Drawn
Featuring Michael Jones McKean, Bettina Sellmann, Jered Sprecher and Kevin Zucker
February 21 - March 28, 2009
Opening reception Saturday, February 21, 6-9pm.
Kevin Zucker, Untitled from google Image Tragedy Studies, set 3, 2007. Pencil, watercolor and inkjet on drafting aid, 13.5" X 11.5".
Drawn examines the role of drawing within an artist's larger practice. The exhibition showcases four artists whose works on paper provide a deeper understanding of both their discipline and their process, while inviting the viewer deeper into the thinking behind their work in general. Drawn presents a variety of approaches with regards to the act of drawing. McKean, a sculptor, produces collages mirroring the assemblage of his larger works. Sellmann is the most traditional of the group; many of her drawings directly relate to her watercolor on canvas paintings. Sprecher's gouache works on paper serve as an experimental proving ground for his paintings. And Zucker produces smaller drawing versions of his larger conceptual works on canvas. The drawings in Drawn serve to demonstrate these very different approaches, while highlighting each artist's primary practice of art making.
Michael Jones McKean received his MFA from Alfred University in 2002 and his BFA from Marywood University in 2000. A recipient of numerous awards, Michael has been granted fellowships and residencies at The Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Central Michigan University as the Stephen L. Barstow Fellow and The Archie Bray Foundation. He was recently awarded the Nancy Graves Foundation Award in 2005 and the Artadia Award in 2006. McKean has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Sunday L.E.S. (New York), Galleria Gentill (Prado, Italy), Threewalls (Chicago) and University of Illinois (Springfield). McKean is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sculpture and Extended Media Department at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Bettina Sellmann recently had her second solo exhibition in New York at Derek Eller Gallery. Most recently Sellmann's work was seen in Galerie Frank Schlag (Germany), The Collective Gallery (Edinburgh) and Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston). Sellmann received her M.F.A. from Hunter College and also attended Stadelschule Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Sellmann lives and works in New York.
In 2009 Jered Sprecher's work will be exhibited at Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York), Steve Zevitas Gallery (Boston), ADA Gallery (Richmond, Virginia), Cheekwood Museum of Art (Tennessee) and Calvin College (Michigan). In previous years Sprecher's work was included in group shows at The Drawing Center (New York), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Wendy Cooper Gallery (Chicago), and solo shows at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), The Flourescent Gallery (Knoxville) and Arthouse (Austin, Texas among others. Sprecher received his M.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Iowa and currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Since receiving his M.F.A. from Columbia in 2002, Kevin Zucker has had solo exhibitions at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery (New York), Linn Luehn (Cologne), Mary Boone Gallery (New York), Mario Diacono Gallery (Boston), and Jablonka Luehn (Cologne). Zucker's work has also been exhibited in group shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center (New York), and Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby (New York). Zucker lives and works in New York.
