NADA Miami 2024

December 3rd - 7th, 2024

Booth E-106
Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33136

Storage is pleased to participate in NADA Miami, from December 3rd-7th. The presentation includes works by Jen DeLuna (b. 1999), Nick Hobbs (b. 1997), & Helen Downie (b. 1965).

• About Jen DeLuna

  Jen DeLuna (b. 1999) is a Filipino and Colombian-American painter currently based in Boston, MA. DeLuna’s work has been exhibited in exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including the Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA; IRL Gallery, Manhattan, NY; 81 Leonard Gallery, Manhattan, NY; CultureLab LIC, Queens, NY; Soft Times, San Francisco, CA and TsingHua University, Beijing, China. Selected awards include Scholarship Artist at Manhattan Graphic Center and School of Art Leadership Award. DeLuna holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2021).

• About Nick Hobbs

  Nick Hobbs was born in 1997 in Shreveport, LA, and currently resides in New York, NY. He participated in the Undergraduate Residency Program at the New York Academy of Art (2018) and earned a BFA from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA (2020). Hobbs received his MFA from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, AR (2023). His work is heavily influenced by a lifetime of looking through telescopes as an amateur astronomer, with his intricate pencil drawings reflecting the wonder and mystery of the universe.

• About Helen Downie

  Helen Downie (b. 1965) is a London-based artist, best known for her idiosyncratic and expressive style of painting. Working under the moniker of Unskilled Worker, her work is intimate and evocative, mixing characters and nature with the ephemeral and fantastical. Her work has been chronicled extensively and has attracted a large audience worldwide. Her paintings have appeared in many publications, including Artnet, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Dazed, Harper’s Bazaar and i-D. Her paintings are collected nationally and internationally and have been exhibited at galleries across the world including London, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Madrid, Tokyo and Shanghai. Downie is a strong voice for women, and through her exploration of gender enjoys testing new frontiers with her art. She is passionate about inclusion and through her work hopes to develop a narrative on the importance of diversity and freedom of expression, that speaks to everyone. Her work has been described as ‘a melee of ethereality, innocence, inherent flow and instinct that all come together in a spectacular fashion.’

Felix Art Fair 2024

Press Release (Cycle VIII): 0101

February 28th - March 3rd, 2024

Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Booth 1139
7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Storage joins Felix Art Fair 2024 to present Press Release (Cycle VIII): 0101, with works by Sebastian Burger, Adam Lupton, Kathryn Goshorn, and Barbara Nitke in extension of Press Release (Cycle VIII), which continues the gallery’s ongoing, rotational exhibition survey of international and overlooked artists.

Storage travels to Los Angeles, revealing Press Release (Cycle VIII): 0101 as an assimilation into the West Coast atmosphere of technological advancement with dealings of metal, the mirror image, and rupture as synaptic mediation of machine and body. In our era of artificial intelligence, the physical presence of machinery increasingly urges an overlap with the realization of the conscious mind, bringing into focus the question between recorded episodes and AI miming: “but, what is Actual?”

• Sebastian Burger

  Sebastian Burger (b. 1980) develops superfine oil paintings that nearly mimic the mechanical touch of an airbrush. As a technician trained in fine oil rendering that takes months to produce, Burger chooses to work on aluminum, countering the antiquation of canvas or linen substrates. The resultant thin profile of his work marks a physical reminder of technological advancement, meanwhile the meticulous yet stylized imagery demonstrates the counteractive embrace of surrealistic influences. The comparison of human and technology echoes throughout Burger’s investigations, be it in the flesh-tone almost as if sampled from a construction manual, or in the adept direction of the viewer’s gaze from the evidence of organic input to a subsequent machine response

• Adam Lupton

  Adam Lupton (b. 1987) overlays stamping and printmaking on the surfaces of his alternate self-portrait paintings, representative of his interface with the external world. Influenced by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), where his everyday existence is filled with rituals of reassurance, mantras, and projections, Lupton juxtaposes constraints and freedoms of the intellectual expanse with the utility of the earthly body, in a reconciliation of depressive retreat and cyborg taxonomy. With the inclusion of photographic space, Lupton observes a formerly valued testimonial of chronistic events in transition, reflecting the uncertain value of synthetic machine media and the sentimental entity of natural emotion.

