Reynolds Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Spiraling, a group exhibition of new and recent paintings at our Main Street location. The exhibition will open Friday, November 4, 2022 with a public reception with the artists from 5:00-7:00 pm. The show will run through December 23, 2022.
Artists included in the exhibition are: François de Asis (Aix-en-Provence, FR); Calvin Burton, Alison Hall (Brooklyn, NY); Tori Cherry(Charlottesville, VA); Corydon Cowansage, Mark Fox, Matt Phillips, Katia Santibañez, Amanda Valdez (New York, NY); Clare Grill (Queens, NY); Nick McPhail (Los Angeles, CA); and Lanecia Rouse Tinsley (Houston, TX/Richmond, VA).
Spiraling takes its title from a recent studio visit with exhibiting artist Katia Santibañez, who’s seemingly strictly abstract paintings are actually rooted in nature and the tendency of the natural world to exhibit spirals in growth patterns. The spiral of the nautilus shell, the growth pattern of flower petals and pinecones, and the spiral of the earth’s spinning on its axis are a few simple examples of the endless iterations of the spirals’ pervasiveness in life. Spiraling is also metaphoric; alluding to the “spiraling out” many of us feel after the past few years. These so-called unprecedented times have challenged and redefined our definitions of selfhood, community, and the myth that we as humans are in control of time, plans, and nature. Finally, Spiraling references the cyclical nature of styles and form in art history. Contemporary painting is defined exactly by its inability to be defined as one specific style. Paintings in the show take cues from historical movements as varied as abstract expressionism, minimalism, and mid-century pop realism. This exhibition features artists who have exhibited with the gallery for several years, newcomers, and recently rediscovered artists.
About the Artists
François de Asis
François de Asis (Aix-en-Provence, FR) is a painter working primarily en plein air, depicting natural scenes with expressive marks in bold palettes. Eschewing realism, de Asis favors compositions that reflect personal experiences and poetic reactions to the natural world. He was instrumental in the founding of the Leo Marchutz School of Painting & Drawing (Aix-en-Provence, FR) in 1972, and continues the legacy of education and style put forth by the school’s namesake.
Calvin Burton
Calvin Burton’s (Brooklyn, NY) paintings employ gestural and geometric forms, investigating and producing rhythmic narratives. His works are intended to occupy the space where the visual and physical meet, dissolving notions of aesthetic hierarchies. Burton holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) and a BA in Mathematics/Visual Arts from Brown University (Providence, RI). His works have been featured in many group exhibitions throughout the United States, including the AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum in The Bronx, New York (2011); and in solo shows at Present Company in Brooklyn, NY and Essex Flowers in New York, NY (both 2019).
Tori Cherry
Tori Cherry (Charlottesville, VA) utilizes her paintings and drawings as spaces for personal documentation, reflection, and connection. Through portraiture and still life, she highlights the paradoxical uniqueness and universality of quotidian experience. Cherry holds a dual BA in Studio Art and Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), where she was named a 2021-22 Aunspaugh Fifth-Year Fellow. Her works have been exhibited throughout the state of Virginia, including solo shows at Welcome Gallery and Studio IX in Charlottesville (2021, 2022).
Corydon Cowansage
Corydon Cowansage (New York, NY) combines graphic abstraction with trompe l’oeil figurative realism, creating paintings that play with the viewer’s perception of perspective, scale, and space. She holds an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) and a BA in Studio Art from Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY). She has participated in residencies at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (The Bronx, NY) and the Yale Norfolk School of Art at Yale University (New Haven, CT). Cowansage’s recent exhibitions include solo shows at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA (2019); Koki Arts in Tokyo, Japan (2019); Chart Gallery in New York, NY (2021); Sean Horton (Presents) in New York, NY (2022); and a forthcoming exhibition at Kaufmann Repetto in New York, NY (2023).
Mark Fox
Mark Fox (New York, NY) works across media as he navigates the malleability of paper. Through his drawings, sculptures, paintings, and installations he plays with the intersection of intention and chance, working through the concept of manipulation within intricate compositions. Fox holds an MFA in Painting from Stanford University (Stanford, CA) and a BFA from Washington University (St. Louis, MO). His works are featured in numerous public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA); and the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, among others. Fox’s recent exhibitions include solo shows at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, CA (2017); and Hiram Butler Gallery in Houston, TX (2017, 2019, 2022).
