Noel W Anderson
Barrow & Parke
Barnett Cohen
Athena LaTocha
Lucia Love
Samantha Rosenwald
For NADA 2020, JDJ and Mother Gallery will present three collaborative exhibitions of artists from each gallery's program on the east and west coasts, on view from December 1-5, 2020.
JDJ, Garrison, NY: Lucia Love and Jenny Morgan, who incorporate an unsettling merge of the real and the surreal.
Installation view, NADA 2020, JDJ, Garrison, NY
Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY: Noel W Anderson, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Chie Fueki, Daniel Giordano, and Athena LaTocha, whose inventive approaches to materiality are intimately linked with the hand.
Installation view, NADA 2020, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
JDJ + Mother Los Angeles, CA: Adam Amram, Barnett Cohen, Samantha Rosenwald, and Ed Templeton, who convey the anxieties of American life in 2020 with a sense of irreverence and humor.
Installation view, NADA 2020, Los Angeles, CA
Noel W. Anderson
Noel W Anderson is known for his explorations into the evolving makeup of black male identity as seen through the lens of American media.
Woven from images of basketball players, Anderson's three new textiles explore the relationship between sports and protest.
The appropriated photos are warped and distorted, then woven into jacquard tapestries that are subsequently bleached, unraveled and distressed to the point that these recognizable figures slip into abstraction.
Noel W Anderson
Le Bron Fire, 2020
Bleach on distressed, stretched Jacquard tapestry 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Noel W Anderson
Le Bron Fire, 2020
Bleach on distressed, stretched Jacquard tapestry 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Noel W Anderson
Le Bron Fire, 2020
Bleach on distressed, stretched Jacquard tapestry 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Noel W Anderson
20 Between Chucks, 2020
Picked, stretched Jacquard tapestry
24 × 18 inches (60.96 × 45.72 cm)
Noel W Anderson
20 Between Chucks, 2020
Picked, stretched Jacquard tapestry
24 × 18 inches (60.96 × 45.72 cm)
Noel W Anderson
20 Between Chucks, 2020
Picked, stretched Jacquard tapestry
24 × 18 inches (60.96 × 45.72 cm)
Noel W Anderson
In-flame-d, 2020
Bleach on distressed, stretched Jacquard tapestry 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Noel W Anderson
In-flame-d, 2020
Bleach on distressed, stretched Jacquard tapestry 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Noel W Anderson
In-flame-d, 2020
Bleach on distressed, stretched Jacquard tapestry 16 × 12 inches (40.64 × 30.48 cm)
Barrow Parke
Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke's collaborative practice explores the logic of weaving and its relationship to visual and digital systems of art making.
The artists will debut a new series of paintings on hand-loomed and embroidered fabric, works on paper, and wallpaper.
The bird patterns incorporated into these works are partly inspired by the art historical use of the motif as a cultural barometer for society at large.
Barrow Parke,
Starling (RBG), 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
15 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ inches (40.32 × 40.32 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Starling (RBG), 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
15 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ inches (40.32 × 40.32 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Starling (RBG), 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
15 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ inches (40.32 × 40.32 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Painted Bunting (Watcher), 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
19 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ inches (50.48 × 40.32 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Painted Bunting (Watcher), 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
19 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ inches (50.48 × 40.32 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Painted Bunting (Watcher), 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
19 ⅞ × 15 ⅞ inches (50.48 × 40.32 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Great Blue Heron, 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ⅝ × 17 ¾ inches (60.01 × 45.09 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Great Blue Heron, 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ⅝ × 17 ¾ inches (60.01 × 45.09 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Great Blue Heron, 2020
Acrylic and embroidery on hand-loomed linen
23 ⅝ × 17 ¾ inches (60.01 × 45.09 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Painted Bunting (Watcher), 2020
Colored pencil and gouache on paper
9.9375 × 8 inches (25.24 × 20.32 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Starling, 2020
Ink on paper
9.9375 × 7.9375 inches (25.24 × 20.16 cm)
Barrow Parke,
Great Blue Heron, 2020
Colored pencil and gouache on paper
10 × 7 ⅜ inches (25.40 × 18.73 cm)
Barnett Cohen
Barnett Cohen's use of common language and imagery found on stickers is a reflection of how American society expresses particular notions of identity and desires to make it more visible.
