Morgan Herrin | new work | November 4 - 30, 2010

We are pleased to present Morgan Herrin 2010, the first solo exhibition of work by Morgan Herrin in New York.

Meticulously hand-carved wood sculpture is a rare commodity these days, but Dallas born and Richmond based artist Morgan Herrin successfully creates stunning work using undeniable skills and a distinctive, surprising style creating these masterpieces from construction grade 2x4's. Herrin's sculptures demand the better part of a year to create, and his newest piece is no exception. With this considerable investment and devotion given to each piece he is able to reach a level of detail and sophistication not typically found in wood sculpture.

This will be our sixth exhibition in our new ground level space in Chelsea. Mulherin Pollard Projects is a collaboration between John Pollard (ADA Gallery - Richmond,Virginia)and Katharine Mulherin (Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects - Toronto).

Untitled (knight) is the product of the combination of two subjects: 15th century plate armor and geological cave structure. Studied separately, these two subjects are completely unrelated. The man made geometric precision of plate armor is formally opposite of the flowing, organic stalactites and stalagmites. Seen together, these two parts present a striking contrast in form and create a theme of time and the effects of nature. The pose of the figure and the general composition are references to the classical sculpture The Dying Gaul of Roman antiquity. Rendered entirely in laminated construction-grade 2x4's, the material itself irreverently contradicts this classical allusion, and at the same time draws attention to our own culture's reliance on the fast, cheap, and impermanent. ~ Morgan Herrin

Mike Bayne | Oil Paintings By Robert Ayre | October 7 - 23, 2010

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Mike Bayne.

October 7 - 23, 2010 at Mulherin Pollard Projects, New York.
Opening Thursday, October 7, 6 - 9 PM

An Artist's Statement by Mike Bayne, on the exhibition Oil Paintings by Robert Ayre:

I started out thinking I would write an artist's statement about the difference between mechanical and abstract thought. Then I thought I would write something, a comment, on Werner Herzog's idea that his movies are a metaphor for something but he doesn't know what. Then I moved on to something about identity, cultural or artistic or national, and I thought I would tie that in with an age of economic uncertainty and possible collapse. That seemed too broad for two hundred and fifty words though – the acceptable length according to artist statement conventions (I looked it up on Wikipedia – it's supposed to be a manifesto of sorts too) – so I decided to focus on identity transformations. I was going to write about forming the belief, as a group, that we aren't what we thought we were and tie that in with the title of the show (the name of another artist that I know very little about). Then I thought about something to do with work and how artists are one of the last professions to be paid according to their productivity in contrast to most other jobs, from lawyers to plumbers, who are paid a wage. I thought this would be a good jumping off point to talk about work more generally and high-end manufacturing. Another idea was to write about the history of banality in painting from Canaletto to Courbet and Manet and onto Morandi. I also wanted to talk about Jeff Wall versus Berndt and Hilla Becher and my preference for documentary or journalistic photography.

All of that is to say that I didn't have a specific focus or clear stream of thought while painting these works. But it's probably appropriate insomuch that it's representative of my support for uncertainty, doubt and the acceptance of ignorance. And hopefully provides some insight into what I was thinking, at times, while painting … and is more interesting than saying, 'I don't know'.

~ Mike Bayne, 2010

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George Kuchar | Always & Forever | September 9 - October 4, 2010

Mulherin Pollard Projects is pleased to present GEORGE KUCHAR: ALWAYS & FOREVER.

Legendary American artist George Kuchar exhibits film, video, stills, drawings, paintings, comics from the 60's to today in our new Chelsea gallery's fourth exhibition since opening in June.

George Kuchar has directed over 200 films and videos since the 1950's. His films have screened all over the world, including a recent inclusion in this summers Berlin Biennale, a three day "Kuchar Celebration" event at Harvard Film Archives, a drive-in event in Portugal, and a four-program tribute at the San Francisco International Film Festival. George has won countless awards throughout his career, including grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and The Eureka Fellowship Program, A Ford Foundation Fellowship from United States Artists, The Worldwide Video Festival First Prize Award, The prestigious Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute, The Frameline Award, The Cinevegas Vangaurd Award, The Los Angeles Film Critics Award for Independent/Experimental Film and Video, and Kuchar's recent major work, Secrets of the Shadow World, was fully funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. George's films have screened in many major museums in the US & abroad, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Pompidou Center in Paris.