Clare Grill
Clare Grill’s (Queens, NY) abstract paintings feature energetic, gestural marks built upon richly layered compositions. Working primarily with oil paint on linen surfaces, she creates depth and movement within paintings that incorporate texture, opacity, and investigations of color. Grill has studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Skowhegan, ME), and holds an MFA from the Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and a BA from the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN). Her recent solo shows include exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery in New York, NY (2021); EXPO Chicago with Derek Eller Gallery in Chicago, IL and M+B Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (both 2022). Grill’s works are held in numerous collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art, (Minneapolis, MN); the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA); and Soho House (New York, NY).
Alison Hall
Alison Hall’s (Brooklyn, NY) practice is rooted in ritual, meditation, and repetition. Her works are captivating in their formal complexity and subtlety, presenting first as monochromatic color-field works before revealing intricate geometric patterns and rhythmic marks across her paintings’ surfaces. Hall holds an MFA in Painting from American University (Washington, DC) and a BA in Studio Art from Hollins University (Roanoke, VA). Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo shows at Galerie Gisela Clement in Bonn, Germany (2018); Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA (2019); and Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art in Knokke, Belgium (2021).
Nick McPhail
Nick McPhail (Los Angeles, CA) conveys energy, light, and space through a high-contrast palette. His oil paintings capture landscapes interrupted by houses and buildings, seamlessly bridging architecture and nature through vibrant compositions. McPhail studied at the University of Melbourne in Australia before earning a BFA from Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI). His works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo shows at Untitled_1983 in Geneva, Switzerland(2018); and Holiday and Ochi Projects in Los Angeles, CA (2018, 2020).
Matt Phillips
Matt Phillips (Brooklyn, NY) often employs fundamental elements of painting in his works: simple shapes, modulated values, and color relationships. Within his picture planes, color, shape, mark, and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky, and ultimately meaningful. Phillips holds an MFA in Painting from Boston University (Boston, MA) and a BA in Art and Art History from Hampshire College (Amherst, MA). His works have been widely exhibited in group shows both nationally and internationally. Phillips’ recent solo shows include exhibitions at Direktorenhaus Museum in Berlin, Germany (2018); Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA (2020); and The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2021).
Katia Santibañez
Katia Santibañez (New York, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist engaging with vibrant and complex structures through painting, video, drawing, printmaking, and photography. She is inspired by natural forms, and utilizes the principle of gestalt in creating works that are simultaneously energetic and meditative. Born in Paris, France, Santibañez studied microbiology and biochemistry before earning a BFA from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. Her works have been shown in group and solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally, and are held in numerous collections, including The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (both New York, NY).
Lanecia Rouse Tinsley
Lanecia Rouse Tinsley’s (Houston, TX/Richmond, VA) artistic practice is simultaneously contemplative and improvisational, exploring the communicative possibilities of materials through photography, collage, and abstract painting that point towards alternative ways for viewing and knowing the human experience. Tinsley holds a Masters of Divinity from Duke University Divinity School (Durham, NC) and a BA in Sociology from Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC). Her recent solo shows include exhibitions at Forth and Nomad Gallery in Houston, TX (2019); Chapter Gallery in Kansas City, MO (2021); and the Duke University Chapel in Durham, NC (2022).
Amanda Valdez
In her mixed media works, Amanda Valdez (New York, NY) adeptly plays formal, high art abstraction against craft-oriented methods that have historically been marked as women’s work. The physical and metaphorical integration of modernist abstraction with handcrafts that speak to domestication and decoration is both a conscious, conceptual choice, and a functional way for the artist to push her work beyond binary definitions of painting versus textile. Valdez holds an MFA from Hunter College (New York, NY) and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL). Her works have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA, Koki Arts in Tokyo, Japan, and the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY (all 2020); and The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and Denny Dimin Gallery in New York, NY (both 2021).
