Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey and Eric Mack “Everything, Everyday: Artists in Residence 2014–15”
The Studio Museum in Harlem
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Everything, Everyday presents three emerging artists whose innovative works, while diverse in form and subject matter, reflect overlapping affinities. Sadie Barnette, Lauren Halsey and Eric Mack explore ideas of disappearance and reemergence, shifting visibilities and the beauty of the everyday. Each artist closely considers matters of artistic process by playing with scale, the ephemeral quality of their materials, the nature of time and language, and the relationships between the objects they create.
Sadie Barnette (b. 1984, Oakland, CA) deals in the currency of west-coast vernacular, the everyday, fantasy and abstraction, and is unconfined to any particular medium. Whether working in photography or highly detailed drawing, large-scale installations or zine and book making, Barnette often turns her attention toward unexpected locations of identity construction, family histories, subculture coding, celebration and excess. Her recent works have focused on the poetics of naming race horses and the narrative of the racetrack.
Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) creates sculptural environments and flat works that synthesize imagery from contemporary life in Harlem and Los Angeles with ancient Egypt, outer space, Technicolor and Funk. For Everything, Everyday, Halsey transforms part of the Mezzanine gallery with a site-specific environment made of hieroglyphic reliefs set in an interplanetary desert oasis.
Eric Mack (b. 1987, Columbia, MD) is an abstract painter who incorporates textiles and readymade surfaces in his colorful compositions. Inspired equally by Abstract Expressionism and fashion, Mack integrates function with form in his work, using pegboards, moving blankets and other utilitarian objects in lyrical and unexpected ways.
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from July 16, 2015 to October 25, 2015