Upstairs Art Fair
Amy Brener, Haley Josephs, Rasmus Myrup, Paul Rouphail

July 19 - 21, 2019

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.

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.

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.

Rasmus Myrup (b. 1991, Frederiksberg, Denmark) is a Danish artist currently living and working in Copenhagen. His work is at once a synthesis of big and the small narratives. Myrup investigates the big concepts of humanity’s existence, such as evolution and history, through the smaller lens of personal emotions and experiences. Through his sculptures, installations and drawings, he seeks to understand species and worlds since past, and uses vast subject matter from Neanderthals, to trees, and folklore in order to provide new perspectives on our understanding of death, sex and power. Recent solo exhibitions include Folx at Nicolai Wallner (DK); Re-member me at Jack Barrett (US); Homo Homo at Tranen Contemporary Art Center (DK); and Loving those we lost but never knew at Galerie Balice Hertling (Paris, France).