• Kathryn Goshorn

  Kathryn Goshorn (b. 1991) 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.

• Barbara Nitke

  Barbara Nitke (b. 1950) is a photographer whose focus spans from behind-the-scenes of hardcore porn sets to constructed narratives and portraiture. Working in the 80s of Downtown New York City, Nitke reveals the female gaze in the male-dominated adult film industry of the 80s in Downtown New York City. By capturing the elegant connections between actors, Nitke observes the nuanced entity of the self in both physical and spiritual realizations.

• About Storage

  Storage is an artist-run gallery founded by Onyedika Chuke on the ideals of community, discovery, and connoisseurship. Located in Tribeca and with a viewing room on the Bowery, Storage acts as an archive of makers that work in a range of materials and come from a wide demographic background. Half of the roster is dedicated to reinvigorating the careers of artists of historical prominence, while the other half focuses on nurturing rising artists.

NADA Miami 2023

The Macroscope

December 5th - December 9th, 2023

Ice Palace Studio, Booth C-104
1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136

After celebrating its first year, Storage joins NADA Miami 2023 to exhibit the works of Adam Lupton (b. 1987), Baxter Koziol (b. 1995), Michiko Itatani (b. 1948), and Jeff Way (b. 1942). The presentation of these four artists in Storage’s debut art fair commemorates a solo exhibition each at the gallery–Itatani’s being currently on view. Lupton, Way, and Koziol, who previously participated in Storage’s Press Release group exhibition series, will show in solo exhibitions at Storage in the spring of 2024 and 2025.

At NADA Miami 2023, we present “The Macroscope,” exploring the body through the corporal, the adornment, and the atmospheric in the context of our contemporary socio-political discourse. As evidenced by thinkers such as Elaine Scarry, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Donna Haraway, the awareness of self is inextricably supported by the physicality of sensation. “The Macroscope” posits pain and (dis)comfort as encounters of flesh and sensation, being and the world. We center on this mode of potential, where the external and the intimacy of the flesh might be taken apart and reformulated.

• Adam Lupton

  Adam Lupton’s work grows out of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), where his every day existence is filled with rituals of reassurance, mantras and projections, creating internal “mental somersaults” that mediate his interaction with the external world. Lupton employs non-traditional methods including stamping, printmaking, and craft applications to express alternative portraits of himself, ‘fleshing out’ the emotions of his intrusive thought processes and eliding the interior and exterior of the body.

• Baxter Koziol

  Baxter Koziol explores the social construction of rupture and the body, working exclusively with a single needle to hand stitch his soft sculptures, blankets, and suits out of pieces of used clothing, found objects, and VCR tapes of classic films. These objects are flesh extensions, awaiting the body to clothe and armor its form.

• Michiko Itatani

  Michiko Itatani’s paintings focus on the relationship between architectural space and the body, her complex and mythical atmospheres acting as reflections of a space where people can gather. Through the sheer scale of Itatani's works, viewers are invited to enter new structural fields which philosophize the cosmic possibilities of the future.

• Jeff Way

  Jeff Way’s paintings consist of layered colors in terms of the grid in different intervals, forming a square configuration with the chalk line that was created by the action of snapping the line of pigments and forcing it into a shape, meditating on the exchange of his body and the medium on the grid.

• About Storage

  Founded in 2020 by Onyedika Chuke, Storage is a contemporary art gallery in TriBeCa, New York. Our program is rooted in our commitment to sustaining a culturally diverse roster of emerging, mid-career, and established artists. We aim to produce trailblazing dialogues through groundbreaking exhibitions to empower artists and communities. Located in the historic 52 Walker Street Building alongside leading Manhattan-based galleries, our doors are open to welcome you.