Home Alone at Jack Barrett

Artists: Amy Brener, Haley Josephs, Timothy Lai, Abby Leigh, Christine Navin, Tom Poelmans, Ezra Tessler, Dylan Vandenhoeck, Blair Whiteford, Monsieur Zohore

Exhibition title: Home Alone

Venue: Jack Barrett, New York, US

Date: July 4 – August 8, 2020

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Jack Barrett, New York

Amy Brener (b. 1976, Victoria, BC) is a Canadian artist based in Queens, NY. She is a full time faculty member at Hamilton College. Since graduating with an MFA from Hunter College in 2010, her work has exhibited at galleries and institutions in the US, Canada, Europe and China. Highlights include MoMA PS1 and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Galerie Pact in Paris, Reyes Projects in Detroit, Wentrup Gallery in Berlin, MacLaren Art Centre in Ontario and Riverside Art Museum in Beijing. Her work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, CURA, Hyperallergic, Artnet News and The Brooklyn Rail.

Haley Josephs (b. 1987, Seattle WA) is a Brooklyn based painter. She received her BFA in Painting & Drawing from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2011, and her MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale University in 2014. Recent solo shows include Paintings and Drawings for Childhood’s End (2020) and Finger in the Hive (2018) at Jack Barrett, New York. Recent group exhibitions include Carl Kostyal, Malmo, Sweden, Unclebrother & Gavin Brown Enterprise, Hancock, NY, Capsule, Shanghai, China.

Timothy Lai (b. 1987, Kota Bharu, Malaysia) lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. He received his BA in communication from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009, and his MFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. His work has been featured in group presentations at Bass & Reiner Gallery, Good Naked Gallery, 315 Gallery, and Field Projects. His first post graduate solo exhibition was in 2019 at 00-LA Gallery.

Abby Leigh (b. New York, NY) is a New York based painter. Recent solo exhibi-tions include Sledgehammer Paintings, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York, NY; Jack Barrett, New York, NY; Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY; Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Rental Gallery, Easthampton, NY; Johannes Vogt, East Hampton, NY; Uncaged at Montclair Art Museum; International Print Center, New York. Her work exists in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Albright-Knox Art Museum, Buﬀalo, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy; Citibank, New York, NY; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT and others. Her work has been reviewed by Art In America, the Brooklyn Rail, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, and The New Yorker among others.

Tom Poelmans (b. 1984, Belgium) lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium. He receieved a Masters Degree in Arts from the Royal Acaemy of Fine Arts Ant-werp. Poelmans is represented by Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels where he will be havig his first solo show in September. He has also participated at the SVA Summer Residency in New York and the La Brea Studio Residency in LA. His work has recently been exhibited at The White Whale Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2019); The Cabin, Los Angeles (2019), SecondRoom, Antwerp (2019); Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (2019); Garage, Mechelen (2018); DMW-Artspace, Ant-werp (2017); Alpha Base , Antwerp (2016); SVA, New York (2012) and Be-Part, Waregem (2012).

Christine Navin (b. 1986, Nyak, NY) is an internationally exhibited New York-based queer Cuban-American artist. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2014 and her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in 2008. Solo exhibitions include: “The Empire State Building has no roof,” Catbox Contemporary, Ridgewood (2017); “Madam I’m Adam,” Jack Barrett, New York (2016); and “Septillian,” Flower Box Projects, Miami (2016). Group exhibitions include: Marinaro Gallery, New York; MCA Denver; MOCA Virginia Beach; 315 Gallery, Brooklyn; 77 Mulberry, New York, NY; Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; AD Gallery, New York, NY; Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT.

Ezra Tessler (b. 1980, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent one and two-person exhibitions include The Nervous Hand with Fabi-enne Lasserre at 315 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2018); New Proposals with Barb Smith and Páramo Galeria at Zsona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico (2016); and Rafters at Culture Room, Brooklyn, NY (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Materializations at The Landing, Los Angeles, CA (2018); The sun shits out a dying light at Calle Cedro 328, Mexico City, Mexico (2018); Artist-in-Resi-dence Biennial at Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, TN (2018); and PaintersNYC at Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico (2016). He has been an artist in residence at SOMA Summer in Mexico City (2010), Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, MI (2012), and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (2017). He is currently a workspace resident at Dieu Donné in Brook-lyn, NY, and in summer 2019 will attend the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residen-cy at Collar Works in Troy, NY.

