Sean Flood/ Kahn & Selesnick/ Francis Olschafskie/ Richard Saja
Kahn KS_Carnicus_Watercolor on goatskin vellum backed on handmade it marbled paper 7.5 x 4.5"
We are pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by SEAN FLOOD.
This is Sean’s premier exhibition with the gallery.
SEAN FLOOD (b. 1982, MA) received his BFA in Fine Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2005. Since then, Flood has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and has received multiple grants, awards, residencies, and commissions. His work is in numerous public and corporate collections, as well as many private collections internationally. Flood currently splits his time between his New York City and Boston studios. He continues to work fluidly between painting, printmaking, and drawing, paying particular attention to how the atmosphere, texture, and mark-making come together throughout the different media. Flood’s work primarily focuses on a rapidly changing urban environment. He strives to demonstrate the continuous energy and constant interactions he observes in the city through mark- making.
For this exhibition we will present a new suite of oil paintings and prints. Flood is painter of the observed, of real situations explored on site and finished in his studio. The places and situations he chooses contain motion and energy, and offer a matrix on which his gorgeous touch and skill with hue, tone, color and line can rest with strength and elegance.
The Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new works by KAHN & SELESNICK.
RICHARD SELESNICK and NICHOLAS KAHN have been collaborating as Kahn & Selesnick since 1988 on a series of complex narrative photo-novellas and sculptural installations. They were both born in 1964, in New York City and London respectively. They met at Washington University in St Louis in 1982 where they collaborated informally as photography majors. After several of years of showing their art separately, they migrated to Cape Cod to work on an evolving series of photo-based projects involving fictional attributions, narratives, sculpture, and painting.
Kahn & Selesnick’s works are tactile and bodied, offering sleight of hand and the quicksilver flash of inspiration as interruptions to our habitual ways of seeing, instead encouraging us to feel the Earth and its history and to know our part in its unfolding story. The results are masterfully executed non-linear tales that appear to dream themselves.
FRANCIS OLSCHAFSKIE exhibits new photographs and a suite of AI generated photographs in our Project Space. Olschafskie is well known for his ‘urban photography’, images takin in-camera at carefully found and selected locations. In this series Olschafskie takes ‘pictures of pictures’, photographs of deep spaces built with reflection, action, chance, and intention. These are rich and complex images that dazzle with light, color, and illusion. For this exhibit Olschafskie couples these color photographs with new AI generated photographs. He claims a sameness between the construction of both in the ways they are produced; inherently from within a knowledge base, transmuting the substance of gender, beauty, and identity, shifting ... all of these components working to lift the portraits into a world of wonder. Image making with AI changes at an extreme speed which makes these images unique, because what is made today will be completely different tomorrow.
We are thrilled to present new works by RICHARD SAJA, a suite of embroidered works on toile direct from his recent exhibition at Paris’s Toile Museum, and a new set of prints. SAJA is an artist making work in Catskill, New York. After first attending the University of the Arts in Philadelphia to study surface design, he devoted his studies to the great books of Western Civilization at St Johns College in Santa Fe, NM and received a BA as a math and philosophy major. After a brief stint working as an art director on Madison Ave., all his interests coalesced and a small design firm, Historically Inaccurate Decorative Arts, was born in the early aughts.
He has exhibited internationally with shows in New York, Paris, London and Berlin and the National Museum of Embroidery in South Korea and his work has recently been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Toile de Jouy Museum in Josas, France (May 2023).