ABOUT THE ARTIST
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught Brooklyn-based artist who works primarily with acrylics and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from everyday experiences and imagery, dreams, feelings and moods they evoke. Kiggins work has been displayed throughout New York and Massachusetts, including Carrie Chen Gallery in Massachusetts, Flux House at Governor’s Island, The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn, and SPRING/BREAK in Manhattan.
Suzanne Kiggins uses painting as a way to share unseen feelings and emotions. She often explores themes of tension between opposing forces such as connection and independence, order and chaos, and our internal and external worlds.
Kiggins’ work is celebrated for its captivating blend of fantastical imagery, animals, and technology which invites audiences to embark on a journey through her perception of the world and the enigmatic emotions that defy definition. Her work transports viewers to ethereal realms where dreams and reality intertwine, awakening the viewers’ sense of wonder. Her bold use of color and instantly recognizable style has cemented her as a force in the contemporary art scene.
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February - April 2024
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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Elisa Soliven Gerber
Keiko Narahashi
Gretta Johnson
Clintel Steed
Jesus Polanco
Anthrōpomorphos
Exhibition Dates
October - December 2023
Keiko Narahashi born in Tokyo, now lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, and an MFA in Painting from Bard College. Her work has been written about in publications such as The New Yorker, Vogue, The Brooklyn Rail, and The New York Times.
Elisa Soliven lives and works in Brooklyn where she is a co-founder of the artist collective Underdonk and Tappeto Volante Projects. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA from Hunter College. She is mostly a ceramicist and is drawn to clay for the immediacy with which it conveys the working process and for how it captures a sense of the talismanic in the ordinary.
Gretta Johnson is a New York-based artist. She received her BFA from RISD. In 2015 her second art book OOLM was published by Dark Chart Press, and she is currently working on completing illustrations for a book of Creation Myths from around the world.
Clintel Steed received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA from Indiana University and completed Advanced Studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. He is the recipient of the John Koch Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and recent press includes Hyperallergic, Artcritical and The New York Sun.
Jesus Polanco was born in Mexico City, Mexico and currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Rocky Mt. College of Art, in Denver, Colorado. Polanco’s drawings portray his connection with life through his relationship with nature. His drawings’ repetitive mark-making was the ritual that kept him grounded in life during his years of homelessness.
ALICIA GIBSON:
PAINT THE PAIN AWAY
Exhibition Dates
March - June 2023
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 11, 2023
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Alicia Gibson (born 1980, Manhasset, NY) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2009 and her BA from Boston College in 2002, and Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
WAYNE POLLARD:
WAYNE's WORLD
Exhibition Dates
February - March 2023
Opening Reception
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Former journalist Wayne E. Pollard is an artist and cartoonist who knows the healing power of art. Born in Brooklyn, Wayne attended art classes at the Brooklyn Museum as a child. He was introduced to collage by his older cousin (an award-winning collage artist) and made his first mixed media collage when he was 13 years old. After a 30 year break, Wayne returned to making collages when a grief counselor suggested it as a way to heal after his father passed away unexpectedly.
JUDI KEESHAN:
The Color of Magic
Exhibition Dates
October - November 2022
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 22, 2022
2:00pm - 5:00pm
I am inspired by the vibrant colors and patterns of folk art and crafts. Although color takes precedence in these paintings. Shape interaction and patterns play an important role. They are like rhymes that harmoniously flow through my compositions.
Ultimately I like to think of how my artwork and femininity takes place in the modern world. I channel memories, ancient wisdom and dreams of women from the past. My patterns and electric colors with dynamic shape interaction bring a new femininity, boldness and bravery, as we face the uncertain future.
NICHOLAS CUEVA:
werehouse
Exhibition Dates
March - June 2022
Opening Reception
Saturday, March 26, 2022
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Nicholas Cueva, born 1983 in Dana Point, California, is an artist currently living in Brooklyn. His casual but specific approach to painting is conceptually bound into the physicality of space in image. Receiving his MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he moved to New York in 2011, where his constant approach to the current languages of construction and loss have gone on to influence and dialogue with the Bushwick scene. Born with a rare and lethal heart condition, and undergoing frequent life saving heart surgeries, all starting at 6 months, he has dealt with mortality his whole life. His early philosophical approach was initially sated within a religious and academic context, but after some concessions and re-evaluating, he has fallen onto using art to wordlessly unpack his and others frail and damaged psychologies.
