Award.
Res has exhibited their work internationally and throughout the United States at Invisible-Exports, New York; BRIC, Brooklyn; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; and Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, among other venues. Their work has been featured in publications, including Artnet, Girls Like Us, The Paris Review, Matte Magazine Cultured Magazine, Vice Magazine, and W Magazine.
Douglas Rieger lives and work in New York, he received his MFA Yale Sculpture 2016 and his BFA Sculpture Virginia Commonwealth University 2008.
Rieger's solo show include Helena Anrather Gallery, his work have been featured in Art Forum, Art in America, New Yorker amidst other. douglasrieger.com
Shavana Smiley is an interdisciplinary artist straddling the digital and physical worlds we inhabit. Her unique visual language takes the form of painting, sculpture, animation, virtual reality, and wearables in performance installations. She received a BFA with honors from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Since then she has exhibited widely across the United States with numerous solo exhibitions, including with Miller Contemporary and Space 776. Her many group exhibitions include shows with Monica King Projects, Masur Museum, The Border Projects, Bushwick Open Studios, Space 776, Sullivan Galleries, McNichols Civic Center, Zhou B Art Center. She is a recipient of many awards and scholarships, such as the Nippon Steel Presidential Award, Goldman Sachs Scholarship Nominee, Buonanno Scholarship Nominee, the ME Scholarship from Godaddy, and the Odyssey Travel Grant.
Masha Vlasova is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, whose work has been exhibited at Smack Mellon, Anthology Archives, Abrons Arts Center, the Border Project Gallery in New York City, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, among others. Her films have been screened widely on the international film festival circuit. She curated exhibitions and published work on monument rotation and materiality, filmmaking, and the intersection of art and pedagogy. She’s an Assistant Professor of Lens-based and New Media Art at Wofford College.
Ye Wang was born in Changsha (China) in 1991. He graduated from the Design Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013 in Beijing. In 2017, Wang Ye graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the Sculpture Department of Yale University School of Art. Ye works in multi-media projects that combine video, sculpture, handicraft, and installation. Ye draws inspirations from folk art as cultural heritage often reveals how aesthetic and value form and evolve. The artist learned traditional fishing net knitting from his hometown. Currently, he is studying the Hunan Embroidery technique.
Erica Wessmann received their MFA at Yale University, Sculpture department 2017, was in residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2015 and received their BFA at The Cooper Union, School of Art 2007.
Erica Wessmann's work focuses on material explorations that interrogate the bodies' relationship to the world, seeking to push a perspective outside of the self and alter assumptions of fixed realities. Filling Holes presents three players; the bifurcated reductive abstract form; the disembodied arm; and the camera as witness. Each remains autonomous while affecting the other through proximity and shifting relations.
Nelly Zagury received her MFA from HEAR, Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, Strasbourg, France
Zagury is an artist and designer. Her approach is to re-enchant. Sexuality is a pretext to talk about the essence of human relationships. Eroticism is my way of sanctifying the vulgar with self-mockery.
“I want to offer a sensual and uninhibited feminism, an erotic space, free and imagined by a woman without any constraints. Eroticism is for me a way to celebrate the creation and magic of life. Reclaiming this subject is a therapeutic experience. Sexuality and its staging are still dominated by men. Prohibitions obscure what for me is simply the beauty of imagination. To tackle this subject is to talk about desire and frustration in a world where women are still heirs to the evils of guilt, for the luckiest among us. These stories are a mixture of my dreams, real life stories and pure fantasies. I had a lot of fun writing it.” Nelly Zagury.
Zagury has exhibited at The Chimney, NY, Matthew Barney Studio, Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Big Pictures Los Angeles. Zagury is the co-founder and art director of the 3D printing jewelry brand Holy Faya and has been working with Matthew Barney, Rashaad Newsome, FKA Twigs, Demi Lovato, Fendi, Blavity, Simphiwe Ndzube, Morreale Paris, Shan Boodram, TheFamily.