REVELRY
Past exhibition
Overview
Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce REVELRY, a group exhibition opening Friday, November 18th with an artists’ reception from 6:30 to 8:30pm. This exhibition will be on view through January 7th, 2023.
REVELRY explores a fresh communion of artists Andrea Bianconi, Sara Bichão, Agnes Bourely, Mel Davis, Paul Fleming, Donald Lipski, Joe Mancuso, Anna Mavromatis, Abinadi Meza, Eduardo Portillo, and Deborah Zlotsky.
Together, these artists create an expansive environment, buzzing with stories that are both ancient and newborn. Think of the gallery as endless opportunity for endless voices to enter, bounce around, and combine, creating new sounds and new voices.
In this endless opportunity, the gallery becomes like a film—we see in three dimensions, surrounded by many narratives begging to be told. These narratives exist in the same time and space, colliding, and writing new plot lines as they go. There is an intimacy in observing the interaction between two works of art that exist in the same environment, zooming into their true characters; do they whisper to each other or do they scream? Do they fight or do they fall in love? What do you do when you witness this ever-evolving relationship? You have the unique opportunity to join in the conversation and become part of the story—part of the art.
This installation was created with the purpose of giving art life in a space, letting it roam, unrestricted by the walls of the white cube. This exhibition seeks to let its art run free, creating new lives and new relationships with each other and with the wandering viewer. Together, we celebrate our collective creation in REVELRY.
About the artists:
Andrea Bianconi lives and works in Vicenza. His body of work is composed of drawings, paintings, sculpture, video performance and public performance. His recent exhibitions include Solstice - Dialogic Drawing Experiment at the MSK Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. He was selected to participate in the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Catherine de Zegher. His solo-exhibitions and group shows include Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C.; Museu do Meio Ambiente in Rio de Janeiro; Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain; Matadero, Madrid, Spain; Film Society Lincoln Center, New York; Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM), Basilea, Svizzera; Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark; ISCP, Brooklyn, NY; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas; Volta Show, New York
Sara Bichão lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work spans experimental and clever sculpture, performance, drawings, and paintings. She received her Master in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon and in 2012 she was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, New York. Bichão was awarded the BPI Bank Prize for Painting and the prestigious Fidelidade Mundial Jovens Pintores Prize. Her recent exhibitions include Rooster Gallery, New York; Artopia Gallery, Milan; Les Gens Heureux, Copenhagen; Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon; Quadrum Gallery, Lisbon; Krypt Gallery, London; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston; Arevalo Gallery, Miami; Natural History Museum, Lisbon; Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon; and Oriente Museum, Lisbon. Bichão’s work is in the collections of Culturgest-Fidelidade Mundial, Telo de Morais Collection, Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, and ECO Collection.
Agnès Bourély lives and works in Houston, Texas. received her BA in painting; Diplôme d’Art Plastique, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Angers, France in 1986. She received a Silver Medal from The Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado 1988. Her solo exhibitions include the French Consulate State Anzoátegui, Venezuela Gallery "Colette Dubois,” 420 Rue Saint Honoré Paris, France in 2015; The Ministry of Finance Bercy in Paris, France Gibert Joseph Library, Boulevard Saint Michel in Paris, France; Gallérie Colette Dubois, 420 Rue Saint Honoré Paris, France in 2014 and Esprit d’Atelie Gallérie in Versailles, France Le Vis-à-Vis Gallérie in Paris, France in 2013.
Mel Davis grew up in Montreal, Canada. She obtained her BFA from Concordia University, (1998), and her MFA at The San Francisco Art Institute. She currently lives and works in the Bay Area. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California (2020), Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, (2017), Madison Gallery, Lo Jolla, (2016) and Olga Korper, Toronto,(2016). She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec, (2004) The Canada Council for the Arts,(2008,2014) and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, (2016).
Paul Fleming lives and works in Houston, Texas. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 1995. His solo exhibitions include Barbara Davis Gallery and Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas. His group exhibitions include Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy ; AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy ; The Art League Houston, Texas ; University of Houston, Houston, Texas and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Donald Lipski lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1973. His solo exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York; Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; American Academy, Rome, Italy; and Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria. Lipski's group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota;and the Hudson Museum, Yonkers, New York. His work has been acquired by private and museum collections including the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney, The Menil Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), among others. His awards and honors, include The Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Awards, The Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship, and The Rome Prize.
Joe Mancuso lives and works in Houston, Texas. He received his MFA from Indiana University and BFA from Colorado State University. Mancusoís solo exhibitions have included the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, with an accompanying catalogue; the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy; New York University, New York; and Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas. His group exhibitions have included the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH); Edward Albeeís Other Eye, Selections from the Albee Collection, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookeville, New York; ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas, Texas; Serio Tossi Contemporary in Florence, Italy; New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, with an accompanying catalogue; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Rotoff, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Phoenix Art Museum, School 33, Baltimore, MD, and the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, with an accompanying catalogue, and Kiyo Hagashi Gallery, Los Angeles. His works are included in a number of private and museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, El Paso Museum of Art, and the University of Houston.
Anna Mavromatis was born in Athens, Greece, studied Architecture at the University of Naples, Italy, holds a BA (Hons) from London College of Fashion - University of the Arts London, and learned and practiced printmaking at Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston. Her work has been exhibited at various venues around the world and belongs to many public and private collections and art institutions, including: Harvard Fine Art Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Muzeum Ksiaz ki Artystycznej (Book Art Museum) in Lodz, Poland, University of West England, Bristol, Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognition, invited to give talks, demonstrations and workshops (Printmaking, Rice University, Houston, TX; Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY) and her work has been included in a variety of art publications both in print and digital form.
