RU MARSHALL

July 28, 2024

Ru Marshall Deli Flowers Flatbush 1, 2024 Acrylic and UV Curable Ink on Dibond 40 x 30 in. — Ru Marshall
*Deli Flowers Flatbush 1*, 2024
Acrylic and UV Curable Ink on Dibond
40 x 30 in.

Ru Marshall

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

ARTIST BIO

Ru Marshall (b. 1960) is a nonbinary visual artist and writer. They have painted and employed photographic processes on mirrored surfaces for over twenty-five years—vinyl, glass, fabric, and Dibond. These reflective images shift and change depending on the position of the viewer and the quality of the light, capturing the fleeting and interactive nature of perception and the natural and urban landscape seen in passing from car and train windows. In Marshall’s most recent work, they explore our compromised experience of nature in a time of environmental catastrophe. For the last seven years, they have been developing an improvisational dance practice and recently completed work on Interlope, dance/video project which took place in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and which explored gender, the interaction between human and organic gestures, and our search for solace in a natural world we have failed to respect.

Marshall has had exhibitions of their visual work at Participant Inc., Triple Candie, The New Orlean Contemporary Arts Center, Thread Waxing Space, The Brooklyn Museum, Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas, The Drawing Center, Maryland Art Place, White Columns, and numerous other venues in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. They have received fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, The Banff Centre, and the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Marshall’s novel, A Separate Reality, a queer coming-of-age tale set in Phoenix, Arizona, was released by Carroll & Graf (2006) and nominated for a Lambda Book Award. American Trickster, their forthcoming biography of the faux anthropologist and cult leader Carlos Castaneda, will be released by Red Hen Press in 2026 and has been optioned for film/TV by Hybrid Cienma. They have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for their short fiction, appearing in N + 1 online, The Evergreen Review, The Barcelona Review, The Kenyon Review, Your Impossible Voice, Another Chicago Magazine, and numerous other publications. They attended the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated from Wesleyan University.

RU MARSHALL

TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE

Sept 3 - Nov 2, 2024

HANNAM, SEOUL

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KEVIN MELCHIONNE

July 10, 2024

Kevin Melchionne

Lives and works in New Rochelle, New York

ARTIST BIO

Kevin Melchionne (b. 1964) is a painter and a writer. He grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, where he took Silvermine Guild Arts Center classes. He studied painting at the Philadelphia College of Art, lived in Paris, and traveled to Italy. After graduating from Hunter College of the City University of New York with a BA in philosophy, he received a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His dissertation was Cultivation: Art and Aesthetics in Everyday Life. He continued to paint.

His profound insights on the aesthetics of everyday life, taste, art, and well-being have left an indelible mark in the field. His articles have graced the pages of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature, and Estetika. His influence extends beyond the written word, as he has been a Renwick Fellow of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington and a recipient of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council Award for Arts Writing.

GANGNAM, SEOUL PERFECT LOVERS August 16 - October 19, 2024

TRANSPACIFIC: PERFECT LOVERS

Sept 5 - Oct 19, 2024

GANGNAM, SEOUL

KEVIN MELCHIONNE

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BELL and GANASSI

September 15, 2023

Bell and Ganassi

VISIT THE CORPSES

ARTIST BIO

LAURA BELL

At Douglass College, Rutgers University, Laura Bell studied with Fluxus artist Robert Watts, who gave her a deep appreciation for the spontaneous and serendipitous, and with clay sculptor Ka Kwong Hui, whose sense of the relationships of forms went far beyond the ceramic studio. She received a 2020 “Bronx Recognizes Its Own” (BRIO) painting grant from the Bronx Council for the Arts, has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony, and has participated multiple times in the Governors Island and Aqua Art Miami art fairs. Her paintings and mixed-media work have been shown in New York, Provincetown, New Haven, Philadelphia, Berlin, and elsewhere. She lives and has her studio in the Bronx.