George and his twin brother Mike began making films when they were twelve. In the early 60's, the twenty-one year old Kuchars began regularly showing their films at the apartment of Ken Jacobs alongside their underground film contemporaries, Jack Smith, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, as well as others in the downtown scene like Rauschenberg and Oldenburg. Village Voice film critic, Jonas Mekas also attended these events and made sure the Kuchars were written into the story of the New American Underground. At one of these parties, after viewing George's freshly developed 16mm film "Hold Me While I'm Naked" , Warhol told George he was getting "too good". The Village Voice ranked “Hold Me While I’m Naked” one of 100 Best Films of the 20th Century ( actually it ranked 52nd). "Before Warhol’s Superstars, the Kuchars already had anointed as movie-star icons their gawky Bronx neighbors and relatives, who populated their 8mm and 16mm melodramas," Gerald Peary. John Waters proclaims the early Kuchar films to to be his "biggest influence.... more than Kenneth Anger, The Wizard of Oz."

Other fans include Todd Solondsz, Gus Van Sant, Wayne Wang, David Lynch, Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin and Brian De Palma. In an essay that accompanies The "World of George Kuchar" (Video Data Bank) , Gene Youngblood references his 1968 article on the (then) filmmaker, writing that, ‘“in these apparently lighthearted works I have always detected something more serious, something similar to the corrosive personal vision of Luis Buñuel, though I would not for an instant compare Kuchar to the Spanish master. Today,” Youngblood continues, “I would. There is no doubt in my mind that George Kuchar is one of the great artists in the history of the moving image.”

Filming on rooftops in the Bronx by night, The Kuchars attended The Manhattan School of Art and Design by day, where they honed their commercial art skills. Before leaving New York to teach at The San Francisco Art Institute one of George's first jobs was drawing illustrations for the local NBC weather segments. When George moved to San Francisco in the early 70's, he became involved with underground comic scene through his friends, Art Spiegelman, Bill Griffith and Robert Crumb. They regularly submitted their artwork to the underground comic, Arcade. Bill Griffith says that George is partly the inspiration behind his famous comic character, Zippy.

A TINY PORTION of GEORGE's recent resume....
2010, Portland Art Museum Film Center, “An Evening with George Kuchar”, Portland, OR
2010, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
2010, Harvard Film Archive, “A George Kuchar Celebration”, Cambridge, MA
2010, Arizona State University West, “America’s Original Underground Filmmaker”, Glendale, AZ
2010, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, “Cinematic Excursions with George Kuchar”, Milwaukee, WI
2010, University of Texas at Austin, “Film Screening: Shorts by George Kuchar”, Austin, TX
2010, WNDX Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg, Canada
2010, Rauschenberg’s Children International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
2010, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, “From the Supernatural Shadows of Hollywood and Here: George Kuchar’s Influence on Experimental and Independent Cinema”, Milwaukee, WI
2010, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2010, Portland State University, “Flash Stream”, Portland, OR
2009, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, “Tropical Vulture”, San Francisco, CA
2009, Performa 09, New York City, NY
2009, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, “George and Mike Kuchar: Recent Reservations”, San Francisco, CA
2009, Anthology Film Archives, “Futurist Life Redux”, New York City, NY
2009, Mustache Cinema, “A George Kuchar Triple Threat”, San Francisco, CA
2009, Ada Gallery, Scope Art Show, Miami, FL
2009, Ada Gallery, Scope Art Show, “Videographic Violations Sinema Show”, New York City, NY
2009, Anthology Film Archives, “A Lust for Ecstasy”, New York City, NY
2008, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, “Eureka”, San Jose, CA
2008, Karma International, “Tales of the Grotesque”, Zurich, Switzerland
2008, OCA Office for Contemporary Art, “Art(Core)”, Norway
2008, Emory University, “The Worlds of George Kuchar”, Atlanta, GA
2007, Casey Kaplan Gallery, “Good Morning, Midnight”, New York City, NY
2007, Cheekwood Museum of Art, “UNnatural”, Nashville, TN
2007, Lanzia Center for Contemporary Art, “American Video Art”, Gdansk
2007, Queensland Art Gallery, “Cinema in Revolt”, South Brisbane, Australia
2005, YIDFF Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata City, Japan
2005, Film Arts Foundation Cinematropolis, “Tribute to George Kuchar”, San Francisco, CA
2002, Podewil, “Cheap”, Berlin, Germany
2001, Champ Libre, “4e Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montreal, Quebec
1995, Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Downsizing the Image Factory”, Philadelphia, PA
1993, Beyond Baroque, “Films From the Kuchar Closet”, Venice, CA

she feels it all | August 12 - September 4, 2010

Mulherin Pollard Projects is pleased to present she feels it all, a group exhibition featuring works by Canadian artists from Toronto, New York and Los Angeles, on view from August 12-September 3, 2010.

