Please join us for breakfast and a conversation between artists Jonathan Ryan and Carl D'Alvia on how they deploy texture within their practices. Moderated by curator Tracy McKenna, the talk will coincide with a book launch of Carl D'Alvia's exhibition catalogue Fundamentals.
Saturday, May 20 at 10am
Coffee and pastries will be provided. Please RSVP at info@hesseflatow.com.
Jonathan Ryan was born in 1989 in Buffalo, NY. He received his BFA from Louisiana State University and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Ryan has exhibited across the US and Europe, including three solo shows at the Landing (Los Angeles, CA). He has also been in group exhibitions at Monti8 (Latina, Italy) Gerhard Hofland (Amsterdam), Ekru Project (Kansas City, MO), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), The Brand Library (Glendale, CA), Gallery ALSO (Los Angeles, CA), Field Projects (New York, NY), San Diego Art Institute (San Diego, CA), and the Woodmere Art Museum (Philadelphia, PA). He has received fellowships and awards from Woodmere Museum of Art, Tyler School of Art, Vermont Studio Center, and LSU School of Art.
Carl D’Alvia (b. 1965 in Sleepy Hollow, NY) is a sculptor that lives and works in Connecticut and New York. D’Alvia’s bronze, marble, and post-pop resin sculptures range from the abstract and geometric to the figurative and anthropomorphic. His work often explores dichotomies such as minimal/ornate, hard/soft, animate/inanimate, and comic/tragic. D’Alvia won the Rome Prize in 2012. He has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York as well as internationally, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; HESSE FLATOW, New York; American Academy in Rome, Italy; Galerie Hussenot, Paris; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; and Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton.
Tracy McKenna is a bicoastal independent curator with recent shows at the Flinn Gallery (Greenwich, CT), Able Baker Contemporary (Portland, ME), and Rick Wester Fine Art (Chelsea, NYC). She received her BA in Cultural Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon, with a particular focus on pop culture. Tracy began her career in the arts with positions at Washington Project for the Arts, the Phillips Collection, and ICA Boston, and served on the board of Franklin Street Works (Stamford, CT). She has been a Visiting Critic for the Wassaic Project and NYC Crit Club, wrote a catalogue essay for The Landing (Los Angeles), and has moderated Artist Talks for galleries in New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. Before turning her attention to curating a decade ago, she coordinated artist-, dance-, and writer-in-residency programs for her local Title I elementary school; started a free weekly children’s art program at a library; and relocated internationally twice while raising two children.
