Routine Malfunction: Co-curated by Coady Brown and Pat Phillips.
Participating Artists: Trey Abdella, Casey Bolding, Maria Fragoso, Mark Thomas Gibson, KC Crow Maddux, Alexis E. Mabry, Eunjung Park, Alina Perez
Friday, November 1 – Sunday, November 10, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1 @ 6–8pm
Alina Perez, "Luna Moth", 2019. Charcoal and Pastel on Paper. 38 x 50 inches.
Routine Malfunction examines the absurdities, extremes, and maleficence of the everyday. Bringing together an eclectic group of eight artists and paintings, sculpture, photography and works on paper, the exhibition is united under the umbrella of contemporary cultural critiques. Dark humor runs rampant, as artists examine the beauties, cruelties, and misgivings of daily life. With humor and compassion, the works seek to reflect upon how we navigate this unforgiving terrain. And though our navigations tend to be clumsy, occasionally, there is grace.
Coady Brown is a painter from Baltimore, MD. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2016 and her BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 2012. In recent years, she has shown work in New York with 1969 Gallery, Koening and Clinton, and the Hole, among others. She is the recipient of several residencies and fellowships including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fountainhead, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Yale/Norfolk School of Art. She is currently a second-year Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Her work has been written about in The Village Voice, The New York Times, and New American Painting.
Pat Phillips is a painter from Pineville, LA. His work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, ArtForum, and the Chicago Tribune. He has participated in residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Fountainhead and is currently a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In 2017, Phillips received the Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant. Some of his solo exhibitions include: ROOTS (Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA), Told You Not To Bring That Ball (Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA) and SubSuperior (Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (New York, NY). More recently, he was a participant in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and will be debuting his first solo show in Los Angeles at M+B gallery.