NICHOLAS BUFFON:
the great outdoors
Exhibition Dates
October - December 2021
Opening Reception
Saturday, October 9, 2021
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Nicholas Buffon, an American Postwar and Contemporary artist has featured his work in numerous galleries including The Jewish Museum New York and the Gavin Brown's Enterprise. Buffon's mixed media sculptures are architecturally based, taking inspiration from tenements, bodegas and supermarkets mostly on the Lower East Side of New York City, but also from seedier neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Drawn to unique individuals and architecture, Buffon includes these vibrant gems within both his paintings and sculptural works. Not only does Buffon consider himself an artist, but also a documentarian. By crafting and reproducing miniatures and paintings of locations throughout the East and West Coasts, he is also capturing the distinct characteristics and history of an iconic landmark.
LISA LACKEY:
my world is pieced together
Exhibition Dates
May - June 2021
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 15, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Lisa Lackey is a New Jersey-based fiber artist who celebrates the visual pleasures of everyday life. With a wide base of knowledge in architecture, graphic arts and couture sewing, she hones these passions into work she calls Textile Paintings.
Collaging with fabric, thread and paper, she joins them together to make a whole out of seemingly disparate parts. Focusing on the shapes of the pieces, their patterns, and colors she recaptures the experienced moment.
This piecing together of bits and sections invigorates her awe for the beauty of the everyday vistas we each experience.
David McDonough:
Hot Water
Exhibition Dates
February 22 - April 4, 2020
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 22, 2020
2:00pm - 4:00pm
David McDonough is an artist, special educator and public high school teacher. He lives with his wife and young son in Queens, NY. David holds a BA in art from Brooklyn College, and an MS Ed. in teaching urban adolescents with disabilities from LIU Brooklyn. He has shown nationally and internationally, and keeps a studio in Brooklyn, NY.
Karen lederer:
juice box
Exhibition Dates
September 1 - November 16, 2019
Opening Reception
Saturday, September 21, 2019
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Karen Lederer’s paintings are filled with patterns reminiscent of Marimekko, references to her New York City upbringing, reproductions of iconic artworks, and signs of the current political moment. Captured at a close range evocative of an Instagram photo, the scenes depict a distinct image with paint. Both flat and rendered, the work conveys a spatial disorientation that denies stability. By mixing diverse processes in each piece, she seeks to create environments that are at once constructed and artificial, yet private and personal.
Theda Sandiford:
Women of Wonder
Exhibition Dates
February 26th - April 7, 2019
Opening Reception
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
6:30pm - 7:30pm
A pure celebration of expression, music, femininity, and belief in oneself. A confirmation of life repeated as a cannon of ‘I am who I am.’ We often travel to the corners of the planet looking for safe places to BE. When what is actually necessary is a declaration: “We are our own selves!” There is a place for all of our being; the sexy, the demure, the loud and the reticent. On our own terms of being in our own skin when and how we need to be. Ella, Eartha, Grace, Diahann, Billie, and Nina made way for the Cardi’s, Beyonce’s and Nikki’s of this world. We all fit and there is plenty of room for us. When we make room for ourselves.
Theodore Sefcik:
Reason Given
Exhibition Dates
September 12 - November 15, 2018
Opening Reception
Thursday, September 20, 2018
6:00pm - 7:00pm
Theodore Sefcik is known for his enigmatic animations, which combine the aesthetics of primitive computer graphics with early color video art. Presented on atypical, repurposed screens, his videos range from scenes of organic body-horror to inscrutable assembly lines and humanoid dancers. Sefcik’s videos and glitched AI-assisted digital photographs have been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Miami and Malmo, Sweden. Sefcik also performs original compositions, songs and spoken word pieces as RAXTSFK.
Alan Prazniak:
Leave Luck to Heaven
Exhibition Dates
April 16 - May 31, 2018
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 5, 2018
1:00pm-3:00pm
Alan Prazniak’s paintings are a conflation of drawings, memories of hikes, video games, books, and songs. He plays with the insane locus of The World Before (or after) Humans, talked down by the intimacy of drawing and the confusion between vista and vignette. He thinks a lot about safe spaces, such as nests and thing that seem to have, at best, a diminishing social value, but are deeply important to imagination and love. Additionally, he tries to hone fantasy, romance, and play when creating.