Justin Williams (b. 1984, Melbourne, Australia) is a Sydney-based artist who produces contemporary figurative and representative artworks that focus on community, migration and modes of living. Rendered in murky oil paints and thin washes of colour, Williams’s figures and landscapes appear to hover above the canvas as they glow from within. In these artworks, the artist attempts to depict both the transitions of his grandparents’ migration from Egypt to Australia, and also his own outsider perspective towards both notions of place and time as well as hidden normalities within a group or individual. Williams views his own bloodline as something he is inherently close to but conversely was not directly exposed to and thus a distant or even historical viewpoint is enlisted.
Recent selected solo exhibitions
Village, Vigo Gallery, London, 2021
An Invitation, Sade Gallery, Los Angeles, 2019
Before ’84, COMA, Sydney, Australia, 2019
Arcana part II, Galerie l’Inlassable, Paris, 2018
Arcana, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne, 2017
Figures & Vessels, Silas von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
Public Collections
The Bunker (DeWoody Collection), West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Taylor Collection, Denver, USA
COMA aims to bring a dynamic and engaging focus to contemporary international art. In addition to an attentive curatorial approach it is characterised by a comprehensive understanding of artists exhibited and represented.
The gallery was designed to not only exhibit and promote emerging and established artists but to simultaneously concentrate on the conceptual aspects of their practice while fostering an educational environment for the viewer.
Through this formula COMA aspires to create a culture of quality for both the public and the exhibiting artists.
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Keltie Ferris is known for his mostly large-scale canvases covered with layers of spray paint and hand-painted geometric fields. Ferris’s pixilated backgrounds and atmospheric foregrounds create perceptual depth that allows for multidimensional readings of his work. Characterized by a continuously expanding investigation into painting, his practice considers a multiplanar site for constructed light and shifting space. In his ongoing series of body prints, Ferris uses his own body like a brush, covering it with natural oils and pigments and pressing it against a canvas, to literalize the relationship of an artists’ identity to the work that he or she produces.
Keltie Ferris was born in Kentucky in 1977 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2006. He was recently awarded the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Painting by the Academy of Arts and Letters.
Recent selected solo exhibitions
FEEEEELING, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY, 2021
U_N_D_E_R_S_C_O_R_E, Kadel Willborn, Dusseldorf, Germany, 2019
RELIEF, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA, 2019 *O*P*E*N* at the Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 2018 (F(U(T()U)R)E) at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, 2018
M\A\R\C\H at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, 2017
His works have been included in group exhibitions at institutions, including Saatchi Gallery, London (2014); Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Texas (2014); The Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2014); Brooklyn Museum, New York (2012); the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis (2010); and The Kitchen, New York (2009).
Public Collections
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Oppenheimer Collection), Overland Park, KS
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Founded by Lucy Mitchell-Innes and David Nash, who previously headed the worldwide Contemporary and Impressionist & Modern Art divisions of Sotheby’s, Mitchell-Innes & Nash places exemplary contemporary artists within a historical context, revealing a continuity of ideas and aesthetic virtuosity from the Modern era through the present day. Lucy Mitchell-Innes is also a member of the selection committee of Art Basel and a former president of the Art Dealers Association of America.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash’s renowned exhibition program fosters excellence within artistic practice, while forging an informed dialogue between emerging and established internationally recognized artists. From acclaimed surveys of 20th century masters, such as Jean Arp, Anthony Caro, Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Leon Kossoff, Kenneth Noland, Roy Lichtenstein, and Nicolas de Stael, to solo exhibitions of Sarah Braman, Keltie Ferris, Daniel Lefcourt, Eddie Martinez, Pope.L, Martha Rosler, and Jessica Stockholder, Mitchell-Innes & Nash has proven expertise in both advancing the careers of emerging artists and maintaining the superior standard set by established artists.
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Lena Henke ((born 1982 Warburg, Germany) is a New York based artist who has developed a diverse body of sculptural works, often arranged in comprehensive spatial installations. Her interest in spaces is not limited to presentation or intervention in existing architecture; it is also revealed in a broader sense in the appropriation of objects, urban situations and psychological spatial constellations. Recurring motifs include interventions into the classic working methods of sculpture, recourse to anthroposophical methods, often through a biographically motivated approach or the control of "architecture". In her vocabulary of forms and materials numerous references such as Minimalism or Land Art can be found, which she likes to combine with surrealist motifs. In a subtle way and with a humorous undertone, Henke enjoys infiltrating the patriarchal structures of art history. She explores the ideas of urban planners, landscape architects and urban theorists such as Jane Jacobs, Roberto Burle Marx and Robert Moses. She takes up themes like interpersonal relationships, sexuality and fetishism. Using strategies of intervention, appropriation and control, the artist also examines her relationship to herself and her family environment.
Recent selected solo exhibitions
Babysteps into Masochism, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Austria, 2020
Ice to Gas, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal, 2020
R.M.M Rockefeller Center, Rockfeller Center, New York, NY, 2020
Lena Henke - My Fetish Years, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany, 2019
Germanic Artifacts, Bortolami, New York, 2019
Lena Henke: An Idea of Late German Sculpture; To the People of New York, 2018, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland, 2018
Schrei mich nicht an, Krieger!, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2017
Lena Henke's work has recently been featured in the groups exhibitions at Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland; and Manifesta 11; 9th Berlin Biennale; Le Biennale de MONTREAL; The New Museums Triennial and among others.
Public Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
MAMCO Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
Sammlung Verbund, Wien, Austria
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, USA
Skulpturen Park, Köln, Germany
Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Bortolami is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2005 by Stefania Bortolami and Amalia Dayan. Before opening the gallery, Bortolami worked for Anthony d'Offay. Dayan was a director with Gagosian Gallery. The gallery has an exhibition space in Tribeca, but also organizes 12-month long contemporary art exhibitions in unlikely locations for its Artist/City project that pairs an artist with an American city. Artists who have participated in the project include Daniel Buren, Eric Wesley and Tom Burr.
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Tom Burr, born in 1963 in New Haven, is an American conceptual artist based in New York.
Burr's artwork explores the relationships between, the built environment, subjectivity, and historical persona. In his spare, enigmatic, mixed-media sculptures and installations, Burr explores the ways in which we imbue the spaces and things by which we are surrounded—like clothing, furniture, or the patterns in wood—with our memories and emotions. Though his work is grounded in his own memories, it is deliberately ambiguous, allowing viewers to invest it with their own life experiences. He uses what he calls a “focused spectrum” of humble materials and found objects, including plywood, old blankets and t-shirts, radiators, doors, books, and bits of hardware.
Recent selected solo exhibitions
Hélio-centricities (New York), The Small Room, Bortolami, New York, NY, 2021
Hinged Figures, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, 2019
Hélio-centricities: coda, Escola De Artes Visuais Do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2019
Sedimental, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 2018
Stages, Maureen Paley, London, England, 2017
Surplus of Myself, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 2017
Abridged, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany, 2017 Grips, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2016
Public Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
MuMOK, Vienna, Austria
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Sammlung Grasslin, Germany
Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria
FRAC, Champagne Ardenne, France
FRAC, Nord-Pas de Calais, France
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Bortolami is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2005 by Stefania Bortolami and Amalia Dayan. Before opening the gallery, Bortolami worked for Anthony d'Offay. Dayan was a director with Gagosian Gallery. The gallery has an exhibition space in Tribeca, but also organizes 12-month long contemporary art exhibitions in unlikely locations for its Artist/City project that pairs an artist with an American city. Artists who have participated in the project include Daniel Buren, Eric Wesley and Tom Burr.
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