Amie Cunat, A Bit of Jupiter, 2022, flashe on canvas, 11 x 14 inches
Amie Cunat, Teenage Feeling, 2022, flashe on canvas, 11 x 14 inches
Austin Eddy, The Seas Struggle With Winter Winds, 2019, oil, flashe, colored pencil, cardboard on silk screen in artist's frame, 13.25 x 17.25 inches
Katarina Riesing, Reclining Nude, 2019, dye on silk crepe de chine, 18 x 16.5 inches
Mark Gibson, Cool Ranch White Trash, 2022, collage and ink on paper, 22 x 30 inches
Sarah Pater, Gloaming (oyster and glass of water, relief), 2021, oil and wax with relief on linen, 12 x 16 inches
Katarina Riesing, True Love, 2018, dye on raw silk, 20 x 17 inches
Not Always What They Seem
Group Exhibition: Amie Cunat, Austin Eddy, Mark Gibson, Sarah Pater, and Katarina Riesing
June 13 - Aug 15, 2021
For Peep’s summer group show, five artists are brought together whose works reveal deeper meanings through symbolism, biomorphic shapes, emotive color and subversive imagery. Amie Cunat’s work confronts familiarity by exaggerating or omitting characteristics from an observed source. Cunat’s vivid and colorful canvases are filled with swirling biomorphic shapes, appearing like licks of flames, tangles of vegetal growth, and decorative paisleys. Austin Eddy’s vibrant painting of birds presents a way to understand the strain engrossed in the human experience—whether we are caged, soaring through the sky, or something in between. Mark Thomas Gibson's work reveals a vision of a satirical, dystopian America where every viewer is implicated as a potential character within our shared narrative. Sarah Pater’s paintings reveal familiar scenes rendered strange—the quotidian turning otherworldly, sometimes terrifyingly so. At first glance Katarina Riesing’s dyed paintings on stretched silk and colored pencil drawings betray an infatuation with laborious detail and rich material, but the insistence on close croppings, and awkward, unsightly I or uncomfortably erotic aspects of the body, reveal surreptitious squirming.
Amie Cunat (b. McHenry, IL) is currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Cunat received her MFA from Cornell University, Post-Baccalaureate in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Visual Arts and Art History from Fordham University. She was a 2021 recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work. She has had recent exhibitions at Lightwell Gallery (University of Oklahoma), Dinner Gallery (New York, NY), Peep (Philadelphia, PA), Shaker Museum (Mount Lebanon, NY), and Victori + Mo (Brooklyn, NY).
Austin Eddy (b. Boston, Massachusetts) is a painter currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. After graduating from the Art Institute in Chicago in 2009, Eddy spent several years living and working in Chicago before moving to NYC. Eddy has had recent exhibitions at Baldwin Gallery (Marfa, TX), 12.26 (Dallas, TX), Eva Presenhuber (New York, NY), Berggruen (New York, NY), Frestonian Gallery (London, UK), and Bergruen Gallery (San Francisco, CA) amongst others.
Mark Thomas Gibson (b. Miami, FL) is currently living and working in Philadelphia, PA. Gibson received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2002 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2013. He is represented by M+B in Los Angeles and Loyal in Stockholm. Gibson has released two artist books, Some Monsters Loom Large (2016) and Early Retirement (2017). Gibson has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, and has been awarded the Pew Fellowship from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in Philadelphia, PA, the Hodder Fellowship from the Lewis Center for the Arts in Princeton, NJ, and most recently a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in NY, NY. In October 2021 he had his most recent solo exhibition Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood at M+B in Los Angeles.
Sarah Pater (b. Wilmington, DE) is a painter based in Philadelphia, PA. Her work blurs the aesthetics of boredom and attention with office-leisure-domestic design, daily experiences, and painting tropes. Her paintings have been included in exhibitions at Taymour Grahne, London; Orgy Park, Brooklyn; Brennan & Griffin, New York; FJORD, Philadelphia; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; RISD Museum, Providence, among others. She has been awarded residencies at the Lighthouse Works, the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation, and the Ora Lerman Charitable Trust. She received an M.F.A. in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and a B.F.A. from Boston University.
Katarina Riesing (b. Knoxville, TN) is a painter currently living and working in Detroit, MI. She received a BA from Smith College and an MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin. She is currently represented by Asya Geisberg Gallery in NY, NY and Bertrand Productions in Philadelphia, PA. She has had solo shows at Asya Geisberg gallery and NADA Art Fair (NY) and recent group shows at Essex Flowers (NY), Kristen Lorello Gallery (NY), Bertrand Productions (PA), Adult Contemporary (TN) and Untitled Art Fair, Miami. She has two upcoming shows at Ithaca College and University of Tennessee Knoxville. Riesing has been awarded residencies at the Saltonstall Foundation (NY) and Haystack Mountain School (ME) among others.