Press Release (Cycle VIII)

Aristotle Forrester, Kathryn Goshorn, Louisa Owen, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Wen Liu, Sebastian Burger, Elizabeth Flood, & Michiko Itatani

March 16th - April 13th, 2024

Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013

Storage is pleased to announce Press Release (Cycle VIII), presenting artists Aristotle Forrester, Kathryn Goshorn, Louisa Owen, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Wen Liu, Sebastian Burger, Elizabeth Flood, and Michiko Itatani. This exhibition is held in extension of the gallery’s ongoing, rotational exhibition survey, Press Release (2022-present), featuring international and overlooked artists.

• Events

  Opening Reception
  6-8pm
  Friday, August 2nd

  Storage Tribeca
  52 Walker St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013

• Aristotle Forrester

  Aristotle Forrester explores personal narratives of loss, mythologies, and of the Black experience to ground his work within the expanding field of contemporary abstract painting. Extending lines of inquiry that originate in the modalities of mid-century artists including Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell, Forrester develops upon the idea of a figurative landscape with gestural, loaded brushstrokes to release an expressive quality upon his thick, luscious canvases.

• Kathryn Goshorn

  Kathryn Goshorn builds images in depiction of the human condition, the purpose of life and how behavior can affect its quality. Goshorn contemplates a duty to understand the space we take up and our influence as we move through the world and interact, leaving those echoes of action, or cause and effect, where the effect is irreparable and one is left to speculate about the cause.

• Louisa Owen

  Louisa Owen’s works posit paper as a membrane material, able to soak and absorb the atmosphere into itself. Reminiscent of the bodily forms and orifices found in Lee Bontecou’s wall sculptures or recent paper works by Lynda Benglis, Owens develops abstracted, organic structures simultaneously suggestive of a cave or a spinal column. Emphasizing durability and the architecture of such a frame in place to support the facilities of the body, Owen’s sculptures provide chambers and inlets for holding expressions of spirituality, meditation, loss, and stasis.

• Marcus Leslie Singleton

  Marcus Leslie Singleton is a Seattle born artist celebrated for his distinctive figurative paintings that deftly intertwine personal observations with broader societal themes. Singleton’s process demands a delicate balance of interpretation and recollection. Through natural, carefree, and playful brush strokes, his work offers meditations on broader issues of race, representation and the historical significance of everyday moments. Using spontaneity, scale, and expressive placement of color, Singleton’s paintings offer a jovial yet serious perspective that is both poignant and bold.

• Wen Liu

  Wen Liu’s sculptures address loss and abandonment through the modification and assembly of found materials. She uses reclaimed domestic objects to build up her sense of belonging and security. Sculptural reinvestment and temporal shift of traces from past to present imply narratives of absence and presence as well as alienation and comfort. Liu ‘s work balances between the contiuums of temporality and permanence, seeking to address the disparities between public recollection and private memory.

• Michiko Itatani

  Michiko Itatani (b. 1948, Osaka, Japan) is a Chicago-based painter. Itatani studied literature and philosophy in her youth before relocating to the US in the 1970's, where she studied visual art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Marie Sharp Walsh New York Studio Grant and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship among others. She was selected by the Women’s Caucus for a Lifetime Achievement Award 2020.

Press Release (Cycle III)

Angela Dufresne, Baxter Koziol, Adam Lupton, Pol Morton, Brandon Morris, Carolyn Oberst, Louisa Owen, & Jeff Way

April 21st - June 22nd, 2023

Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013

Storage’s inaugural survey exhibition began in September 2022 & continues with Press Release (Cycle III), a reception for an incoming group of artists: Angela Dufresne, Baxter Koziol, Adam Lupton, Pol Morton, Brandon Morris, Carolyn Oberst, Louisa Owen, & Jeff Way. The exhibition exists as an ongoing essay where works are used to reposition and examine notions of pressure & release. For Press Release (Cycle III), we challenge perceptions of the body and space through painting, sculpture & performance.

Some works presented explore historically normative notions of physical space. Other works play on aspects of queer space through edits on museological tropes. The artists investigate the beauty, fragility, and resilience of the body, considering the space within and around it. They make mundane spaces alienating by accommodating the body's architecture and they rework exterior space, extending the traditions of the trompe-l'œil garden and abstracting our surrounding landscape within the gallery.

• Events

  Opening Reception
  6-8pm
  Friday, April 21st

Press Release (Cycle II)

Angela Dufresne, Adam Lupton, Baxter Koziol, Eli Ping, Jeff Way, Louisa Owen, Kim Hoeckele, Morgan Canavan, & Brandon Morris

February 3rd - April 19th, 2023

Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013

Storage’s inaugural survey exhibition began in September 2022 & continues with a reception for a new group of artists Angela Dufresne, Adam Lupton, Baxter Koziol, Eli Ping, Jeff Way, Louisa Owen, Kim Hoeckele, Morgan Canavan, and Brandon Morris.

The rotational group exhibition unfolds over time, adding works through a curated model. This iteration of the exhibition presents explorations of the body in protest, violence, loving acts, & camaraderie–all the while considering programming that explores notions of power & the suppression of words.

The absence of the body is central in activating the performativity of the works, giving attention to tangible reverberations of the artists’ practices. In the exhibition, physical qualities of the works may allude to the precarious circumstance of creating a body using obscure language. This language is one that allows emotions to exist within the realm of non-empirical standards, pushing the limit of existence.

• Events

  Opening Reception
  6-8pm
  Friday, February 3rd