NADA Miami Offsite
Amy Brener, Haley Josephs, Timothy Lai, Paul Rouphail, Anna Plesset, Blair Whiteford, Dylan Vandenhoeck, Quay Quinn Wolf, Monsieur Zohore
December 1 – 5, 2020
Amy Brener was born in Victoria, BC, Canada and is currently based in Queens, New York. 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.
Anna Plesset (b. 1977, Mt. Kisco, NY) is an interdisciplinary artist who uses painting, sculpture, and drawing to reframe familiar historical narratives and examine how history, memory, and knowl- edge are constructed and mediated. Recently, her work was featured in New York in group exhibi- tions at Jack Barrett, the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC, and JDJ | The Ice House; and in solo exhibitions at PATRON in Chicago, Hunter Harrison Gallery in London, and The Armory Show 2020 with Jack Barrett in New York. In 2016, Plesset was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Additional awards and residencies include the Terra Foundation for American Art Summer Residency Fellowship in Giverny, France and the AIRspace residency program at Abrons Arts Center in New York City. Plesset’s work has been written about and reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, T Magazine, Hyperallergic, frieze, ARTnews, Cultured, Bomb Magazine, Modern Painters, Time Out, and The Brooklyn Rail. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Haley Josephs (b.1987; lives and works in New York) 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 PSYCHOPOMP at Almine Rech (Brussels), and Paintings and Drawings for Childhood’s End (2020) and Finger in the Hive (2018) at Jack Barrett, New York. Recent group exhibitions include Almine Rech, London, Unclebrother & Gavin Brown Enterprise, Hancock, NY, Capsule, Shanghai, China. Josephs' paintings have been exhibited internationally, including at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her work is in the collection of the X Museum, Beijing.
Timothy Lai (b. 1987, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, 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 Chart, Jack Barrett, Fabian Lang, Essex Flowers, Bass & Reiner Gallery, Good Naked Gallery, and Field Projects. His first post graduate solo exhibition was in 2019 at 00-LA Gallery and more recently had a solo exhibition at Jack Barrett in 2021. Recently, he was awarded the 2022 Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Fellowship in Painting.
Paul Rouphail (b. 1987; lives and works in Philadelphia) received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His recent solo and exhibitions include Future Machine, Jack Barrett, New York; The Passenger, Stems Gallery, Brussels. Recent group exhibitions include Galerie Sultana, Paris; Smart Objects, Los Angeles, CA; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Fisher Parrish Gallery, George Adams Gallery, Nancy Margolis Gallery, and Microscope Gallery, New York, NY; Fjord Gallery and Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; The Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; and White Columns online. Rouphail's work has been reviewed online and in print, including the Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Artspace, New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and Gestalten Press' Imagine Architecture, among others. His practice is represented by Smart Objects in Los Angeles, Stems Gallery in Brussels and Jack Barrett in New York.
Dylan Vandenhoeck (b. 1990; lives and works in New York) 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. Recent solo exhibitions include Reality Show at Matthew Brown Los Angeles, 2021 and What Do You See When You Close Your Eyes and Nod Yes? at Jack Barrett, 2020. Recent group exhibitions include High Art (Paris), Downs & Ross (New York), Office Baroque at Art Brussels (Brussels), The FLAG Art Foundation (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. His work is in the collection of the X Museum, Beijing.
Blair Whiteford (b. 1990; lives and works in New York) received his MFA from Yale University and BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design. Recent solo and two person exhibitions include Sowing a Seed On a Field Made of Ash at Jack Barrett, NY; Flesh Beloved, Slipping Window, Union Pacific, London, UK, 2019; and Hoodwinked with Rory Rosenberg, Gern NY, New York, NY, 2017. Recent group exhibitions include Home Alone at Jack Barrett NY, 2020, and the Chicago Invitational Presented by NADA, 2019. Whiteford is a recipient of the Cape Ann Art Museum Award for Excellence in Landscape Painting (2018), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship (2013). In 2021 he will be an artist-in-residence at the Fountainhead in Miami, FL. His work is in the collection of the X Museum, Beijing, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, and Pond Society, Shanghai.
Quay Quinn Wolf (b.1989, New York) is a sculptor living and working in New York City. Wolf’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. Recent solo shows include Tensions, Jack Barrett, New York, NY (2020); Pink Velvet Dress with the Fur Collar, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA (2019); Arrangements, Jack Barrett, Brooklyn, NY. Recent group exhibitions include In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back, SculptureCenter, New York (2021) eddy, M23, New York (2020-21) Soft Scrub, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO (2019); Ghosts, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Sunday Art Fair, Jack Barrett, London, UK (2018); Haptic Tactics, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY (2018). Publications including Artforum, ARTnews and Artsy have reviewed Wolf’s work.
Monsieur Zohore (b. 1993, Potomac, MD) 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 with art production. Through performance, sculpture, installation and theater, his practices explore queer histories 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. He is the Assistant Professor of Painting and Printmaking at VCU. Recently, he was the 2020 recipient of the WPA and Warhol Foundation Wherewithal Research Grant, and he has been awarded the Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship for 2021. His work has been exhibited in various venues including Springsteen (Baltimore), Ethan Cohan (New York), Terrault Gallery (Baltimore), New Release Gallery (New York), 56 Henry (New York), Canada Gallery (New York), and Jack Barrett (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 (Baltimore), Washington Projects for the Arts (Washington D.C.), and at The Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus).