DRIP DROP DRAG
“I
identify my work as drawings, with reflections of painting. By
transcoding painting's novelty and ability to act as communicative
object, I create
a platform to play out inherent relationships between hegemonic
masculinity, sexual slang, simulation and sensibility.” - Nick
“My
approach to materials and manipulations stems not from postmodern
parody of minimalism but more as a compulsive and repetitive
impregnation of
loss through material, process and history.” - Chiara
We
have entered a state of co-acting; Taking cues from each other by means
of image, technique, vocabulary and historical reference. It’s a
relationship
where we memorialize each other's material and manipulative processes.
In turn, making work that exists independently on top of one another as a
man and a woman.
BIOs:
Chiara
No was born in 1981 and raised in Maryland. She studied Art and Theory
at the Glasgow School of Art in 2002-2003 and received a BA in Art
History
from Towson University in 2005. She has also received a
Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago in 2011. She earned her MFA from the University of
Pennsylvania in 2015. She currently lives in Philadelphia,
PA.
Her
work has been shown at Vox Populi, Space 1026, Little Berlin and The
Ice Box, all in Philadelphia, PA; H18 Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; The
Institute
for American Art, Portland, ME; MINT, Columbus, OH; Johalla Projects,
Chicago, IL; Comfort Station, Chicago, IL; Nudashank, Baltimore, MD and
Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
Nick
Mayer was born in 1982 and raised on Long Island. He attended Maryland
Institute College of Art from 2000-2004 and received a BFA in Painting.
In the summer of 2014, he attended Tyler School of Art’s Summer Painting
Intensive under the mentorship of Bruce Pearson, Erica Prince, and Tim
Belknap. This fall Nick is moving to New Haven to begin his studies in
Painting and Printmaking at the Yale School
of Art as a 2017 MFA candidate.
His
work has been shown in artist-run-spaces nationally including: Butter
Projects, Royal Oak, MI; Franklin St, Baltimore, MD; MINT, Columbus, OH;
The Ice Box, Philadelphia, PA.
www.nick-mayer.com
This
show was organized with the help of Lease Agreement. Lease Agreement
was a collaborative curatorial project by artists Adam Farcus and
Allison
Yasukawa. Set in the living room of the couple’s rental house, Lease
Agreement continued in the tradition of apartment gallery exhibition
spaces by exhibiting conceptually rigorous, engaging work within the
context of a home.
ACRE
(Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run
non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of
support
for emerging artists and to creating a generative community of cultural
producers. ACRE investigates and institutes models designed to help
artists develop, present, and discuss their practices by providing
forums for idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration,
and experimental projects. More information about ACRE can be found at www.acreresidency.org.
