Erin Murray, "Fight, flight, freeze", 2022, shellac ink and graphite on paper, 12 x 8.5 inches (framed dimensions 17 x 13 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches)
Molly Metz, "As Always", 2021, Acrylic paint, marker, crayon, newsprint, oil pastel, on canvas, 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches. Photo courtesy Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, Claire Iltis
Molly Metz, "As Always (back of painting)", 2021, Acrylic paint, marker, crayon, newsprint, oil pastel, on canvas, 25 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches. Photo courtesy Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, Claire Iltis
Kati Gegenheimer, "Intermission", 2021, acrylic on panel, 24 x 18 inches
Erin Murray, "Outlier", 2022, shellac ink and graphite on paper, 12 x 8.5 inches (framed dimensions 17 x 13 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches)
Erin Murray, "Neuroception", 2022, shellac ink and graphite on paper, 12 x 8.5 inches (framed dimensions 17 x 13 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches)
Molly Metz, "Not Even Like", 2021, Acrylic paint, marker, crayon, newsprint, oil pastel, on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. Photo courtesy Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, Claire Iltis
Molly Metz, "Not Even Like (back of painting)", 2021, Acrylic paint, marker, crayon, newsprint, oil pastel, on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. Photo courtesy Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, Claire Iltis
Erin Murray, "Mask Quest", 2022, shellac ink and graphite on paper, 12 x 8.5 inches (framed dimensions 17 x 13 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches)
Kati Gegenheimer, "Make Your Own Luck: Reflect", 2022, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Kati Gegenheimer, "Luck Loop", 2021, oil on panel, variable heart, 28 inches (height)
Molly Metz, "Voice on the Left, Voice on the Right", 2021, Acrylic paint, marker, crayon, oil pastel, grip tape, newsprint, on canvas, 22 9/16 x 22 1/2 inches. Photo courtesy Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, Claire Iltis
Molly Metz, "Voice on the Left, Voice on the Right (back of painting)", 2021, Acrylic paint, marker, crayon, oil pastel, grip tape, newsprint, on canvas, 22 9/16 x 22 1/2 inches. Photo courtesy Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, Claire Iltis
Erin Murray, "Fawn (Ass Kiss)", 2022, shellac ink and graphite on paper, 12 x 8.5 inches (framed dimensions 17 x 13 1/2 x 1 3/8 inches)
Kati Gegenheimer, "Make Your Own Luck: Repeat", 2022, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Reveries
Group Exhibition: Kati Gegenheimer, Molly Metz, Erin Murray
October 6 - November 10, 2022
For Peep’s inaugural exhibition in it’s new location, “Reveries” brings together three Philadelphia-based artists, Erin Murray, Molly Metz and Kati Gegenhiemer. Erin Murray’s richly layered ink and graphite drawings account for things like observed tactility, weighted details, and the influence of reverie on our perception. These new works encourage us to slow down, examine the subtleties of our experience, and to recognize ourselves within our surroundings. Molly Metz’s populated and collaged paintings bring to mind the complexity of existence from the cellular to the astronomical, from the terrestrial to the aquatic, and the nooks and crannies in-between. Metz’s paintings hold secret surprises—embedded texts, process-oriented sketches in paint, and other media on the reverse of their supports. Kati Gegenheimer’s diaristic paintings engage color, pattern, decoration, and symbolism. Acting as love letters to the present, Gegenheimer’s paintings hold romance, sentimentality, and play the way a mirror holds a note in lipstick or a window holds a note in breath.
Reveries at Peep Projects: Wordless Symmetries, Title Magazine, Todd Stong, November 8, 2022
Kati Gegenheimer (b.1984 in Langhorne, PA) lives and works in Philadelphia. Gegenheimer received her BFA in Printmaking and Art History from Tyler School of Art in 2007 and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art in 2013. Gegenheimer’s solo exhibition, Stars Align was on view at Gross McCleaf, in Philadelphia, PA in 2021 and was written about in Title Magazine by photographer Michael Marcelle. She has a solo exhibition opening this winter at North Orange in Montclair, NJ. Recent group exhibitions include 2 Gather at Studio E Gallery, Seattle, WA; A Gathering at The Catskills, New York, NY; and Good Pictures curated by Austin Lee at Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY. She has been a Pollock-Krasner Residency Recipient at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY and was an artist in residence at the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in Granville, NY this past summer.
Molly Metz (b. 1992 in Bethlehem, PA) lives and works in Philadelphia. Metz has a BA from Kutztown University (2014) and an MFA (painting) from Tyler School of Art (2016). Close Closer (2021) is her first solo show with Fleisher/Ollman. She has had solo exhibitions at Day Space, Philadelphia and Friends Indeed, San Francisco. Metz has been featured in group exhibitions at Fjord, Pilot Projects, Woodmere Art Museum, and Space 1026 (all in Philadelphia) and YUI Gallery, New York.
Erin Murray (1979, Philadelphia, PA) lives and works in Philadelphia. Murray earned a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has since exhibited widely in cities across the country, most recently at Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), HOLDING Contemporary (Portland, OR), Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) and Harpy Gallery (Rutherford, NJ). She was a 2020/21 Drawing Center Viewing Program participant, and in 2018 was honored with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Previously she has been awarded the West Collects acquisition prize, the Fleisher Wind Challenge Exhibition Grant and a Center for Emerging Visual Artists fellowship. Her work has been featured in Dovetail Magazine, New American Paintings and the just released Drawing Stall Book. Murray recently spent five years as a member of the artist-run collective Vox Populi in Philadelphia, the city where she lives and works with her partner and two young sons.