Summer gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, from 12-7pm.
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 12^th, 6-9pm.

Artists featured:
Davida Nemeroff (LA)
Sojourner Truth Parsons (Toronto)
Elise Rasmussen (NY)
Elaine Stocki (NY)
Julia Kennedy (Toronto)
Heather Goodchild (Toronto)
Tyler Clark Burke (Toronto)
Shauna Born (Toronto)

The opening reception will feature musical performances by the Halifax-based duo, Tasseomancy (formerly the Ghost Bees), and Toronto-based Castlemusic (Jennifer Castle).

For the third summer group exhibition at Mulherin Pollard projects, Katharine Mulherin curates important young Canadian women artists. Interestingly connected, the artists in this exhibition invite us on an impressive voyage. Relating to their own lives, and the long and winding roads of others, each artist contributes work that is at once magical and transparent. Through transformative means, forceful and emotive content merges with contemporary issues in image and object production.

The title, "she feels it all", comes from a photographic text work made by Sojourner Truth Parsons, which is presented in the show. We stumble upon a path where a patch of flowers provides the message.

The voyage begins.

The work presented here is very much an extension of the artists themselves, full of sensuous labour, disturbance, and history. Their work is connected to their lives and the lives of those around them. Building community through their varied practices: whether they are painting their friends, photographing strangers, creating social experiments, documenting an imaginary or forgotten past, travelling, exploring, connecting, performing, collaborating, organizing, or facilitating, these artists are prime examples of what gets made when artmaking becomes everyday practice.

Elise Rasmussen's process utilizes historical narratives as inspiration to create new works of contemporary relevance. In the fall of 2009, she embarked on a self-directed residency in a tiny village in Newfoundland. Her photographic diptych, Ladies Lookout ,responds to the romanticism and strife of women whose fates rest on the elements. These images take its name from and were photographed at the point on Signal Hill where women would wait in hopes of seeing their men return from the sea. The diptych serves as a response to folklore and reflection of the intensely elemental environment of the island of Newfoundland and is part of the series When the Sun Crosses the Line That Wind Will Rule the Weather.

Elise Rasmussen (b. 1977, Edmonton, Canada) first honored her franco-philia at the age of ten by proclaiming she would go by her middle name Elise. She continues to indulge her penchant for French culture by spending time in cafes, using Garamond typeface whenever possible, and creating projects inspired by New Wave cinema and the French Revolution. In addition to these pursuits, her works explore many themes including the relationship between salt and love, and how art makes people sick.Elise received her BFA from Ryerson University in 2004 and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 where she was awarded a full tuition scholarship for merit. She has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Austria and Germany. Elise lives in Brooklyn, NY and recently completed a project investigating reasons why the Atlantic Ocean is ruining her love life, and the legacy of the Cod Fishery and Beothuk cultures on contemporary identity in Newfoundland.

Julia Kennedy's work is the residue of an ongoing exploration into the meaning of life, how she has come to make sense of things, a reflection of her personal desire to find balance and direction with the universe. This quest has lead to the development of a personalized symbology, a sort of coded visual language: a distillation of experience, a thousand pounds of rose petals=a phial of essence.

Through the rearrangement of universal symbols and objects, the creation of brand new symbols, specific instances in time, and combinations of these, Kennedy keeps the work open enough to encourage investigation. Believing in the power of new and alternate modes of communication, she promotes a looseness and a wider vision.

Julia Kennedy (b. March 28, 1984) earned her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and also studied at Cooper Union in New York. She currently lives and works in Toronto.

Shauna Born's most recent paintings have been small, static portraits of strangers and intimates. Her work plays on the historical desire to document faces in portraiture. The size and nature of her paintings reflect the methods we use to consume image culture through ephemera such as digital photos, websites and magazines.

