EXPO CHICAGO | VIRTUAL VIEWING ROOM
Booth 442

Navy Pier's Festival Hall | APRIL 13 - 16, 2023

600 E Grand Ave, Chicago, IL

VIP Preview:

Thursday, 13 April, 12 – 6pm

Opening Hours:

Friday, 14 April, 11am – 7pm
Saturday, 15 April, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, 16 April, 11am – 6pm

Michell Benoit

Michelle Benoit embeds her memories of people, places, and events by utilizing combinations of colors. Created with precision, her fragment-like paintings and sculptures bare no mark-making or mounting of any kind. The sheets of lucite refer to physical evidence of time passing like layers of sediment or rings on a tree.

Michelle Benoit (b. 1964, Bridgewater, MA) received a BFA from Rhode Island College and an MA and MFA from the University of Iowa. Benoit was the recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship at the University of Iowa, the Merit Fellowship in Painting from Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Berkshire Taconic’s A.R.T. Grant, as well as consecutive Special Talent Awards from Rhode Island College. Her work has been exhibited at museums, institutions, and galleries: Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA; Bristol Museum of Art, Bristol, RI; Harper Center for the Arts, Clinton, SC; Sarah Doyle Gallery at Brown University; Jamestown Arts Center, Jamestown, RI; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; High Noon Gallery, New York, NY; Thomas Punzmann Contemporary, Frankfurt, Germany; Morotti Arte Contemporanea: Strata di Luce, Milan, Italy; and more. In addition, her work is in many public and private collections including UT Southwestern Medical Center; Memorial Sloan Kettering; The University of Iowa Museum; and The Swain School of Design.

ANNE BUCKWALTER

Anne Buckwalter’s work explores female identity with a dual focus on contemporary predicaments and folk tradition. Her gouache paintings depict collections of disparate objects that narrate the contradictory expectations and realities of everyday life within private domestic spaces. She utilizes techniques and motifs inspired by her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, thus expanding upon a rich cultural lineage.

Anne Buckwalter (b. 1987, Lancaster, PA) received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, and her MFA from Maine College of Art. She is the recipient of a 2020-2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a 2020 Idea Fund Grant, and a 2016 Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Her artist-in-residencies include the MassMoCA, MA; the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity; Hewnoaks Artist Colony; Galveston Artist Residency; and the Vermont Studio Center. She has exhibited at Untitled Art Miami Beach ‘21, The Armory Show ‘21, New York, NY; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; The Painting Center, New York, NY; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; the ICA at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME; Boston University Gallery, Boston, MA; and others. Her work is in the permanent collection of Zuzeum Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; ICA Miami, Miami, FL; the University of West Virginia Art Museum, Morgantown, WV; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

Brandon J. Donahue-SHIPP

Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp works in the assemblage of found basketballs, using shoelaces as the binding medium to create beautiful and celebratory sculptural forms. Donahue-Shipp’s “Basketball Blooms” resemble mandalas, and affect a monumental presence as they appear to grow or emerge out of the surface of the wall. Donahue-Shipp’s works reference his Black American cultural heritage and evoke tactility, community, history, and place.

Brandon J. Donahue-Shipp (b. 1985, Memphis, TN) received his BS from Tennessee State University and MFA from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as Untitled Art Miami Beach ‘21; Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD; Frist Museum, Nashville, TN; South Kentucky Performing Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY; 13th Havana Biennial, Matanzas, Cuba; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; McKenna Museum, New Orleans, LA; Athica Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA; and many others. He is the recipient of the Tanne Foundation Award, alongside numerous other awards and grants.

His work resides in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Metro Arts Nashville, Nashville, TN; Private Museum Collection, Matanzas, Cuba; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis, MD; Rollingscrest Chillum Community Center, Chillum, MD; Madison Park, Community Center, Madison, TN; and Arrowmont School of Craft, Gatlinburg, TN.

Raymond Saá

Raymond Saá uses an X-Acto knife as a drawing implement, to create images which are then sewn together into ‘postcards’. Both the positive and negative images are important to the creation of the piece. The sewn composites are overlapped and sewn to each other in a pattern reminiscent of shingles, thus building a form that echos that of both architecture, and leafy tropical vegetation.

Raymond Saá (b. 1972, New Orleans, LA) received his BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and his MFA from Parsons School of Design. He has exhibited at Untitled Art Miami Beach ‘21; White Columns, New York, NY; Queens Museum, Bulova Center, Queens, NY; Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ; Chautauqua Visual Arts Gallery, Chautauqua, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Contemporary Arts Forum@Indigo, Limuw: An Ode to the Sea, Santa Barbara, CA; Islip Museum, Islip, NY. His work is in the permanent museum and institutional collections of Pérez Art Museum, FL; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Queens Museum of Art, NY; NYC Public Art in Public Schools, NY; US Department of State, Art in Embassies, Matamoros and Tiawana American Embassies, Mexico; Lexus Corporation, CA; as well as numerous corporate and private collections.

Saá’s awards and residencies include Joan Mitchell Center Artist in Residence Program in New Orleans, LA; NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship; Pollack Krasner Foundation, New York, NY;  Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY Public Art for Public Schools PS 357X, New York, NY. Raymond Saá has been represented by Pentimenti Gallery since 2020.

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