Russell Tyler, Repeater, 60 x 80 inches, acrylic on canvas, 2021
Russell Tyler (b. 1981, Summertown, TN) received his MFA from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn) and his BFA from Concordia University (Montreal). Previous solo exhibitions include The Hole (New York) Anderson’s Contemporary (Copenhagen), Richard Heller (Los Angeles), Ribordy Contemporary (Geneva), Galerie Bernard Ceysson (Paris), among others. Tyler has been included in group exhibitions at institutions and galleries including Savannah College of Art and Design, the Torrance Art Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Anonymous Gallery, Retrospective Gallery, among others. Reviews and features on his work have been written in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and Le Monde.
Andrew Woolbright, My mind can only dream of Mortal Kombat, 42 x 62 inches, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2021
Andrew Paul Woolbright (American, b. 1986) is an artist, curator, and critic living in Brooklyn, NY. Woolbright is an MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a resident at the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. He has recently exhibited with The Hole, New York (2021); Galerie Valeria Cetraro, Paris (2021); Zurcher Gallery, New York (2020); and Ada Gallery, Richmond (2020); and will be exhibiting with Vacancy Gallery in Shanghai in early 2022. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, TimeOut New York, ArtViewer, Two Coats of Paint, the Boston Globe, and the Chicago Reader, and his work is currently in the collection of the RISD Museum. He is a critic and contributing writer for The Brooklyn Rail and currently teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York.
Aviv Benn, Resembling Relics, oil, spray paint, and oil pastels on canvas, 29.5x29.5 inches, 2021
Aviv Benn is an an artist based in London. Benn completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing in the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018, and her BFA at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
in 2013. Benn had solo exhibitions at Art Von Frei Gallery, Berlin, in RawArt Gallery, Tel Aviv and Devening Projects
Gallery, Chicago and Extase Gallery, Chicago. She participated in various group exhibitions in Germany,
Chicago, New York and Tel-Aviv.
Her work was featured on various publications and platforms such as New American Paintings, ArtMaze
Magazine, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Ha’aretz Daily Newspaper and more.
Benn participated in artist residencies including Affect in Berlin (2014), PILOTENKUECHE international
artist residency`, Spinnerei, Leipzig (2015) and the Vermont Studio Center artist residency (2019).
She received the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in 2021, Rabinovich Foundation Grant in 2015 and
2019 and the Graduate Dean Professional Development Award from the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago in 2017 and 2018.