Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to announce participation in The Dallas Art Fair with new and recent work by Chrissy Angliker, Bethany Czarnecki, Nick McPhail, and Leigh Suggs. Hosted at the Fashion Industry Gallery in the Dallas ArtsDistrict, the fair will host a VIP viewing on Thursday, April 4th, and will be open to the public April 5-7, 2024. For inquiries regarding the fair including works available, please email info@masseyklein.com.
Chrissy Angliker's painting practice is an active conversation with the paint material. Building up the paint to create heavily textured works, Angliker’s imagery exists on a spectrum as it becomes increasingly indiscernible and abstracted the closer it is viewed. Creating a balanced relationship between the controlled and uncontrollable, Angliker simultaneously visually translates her perception of herself in relation to the world. The artist's investigation of life's push and pull between control and chaos is depicted through intentional marks, the transitional tension between these two opposing elements representative of Angliker's search for a sense of grace.
Angliker has exhibited extensively in both Europe and the US and her work has been featured in several international print and online publications, including Interview Magazine, David Zwirner's Platform, Forbes.com, The Know Culture,The Last Magazine, Bolero Magazine, and Hyperallergic. In 2016, Neidhard & Schoen AG published an in-depth book, Chrissy Angliker PAINT/ING/S, examining Angliker's process and resulting paintings with a focus on her work created between 2014 and 2016. Angliker has been awarded the Rowena Reed Kostellow Award (Pratt Institute) and the International Takifuji Art Award (Tokyo). She will have a solo exhibition with Massey Klein Gallery in 2024.
Bethany Czarnecki creates paintings that project an atmospheric sense of place, imparting the viewer's position in relation to the composition while exploring the paradoxes and complexities of the female form and its representation. Her swirling compositions investigate themes of gender, identity, the human psyche, and sensuality. Working slowly with oil paint, Czarnecki carves out multiple layers of concentric, biomorphic shapes that radiate chromatic planes.Ranging from opaque color fields to translucent overlays, nested silhouettes bend and bloom as they foster complex relationships within each composition. The artist's use of repetitive forms signifies a distortion of time and place that allude to dreamscapes, while color becomes a carrier of emotion that ultimately reveals the unseen.
Bethany Czarnecki presented her third solo exhibition with Massey Klein Gallery, A memory, eternal, in September 2023, which was featured in BOMB, Forbes.com, The Brooklyn Rail, and Interlocutor. Other recent exhibitions include Memory Concourse at Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City, Shades of Abstraction F2T Gallery in Milan,and Immersed at Jack Siebert Projects in Los Angeles, with upcoming exhibitions in 2024 in Miami, Stockholm, and Los Angeles. She has been interviewed for numerous print and online publications, including ArtPlugged, Metal Magazine, Widewalls, Elephant (where she was featured as an ‘artist to watch’), Matrons and Mistresses, Two Coats of Paint, and ArtZelaous.
Nick McPhail’s landscape-based and architecturally-inspired paintings propel the viewer into previously unacknowledged realms of inner contemplation and perception. As a painter, draftsman, and ceramicist, McPhail draws upon elements from every facet of his practice. Blending traditional painting techniques with contemporary experimentation, the artist’s deceptively simple works weave everyday components of our peripheries into rich and enigmatic moments of memories, ideas, emotions, and limitless possibilities. Empty expanses and quiet scenes portrayed in cool pastels and underlaid with bright neon tones are quintessential of his work and allow him to stray from strictly realistic representations and rather hint at it with vague association.
Nick McPhail graduated with a BFA with a focus in Painting and Ceramics from Michigan State University, and has participated in artist residencies such as Untitled_1983, Holiday Forever Residency, 100 West Corsicana, and Vermont Studio Center. McPhail presented Entry, his first solo exhibition with Massey Klein Gallery, in June 2023. The artist has exhibited internationally, with recent exhibitions at Oolong Gallery Annex, Reynolds Gallery, The Landing Gallery, and Maybaum Gallery. In 2019, the artist was commissioned for Power Lines, a permanent installation on Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park. McPhail has been featured in Style Weekly, Wrap Magazine, The American Scholar, New American Paintings, Art Now LA, Booooooom, Art Maze Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Two Coats of Paint, and Art Business. In 2023, McPhail was selected as a Hopper Prize Finalist.
Leigh Suggs channels her fascination with the mystery and psychology of sight through cut paper works and large-scale installations. Created using a precise and painstaking process of cutting, drawing, tracing, taping, and painting, Suggs’ work is simultaneously tactile and conceptual, methodical, and instinctual. Her works on paper are sculpture-like in form, escaping the classification of strict two-dimensionality through the manipulation of shadows, color and reflections. The intangible and inexpressible optical illusions created in each piece lure in the viewer, pulling them into an experience of seeing that is at once immediate and elusive. Spots, dots, and zig-zags roam in and out of focus, leaving a visual residue that challenges the reality of the lines, colors and patterns seen in each piece.
Suggs’ most recent solo exhibition with Massey Klein Gallery, Bent Out of Shape, was on view in March 2022. She has exhibited at American institutions including the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, the Taubman Museum, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Visual Arts Center in Richmond, and the Racine Art Museum, and has taught at the Penland School of Crafts, the Visual Art Center in Richmond, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Suggs has been published in Style Weekly, American Craft Council Magazine, Surface Design Magazine, and Indy Weekly, and works by the artist were featured in the recent Netflix series, Kaleidoscope. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Capital One, the Federal Reserve Bank, Deutsche Bank, Dominion, Honeywell, Fidelity Investments, and Suntrust Bank.
