PaintersNYC at Páramo

Artists: Joshua Abelow, Kristin Baker, Trudy Benson, Todd Bienvenu, Maureen Cavanaugh, Holly Coulis, Inka Essenhigh, Clare Grill, Halsey Hathaway, Loie Hollowell, Eamon Ore-Giron, Veronika Pausova, Ezra Tessler, Anke Weyer

Exhibition title: PaintersNYC

Venue: Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico

Date: December 16, 2015 – January 23, 2016

Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Páramo, Guadalajara

Páramo is pleased to present the group exhibition PaintersNYC.

The premise of PaintersNYC is to look at the general shifts and styles currently found in New York based paintings while also referencing and examining its historical roots. The painters in this exhibition are a newer generation of established and emerging artists and in many ways are part of a larger community of artists based in New York that often relate with issues of space, politics and culture. Simultaneously, in the projec- tion room at the gallery, we will show a series of films and videos of New York based painters.

The artists participating in the exhibition are: Joshua Abelow, Trudy Ben- son, Todd Bienvenu, Maureen Cavanaugh, Holy Coulis, Inka Essenhigh, Clare Grill, Halsey Hathaway, Loie Hollowell, Eamon Ore-Giron, Veron- ika Pausova, Ezra Tessler and Anke Weyer.

Afterwards, the exhibition will travel to El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños (MUPO) in Oaxaca, from March 11 to May 15, 2016.

The exhibition was organized by Páramo Director, Meaghan Kent, and artist Maureen Cavanaugh. Maureen Cavanaugh, a Nebraska native and Brooklyn based artist, studied painting in Santa Fe, New Mexi- co. Exhibitions include: Sister Garage Project, Los Angeles, California; “Dead in August on the LILAC” Site95; “Everything Must Go,” Casey Kaplan, New York; “Talk Show”, Edward Thorp and “Contemporary Painting,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (curated by Alex Katz). Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California.

Our great thanks to the James Fuentes LLC, Life on Mars Gallery, Zie- her Smith and Horton, Rawson Projects, Canada Gallery, Lisa Cooley Gallery and all team members in each of the artists’ studios, for their collaboration and assistance in this exhibition.