tess michalik & emma white
JULY 29TH - AUGUST 29TH, 2021
We are pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring Tess Michalik, and introducing Emma White.
EMMA WHITE
Emma White is a Toronto-based oil painter. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queens University in 2017. In 2020 she was a recipient of the Emerging Visual Artist Grant from the Ontario Arts Council. Most recently she has participated in group exhibitions at Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, False Cast Gallery in San Diego, as well as online programming with Young Space.
TESS MICHALIK
Born in Richmond Virginia, Tess Michalik moved to Indianapolis as a teenager. She received her BFA from Herron School of Art in 2010 and in 2014 her MFA from Northern Illinois University. Michalik has participated in group shows in regional institutions and universities including the Maclean County Art Center in Bloomington, IL and Harper College in Palatine, IL. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at contemporary art fairs with Lisa Kehler Art + Projects. In 2018 Michalik exhibited work in the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba, Canada in the exhibition Organic, her paintings were exhibited beside pieces from the museum's Decorative Arts collection. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
Tess Michalik’s new body of work entitled, Frosted Flakes, is a series of medium to large scale fields of light emerging from darkness. The new work is a reflection on small scale, intimate oil paintings created during quarantine of the past year. This recent body of painting is a celebration of joy, anxiety, simple pleasures, decoration, ornamentation, and the material nature of paint. These paintings embrace and examine lyrical mark making and themes of pattern and element that are inspired by 17th and 18th century European textile design.
Emma White, Well Wishes, Oil on Arches Oil Paper, 22” x 15”
Emma White, Fresh Faced, Oil on Arches Oil Paper, 22” x 15”
Emma White, Rage Fountain, Oil on Arches Oil Paper, 22” x 15”
Tess Michalik, Bussin, Oil on Panel, 14” x 11”
Tess Michalik, Buttercream Daydream III, 2020, Oil on Panel, 24" x 20"
Tess Michalik, Falling Down Sideways, 2020, Oil on Panel, 18" x 14"