Since graduating from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2004, Shauna Born has lived and worked in Toronto and exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe. She has received Emerging Artists grants from the Ontario Arts Council in 2007 and 2009. In 2009 she received a Special Mention as a finalist in Canada's national portrait competition the Kingston Prize. Born has paintings in the collection of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art , Kansas, USA, The Beth DeWoody Collection, New York, USA, The Collection of George Hartman and Arlene Goldberg, Toronto, Canada, and the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, which is Canada's permanent collection of contemporary art. She is also in numerous private collections across Canada and the United States. In September 2010 she will begin her MFA degree at the University of Waterloo.

Sojourner-Truth Parsons' work considers the intersection of magic, acculturation, feelings and sexuality. With references to both folk art tradition and witchcraft, her work straddles the tenuous line between make-believe and healing in confronting histories that feel borrowed, but are, in fact, inherited. The works in this exhibition address a simultaneous identification with and desire for the other, with a familiar, but out-of-reach sense of ritual, spiritualism and community. Working with readily available materials such as cardboard, white glue and scrap leather, Parsons's sculptures, performances and photographs cast deliberately fraught narratives marked by specters of belief and magical intensity.

Sojourner-Truth Parsons is an artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. Her work has been exhibited at Khyber Centre for the Arts (Halifax), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (Toronto), and will be seen at A1C Gallery (St. John's, Newfoundland) this fall. She recently toured with neo-folk band Tasseomancy, creating site-specific installations for their performances at venues across Europe. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University.

Elaine Stocki makes photographs and paintings of people in Winnipeg and New Haven, sometimes meeting them through classified ads that she has placed online or in the newspaper. She particularly likes groups of people. Her interests lie in the investigation of performance, spectacle and farce as tools for questioning and blurring the lines of gender, race and class. Stocki is seeking some sort of genuine expression of emotion in what are, for the most part, contrived situations.

Elaine Stocki (b.1979) was born and raised in Winnipeg Canada. She received her MFA in photography from Yale University in 2009. Recently Stocki's photographs were included in Collier Schorr's experimental exhibition Freeway Balconies at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. She lives and works in New York City.

Heather Goodchild is a Toronto-based artist working primarily in textiles. Since 2002 she has used folk techniques such as rug-hooking, quilting, and inlaid patchwork to make objects and installations from an imagined history. By developing new ways to practice traditional crafts, she creates pieces that seem to exist both in the past and present. The stories and symbols in her work explore the human need for ritual, regalia, and a moral code.

Davida Nemeroff is an artist and the proprietress of Night Gallery (LA). Originally from Toronto, Nemeroff received her MFA from Columbia University in '09. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

For She Feels it All, Nemeroff explores the multivariate forms and bodies of power and femininity through a seductively moist lens.

Tyler Clark Burke works in paint, on paper, in glass, in metal, with people, with music, and now ash diamonds—but one thread always runs true: her themes are decidedly deadly. Her two last shows, A Murder of Vs and Shimera, were both widely reviewed; her work has been shown and collected internationally. Her career began in commissioned art for musicians (including a continuing collaboration with Feist, as well as work for artists on her own label Three Gut Records). She is a master of hi-jinx and heart strings, smoke and mirrors. Her work is a continuing play for passion, wrought in material. A fake abduction, a marching procession of faint zebras, and a spontaneous choreography of dirge dancers have all been part of her spectacle, your spectacle. Outside of art journals and magazines, her events and projects have been featured in or on MTV, Spin Magazine, ABC, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and The National Post.

Tasseomancy is a continuation of what was a bare bones neo-gothic folk duo. Formerly known as Ghost Bees, Sari and Romy Lightman have begun to experiment with heavier, ambient sounds, influenced by death ritual, hebraic song, war drums, ancestry and myth. The sisters recorded their second full-length this winter with producer Taylor Kirk and accompanying band, Timber Timbre. It will be released sometime before the next thaw.

Castlemusic is the avant-folk songwriting project of Jennifer Castle, Toronto. Elusive and poetic on record, her songs insist they speak for themselves. Intuitive and generous performances aim to share their secrets. Both her records and performances have been well received and are held in high esteem by press, peers and community.

Dream Come True | July 8 - August 6, 2010

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.

Friends and Family | June 17 - July 2, 2010

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.

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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.)