IAN GANASSI

Ian Ganassi has worked as a writer, teacher, and percussionist. His poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Survision, Home Planet News, Meniscus, Offcourse, BlazeVOX, Clockwise Cat, Otoliths, The Yale Review, and New American Writing. His poem “Blunt Trauma” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his translations from Virgil’s Aeneid have appeared in New England Review. His first poetry collection, Mean Numbers, was published by China Grove in 2016; his second poetry collection, True for the Moment, was published by David Robert Books in 2023. A third collection, By This Time, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in June 2024. He is a long-time resident of New Haven, Connecticut.

LAURA BELL AND IAN GANASSI

THE CORPSES

March 26 - April 30, 2024

JANET TAYLOR PICKETT, ZHANG HONGTU, PINK and THE CORPSES 

Oct 5 – 31, 2023

BELL and GANASSI

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BRANDON BALLENGÉE

June 25, 2023

Brandon Ballengée

Lives and works in Louisiana, USA

ARTIST BIO

Brandon Ballengée (b. 1974) is an artist, biologist, and environmental activist. Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Ballengée has focused his artistic practice on Gulf of Mexico ecologies, which represents an extension of his ecological fieldwork and laboratory research. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University, New Orleans. In 2016, Ballengée and his wife, Aurore Ballengée, founded the Atelier de la Nature, an eco-educational campus, sculpture garden, and nature reserve.

Ballengée has had solo exhibitions at the CAIRN Centre d’art, Digne-les-Bains, France (2022); Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana (2021); University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie (2016); Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, Netherlands (2014); Château de Chamarande, Essonne, France (2013); and the Royal Institution of Great Britian, London. Ballengée is the recipient of awards and fellowships for his art and research including the COAL Awards Special Jury Prize (2022); a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); Creative Capital Award (2019); Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian American Art Museum (2017); a National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (2015, 2016); and a Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship from the National Audubon Society’s TogetherGreen Program (2011). He was named a Grist 50 Emerging Environmental Leader (2020). He holds a PhD in transdisciplinary art and biology from Plymouth University, England, in association with the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Zurich (2014).

Germanisches National Museum: HELLO NATURE

October 3, 2024 - March 2, 2025

Hammer Museum: Breath(E)

September 14, 2024 – January 5, 2025

BRANDON BALLENGÉE

L’Art de la Solitude (The Art of Loneliness)

Nov 10, 2023 - Jan 27, 2024

BRANDON BALLENGÉE

PICASSO, WELCOME TO AMERICA

June 15 – Sept 27, 2023

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DEBORAH BUCK

June 25, 2023

Deborah Buck STOP THAT BALL, 2024 Acrylic on wood panel 36 x 36 in. — Deborah Buck
*STOP THAT BALL*, 2024
Acrylic on wood panel
36 x 36 in.

DEBORAH BUCK

Lives and works in New York

ARTIST BIO

Deborah Buck (b. 1957) was originally from Maryland and grew up on a farm outside of Baltimore. She credits her early rural exposure as informing her robust curiosity and nurturing her creative mind. As a young artist, Buck was mentored by Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still, who saw in the young artist an independence and ambition that he fostered by sending her to The Skowhegan School in Maine, which proved to be a life-changing experience for the young artist. Still impressed upon her the importance of understanding not only art, but the world around her; to learn as much about the world around her to inform her work as a painter. On that tutelage, Buck attended Trinity College in Hartford, CT, studying as broad a sampling of subjects as possible while majoring in Fine Arts.

Deborah Buck has painted for over 40 years. She produces surreal and humorous works, using a vigorous approach to texture, color, and composition. Buck’s mediums have ranged from oil on canvas, acrylic, ink on paper, collage, and acrylic on board. The paintings reveal long-held interests in absurdity, romanticism, and the darker side of fairy tales, lending a strong narrative. A restless spirit, she constantly explores and pushes boundaries. Deborah Buck has exhibited widely throughout the Northeast, including The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Heckscher Museum, Southampton Arts Center, and The New Britain Museum, as well as the upcoming exhibition at The Church in Sag Harbor. Deborah has been a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts, a trustee of The Pratt Institute, and a member of the Skowhegan Council. Deborah Buck is represented by Jennifer Baahng Gallery.

