NYAB Event - “Peculiar Objects” Exhibition

“Peculiar Objects” Exhibition

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Melissa Browder Beck received her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2013. She currently lives & works in Brooklyn, NY. Melissa has shown her work in California & New York, next year she will be in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.
Melissa uses discarded, broken, or no longer needed objects for her sculpture of which she has had personal interaction with. She then continues the life of the object through her interaction of repeatedly coating them with layers of latex paint. Over time transforming familiar and commonplace objects into something unrecognizable and weighty.

Gerardo Gonzalez received his MFA from Pratt Institute and Currently lives in Brooklyn, NY and maintains a studio in L.I.C. Queens.
Gerardo creates small kinetic wearable sculptures incorporating rings and other jewelry elements. He incorporates devices such as screws & pulleys. Traditionally used to create machinery to simplify everyday life. However, he incorporates them as a vehicle to develop the connection between functionality of a ring or the interaction a person has with it.

Tao Kulczycki is an Italian sculptor. He currently lives in New York and maintains his studio in L.I.C. Queens. He earned an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2013.
Tao’s sculptures are modified and assembled objects. Using these objects he creates something much less familiar or identifiable looking at the current human condition and self-reflection.

Ted McGrath is an artist and musician living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Originally from just outside Philadelphia, PA, Ted moved to Brooklyn in 1998 to study illustration and design at Pratt Institute. He has shown his work throughout major US cities and in the Philippines. He has taught at Pratt Institute as well as MICA and currently makes music as The Flag.
Ted creates quick paintings using mostly oil paint on paper in an aggressive if not messy style. He repeats such objects as the sphinx and police car often which can be referenced multiple times in his impressive sketchbooks.

Beatrice Wolert is a 1st generation Polish American artist raised in Greenpoint Brooklyn where she continues to live & maintain her studio today. Beatrice has a BA in design from Adelphi University and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. She has exhibited her work extensively in New York as well as in Chicago and New Zealand. She also partook in Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts “shift” residency.
Beatrice works between genres to explore impermanence, essentiality, and serendipity through the transformation of everyday materials and found objects.