ARTISTS EXHIBITED
Loie Holowell
Loie Hollowell earned a BFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Originating in autobiography, her paintings explore themes of sexuality, often through abstractions of the human body and an emphasis on female forms. With strong colors, varied texture, and the symmetry of sacred geometry, her works evoke bodily landscapes and allude to iconography such as the almond-shaped mandorlas found in medieval religious painting. Hollowell is currently represented by Pace.
I Swallowed a Moon Made of Iron; for, i promise to burn brightly (2015)
Meg Lipke
Meg Lipke was born in 1969 in Portland, Oregon and was raised in Burlington, Vermont and Cheshire, England. She received her MFA from Cornell University and has taught at The University of Northern Iowa, Cornell University, and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and has been reviewed in Art in America, the Village Voice, the New York Times and many online publications. She lives and works in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
Timo Fahler
Timo Fahler’s work explores ideas of use and reuse through casting and manipulating found objects and combining them with relics that relate to personal experiences. Waste recycling is an important idea in the development of a North American cultural capital, but the concept of use and reuse is more an ethos among Central American cultures; walls are comprised of mud and plastic bottles, old bicycles are transformed into washing machines, shards of broken glass find use as security devices atop privacy fences. As the son of a Mexican mother and German American father, his Chicano heritage has become the consistent material (and immaterial) investigation in his work. He translates these ideas into works by collecting items deemed disposable or recyclable and reconfiguring them into objects in which the items are divorced from their original purpose. These objects are combined with artifacts of his experience, in order to provide an experiential interpretation in which the work communicates with the senses physically, emotionally and spiritually. By restructuring these objects in a manner that indicates function and meaning while remaining abstract in form, he evokes the bricoleurian practice evident in Mexican culture, yet present work representative of a multi-cultural aesthetic.
Joanna Malinowska
Joanna Malinowska (b. 1972, Gdynia, Poland) received her BFA from Rutgers University and MFA from Yale University, with concentrations in sculpture. Her works have been displayed at SculptureCenter, Art in General and Postmasters in New York, Saatchi Gallery and Nottingham Contemporary in Great Britain, Yokohama Museum of Art in Japan, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Paris, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle and Zachęta National Art Gallery in Warsaw. Malinowska participated in the First Art Biennale in Moscow, the 2012 Whitney Biennial in New York, and represented Poland in the 2015 Venice Biennale, among other venues.
Malinowska has been an artist in residence at the Smack Mellon Studio Program, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the New York Foundation of the Arts, among others. She is represented by CANADA gallery in New York City.
Lars Fisk
Playing with recognizable everyday objects, Lars Fisk deconstructs and warps familiar objects into spheres. Fisk has been making spherical sculptures since 1996, when he created his first sphere, Streetball. Channeling his interest in architecture, construction, signage, consumption, storage and waste, through the fine art of sculpture, Fisk turns familiar objects into abstract symbols, questioning their very essence. The artist has worked on a number of commissions that are site-specific and were inspired by the local context.
Tamar Halpern
Tamar Halpern is a photographer whose subject is the photographic process as much as the objects captured in her images. She uses a variety of photographic technologies, both contemporary and historic, and her final prints are the result of elaborate processes involving repeated cycles of digital and manual alteration: scanning, re-photographing, printing, sponging, taping, silk-screening, and wiping. The objects in the images are frequently commonplace, and also include streetscapes and interior views. In the final images, however, the original subject is sometimes distorted and obscured beyond recognition. Halpern’s style favors dense layering of images, high contrast, texture, and saturated colors.
Jim Lee
Jim Lee received his MFA from the University of Delaware before relocating to Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, most recently at White Flag Projects, St. Louis; The University of Delaware, Newark; OHT Gallery, Boston; Mississippi State University, Starkville; The University of the Arts, Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia; CRG Gallery, NY; The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase; Allston Skirt, Boston; and Galerie Markus Winter, Berlin. He currently teaches at Hofstra University and Queens College. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with Freight + Volume.