Dylan Vandenhoeck (b. 1990, New York, NY) is a painter and musician living in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012 and MFA in visual art from Columbia University in 2017. He will have his first solo show with Jack BRecent group exhibitions include High Art (Paris), Downs & Ross (New York), Office Baroque at Art Brussels (Brussels), The FLAG Art Founda-tion (New York), and Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery (New York). He was a recipient of the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and most recently was a fellow in Shandaken Projects’ “Paint School”, a color discussion group.

Blair Whiteford (b. 1990, Briarcliﬀ Manor) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He receieved his MFA from Yale Universty and BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. Recent solo and two person exhitions include Flesh Beloved, Slipping Window Union Pacific, London, UK, 2019 and Hoodwinked With Rory Rosenberg, Gern NY, New York, NY, 2017. Recent awards include Cape Ann Art Museum Award for Excellence in Landscape Painting (2018), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship recipient (2013).

Monsieur Zohore (b. 1993, Rockville, Maryland) is an Ivorian-American artist based in New York and Baltimore. His practice is invested in the consumption and digestion of culture through the conflation of domestic quotidian labor and art production. Through performance, installation, and sculpture, his practices explore queer history alongside his Ivorian-American heritage through a multi-faceted lens of humor, economics, art history, and labor.

Zohore received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Palo Gallery(New York), Terrault Gallery (Balti-more), New Release Gallery (New York), 56 Henry (New York), and Canada Gallery (New York) as well as at the 2020 Material Art Fair (Coyoacan, CMDX). Zohore has also been invited to show at The Baltimore Museum of Art (Balti-more), Washington Projects for the Arts (Washington D.C.), and at The Colum-bus Museum of Art (Columbus).

Home Alone, 2020, exhibition view, courtesy of Jack Barrett, New York

Monsieur Zohore, Somewhere: June 16, 2020, 2020, 30-Inch brass Harbormaster Telescope on Hardwoord Tripod, 59 x 29 x 8 inches

Home Alone, 2020, exhibition view, courtesy of Jack Barrett, New York

Blair Whiteford, Mycologist, 2020, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

Home Alone, 2020, exhibition view, courtesy of Jack Barrett, New York

Ezra Tessler, Research for my novel, 2019, Oil on linen on shaped panel, 21 x 12 x 2 inches

Home Alone, 2020, exhibition view, courtesy of Jack Barrett, New York

Abby Leigh, Swimming Through Mangroves, 2019, Oil on dibond, 18 x 24 inches

Timothy Lai, Untitled, 2020, Oil on canvas, 50 x 44 inches

Home Alone, 2020, exhibition view, courtesy of Jack Barrett, New York

Tom Poelmans, Tree Portrait, 2019, Oil on canvas, 15.75 x 19.74 inches; Amy Brener, Fleix-Sheild (Earth Girl 2), 2019, Silicone, pigment, found objects, 76 x 20 x 4 inches

Home Alone, 2020, exhibition view, courtesy of Jack Barrett, New York

Tom Poelmans, I thought surrealism was only true in fairy tales, 2019, Oil on canvas, 11.75 x 15.75 inches

Home Alone, 2020, exhibition view, courtesy of Jack Barrett, New York

Christine Navin, Botiquín 1.22, 2018, Mummified 2 toed adult female Ring Tailed Cat, (2) Big Mama® pickled sausages, palo raspa lengua, (22) United States two-dollar bills ($2), Blow Pop® lollipop, Amborella Organics® seed-bearing lollipop, (2) dehydrated Taco BellTM hard shelled tacos, mummified 2 toed adolescent male Brown Rat, LifeStraw® personal water filter, Slim Jim® smoked meat stick, electroluminescent wire, compression bags, plexiglas, wood frame, encased in epoxy taxidermy putty, 22 x 33 x 5 inches