We are excited to announce the opening of our new project space, MULHERIN POLLARD PROJECTS.
Katharine Mulherin (Toronto, CANADA) and John Pollard (Richmond, Virginia) are pleased to announce their collaboration in opening their New York City gallery, Mulherin Pollard Projects , located in Chelsea at 317 10th Avenue.
With an exhibition titled, Friends and Family, the gallery's inaugural opening will be
Thursday, June 17 from 6-8pm.
Please join us to celebrate both the exhibition and our new space!
Friends and Family features new works by Seth Scriver (TORONTO), Daniel Davidson (BROOKLYN), Winnie Truong (TORONTO) and Jeremiah Johnson (WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA) .
The exhibition runs from June 17 to July 3, 2010.
Featuring mostly works on paper, Friends and Family presents artists from both Mulherin and Pollard's independent programs.
Seth Scriver's ongoing portrait series are of locals from his neighborhood, Kensington Market and Chinatown in Toronto. The portraits start out as small sketches that are blown up, traced then airbrushed onto paper through an insanely labor intensive process of stenciling. Most of his practice is based on personal experience and stories told to him. His visual aesthetics push toward a type of fantasy world created through a stream of consciousness drawing style. The work presents a believable view of a chaotic world in which known and unknown entities play out small dramas.
Born in 1977 and raised in downtown Toronto, Seth received a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2002. He has shown widely nationally and internationally. With collaborator Shayne Ehman, Scriver has been working on a double feature animation "Asphalt Watches": an epic cross-Canada true hitchhiking story, which has taken him to multiple residencies from Japan to Sackville New Brunswick.
Currently Seth resides at his headquarters, The Diddly Squat in Toronto Ontario.
His first publication, Stooge Pile was published in 2010 by Drawn & Quarterly, and is available through the gallery.
Born in 1988, Winnie Truong lives and works in Toronto and is a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design's drawing and painting program. Producing large-scale labor intensive drawings and using only pencil crayon and chalk pastel on paper, her monumental portraits exploit the drawn line to manipulate hair, flesh and blemish… and explore notions of beauty and discomfort.
Winnie is the recipient of numerous awards, including this year's W.O.Forsythe award and the 401 Richmond Career Launcher prize.
Daniel Davidson, born in 1965, began his career while still attending San Francisco Art Institute as one half of the collaborative team Beattie and Davidson, who won the Prix de Rome in 1994. After several successful exhibitions and extensive inclusion in museum shows worldwide, Davidson, who was a seminal figure in the pre-mission school group at SFAI, branched out on his own. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at ADA Gallery in Richmond, Elizabeth Dee Gallery in NY, Galerie Schuster in Frankfurt, Pierogi in Brooklyn and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, to name a few. Davidson currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Daniel Davidson's work is a fusion of hybrid characters, spaces and styles, his goal being the creation of a meaningful reflection on the emotional states inherent in everyday experience. Often employing the comic or the grotesque, Davidson's works are multiple and fractured personalities looking for a cobbled identity. Walter Robinson at Artnet said that Daniel's "ADA gallery Picture Booth" was "one of the most entertaining parts of the Miami art fest" in 2006. Daniel is at it again with his "Paper Towel Machine" which continuously feeds out 200 feet of stream-of-consciousness drawings on a roll of paper towels. Each
wave of the hand presents a new 20 dollar drawing.
Jeremiah Johnson (b.1974) was raised on a fruit and flower farm in the mountains of north central Pennsylvania. As a child Jeremiah spent his days playing in the woods and his nights drawing. Once he graduated from high school he left the farm to become an artist in the big city of Philadelphia. Johnson received his BFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University and eventually went on to get his MFA in print, paper and book arts from Syracuse University. A few more years of living in Philadelphia took its toll on Jeremiah's health so he soon found himself back home in Williamsport. He currently teaches arts and craft courses for the Pennsylvania College of Technology and works at home in his basement making art about culture, folklore, and survival.
Katharine Mulherin and John Pollard met at an art fair in New York in 2006 and have been friends ever since. They recognized that they share a similar background as artists who became gallerists to create community in their respective cities. The two dealers have been talking for a while about how to partner their programs. Both Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (TORONTO, LOS ANGELES ) and Pollard's ADA Gallery (RICHMOND, VIRGINIA) feature artists with both emerging and extensive careers, whose works engaging, intelligent, collected and honored.
Mulherin Pollard Projects is housed in the former Morgan Lehman Gallery.
( Morgan Lehman has moved to 535 West 22nd Street.)
