THE NEIGHBORS
May 1st– 29th, 2021.
Open Saturday and Sunday 1:00-5:30pm.
A group exhibition featuring Sam Bornstein, Daniel Davidson, Pablo Mariano Diaz, Maggie Ellis, and Seung-Min Lee.
Who let these people in here, anyway? The Catskills presents The Neighbors, a group exhibition of 5 artists whose subjects are characters that are complicated and idiosyncratic rather than ideals of beauty or virtue. In kind, the artists forgo illusion in favor of drawing and materiality that excavates character, foregrounding the hand in the work. Humor and compassion alternate in paintings and drawings that embrace ambiguities of space, persona, and description.
Sam Bornstein (b.1983) Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Sam Bornstein has shown regionally and internationally. His 2018 solo show at Charles Moffett Gallery was reviewed in Timeout New York and Artforum. Selected group exhibitions include: Bass & Reiner, San Francisco (2020), Freight & Volume, New York (2020), Embajada, San Juan (2019), Alta, Malmö (2019), Contra Gallery, Zagreb (2018), Galerie Moderne Silkeborg, Silkeborg (2018), Honey Ramka, New York (2018), and the Marina Tsvetaeva Museum, Moscow (2013).
Daniel Davidson (b.1965) Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Daniel Davidson has shown regionally and internationally since 1989. Solo and 2 person exhibitions include: Magic Kingdom, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark (2013), Daniel Davidson: Double Feature, Mulherin Pollard, New York, NY (2012), Daniel Davidson, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France, [two-person exhibition with Eric White] , Daniel Davidson, Galerie Schuster, Frankfort, Germany, [two-person exhibition with Tricia Keightley](2007), Daniel Davidson: Warning Signs, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York (2006).
Maggie Ellis (b.1991) lives and works in New York, NY.
Maggie Ellis is a New York City-based painter. She received her MFA from Hunter College in 2017, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017. Solo exhibitions include: Rosebud, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY (2019), and Piss Ant, At Large, Brooklyn, NY (2018.
Pablo Mariano Diaz (b.1983, Cuba) lives and works in New York, NY.
Pablo Mariano Diaz (born in Camagüey Cuba) is a New York based artist, recently graduated from the Hunter College MFA program. He is a current resident of the Hercules Art Studio Program and had his debut solo exhibition at Underdonk Gallery in January 2021. The artist has a BFA from the Cooper Union, and has lived in New York City since 1995.
Seung-Min Lee (b. 1981) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Selected exhibitions and performances include: Light White, International Waters, Brooklyn, 2021; TedTalks iChicken, “MoMA Downtown”, New York, 2020; Freeport: Kim Jong Un Liberation Art, Hauser and Wirth, New York, 2020; Kim Jong Un: Spring Awakening on the Pacific Rim, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles, 2019; Popular Revolt, iRape : Brett Kavanaugh's SoulCycle, NYU Skirball Center, New York, 2019; Intolerable Whiteness, The Kitchen, New York, 2018; On Whiteness, The Kitchen, New York, 2018; Kim Jong Un presents Global World Karaoke Championships, NADA NY, New York, 2018; #themalso?, Performance Space New York, New York, 2018; Full Disclosure: A History of Personal Racial Macro and Microaggressions, Highline, New York, 2017; Dialectical Behavioral Therapy to Internally Smash the Patriarchy, Racism, Ageism, Classism, & Bad Manners to Win Friends, $etc., Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, 2017; Workout Prototype for an anti-racist, classist, misogynist, Woke New World, Present Company, Brooklyn, 2017; Informed Consent Dual Agency Open House Karaoke, More Art, New York, 2016; Price of Admission: Let’s Not Gentrify Chinatown, But Say We Did?, Essex Flowers, New York, 2016; Memory Palace, Alisa Baremboym and Seung-Min Lee, Luxembourg and Dayan, New York, 2015; Women, Inc., Artists Space, New York, 2015; On Discipline, Regina Rex, New York, 2015; End Of The Night Café II, Kim Jong Un Hacks Chipotle, David Lewis Gallery, New York, 2015; Sing’s Millennium Mart, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, 2015.
Please direct all inquires to thecatskillsgallery@gmail.com