October Salon Announcement
Saturday, October 8 at 7pm
Featuring Micah Ganske, Ellie Hunter, Carolyn Janssen, Nando Alvarez-Perez, and Jacolby Satterwhite
In the October exhibition at Under the Willow, curated by Anna Nearburg, our featured artists explore the body’s relationship to environment in utopian and dystopian landscape. Through the use of technology and classical forms, the works address themes of personal and public mythology, science fiction, and fantasy by blurring the lines between the digital and real worlds to create warped realities and envision alternate worlds or not too distant futures.
By RSVP only - space is limited.
Artists
Micah Ganske lives and works in Queens, NY. He received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of the Arts and his MFA from The Yale School of Art. Ganske’s practice—painting, video and digitally printed sculpture—explores future habitats and societies, contrasting fantastical science-fiction imagery with the reality of the present. He has been recognized with the Adobe Design Achievement Award in Digital Photography and as a Fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He has exhibited widely at venues such as The Guggenheim Museum (New York), Deitch Projects (New York), RH Gallery (New York), 101/Exhibit (Los Angeles), FSU Museum of Art (Miami), Pioneer Works (Brooklyn), The Hole (New York), Yautepec (Mexico City).
Ellie Hunter lives and works in Richmond, VA. She received her BFA at Dartmouth College and is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University. Hunter’s practice explores the relationship of the body to nature, specifically our hidden systems of perception, the ways in which we process and interpret visual data and contextualize objects. She mixes synthetic and non-synthetic materials, such as plants, silicon, and cement, to reference the body in sculptural and installation-based work utilizing casting, photography and the found object.
Carolyn Janssen lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA at Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA at The University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill. Janssen’s practice explores religious morality, digital kitsch, and utopian fantasy in symbolically narrative digital works whose materiality and painterliness are rendered through elaborately collaged and manipulated photography. She has exhibited widely at Quinta del Sordo (Madrid), Julie Saul Gallery (New York), North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco), Essex Flowers (New York), Patan Museum (Kathmandu), among others.
Nando Alvarez-Perez lives and works in Oakland, CA. He received his BFA at CUNY Hunter College and his MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Alvarez-Perez’ installation-based practice, hovering between photography and sculpture, employs symbolism, ancient physical structures (Polyliths), industrial materials and design elements to envision the Anthropocene as the collapsing of past, present and future into the now. He has exhibited at tMoro Projects (Santa Clara), Egg n’ Spoon Gallery (Zurich), CEPA Gallery (Buffalo), Jules Maeght Gallery (San Francisco), Newspace Center for Photography (Portland), 4th Poly/Graphic Triennial (San Juan), among others.
Jacolby Satterwhite lives and works in New York, NY. He received his BFA at Maryland Institute College of the Arts and his MFA at the University of Pennsylvania. He uses video, performance, 3D animation, fibers, drawing and printmaking to explore themes of memory, desire, personal and public mythology. Exhibition venues include: OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles (Solo); Mallorca Landings, Mallorca (Solo); KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; among others.
