Creating in Covid

Samantha Bittman (B. 1982, Chicago, IL) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Through her hand-loomed textiles, drawings, and installations, Bittman reinvigorates traditions of weaving and Op Art. Her large-scale, site-specific mural, Interlace, was exhibited across the main floor of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. A variation on the mural is planned for an upcoming exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, New York. Bittman has recently held other solo and two-person exhibitions including at Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, Super Dutchess, New York, Ronchini Gallery, London, and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago. She received her B.F.A. in Textiles from Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Bittman is a recipient of the Artadia Award and has also participated in residency programs including the Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Images courtesy of the Artist. Headshot photo credit: Drew Gillespie.

Madeline Hollander (B. 1986, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works between Los Angeles and New York City. Hollander's work in performance, choreography, and dance is rooted in her interest in movement, whether as seen in daily life, human gesture, or natural systems. Madeline held her first solo exhibition at Bortolami Gallery, New York, earlier this year, which received lauded reviews in The New York Times, Artforum, and The Brooklyn Rail. She has also exhibited at art institutions such as The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, as part of the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou Metz, France. As a choreographer, Hollander has collaborated with film director Jordan Peele as well as artist Urs Fischer. Upcoming projects include exhibitions and performances at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Shed, New York, and The Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin. Hollander is represented by Bortolami Gallery, New York. Images courtesy of the Artist and Bortolami Gallery, New York. Headshot photo credit: Maridelis Morales.

Donald Moffett (B. 1955, San Antonio, Texas) lives and works in New York, NY. Throughout his multi-decade career, Moffett has honed an inimitable approach to traditional oil painting often embedded with social critique, whether as related to the individual or body politic, or the environment. Moffett has held solo exhibitions in galleries and art museums around the country, including at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX. A survey exhibition of Moffett’s work was held at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX, and traveled to the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, and The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. Amongst many influential public collections, Moffett’s work is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Museums of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. Moffett is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen, and by Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco. Images courtesy of the Artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen. Headshot photo credit: Gayle Brown.

Dashiell Manley (B. 1983, Fontana, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Manley’s recent practice focuses on a singular technique of applying oil paint to canvas, resulting in an expressive and lyrical body of work which the artist refers to as “Elegy.” Manley has held solo exhibitions of his paintings including at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY. Manley’s work has also been presented in group exhibitions at the Yuz Museum Shanghai, China, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, as part of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Manley’s works are in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Manley is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen, and by Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco. Images courtesy of the Artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen. Headshot photo credit: Sebastian Keefe. 

Matt Saunders (B. 1975, Tacoma, WA) lives and works between Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, and Berlin, Germany. Saunders is renowned for his experimentations with materials, time, and light, as well as for his multimedia practice spanning painting, printmaking, photography and animation. Saunders has held solo exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world, including at Marian Goodman Gallery, St. Louis Art Museum, Tate Liverpool, and Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Saunders is currently Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He completed his M.F.A in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University School of Art. Saunders’ work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, where it is currently on view as part of the exhibition, “Photography’s Last Century”. Saunders is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery and Blum and Poe. Images courtesy of the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.

Courtney Stock (B. 1987, Malden, MA) lives and works in Boston, MA. A through-line in Stock’s work, which traverses painting, sculpture, and craft, is an intuitive sourcing of and experimentation with material. Stock has exhibited at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Fort Point Community Arts Gallery, Boston, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kerala, India. She has participated in residency programs including the Inside / Out Art Museum, Beijing, China, and the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Stock earned a B.A. in Visual Arts from Bowdoin College, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from San Francisco Art Institute, and an M.F.A from Massachusetts College of Art & Design, where she is currently Assistant Professor in the Boston Low-Residency MFA program and an Academic Advisor. Stock is also Founder & Director of BOSSCRITT, a critique and curatorial club for emerging artists in the Boston area and beyond. Images courtesy of the Artist. Headshot photo credit: Kelly Benvenuto.

Julia Dault (B. 1977, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Toronto. Known for her abstract sculptures and eye-catching, patterned paintings, Dault has a unique approach, which often involves a range of industrial tools, materials, and self-imposed rules. Dault has been the subject of solo exhibitions at galleries and art institutions around the world, including the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, The Power Plant, Toronto, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and White Cube, London. Her work has been presented in the New Museum Triennial and the Gwangju Biennial, as well as in group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, the Perez Art Museum, Miami, the MCA Chicago, and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Black Dog Press recently published Dault’s first monograph, featuring writings by Jason Farago, Julia Paoli, Nigel Prince, and Lydia Davis. Dault’s work is in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, among others. Dault is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen. Images courtesy of the Artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen. Headshot photo credit: Arash Moallemi.

