Massey Klein Gallery is pleased to announce participation in The Dallas Art Fair with new and recent work by Chrissy Angliker, Bethany Czarnecki, and Kate McQuillen. Hosted at the Fashion Industry Gallery in the Dallas Arts District, the fair will host a VIP viewing on Thursday, April 20th, and will be open to the public April 21-23, 2023. For inquiries regarding the fair including works available, please email info@masseyklein.com.
Chrissy Angliker, Bethany Czarnecki, and Kate McQuillen share a deep engagement with their materials, using divergent methods to achieve equally intense yet contrasting surface imagery and quality that emphasizes the conceptual strongholds of each artist's practice.
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 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 graduated with a BA in Sociology from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2003. Her work was recently included in a group exhibition curated by Jack Siebert (Los Angeles, CA) and was featured in a solo viewing room presentation at Night Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and a group exhibition at BOZO MAG (Los Angeles, CA). In 2023, the artist will have a solo exhibition at Massey Klein Gallery (New York City, NY), as well as a group exhibition at F2T Gallery (Milan, Italy). Her work has previously been exhibited at galleries and museums, including the Katonah Museum of Art (Katonah, NY), Hollis Taggart (Southport, CT), The Core Club (New York City, NY), and the Westport Art Center (Westport, CT), to name a few. The artist has previously presented two solo exhibitions with Massey Klein Gallery, splendor and enouement, and was selected for a solo presentation with the gallery at the 2022 edition of Future Fair in New York City, where the sold out booth received a press mention in Artillery. She has been interviewed for numerous print and online publications, including ArtPlugged, Metal Magazine, Widewalls, Elephant (where she was featured as October 2021’s ‘artist to watch’), Matrons and Mistresses, Two Coats of Paint, and ArtZelaous.
Kate McQuillen's work visually seeks imagery and environments that communicate the experience of that which is familiar but still unknown. Working with highly absorbent surfaces, the hyper-flat and deeply matte nature of McQuillen’s work allows the viewer to experience the painting without any visual obstruction, creating a feeling as though one might be able to enter each pictorial atmosphere. The artist premixes her colors then paints, layer after layer, a thin and precise application of acrylic through silkscreen. Alternating the direction of the screen and cultivating imperfections and chance happenings through her materials and process, the artist achieves organic imagery that champions and magnifies elusive moments.
Kate McQuillen graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts, 2D and Printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art, where she won the Master Printmaker Award & 2D Fine Arts Award and was granted a travel scholarship to China. She was awarded her MFA in Visual Arts and Print Media from York University, where she attended as a full scholarship recipient and received the York University Stong Farmhouse Award. She has presented two solo exhibitions with Massey Klein Gallery (New York City, NY), A Thief with No Loot and Wave Amnesia. She has completed artist residencies at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA; The Center Program at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL; Ragdale in Lake Forest, IL; Frans Masereel Center at the Flemish Center for Graphic Arts in Kasterlee, Belgium; to name a few. She has been interviewed for and has work featured in Brooklyn Rail, Art in Print, Hyperallergic, The Chicago Reader, Art Spiel, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, The Globe and Mail, Time Out Chicago, and Poetry Magazine (cover image), amongst many others. Her work resides in the permanent collections of Temple University Libraries (Philadelphia, PA), the Saks Fifth Avenue Corporate Collection, TD Bank Group (Toronto), Anchor Graphics at Columbia College Chicago, Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, IL), Columbia College Center for Books & Paper Arts (Chicago), and the Open Studio Fine Art and Printmaking Center (Toronto). The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
