Byron Kim
Byron Kim, born in 1961, is a Senior Critic at Yale University and a Co-director at Yale Norfolk School of Art. He received a BA from Yale University in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986.
Like the artists whom he admires, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin, Byron Kim works in an area one might call the abstract sublime. His work sits at the threshold between abstraction and representation, between conceptualism and pure painting. In his richly hued, minimalist works, Kim seeks to push the edges of what we understand as abstract painting by using the medium to develop an idea that typically gets worked out over the course of an ongoing series. Kim’s paintings often appear to be pure abstractions, but upon investigation they reveal a charged space that often connects to the artist’s personal experiences in relation to larger cultural forces.
Synecdoche, Kim’s signature work, started in 1991 and exhibited in the Whitney Biennial in 1993, is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Washington, DC. Comprised of a grid of hundreds of panels depicting human skin color, the work is both an abstract painting in monochromes and a group portrait. His ongoing series of “Sunday Paintings,” in which he records the appearance of the sky every week, along with a diary entry, juxtaposes the cosmological with the quotidian.
Kim’s mid-career survey, “Threshold,” traveled from the Berkeley Art Museum, CA, to the Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Seoul and on to five other locations in the United States (2006/7). He was included in the landmark exhibition “Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today,” at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, and Tate Liverpool, UK (2008/9). In 2015, Kim’s work was presented at the Sharjah Biennial 12 (United Arab Emirates) and in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego titled”Pond Lily Over Mushroom Cloud: Byron Kim Adapts the Black on Black Cosmology of Maria Martinez.” A significant selection of Kim’s “Sunday Paintings” were exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019.
Among Kim’s numerous awards are the Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY (1993), the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1994), the National Endowment of the Arts Award (1995), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1997), the Alpert Award in the Arts (2008), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2017), the Robert de Niro, Sr., Prize (2019) and the Skowhegan Medal for Painting (2022). His works are in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Art Institute of Chicago, IL; the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and many others.
Byron Kim lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and San Diego, CA.
Tom McGlynn
Tom McGlynn is an artist and writer based in the New York City area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Cooper- Hewitt
National Design Museum of the Smithsonian among other national and international collections. His most recent one person show of paintings was in May-June of 2023 at Rick Wester Fine Art, NYC. He is also an Editor at Large at The Brooklyn Rail, where he has contributed articles and conducted artist interviews since 2012.
Elena Sisto
Elena Sisto is known for figurative paintings that frequently focus on the experiences of being a
woman. She paints in New York City and Milan, NY. She received her BA in Art from Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design in 1975. In addition, she studied at the New York Studio School, the Skowhegan School, and Yale Norfolk. She is a 2022 recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, 2013 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Visual
Artist’s Fellowships (1983-84 and 1989-90), the Inglis Griswold Nelson Prize from the National Academy of Design (2008), and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Art and Design. She was also the recipient of a purchase prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021. Sisto has had solo museum exhibitions at the Maeir Museum, Lynchburg VA, the Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC, the Katzen Museum at American University, Washington, DC and the Miami-Dade Museum of Art + Design, Miami, FL and was included in the 43 rd Corcoran Biennial. Her work is included in numerous private collections as well as, the Maier Museum, the Greeneville County Museum, the Newark Museum, Colorado University Art Museum. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker magazine, Arts magazine, Art in America, Modern Painters, Review, Newark Star Ledger, and the L. A. Register
She is represented by Bookstein Projects in NYC.
Patricia Treib
Patricia Treib was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and lives and works in Brooklyn. She has had solo exhibitions at Bureau, New York (2017), Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid (2016), Kate MacGarry, London (2015), and Wallspace, New York (2013). Recent group exhibitions include Quicktime, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2017) and Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York (2016). Treib has had residencies at the Dora Maar House (2014) and The MacDowell Colony (2013) and is a recipient of the 2017 Artadia award. Her work has been written about in ArtForum, The New Yorker, Art in America, The New York Times, and Bomb Magazine. Treib received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Quentin McCaffrey
Quentin James McCaffrey (b. 1987, New York, NY) lives and works in New York. He received a BA from Taylor University in Upland, IN (2009) and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art (2011). Solo and two-artist exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2022); Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA (2022); Ochi Projects, Los Angeles (2022); and Hesse Flatow, New York (2020, 2021). Group exhibitions include Gowen Contemporary, Geneva (2023); Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles (2022); Marlborough, New York (2021); 1969, New York (2021); Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown (2021); and Trestle Gallery, New York (2021), among others. He attended The Macedonia Institute Residency in 2022 and is a two-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2020, 2022).
Kern Samuel
Kern Samuel (b. 1990, Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago) employs painting as a means to explore material, process, and labor. Samuel employs tactile techniques such as sewing, quilting, dyeing, folding, and embroidery to create his geometric and text- based compositions. Additionally, he draws heavily on the linguistic and cultural nuances that emerge in everyday life, using them as a conceptual and visual framework.
Jane Swavely
Jane Swavely studied at Boston University and the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Her work is in numerous public and private collections, including the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection and the Allentown Art Museum in Pennsylvania. Swavely has shown in solo exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery, CDS Gallery, the New Arts Program in Kutztown, PA, where she was a visiting artist, and at Loyola College in Baltimore, the Mandeville Gallery at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. as well as in group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Nashville, Warsaw, and
Stockholm. Previously represented by CDS Gallery in New York, Swavely has recently had her 5th solo show at A.I.R. Gallery. She will have a solo show in 2024 at Magenta Plains in New York City.
Mark Thomas Gibson
Mark Thomas Gibson (b. 1980, Miami, FL) personal lens on American culture stems from his multipartite viewpoint as an artist, a professor, and an American history buff. These myriad and often colliding perspectives fuel his exploration of contemporary culture through the language of painting and drawing, revealing a vision of America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within the story. Gibson has a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale University. In 2016, Gibson co-curated the traveling exhibition Black Pulp! with William Villalongo at Yale School of Art. The show examined evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through printed media and artworks. Gibson released his first book, Some Monsters Loom Large, in 2016 with funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Gibson’s second book, Early Retirement, was released in 2017 with Edition Patrick Frey in Zurich and was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2021, Gibson was awarded residencies at Yaddo and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency as well as a Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Philadelphia, and a Hodder Fellowship from the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University. In 2022, Gibson was awarded a Fellowship from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and named a Grantee by The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2023 he had a solo exhibition, Whirlygig!, at Sikkema & Jenkins Co. and was included in the exhibition, Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America, at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. His most recent solo exhibition, A Retelling, was at MOCAD in October.
Gibson is represented by M+B, (Los Angeles, CA) and Loyal, (Stockholm, Sweden). He is currently an Assistant Professor of Painting at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University and lives and works in Philadelphia.