Mark DeLong
Mark DeLong (b. 1978, New Brunswick, Canada) is a self-taught artist working in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, painting, and sequential art. His work has been displayed at Colette, Paris, France; Abel Neue Kunst Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Perugi Art Contemporenea, Padova, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, COOPER COLE, Toronto, Monte Clark, Vancouver, Canada; ACME, Los Angeles; Spencer-Brownstone Gallery, Ed. Varie, Little Cakes, New York; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, USA. DeLong currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.
Fanny Allié
Fanny Allié was born in Montpellier, South of France. She graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (The National School of Photography) in Arles, France in 2005 and moved to New York City shortly after graduating. Princeton University, Equity Gallery, DOT Art, A.I.R Gallery, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Fresh Window, Chashama and St Eustache Church in Paris, France have organized solo exhibitions of her work. Owen James Gallery, NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Freight + Volume, Field Projects, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Dekalb Gallery/Pratt Institute and The Bronx Museum among others have featured her work in group exhibitions. Fanny was awarded a AIM fellowship from the Bronx Museum in 2007, a BRIC/BCAT Rotunda Gallery fellowship in 2008, an Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2013, A.I.R. Fellowship Program in 2015-16, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Fellowship in 2017, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program and the Yaddo Residency Program in 2019.
Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Artnews, NY Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Blouin Art Info, DNA Info, Marie Claire Italy among others.
EFA STUDIO PROGRAM (2020
Ted Gahl
Ted Gahl (b. 1983, New Haven, Connecticut) received a BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 2006 and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI in 2010. Gahl has been an artist-in-residence at Tilleard Projects Residency, Lamu, Kenya, Africa; and Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL. The artist has exhibited internationally at: Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Galleri Jacob Bjørn, Aarhus, Denmark; Towards, Toronto, Canada; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Journal, Brooklyn, NY; The Peninsula School, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine; and Mass MOCA, North Adams, MA. His work has been featured in publications including: The New York Times, Artinfo, Time Out London, Artnews, Contemporary Art Daily, and New American Paintings, among many others. Gahl lives and works in Litchfield, CT.
Clare Grill
Clare Grill lives and works in Queens, NY. She received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2005, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Solo exhibitions include Horton Gallery (New York), Reserve Ames (Los Angeles, CA), Soloway Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT). Her work has been exhibited in group shows in Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, New York, Hawaii, San Francisco, Guadalajara, London, Bologna and Denmark. Grill was a 2017 recipient of a Steep Rock Arts residency in Roxbury, CT and was the Fall 2017 Artist-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Modern Painters, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe.
EJ Hauser
EJ’s paintings and drawings employ text and figures into seemingly discursive elements. She paints seeking a narrow window where numbers, letters, figures, and symbols cohere into a singular image. These painted palimpsests hold conversations, and arguments, homage to the past and revelations of the day. Contradiction and balance are held in equal regard, grappling with expressions of identity, personal, and cultural histories.
Graham Wilson
Graham Wilson was born and raised in Louisville, KY, and he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Graham’s solo exhibitions include Quarantine, Anna Zorina Gallery / Spring Break Art Show, NYC (2018); Every Which Way But Loose, Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC (2017); Cauling All Of My Contemporaries… (To Come Burst My Bubble), Galerie Valentin, Paris (2016); I Clocked Out When I Punched In, Brand New Gallery, Milan (2015); and Introducing Mr. Golyadkin, MonCheri, Brussels (2014). He has also participated in group shows in US, Denmark, Italy and France.
Tashawn “Whaffle” Davis
Born and raised in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Tashawn “Whaffle” Davis is a multi-disciplinary artist who combines humor, historical reference and pop culture to explore a variety of cultural and socio-political issues. In his paintings, Tashawn often returns to an imaginary pastoral landscape that he refers to as “Fernweh.” This rural setting provides a backdrop for surreal scenes and narratives that often include mythical creatures called “Squonks.” The Squonk - with its shapeless furry body, sad eyes and anthropomorphic qualities - creates a strange tension within the idealized landscape of Fernweh. Interspersed with references to American history and popular culture, Tashawn’s paintings create compelling seriocomic explorations of the African American experience.
