NYAB Event - Guy Goodwin, Heather Guertin, Naotaka Hiro, Dave McDermott, Jason Meadows Exhibition

Guy Goodwin, Heather Guertin, Naotaka Hiro, Dave McDermott, Jason Meadows Exhibition

Brennan & Griffin

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Brennan & Griffin presents a group exhibition with works by Guy Goodwin, Heather Guertin, Naotaka Hiro, Dave McDermott and Jason Meadows.

Guy Goodwin (b. 1940) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Goodwin received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois in 1965. Over the past forty years, Guy Goodwin has explored painting in relief through a range of materials and formal investigations. In Black Broccoli (2008), Goodwin builds a composition by turning simple nouns found on discarded food menus into graphic symbols. Goodwin layers paper saturated with acrylic paint onto large back painted plexiglass and plywood panels, resulting in a rhythmic relief that conflates positive and negative space. Notable exhibitions include: Looking Back / The Ninth White Columns Annual - Selected by Cleopatra’s, White Columns, New York, NY (2015), High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967 - 1975, curated by Katy Siegel with David Reed advising (2006-07, traveling), Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1987), Bykert Gallery, New York, NY (1974), Whitney Annual Exhibition of American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1972).

Heather Guertin (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her Master of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 2008. Guertin is a painter and writer, and has performed stand-up comedy in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, most recently at White Columns in New York and in conjunction with the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh. Defined by the size of the canvas, Guertin paints figures that she describes as being elemental ideas of a person and their struggle to become a fully realized self in mind and body. Working wet on wet, her paintings are developed by her gestural minimal logic of ovals, staffs and bands of color. Recent notable exhibitions include: The Whole, Augustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Solo, 2015), Aluminum Linoleum, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (Solo, 2014), Long Instant Short Hour, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles (2013) among others. In 2013, Guertin published a novella titled Model Turned Comedian with Social Malpractice and Publication Studio and is currently working on her second book Not Yet Titled, Cambodia.

Naotaka Hiro (b. 1972, Osaka, Japan) lives and works in Los Angeles. Throughout Hiro’s expansive practice, which includes drawing, sculpture and video, the artist’s body has served as the foundation for his exploration of the “unknown.” Areas of his body, only viewable through a mediated form (such as a mirror or camera) or entirely unseen, become the impetus for investigation. Untitled (2014), is a drawing made utilizing both hands simultaneously to the scale of Hiro’s body. The work depicts a complex, nearly symmetrical, inverted form with references to bones, limbs, and organs. Hiro’s drawings serve both to visualize his exploration of the body as a means to develop the visual language utilized in his sculpture and video, while existing as autonomous works on their own. Hiro received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 2000. Recent notable exhibitions include: Mirror Effect (2015) and Men in LA: Three Generations of Drawers: Naotaka Hiro, Paul McCarthy, and Benjamin Weismann (2014), The Box, Los Angeles; Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo (Solo 2015, 2008, 2007); and RSVP Los Angeles: The Project Series at Pomona, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2015). Group exhibitions include: The Tate Modern, London, Prague Biennial 1, Prague, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo among others.

Dave McDermott (b. 1974) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design in 2007. Dave McDermott’s paintings probe literary, art historical and cinematic themes through a rich material vocabulary. Using gold leaf, yarn, paint and collage, McDermott creates fragmented, figurative scenes as allegories of pathos, failure and desire. As often with McDermott’s work, the viewer is directed more to subtext than subject. Recent notable exhibitions include: Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (2015), The Power and Influence of Joseph Wiseman (2013) and A Rake’s Progress (2011), Grimm - Amsterdam, NL; Black Medicine (w/ Nick van Woert), Room East - New York, NY (2012); Tot (2012) and The Modern Temper (2011), Duve Berlin - Berlin, DE. McDermott has been awarded residencies at the Zabludowicz Collection in Sarvisalo, Finland (2010) and Frans Masareel Centrum in Belgium (2008).

Jason Meadows (b.1972) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Meadows received his Master of Fine Arts from UCLA in 1998. Using prosaic, industrial and off the shelf materials, Meadows’ sculptures complicate traditional spacial and narrative structures. Borrowed from art history, pop culture and literature - high and low, Meadows’ three dimensional work mines modernist principles from repurposed industrial materials. His recent work, Meanwhile (2015) is a geometric sculpture that explores different structural possibilities that the artist discovered while fabricating a previous sculpture with a similar form. This version utilizes a hinge system which from certain angles resembles a Jacob’s Ladder kinetic toy. Recent exhibitions include: 8 Days A Week, Jason Meadows & Mateo Tannatt, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2015), Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago traveled to the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, travel ed to The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC from (2010-12).

Media

• Painting
• Sculpture
• Installation
• Performance Art

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