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Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll at Gern en Regalia

March 12, 2022

Artists: Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll

Exhibition title: The Kroll Show

Venue: Gern en Regalia, New York, US

Date: February 5 – March 13, 2022

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Gern en Regalia, New York

Despite the fact that they share the same last name, artists Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll are not related. The Kroll Show is not to be confused with Kroll Show, which is actor and producer Nick Kroll’s
Comedy Central TV show. Indeed, Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll are also not related to Nick Kroll.
But aren’t they all, in some way, connected?

The Kroll Show is all about coincidences and our interpretations of them. Confirmation biases. Magical thinking. Purpose, reverse-engineered.

With The Kroll Show, Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll examine the arbitrary decision of having a dual exhibition merely because they happen to share the same last name. There is little in common with the two Kroll’s respective artwork, but now they have more in common, by mere dint of them deciding
to have this exhibition. And yet, as they looked a little closer, the Krolls started to see similarities in their practices: a tendency toward oblique figuration, shared references, hints that they occupied the same world.

This is probably incidental.
But what explains the fact that, as they conceived and discussed this exhibition, Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll started talking like each other? And why, during the installation of their work, did the two
Krolls begin to look a little like each other? Who is this uber-Kroll forming between them?
Does Nick Kroll have anything to do with it? These questions are not arbitrary: they are essential.

— Rob Goyanes

Marlon Kroll is a German/Canadian artist living and working in Montreal. He holds a BFA in Ceramics from Concordia University and is one of nine laureates of the Darling Foundry’s 2019-2022 Montreal Studio Program. He was the 2020 recipient of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists and his studio has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, George Drolet, Ann Birks and the Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal. Selected recent exhibitions include Stress Tested, Public Gallery, London; A Chronique Fear, Marvin Gardens, New York, 2021; Rifts, hovels, a sighing tide, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, 2021; La Machine Qui Enseignait Des Airs Aux Oiseaux, Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal, 2020; At the center of my ironic faith, Cassandra Cassandra, Toronto, 2020; Red Sky at Morning, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 2019; Thirsty Things, Clint Roenisch, Toronto, 2019.

Bryce Kroll lives and works in Brooklyn. He holds a BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (2013). Past exhibitions include Lubov, New York, NY; NADA x Foreland, Catskill, NY; Hyperspace Lexicon, Los Angeles, CA; and Super Dutches Gallery, New York, NY. Forthcoming exhibitions include Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; and Final Hot Desert, Salt Lake City, UT. In 2022 he will be a visiting artist at Pratt Institute, Graduate Fine Arts. His work has been featured in Office Magazine, S/S 2021.

Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll, The Kroll Show, 2022, exhibition view, Gern en Regalia, New York

Marlon Kroll, Angst, Colored pencil and acrylic on muslin over panel, 17 x 14″, 2022

Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll, The Kroll Show, 2022, exhibition view, Gern en Regalia, New York

Bryce Kroll, Four zesqu thurspy gathered by squorlt-fofxak, Injection molded plastic, tyvek, suction cups, nondisclosed materials, resin, adhesive, 40 x 28 x 3″, 2022

Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll, The Kroll Show, 2022, exhibition view, Gern en Regalia, New York

Marlon Kroll, Into Yesterday, Colored pencil and acrylic on muslin over panel, 60 x16″, 2022

Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll, The Kroll Show, 2022, exhibition view, Gern en Regalia, New York

Marlon Kroll, Pidgeon, Window blinds, ceramic, 16 x 8″, 2022

Bryce Kroll, Who bought three inflatables in all plastic with hints of squorlt-fofxak and felt cheap? Vinyl, adhesive, suction cups, polyethylene rope, nondisclosed materials, left 58″ x 17″ x 3″ middle 74″ x 16″ x 3″ right 16″ x 15″ x 54″ together 82″ x 46″, 2022

Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll, The Kroll Show, 2022, exhibition view, Gern en Regalia, New York

Marlon Kroll, The Dial. Colored pencil and acrylic on muslin over panel, 17 x 14″, 2022

Marlon Kroll and Bryce Kroll, The Kroll Show, 2022, exhibition view, Gern en Regalia, New York

Bryce Kroll, Gern en Regalia byproduct, Gouache and collage, foil on Vinyl, permanent marker, laser print, carboxymethyl cellulose, nondisclosed materials, resin, adhesive, aluminum hardware, 8 Ã— 20 x 2, 2022