Francesca Capone
Francesca Capone is a visual artist, writer, and materials designer. Her work is primarily concerned with the creation of materials and a poetic consideration of their meaning. She is interested in how tactile forms simultaneously serve as functional surfaces for daily life and as a mode of communication or symbol within the cultural paradigm.
Ben K. Voss
Ben K. Voss (b. 1980, Sinking Spring, PA) graduated with a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (2002). Solo exhibitions include Paintings, 57W57 Arts, New York, NY (2018) and a three-person exhibition, Paths of the Mirror, George Gallery, Brooklyn NY (2019). Group exhibitions include A Fairly Secret Army, Wild Palms, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019); Limbic Songs, Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA (2019); Two to Tango Two, Sperling, Munich, Germany (2019) and Terra not so Firma, Fjord, Philadelphia, PA (2019). In 2019 BKV’s paintings were selected for publication in New American Paintings (Northeast Edition) curated by Ruth Erickson and also in ArtMaze Magazine (Summer Edition 13) curated by Chris Sharp. Ben K. Voss lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Mark Cannariato
Mark Cannariato was born in Louisiana and has lived most of his life along the Gulf of Mexico. He received an MFA from the University of Southern Florida. He has exhibited throughout the southern states and in New York. He has been a resident at the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, and Kunst-Stoffe in Berlin. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Kelly Worman
Kelly Worman (b.1983) is an artist, curator, professor, and archivist based out of New York City. She holds an M.F.A. from Pratt Institute (2011) in New York, and an M.A. in Culture, Criticism, and Curation with distinction from Central Saint Martins (2015) in London. Worman teaches at Pratt Institute in New York. She exhibits her work internationally and is included in an array of private collections. Recent exhibitions include "Summer of Love" at Freight + Volume in New York, NY, the Invitational at Barney Savage Gallery in New York, NY, “Women’s Work” at NARS Foundation, "WE: Women Empowering Women" at Borghese Gallery on the North Fork, and "I See an Omen" at Benaco Arte in Sirmione, Italy. Recent curatorial projects include "Shapes of Curiosity" at The Schneider Museum of Art in Oregon, "Surface Tension" and "Land After Time" at E.Tay Gallery in New York, NY and the last three (2015, 2016, 2017) Pratt Alumni Exhibitions at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Other recent projects and publications include "Karen Barth: Works 1979 - 2014" (a catalogue raisonné), "WYSIWYG?- What you see is what you get?" (a project in collaboration with South London Gallery, investigating the impact of the digital world on art and culture in the 21st century), the Studio Spoken project (interviewing artists about their studio practice), and "The (W)hole Picture– Transgressing/Abjecting Subjectivities in Art" in Unknown Quantities (written with Janice Mitchell). Worman also writes and speaks extensively on color theory, the role of artist as curator, and arts and economics at multiple institutions internationally.
Mike Olin
Mike Olin was born and raised in San Diego, CA, and he currently lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn. 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.
Hester Oerlemans
The mixing of different worlds, playful interventions and commentaries on everyday reality are the main themes in the work of artist Hester Oerlemans. Leaving no medium unexploited, she consistently shows a perception of the world around her which is both poetic and critical. In drawings, videos and sculptures, she makes an effort to unravel the object until its essence shows. No matter whether she busies herself with the art world, urban space or our personal surroundings, she hits the nail on its head.
Hester lives and works in Berlin and Arnhem
Jonathan Fraser
An Orcadian, by way of Camberwell School of Art, Jonathan Fraser has had group shows and solo shows, in London and in New York. He lives and works in NYC, specifically Soho and Red Hook. Fraser constructs handcrafted objects, then paints them, pigmented size, with stains and layers. Nature and the man made, geometry and subtle gestures co-exist in his work.