He researches and collects thousands of stickers, which are cut and applied to the surface of the canvas between several layers of polycote, which creates a smooth, uniform surface.
The stickers are layered densely on top of one another into compositions that reflect a cacophony of positions and messaging, from the political to the social to the economic.
Barnett Cohen
october 21 2020
Stickers, uv polycote, acrylic liquid polymer on canvas 29 × 33 inches (73.66 × 83.82 cm)
Barnett Cohen
october 21 2020 (detail)
Stickers, uv polycote, acrylic liquid polymer on canvas 29 × 33 inches (73.66 × 83.82 cm)
Barnett Cohen
september 17 2020, 2020
Stickers, uv polycote, acrylic liquid polymer on canvas 58 × 64 inches (147.32 × 162.56 cm)
Barnett Cohen
september 17 2020, 2020 (detail)
Stickers, uv polycote, acrylic liquid polymer on canvas 58 × 64 inches (147.32 × 162.56 cm)
Athena LaTocha
Athena LaTocha explores the relationships between the natural world and humans' impact upon it. Her work is inspired in part by her Native American heritage, her upbringing in rural Alaska, and minimal and conceptual Earthworks artists of the 1960s and 1970s.
Her practice is influenced by human intervention upon the earth, a reworking of the natural world. LaTocha's sweeping abstractions are created using earth-toned inks, soil, and industrial solvents that she applies to the surface using tools such as tire shreds, scrap metal, and bricks.
Athena LaTocha
Untitled No. 22, 2015
Ink and shellac on paper
17 × 33 3/4 inches (43.18 × 85.73 cm)
Lucia Love
Lucia Love's visually rich paintings are loaded with narrative and symbolism, with references to art history, mythology, politics, and the dynamics of power.
Like works of speculative fiction, each painting contains a pastiche of fantasy and reality, as elements sourced from news media exist on an equal plane to those of pure imagination.
The juxtaposition of doom and hope depicted in the works feels particularly poignant at this distinct moment in American society.
Lucia Love
Is This Your Card?, 2020
Oil on panel
40 × 40 inches (101.60 × 101.60 cm)
Lucia Love
Is This Your Card?, 2020
Oil on panel
40 × 40 inches (101.60 × 101.60 cm)
Lucia Love
Is This Your Card?, 2020
Oil on panel
40 × 40 inches (101.60 × 101.60 cm)
Lucia Love
California Dreamin, 2020
Oil on panel
36 × 24 inches (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Lucia Love
California Dreamin, 2020
Oil on panel
36 × 24 inches (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Lucia Love
California Dreamin, 2020
Oil on panel
36 × 24 inches (91.44 × 60.96 cm)
Lucia Love
Bridge Over Troubled Water, 2020
Oil on panel
48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm)
Lucia Love
Bridge Over Troubled Water, 2020
Oil on panel
48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm)
Lucia Love
Bridge Over Troubled Water, 2020
Oil on panel
48 × 36 inches (121.92 × 91.44 cm)
Samantha Rosenwald
Samantha Rosenwald's latest works were made during a period of intense wildfires in her home state of California earlier this year and use the flame motif for two distinct, symbolic readings.
Her medium of choice, colored pencil on canvas, emphasizes the sense of mania that feels present in her subject matter.
By threading together contemporary culture, visual puns and the dogmas of art history, she creates absurd, personal and darkly funny portraits which illustrate what it feels like to be alive.
Samantha Rosenwald
Blind Paradigms, 2020
Colored pencil on canvas
15 × 15 inches (38.10 × 38.10 cm)
Samantha Rosenwald
Wishing Flowers, 2020
Colored pencil on canvas
14 × 14 inches (35.56 × 35.56 cm)