Two Coates of Paint: Funniest Girl in the Class

July 5, 2024

The Brooklyn Rail: Witches Bridge

July 2024

Deborah Buck Participates in Women and Humor

June 23 - September 1, 2024

DEBORAH BUCK

Witches Bridge

May 16 - July 12, 2024

Deborah Buck on view in THE RAINS ARE CHANGING FAST at Heckscher Museum

Heckscher Museum: THE RAINS ARE CHANGING FAST

March 23, 2024 - September 1, 2024

BROOKLYN RAIL reviews Deborah Buck: INTO THE WILD, To Crash Is Divine

September 28 – October 27, 2023

JANET TAYLOR PICKETT, ZHANG HONGTU, PINK and THE CORPSES 

Oct 5 – 31, 2023

BOMB Magazine interviews Deborah Buck

October 11, 2023

DEBORAH BUCK

INTO THE WILD: To Crash Is Divine

Sept 28 - Oct 27, 2023

DEBORAH BUCK

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JEFF GABEL

January 12, 2023

Jeff Gabel #5 (Card Series 2), 2006 Pencil on paper 4.25 x 3 in. — Jeff Gabel
*#5 (Card Series 2)*, 2006
Pencil on paper
4.25 x 3 in.

Jeff Gabel #17 (Card Series 2), 2006 Pencil on paper 4.25 x 3 in. — Jeff Gabel
*#17 (Card Series 2)*, 2006
Pencil on paper
4.25 x 3 in.

JEFF GABEL

Born 1968, Portland, OR

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

1995

MFA, Pratt Institute, Master of Fine Arts, New York, NY

1992

Kansas State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, KS

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015

28,000 pages or, ‘In Color’: a mid-life crisis, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY

2012

More of the Best of Firmin Graf Salwàr dej Striës, Kim Kim Gallery, Seoul, KR

International Artists Series, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania AU

The Very Best of Firmin Graf Salwàr dej Striës, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY

2008

Drawings, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

2007

New Work by Jeff Gabel, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN

Drawings, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

2004

New Works, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

2001

Drawings, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Drawings, 79 Bridge Street, Brooklyn, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

Wild Youths – Riot School, Kim Kim Gallery, KR

2016

Hybrid, Anomaly Gallery, Ottumwa, IA

The Ins and Outs, Anomaly Gallery, Ottumwa, IA

2011

Monanisms: Opening Exhibition, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania AU

2010

Into the Desert, O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle, Oxford, UK

Earth School Auction, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

Independent Drawing Gig Nr 6, Fluxus Ministerija, Vilnius, LT

No Show [untitled exhibition], Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

This is the Book I Have Written for You, Park Life, San Francisco, CA

Ten Years Hunting [The Trophy Room], Parkerʼs Box, Brooklyn, NY

How to Read a Book, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2009

Are You Sure You Are You?, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

Desenhos A-Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, PT

2008

Off the Beaten Road, A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, IL

Independent Drawing Gig 4 New York, Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Desenhos Estranhos, Galeria Porta 33, Funchal, PT

2006

STORYlines: Narrative in Drawing, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY

2005 Drawings / Works on Paper, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Knockabout, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

2001

Drawing Quirks, Parkerʼs Box, Brooklyn, New York, NY

1999

Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY

1996

Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY

Out of Print, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, New York, NY

1995

450 Book Show, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

Page 14, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

1994

A Basement in Edinburgh, Higgins Hall, Brooklyn, New York, NY

1993

An Exhibition of Art Withdrawn from the World Trade Center, Higgins Hall, Brooklyn, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2016

Ebony, David. “David Ebony’s Top 10 NY Gallery Shows This Winter.” Artnet News, 29 January 2016.

Newman, Mark. “Artist’s Vision Driven by Pressure.” Ottumwa Courier, 23 September 2016.

2012

Larkins, Damien. “New York artist climbs the walls at MONA.” abc.au, September 2012.

Kent, Kailyn. “Time Spent With An Invisible Book: Recent Work by Jeff Gabel.” The Hooded Utilitarian, 29 May 2012.

2011

Gabel, Jeff. “The Very Best of Firmin Graf Salwàr dej Striës.” GAGARIN: The Artist in their Own Words, Antwerp, BE, 24/2011

2008

Gopnik, Blake. “Critics’ Picks: Jeff Gabel.” Artforum.com, October 2008.

