106 Green is pleased to present MAYBE I’M DOING IT WRONG, featuring Elizabeth Bonaventura, Allison Evans, Ryan Falkowitz, Stacy Fisher, Justin Q Martin and Sara Greenberger Rafferty. The show is curated by Jon Lutz and will run from June 18th to July 17th, 2016. An opening reception will be held June 18th from 6-8 pm. Gallery hours are Sundays 12-5 pm.
MAYBE I’M DOING IT WRONG brings together artists that deal with finding out how their work is useful in the world where when self-awareness and self-doubt exist at the same time. These works can be simultaneously decisive and disjointed; generative and critical. In the attempt to communicate things uncomfortable and unknown, they expose our own goofy, dark, bland, and mysterious human patterns.
Elizabeth Bonaventura was born in Long Island, New York and received a BFA at Moore College of Art, in Philadelphia and an MFA from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2012, she received a NYFA grant in Painting. She has shown at Schroeder Romero & Shredder Gallery in New York; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; PS122 Gallery, NY; Gallery at the Educational Alliance, NY; Art in General, NY; Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Allison Evans was born in New Haven, CT and currently lives/works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH and an MFA from Hunter College in NYC. Evans’s work has been exhibited at Buia Gallery, Edward Thorp Gallery, and 106 Green, among other venues.
Ryan Falkowitz is an artist working in a variety of media. In 2012 he was commissioned to produce a group of 33 boxes for a limited edition novella published by Smith and Brown which were created for the exhibition : Matthew Lusk More Broken Glass Than There Was Window at Zieher Smith Gallery, NY (September 6th- October 6th, 2012). He was a contributing artist for De Tribus Impostorbius by Victoria Miguel, which was presented in Triple Canopy, Issue 8 (2010). His work is also featured in Invalid Format : An Anthology of Triple Canopy Volume 2, published by the Sternberg Press (2012). Ryan currently lives and works in Ridgewood, NY.
Stacy Fisher studied sculpture at The Cleveland Institute of Art and The Ohio State University. She has received fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Chautauqua School of Art. Her work has been shown recently in New York City at Bravin Lee Programs, Underdonk, Orgy Park, and Ortega y Gasset Projects. She is currently a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Process Space program.
Justin Q Martin lives and works in Brooklyn. He graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art and Cornell University. He has participated in shows at Gallery Rene Mele and Underdonk and has had a solo show at Sardine in Brooklyn.
Sara Greenberger Rafferty has exhibited widely since 2001, including solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College, Massachusetts; The Suburban, Illinois. In 2014, she participated in the Whitney Biennial; the Hammer Biennial; and had solo exhibitions in Portland, Oregon, Riga, Latvia, and New York. In 2015, her work has been part of exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center in Georgia, and Galerie Andreas Huber in Vienna. She is represented by Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York.
title image by Jon Lutz