WORKING THROUGH LUNCH

October + November, 2022 / 423 W San Francisco St, Santa Fe, NM 87501

TITLE Gallery is thrilled to announce Working Through Lunch, a group exhibition featuring the work of Annie Bielski, Matthan Cowart, Brooke Denton, Chaz John, Tauri Lang, Diego Mireles Duran, and Sarah Perkison. Please join us for the opening reception on October 8, 2022 from 6-8pm at 423 W San Francisco St., Santa Fe, NM 87501. 

Being an artist often means working through lunch in order to make your deadline, pay the bills, feed the soul, connect with your community, and grow. Experimental mediums, exploration of space, and cultural relevance are found throughout the exhibition. This collection of artists embody the youthfulness that is of making art and embodying the scrappy, resourceful, and hardworking life of an artist. 

Implementing different materials, such as bed sheets, quilts, bleach, and wax crayons, Annie Bielski creates dynamic compositions with impulsive yet intentional sweeps of bright color, accented by patterns already found on the sheets and materials used.  Like Bielski, one can also find many different mediums woven throughout Matthan Cowart’s paintings, as seen in the jagged, gnarled edges of MetabolicRift, which are highlighted by chrome filigree made of nails and other hardware. The work of Chaz John seeks to speak with the psyche and spirit, often referencing dream imagery and cultural iconography, presented in a slick (and sometimes humorous) manner. Using different forms of mark-making, Brooke Denton transports the viewer into a disorienting patterned space, challenging perspective and dimension. Sarah Perkison’s dense brush strokes create fleshy, gooey forms that mimic the body or a still life, but remain ambiguous in definition. Using a similar vocabulary, Tauri Lang’s translucent, wraith-like forms vibrate within intimately sized canvases. Each of Diego Mireles Duran’s shiny, sensual silicone sculptures have a secret back pocket for a vibrating magic bullet to be slipped in. DMD’s work in the exhibition functions both as art and as toys of pleasure. Vibrant, candy-colored patterns cover the sculptures, adding to the allure. 

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Annie Bielski is an artist, writer, and performer. Bielski’s paintings, video, and sculpture have been exhibited at NADA (NYC, SEPTEMBER Gallery), Burning in Water (NYC), SEPTEMBER (Hudson), Paris London Hong Kong (Chicago), High Tide (Philadelphia), Lodos Gallery (Mexico City), and The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland) and in festivals in Brazil, Latvia, and Norway. Bielski has performed at SEPTEMBER, Basilica Hudson, The Museum of Modern Art, Rachel Uffner Gallery, and CANADA. She has collaborated with musician Jenny Hval and performed across the US and Europe. Her work and performances have been covered by Whitehot Magazine, Art News, Hyperallergic, MTV, and The New York Times. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Bielski lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is represented by SEPTEMBER Gallery in Hudson, New York.

Matthan Cowart is an interdisciplinary artist, theorist, and object maker living and working in Albuquerque New Mexico. Their physical work consists of painting, drawing, tattooing, looking, building, and installation. Matthan’s artmaking is rooted in the interrelationship between natural, structural, and metaphysical environments and the sensory/psychological experience generated therein. Their material process involves transforming scraps and shards of visual and physical culture into a new ontological tapestry. Imagining their function akin to that of a wizard -- Matthan is puzzling over the signs and seeking out the omens rather than fortifying a particular thesis.

Brooke Denton is an artist, writer, and curator. She earned her BFA from the University of New Mexico and her MA from the School of Visual Arts in Critical Theory and the Arts. In all mediums, Brooke seeks to embrace the humanness of humanity.

Chaz John - b. 1987. From Topeka, KS, Currently lives in Santa Fe, NM. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska / Mississippi Band Choctaw / European. Chaz John presents a vibrant collection of cultural iconography, raw dream images, and a personal quilt of archetypal patterns that make up the collective American psyche.

Tauri Lang writes, Metalsmith by day painter by night. A non-stop study of interaction/form. I find Creativity is so vulnerable though completely necessary in the winding path to self-discovery. It is my unfolding heart. Defined by softening peripherals and sharp epiphanies. Some days I make to challenge the mind others for ease ; I never learned the rules. Mostly I strive for nature’s Rhythm in color and space- I believe she holds the answers. Patterns of a poetic kinetic kind; an archaic blueprint of the subconscious. Perhaps Something we can find solace in.

Diego Mireles Duran is a first-gen Latinx interdisciplinary artist based out of Oakland Cal. Their creative practice explores liminal identity and ways to root in something recognizable while in diaspora. Through a variation of media such as painting/ sculpture, sound and digital collage, DMD borrows references from ancestral Mexican culture as well as current and childhood memories. Their optical language is a playful expression; chaotictly conglomerating motifs such as 90’s Mexican pop and Noreño Music, Mexican candy, traditional artisan practices, and even home cleaning products of their youth such as “Fabuluso” .. ” I want my output to represent what liminality feels like to me. I want it to feel like a word at the tip of the tongue.

Sarah Perkison is momentarily based out of Albuquerque New Mexico. She intends to invoke reverence for objects of endearment in a way that honors their ability to encapsulate memory and emotion. Sarah sees objects as vessels through which we understand and process our lived experiences in a strikingly intimate and spiritual way. Deeply personal mythologies and atmospheric reminiscence are intertwined with objects physical forms in these works, in a way that reveals their complexity as symbols.