Brief Introduction: Dana Schutz

Dana Schutz creates fantastical scenes executed in bright colors and bold brush strokes. Her figures often appear to be melting, while blank eyes look off in different directions. Schutz's world is a place where a blood transfusion with a shark cures the plague, people eat themselves in order to continue to exist, and dogs can live without their heads--it is a sinister, yet stunning world.

Brief Introduction: Tsang Kin-Wah

Tsang Kin-Wah is the painter of stunning floral patterned wallpaper. At first glance, Kin-Wah's work appears to be nothing more than a good example of the imagery seen on the walls of Victorian palors, but a closer look provides the viewer with something different--suddenly patterns transform into words. "BUY$HIT/BUYART$/BUYTASTE/MEETCUNTS/GREEDYARTI$T FUCKINGSHOW" reads one piece, while another reads "ILOVEYOUHANDSOMEGUY/ILOVEYOURCREDITCARD/ILOVEYOURJOB/ILOVEYOURFUTURE". Things are not as sweet as they initially seem to be.

Brief Introduction: Simon Edmondson

I first became acquainted with the work of Simon Edmondson about five years ago at Gallery Ditesheim in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and his painterly post-apocalyptic interiors have occupied my dreams ever since. Edmondson's decaying libraries, salons, and studies appear to be inhabited by the ghosts of intellectuals.
These paintings read as both portrait and environment. The spaces carry such personality and individuality that they may be seen as human--each room has led a full life. On the other hand, the shear scale of each work is overwhelming and causes the viewer to be swallowed up by the world of the painting--the veiwer is not just looking at the painting, but is inside it. To truly experience an Edmondson painting you must completely surrender to the work and allow your thoughts to follow whole-heartly where the painting leads. The space you will enter is impossibly powerful.

Brief Introduction: Heather McGill

The work of Heather McGill melds together tattoo imagery, the world of Alice’s wonderland, and high Victorian society. Her beautiful laser cut paper pieces are impossibly delicate, yet they present the viewer with symbols that bear a high level of permanence in the collective psyche—smoke stacks speak to the irreversible destruction of our planet, while irons and watering cans remind us of idealized domesticity. McGill’s beautiful silhouettes are both reflection of childhood fantasy and memento mori.