Soo Sunny Park (B. 1975, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Hanover, New Hampshire, where she is a Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College. Park is widely recognized for her sculptural light installations, which have been exhibited at art institutions such as the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, the Sharjah Art Museum, UAE, and the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT. An upcoming solo exhibition of Park’s work will be held at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA. Park received her B.F.A in Painting and Sculpture from Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Amongst many awards and grants, Park is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant and The Helen Foster Barnett Prize. Images courtesy of the Artist.

Sonia Almeida (B. 1978, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Boston, MA, where she is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Brandeis University. Almeida’s distinctive practice, spanning painting, textile, drawing, and book making, visualizes recurring themes of communication, language, and time. Almeida has held solo exhibitions at galleries and art institutions such as Simone Subal Gallery, New York, The Approach Gallery, London, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Her work will be presented in a forthcoming solo exhibition at  the Museu Julio Pomar, Portugal, and in "All I want – Portuguese Women Artists from 1900 to 2020," which will travel to Palais des Beaux-Arts – BOZAR, Brussels; Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours; and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Amongst many awards and grants, Almeida was a 2017 recipient of the James and Audrey Foster Prize, which resulted in a presentation of her work at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. She earned a B.A. from Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and an M.F.A. from Slade School of Fine Art, London. Almeida is represented by Simone Subal Gallery, New York. Images courtesy of the Artist and Simone Subal Gallery, New York.

Gabriel Sosa (B.1985, Miami, FL) lives and works in Boston, MA. An artist, educator, curator, and linguist, Sosa creates text-based drawings and installations, which often allude to the power of language or questions of American bureaucracy. He is currently a 2020 Now + There Accelerator Fellow, and recently began unveiling a series of billboards in neighborhoods of Boston, MA, including East Boston, Roslindale, Roxbury, and Dorchester. The project will continue until January 2021, and has received review in The Boston Globe and WBUR. In addition to his public works, Sosa has held solo exhibitions at A R E A, Boston, and the Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA. Sosa earned a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston University and an M.F.A in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. Images courtesy of the Artist. Headshot photo credit: Victoria Roytenberg.

Sara Jimenez (B. 1984, London, Ontario, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. A Filipinx-Canadian artist, Jimenez has an interdisciplinary practice in which she materializes such concepts as home, origin, memory, and artifact. Jimenez’s sculpture and installation have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Pinto Art Museum, Philippines, El Museo del Barrio, New York, and the Bronx Museum, New York. Amongst many other art institutions, her performances have been held at The Dedalus Foundation, New York, The Noguchi Museum, New York, and The Glasshouse, CT. Jimenez earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.F.A from Parsons the New School for Design. She has participated in artist residency programs including LMCC Workspace, Art Omi, The Vermont Studio Center, and Wave Hill. Jimenez’s work was recently acquired by the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Images courtesy of the Artist. 

Thiago Rocha Pitta (B. 1980, Tiradentes, Brazil) lives and works in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Through compelling imagery in watercolor, photography, sculpture, and video, Rocha Pitta captures both the natural phenomena and the man-made intervention in the environment. Rocha Pitta’s solo exhibition “Opening Night” recently opened at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Other recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Boesky West, Aspen, CO, Galeria Millan, Sao Paolo, Brazil, and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York. Rocha Pitta’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions including at the High Line, New York, NY, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL, and the Olympic Sculpture Park, Albord Art Lab, Seattle, WA. His work is in such notable permanent collections as the Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, and the ThyssenKrupp, Vienna, Austria. Rocha Pitta is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen. Images courtesy of the Artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Aspen.

ABOUT RACHEL KAY

Rachel Kay is a specialist in contemporary art who collaborates with artists on exhibitions and advises collectors on building and managing art collections. After spending seven years working for established art galleries in New York City, namely Pace Gallery and Marianne Boesky Gallery, Rachel started her own art advisory business, RSK Artworks, LLC, based in Boston, MA. Rachel earned a B.A. in History of Art and Architecture from Brown University. Please feel free to contact Rachel, she would love to hear from you: rachel@rskartworks.com.

Special thanks to Franklin Ross, Sara Putterman, Bridgitt Evans, Kara Westhoven, Abigail Goodman, Jesse Lazowski, Madison Utendahl. Photo credit: Adrianne Mathiowetz.

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