NYAB Event - “Phaedo” Exhibition

“Phaedo” Exhibition

Storefront Ten Eyck

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Phaedo brings together ten artists who work with abstraction. The title refers to the Platonic dialogue whose subject is the death of Socrates and the immortality of the soul. In Phaedo’s Affinity Argument, Plato offers proofs for the existence of an afterlife by contrasting the world of the invisible, the immortal and the incorporeal with the attributes of our transitory, physical world. While our bodies are destined to die and decay, our soul survives.

Phaedo at Storefront Bushwick presents the practice of abstraction as a vehicle for the exploration of a world that exists apart from the physical one we inhabit. The show focuses on artists who create systems of investigation within abstraction that allow for discovery outside a purely personal agenda of self-expression. Within this framework Phaedo casts a wide curatorial net. The artwork in the exhibition asks what it means to work with an abstract vocabulary today when so much of our visible world appears to us in a form mediated by the virtual and the digital.

About the artists:

Emily Berger lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited internationally and in the United States in many galleries, universities and museums including the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota, Colombia, and The National Academy Museum in NYC, which awarded her the John Hultberg Memorial Prize for Painting. In May her work was shown with Anne Russinof and Nancy Manter in SEEING THROUGH at 490 Atlantic and Soapbox galleries in Brooklyn. In the coming months her paintings will be exhibited in a four-person show at Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn and in a two-person show at The Painting Center in NYC. Berger is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MFA from Columbia University.

Benjamin Echeverria was born in 1980 in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and lives and works in San Francisco. His work has been exhibited at SVIT LA, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Gallery16, San Francisco; 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco; Scope Basel, Switzerland; and Temescal Contemporary, Oakland, CA. He has curated several experimental exhibitions and will be attending the Art and Curatorial Practices program at the University of Southern California, Roski School of Fine Arts in 2013. He also studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Yale School of Art, Norfolk; and received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2008. In 2009 he was Visiting Professor at the Hellenic School of Art, Paros, Greece, and is currently a faculty member in the MFA program at California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

Nate Ethier (1977) is a painter. Born in Providence, Ethier received his BA from Goddard Collage and his MFA from Boston University. Recently, his work as been exhibited at Lenore Gray Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Allegra LaViola Gallery, and Georgia Southern University. He lives in Brooklyn.

JJ Garfinkel was born in 1973 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (1996) and an MFA from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts (2000). His work has been shown at White Columns, Art Blog Art Blog, and The Hogar Collection in New York and at Mogadishni in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Elizabeth Hazan was born and raised in New York City and has maintained a studio in Brooklyn since 2001. She attended Bryn Mawr
College and the New York Studio School, where she was awarded a fellowship to the Skowhegan School, in Skowhegan, ME.. In 2012 she received a fellowship to Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, NY. Elizabeth is the daughter of the artist Jane Freilicher. She is represented by Janet Kurnatowski Gallery where she has an upcoming solo show this winter.

Gilbert Hsiao is a current resident at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program in Brooklyn. He has exhibited and is represented in collections in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. His work has been shown in such venues as MassMOCA , Indianapolis Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, PS 1, White Columns, Minus Space, Artists Space, IS Projects (Leiden), Sydney Non Objective (Sydney), and dr julius | ap (Berlin). His work is exhibited courtesy of Minus Space.

Osamu Kobayashi was born in Columbia, SC in 1984. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad including solo exhibitions at the Greenwich House in New York, AplusB Contemporary Art in Italy, and John Davis Gallery in New York. He was recently awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Fund from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a recipient of the Morris Louis ‘32 scholarship. Osamu currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Dominic Mangila lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions Artist Proof Gallery Alberta Printmakers Society in Canada, Chashama and Marvelli Gallery in New York. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Marvelli Gallery, Yace Gallery, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and Neiman Gallery of Columbia University in New York, GSK Contemporary in London, Manila Contemporary in the Philippines, Valentine Willie Fine Art in Malaysia and HT Contemporary Space in Singapore. His residencies include Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space Program (2013), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2010), Seven Below Arts Initiative Artist-In-Residence Program at Vermont’s Burlington City Arts (2012), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (2010-2014) and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist In Residence Program (2012).

Lauren Portada currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She has exhibited her work in New York, Chicago, Boston and India. Portada is one of thirteen founding members of the artists’ run space, Regina Rex, in Queens, New York. She is currently organizing a show titled 4 Paintings: Redux which is forth coming in June, 2013. This coming September, Portada will be one of twenty selected artists and scientists to participate in the Arctic Circle residency, sailing for two weeks above the 80th parallel.

Anne Russinof is a painter living and working in Brooklyn.graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an MFA from Pratt Institute. She has been a resident at the Yaddo and Millay Art Colonies and has exhibited in many venues, most recently lecturing at Suffolk Community College where her work was shown in the Flecker Gallery. Her work was also featured in tandem shows this spring at the Soapbox and 490 Atlantic Galleries in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently represented by BlankSpace in NYC.