Wilson, Michael. “Meet Jeff Gabel’s Sad-Sack Antiheroes.” The Village Voice, October 2008.

Bartman, Jen. “Jeff Gabel.” Whitehot Magazine, October 2008.

2007

Wilson, Michael. “Jeff Gabel.” Artforum, March 2007: 314.

Schmerler, Sarah. “STORY/lines.” Time Out New York, 1-7 February 2007.

Thibodeaux, Julianna. “Ennui and Inner Dialogue.” NUVO, 14 November 2007.

“Listings: Snug Harbor Cultural Center.” The New Yorker, 12 February 2007.

Gabel, Jeff, Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art, TRACEY, ed. Simon Downs et al. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007. 40-41.

2004

Stillman, Nick. “New York Criticsʼ Pick.” Artforum.com, July 2004.

Johnson, Ken. “Art In Review.” The New York Times, 2 July 2004.

Levin, Kim. “Voices Choices.” The Village Voice, 30 June – 6 July 2004.

Gabel, Jeff. “Around Town: New York.” NYFA Current, 27 October 2004.

2002

Levin, Kim. “Review: Jeff Gabel.” The Village Voice, 8 January 2002.

“Listings: Jeff Gabel.” The New Yorker, February 4, 2002.

Gioni, Massimiliano. “Beauty School Drop Out.” Flash Art vol. XXXIV

PITCHES & SCRIPTS

Group Exhibition

January 20 - March 11, 2023

JEFF GABEL

TANGO

Summer Exhibition

July 13 - August 17, 2022

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BJÖRN MEYER-EBRECHT

January 11, 2023

BJöRN MEYER-EBRECHT

Lives and works in New York

ARTIST BIO

Björn Meyer-Ebrecht (b. 1974) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice extends from sculpture and installation to large-scale drawing. From these different vantage points, he examines the meaning of physical space in art and architecture- historically and in the present– and its relationship to communal interaction. Born in Hamburg, Germany, the artist has been based in New York City since 2000. After graduating from the University for the Arts in Berlin in 1999, he received his MFA from Hunter College in New York in 2002. He has had solo or two-person shows, including Galerie Susanne, Neuerburg Hennef Germany, Matjö, Cologne Germany, Matteawan Gallery, Storefront TenEyck, and Owen James Gallery in New York.

TRANSPACIFIC: LOVE DIFFERENCE

Sept 3 - Nov 2, 2024

PICASSO, WELCOME TO AMERICA

June 15 – Sept 27, 2023

PITCHES & SCRIPTS

Group Exhibition

January 20 - March 11, 2023

BJÖRN MEYER-EBRECHT

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R.C. BAKER

January 11, 2023

R.C. Baker Picasso’s CMYK Period, 2018 - 2023 Aluminum printing plates, emulsion, ink, solvent 70 x 68.25 in. — R.C. Baker
*Picasso’s CMYK Period*, 2018 - 2023 
Aluminum printing plates, emulsion, ink, solvent
70 x 68.25 in.

“At some point, probably in the Swinging Sixties, Pablo Picasso said something along the lines of “What good are computers? They can only give you answers.” I included this quote in President: “Why?” — my 2018 limited-edition tabloid newspaper — to emphasize the questioning nature that is essential to making art. In Picasso’s CMYK Period, the influential artist's words play hide and seek on the printing plates amid primary-colored amalgams of abstract expressionist smears, pop-art Benday dots, and Fluxus happenstance, continuing my lifelong obsession with mixing visuals and text: how words appear and what they say.”

R.C. BAKER

Lives and works in Bronx, New York

ARTIST BIO

R.C. Baker (b. 1960) is an artist and writer who lives and works in the Bronx, New York. He is a New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellow, and his artwork has been exhibited at Jennifer Baahng Gallery, Zone: Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, White Columns, the Center for Book Arts, and other venues in New York City, as well as internationally. He is the editor-in-chief of the Village Voice and has written hundreds of reviews, numerous features, and cover stories on art, popular culture, and politics. His essays have appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, in exhibition catalogs, and other publications. In 2016, Baker was awarded a Creative Capital I Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for Short-Form Writing.