FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BUCKET RIDER GALLERY begins the 2008 schedule with Living Room Paintings, a group exhibition of new works, in Galleries One and Two.
Chicago, IL, February 1, 2008- Bucket Rider welcomes the start of the 2008 schedule with a curated exhibition of new paintings and painted works by gallery artists as well as artists shown here for the first time. Living Room Paintings will include new works by Anna Bjerger, Brian Bress, Keltie Ferris, Andreas Fischer, Andrew Guenther, Lester Monzon, Angel Otero and Christian Rieben. These works will be installed in both galleries. The show opens Friday, February 1st with an artist’s reception from 5 to 8 pm, and continues through Saturday, March 8th.
Living Room Paintings describes the notion that a work of art must visually operate in congruity to one’s decor and interior design. The exhibition has been playfully titled this way, as each work in the show is at odds with this notion. Some of the paintings are compositionally or formally complicated while others are thematically obstinate and require a kind of attention that disallows the viewer to let them slip into mere decoration.
Anna Bjerger was born in Sweden and splits her time between Stockholm and London. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London and a BA from Central St. Martin’s School of Art and Design, London. Her work has been exhibited with Max Wigram Gallery and David Risley Gallery in London, Bucket Rider Gallery in Chicago and a current solo show, Everything with ALP Gallery in Stockholm, as well as numerous international group shows.
Brian Bress lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. He has had residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing and the Vermont Studio Center. His work has been featured at the Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY and Angstrom Gallery, Culver City, CA, among others. He will be included in upcoming group exhibitions at the Getty Museum and LACE, Los Angeles. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Los Angeles Times, and LA Weekly.
Keltie Ferris lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art, where she received the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting. In the past year she has exhibited at Jack Tilton Gallery and John Connelly Presents. She is also the recipient of both a Jacob Javits Fellowship (2005), and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant (2006). Six of her works are currently on display in Michael and Susan Hort’s collection.
Andreas Fischer lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received his MFA and MA from the University of Illinois, Chicago and is an assistant professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has had solo exhibitions at Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Vonzweck, Chicago and Trafo Gallery, Berlin. He is also the recipient of the 2004 Artadia Grant.
Andrew Guenther lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Guenther has had solo exhibitions at Perry Rubenstein, NY, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, and David Castillo Gallery, Miami; among others. His work has also been exhibited at Derek Eller, NY, John Connelly Presents, NY, and Columbia University’s Neiman Gallery.
Lester Monzon lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He participated in this year’s Incognito exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Monzon has exhibited at Roberts & Tilton, LA, The Brewery Project, LA and Hatch Gallery in Venice, CA. He recently completed a solo exhibtion at Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles.
Angel Otero lives and works in Chicago, IL. He is a current MFA candidate at The Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited at Gallery 2, Chicago, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago and Galeria Prinardi, San Juan.
Christian Rieben lives and works in Chicago, IL. He received his MFA from The School of the Art Institute and a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is ECP Faculty at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited at College of DuPage Gallery, DuPage, Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Chicago and Gallery Uno, Fine Arts Gallery, Chicago.