OCD, 2 by Galen Brown
We are super excited to announce the opening of a very beautiful new show!
Solo Exhibition runs from 1 February 2022 - 5 March 2022
Reception 12 February 3-6pm
OCD, drawing, 6 x 6 foot diameter, pencil on museum board, circa 1992 - 2019
This drawing was nearly 30 years in the making!
GALEN BROWN
Galen Brown was born in Reno in 1959 and raised in both Reno and at King’s Beach, Lake Tahoe. He was a dedicated junior ski racer on the Reno Falcons ski team and later the Lake Tahoe Ski Club, and a quiet loner in school who lacked direction until a ski accident rendered him immobile for six months. He began drawing from his bed while healing.
Brown commenced classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and stayed for the duration of his formal art education, earning a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 1988 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1990. He continued studying in China and New York, and for the following 20 years Brown resisted selling his work to collectors, preferring to keep his bodies of work together.
In 2019 the Nevada Museum of Art installed his solo exhibition Sine Cere, across 3 of their expansive gallery spaces.
Sine Cere, the title piece, a large 8 foot diameter circle drawing was purchased by the museum for their permanent collection.
A large body of Brown’s work was featured in Tilting the Basin, the Nevada Museum of Art survey exhibition of contemporary artists working in the state of Nevada in 2016, which also traveled to a second Museum location in Las Vegas in 2017. His work is also in the permanent collection of the Nevada Arts Council, and the newly founded Clear Creek Collection at Lake Tahoe.
The quality of Brown’s work was recognized with the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation artist’s award in 2017.
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a sneak preview of some of the work ....
Installation in progress shot, pre exhibition opening. Waves, (showing here only half of the series of this actual body of work, that must remain together) circa mid 1990's - ongoing
Join us for the reception to celebrate Galen Brown's wonderful work
OCD, 2
12 February 3-6pm
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ARTIST NEWS
JENNIFER GARZA-CUEN
Artists Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England have had two of their collaborative works acquired by the RISD Museum!!!!
MCMLXIX and V-XII from Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg for their permanent collection. Collaborative pieces produced with @OdetteEngland on the Rauschenberg Artist Residency.
Jennifer + Odette will be discussing their book: Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg with David Campany (ICP's Managing Director of Programs) online through the International Center for Photography (ICP) in New York City.
MCMLXIX from Past Paper // Present Marks: Responding to Rauschenberg. Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England
On another note, Jennifer photographed the cover Image below for In Fashion: Culture, Commerce, Craft, and Identity, edited by Jacque Lynn Foltyn and Laura Petican, published by Brill.
EUNKANG KOH
Eunkang Koh is on sabbatical and is achieving extraordinary amounts of work. She just got back from Winter Residency at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, an artist residency with well equipped studios providing the space and time to concentrate solely on art practice. During her stay she completed a series of limited edition intaglio prints. This month she is off to her solo exhibition; I am dreaming of…. at Brandstater Gallery, at La Sierra University, in Riverside, CA. The show will run until 17 March 2022.
Intaglio images from the I am dreaming of…. series 2022
Intaglio images from the I am dreaming of…. series 2022
JEAN BRENNAN
Jean has been researching knotweed, a single plant that can cover an area the size of a football field, after finding this particular patch she created Risograph zines and a video performance piece. (To be revealed at a later date.)
Still from the performance piece Knotweed
Alongside her own art work Jean has also opened her own publishing company, Fruit and Rot, aiming to collaborate with other artists to produce print media and print artifacts.
JULIA SCHWADRON MARIANELLI
We are so happy that one of Julia’s latest works, Bank Breach has been placed in a very beautiful Private Collection.
Bank Breach was created in New York at the Interlude artist residency, in the summer of 2021
Bank Breach, acrylic ink on canvas bundle dyed with plants, 38 x 42in., 2021
Another large scale painting from the series is still available...
A Frame For Dirt, acrylic ink on canvas bundle dyed with plants, 38 x 42in., 2021
Julia's current + upcoming exhibitions include:
FACULTY EXHIBITION
Haldan Gallery, Lake Tahoe Community College
South Lake Tahoe, CA
January 20 - April 22, 2022
HOLDING PATTERNS / MURMURATIONS
curated by Nick Larsen
Holland Projects Gallery, Reno, NV
March 12 - April 29, 2022
HOLLAND PROJECT / BILLBOARD GALLERY
In conjunction with “Holding Patterns” Julia will be participating in the new Holland Project Billboard Gallery project
Her artwork will be on a billboard in downtown Reno - location TBA
GIAMPIERO ASSUMMA
Giampiero has been juggling new parenthood and continuing his street photography in a very wintery Moscow....
MIYA HANNAN
Miya has been experimenting in her studio with 3 D work, sound and moving elements for her show coming up this year. This is all we are allowed to show at this stage of the process, it's all a bit exciting!.
Writings on the Wall. Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches, 2022
The Head of the Table is Not in Charge. Oil on canvas, 39 x 26 inches, 2022
FROM THE FLAT FILES
Popsicle Full of Heads, intaglio, 6 x 9 inches (image size), 2019
Eunkang Koh
$400.00, A.P. (2 A.P. available)
Contact frances@melhopgallery.com to acquire
On behalf of all the artists and the gallery we wish you a very
Happy New Year
and look forward to seeing you at the next reception!
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Email: frances@melhopgallery.com
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