July 8-August 5th 2010
Mulherin Pollard is pleased to present Dream Come True, an exhibition of works by seven contemporary artists from the US and Canada.
For the gallery owners, this new NY space is a dream come true. We've chosen works for this exhibition that combine the celebratory notion of the dream come rue, and the more surreal dreamlike quality of many of these works. Pulling from their independent programs, Katharine Mulherin and John Pollard have co-curated the exhibition, providing a platform for new connections and dialogue for their artists.
Michael Caines is a New York based artist working in drawing and painting. His work has been exhibited in commercial, public and artist run galleries in Canada, and commercial galleries in the US, as well as numerous international art fairs with Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, where he is represented in Canada. Caines has participated in a number of artist residencies, including the Santa Fe Art Institute, the Millay Colony, Bemis Center and Jentel. Among other awards, he has received Avery and Chalmers Fellowships, and a grant from the Joan Mitchell foundation. A fifteen-year survey of his painting and drawing, titled "Passing Glory" will open at the Art Gallery of Peterborough and tour Canada in 2010. Caines recently completed his MFA at Parsons the New School.
Ann Magnuson is an American actress, performance artist, and nightclub performer.
After graduating from Denison University in 1978, she moved to New York City pursuing a performance career on varied fronts. In the late '70s and early '80s, Magnuson ran Club 57, in New York City's East Village. The club was located in the basement of the Polish National church. It became a center of a world that included Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, and many others from New York's budding graffiti and downtown scenes.[6] Club 57 was known for its theme nights such as Reggae Miniature Golf, or Model World of Glue Night.
Magnuson developed an underground following as lead vocalist of the band Bongwater, formed in 1985. Her 15-minute video performance piece "Made for Television", self-produced in 1981, ran on the WNET-PBS avant garde series Alive from Off-Center. Her satiric featurette found her playing close to 50 roles in a "channel-hopping" series of visual bites parodying television programming game shows to TV-movies to televangelists.
Although Dean Baldwin has been somewhat nomadic since he was awarded the Canada Council International Residency in London, UK, in 2009, he still self-identifies as a Toronto-based artist. His recent projects include The Dork Porch, curated by Michelle Jacques for the AGO, Toronto (2010) Fattening Frogs for Snakes, curated by Andrew Davies for No. 9: Contemporary Art & the Environment, presented at the Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto (2009); Sweet Dreams, curated by Barbara Fischer for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto (2008); and Never Been to Tehran, curated by Andrea Grover and Jon Rubin for venues in Iran, Turkey, Denmark, New Zealand, Germany and the United States (2007)
Lisa Neighbour was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and received an MFA from York University in 2009. She exhibits with Persona Volare, (a collective of Toronto-based installation and media artists) and is represented by Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art in Toronto. Lisa Neighbour is presently a member of the faculty of the Art and Art History Program, a joint program between Sheridan College and U of T.
Her work incorporates lights and electrical hardware as media and as metaphor. Neighbour has also used print media, drawing, video and sculpture to conduct a search for the miraculous qualities in commonplace materials.
Exhibitions include: Illuminations (2001) Saidye Bronfman Centre des Arts, Montreal, Que. Home Show (2002) Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canadian Club (2005) Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris France, hic (2006) Installations and Interventions at Hart House, Toronto, Ontario, Night School, Hart House Nuit Blanche (2007), Love/Hate (2007) at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, Erratic Theatre,(2008) at The Tree Museum in Muskoka, Ontario, and The School of Possibility (2009) at Board of Directors in Toronto.
Michael Harrington graduated from Toronto's Ontario College of Art and Design in 1989. Until 1997 he painted at night while in the daytime he worked at his father's human resources company in Ottawa. The day job honed his observation skills and provided insights into the working world, and his night drives supplied the moody settings for his paintings. More recently, family vacations to sun-filled American towns have added some bright notes to his palette. While all the world is a stage for Harrington, he leaves out much of the information needed to piece together a coherent story. The inscrutable activities of his figures thwart viewers' prejudices and interpretations. Since 1998 Harrington has been painting full time, still mostly at night. He has exhibited regularly in solo shows at Katharine Mulherin Comtemporary Art Projects, Toronto, at Galerie St-Laurent+Hill, Ottawa, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, and Miller Block Gallery in Boston, Mass. He has participated in group exhibitions in public venues such as the Carleton University Art Gallery (2000), the Ottawa Art Gallery (2003-2004) and (2009) , Galerie Saw Gallery (2007), and the Glenbow Museum Calgary 2007. His paintings are featured in the collections of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in Kingston, the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the Canada Council Art Bank as well as numerous corporate and private collections.
Bruce Wilhelm was born in Richmond Virginia in 1981. He received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004. During his time at VCU he won the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship (2004) and began working with ADA Gallery of Richmond. After school Wilhelm's work was exhibited throughout the US and Europe. Recent awards include VMFA Fellowship (VA) 2006, Trawick Prize (Mid Atlantic) 2007, and the JC Reynal Scholarship Finalist which is currently being decided (Bordeaux, France) 2008. Recent exhibits of his work are Scope Basel Switzerland 2008 with ADA Gallery, Pass Me the Muster which included artists from The Royal Art Lodge in Meyers Gallery at The University of Cincinnati DAAP 2008, Side Effects May Vary at ADA Gallery 2008, and Action.Stop.Action at Vox Populi in Philadelphia 2008. Wilhelm currently lives and works in Philadelphia.
Kristin Beal-DeGrandmont's practice unites her painting and drawing with technology, seeking to isolate points of beauty, commonality and memory. Growing uo in the Midwest, she rode along an expansive landscape, her hopes and dreams projected onto the vast horizon. In her work, she hopes to capture different types of pictorial space with movement allowing the viewer to become further spatially engaged with it. Shadow evokes feelings of a dream, conveying several moments, orchestrated and controlled.
The artist received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2002 and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States independently and as a member of the collective Hack.Art.Lab, a collaborative team of artists, educators, technologists and engineers, who, through creative engagement with science and technology, explore learning models and create projects that offer new persepectives in art, technology and society.