Abinadi Meza is an artist primarily working in experimental film, video, and sound art. He received a Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome, as well as awards from the Jerome Foundation (New York/St. Paul), and National Association of Latinx Arts and Culture (San Antonio). Meza's work has been presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill; Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, Toronto; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Helicotrema Festival, Venice; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-arte Museum, Austin; Mientras Tanto Cine, Montevideo; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Radio Kinesonus, Tokyo; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, among other places.
Eduardo Portillo was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador in 1986 and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. He received a BFA in painting at the University of Houston in 2011. His work has been exhibited at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, Site 131 in Dallas, the Galveston Art Center in 2013 his exhibition with the Houston Community College was included as part of the Texas Biennial. He has been awarded artist residencies with the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas as well as the Vermont Studio Center.
Deborah Zlotsky received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA Artist Fellowships in Painting in 2012 and 2018. Zlotsky’s work is in a variety of public, private and corporate collections in the US and abroad and she has been awarded recent residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Bemis Center. She is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver. Zlotsky has a BA in art history from Yale University and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in the Hudson Valley.
REVELRY explores a fresh communion of artists Andrea Bianconi, Sara Bichão, Agnes Bourely, Mel Davis, Paul Fleming, Donald Lipski, Joe Mancuso, Anna Mavromatis, Abinadi Meza, Eduardo Portillo, and Deborah Zlotsky.
Together, these artists create an expansive environment, buzzing with stories that are both ancient and newborn. Think of the gallery as endless opportunity for endless voices to enter, bounce around, and combine, creating new sounds and new voices.
In this endless opportunity, the gallery becomes like a film—we see in three dimensions, surrounded by many narratives begging to be told. These narratives exist in the same time and space, colliding, and writing new plot lines as they go. There is an intimacy in observing the interaction between two works of art that exist in the same environment, zooming into their true characters; do they whisper to each other or do they scream? Do they fight or do they fall in love? What do you do when you witness this ever-evolving relationship? You have the unique opportunity to join in the conversation and become part of the story—part of the art.
This installation was created with the purpose of giving art life in a space, letting it roam, unrestricted by the walls of the white cube. This exhibition seeks to let its art run free, creating new lives and new relationships with each other and with the wandering viewer. Together, we celebrate our collective creation in REVELRY.
About the artists:
Andrea Bianconi lives and works in Vicenza. His body of work is composed of drawings, paintings, sculpture, video performance and public performance. His recent exhibitions include Solstice - Dialogic Drawing Experiment at the MSK Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. He was selected to participate in the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Catherine de Zegher. His solo-exhibitions and group shows include Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C.; Museu do Meio Ambiente in Rio de Janeiro; Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain; Matadero, Madrid, Spain; Film Society Lincoln Center, New York; Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM), Basilea, Svizzera; Kunsthal Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark; ISCP, Brooklyn, NY; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; Furini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas; Volta Show, New York
Sara Bichão lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Her work spans experimental and clever sculpture, performance, drawings, and paintings. She received her Master in Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon and in 2012 she was an artist-in-residence at Residency Unlimited, New York. Bichão was awarded the BPI Bank Prize for Painting and the prestigious Fidelidade Mundial Jovens Pintores Prize. Her recent exhibitions include Rooster Gallery, New York; Artopia Gallery, Milan; Les Gens Heureux, Copenhagen; Pavilhão Branco, Lisbon; Quadrum Gallery, Lisbon; Krypt Gallery, London; Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston; Arevalo Gallery, Miami; Natural History Museum, Lisbon; Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon; and Oriente Museum, Lisbon. Bichão’s work is in the collections of Culturgest-Fidelidade Mundial, Telo de Morais Collection, Figueiredo Ribeiro Collection, and ECO Collection.
Agnès Bourély lives and works in Houston, Texas. received her BA in painting; Diplôme d’Art Plastique, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Angers, France in 1986. She received a Silver Medal from The Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, Colorado 1988. Her solo exhibitions include the French Consulate State Anzoátegui, Venezuela Gallery "Colette Dubois,” 420 Rue Saint Honoré Paris, France in 2015; The Ministry of Finance Bercy in Paris, France Gibert Joseph Library, Boulevard Saint Michel in Paris, France; Gallérie Colette Dubois, 420 Rue Saint Honoré Paris, France in 2014 and Esprit d’Atelie Gallérie in Versailles, France Le Vis-à-Vis Gallérie in Paris, France in 2013.
Mel Davis grew up in Montreal, Canada. She obtained her BFA from Concordia University, (1998), and her MFA at The San Francisco Art Institute. She currently lives and works in the Bay Area. Her work has been the subject of exhibitions at Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California (2020), Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, (2017), Madison Gallery, Lo Jolla, (2016) and Olga Korper, Toronto,(2016). She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec, (2004) The Canada Council for the Arts,(2008,2014) and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Award, (2016).
Paul Fleming lives and works in Houston, Texas. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 1995. His solo exhibitions include Barbara Davis Gallery and Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas. His group exhibitions include Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy ; AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy ; The Art League Houston, Texas ; University of Houston, Houston, Texas and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Donald Lipski lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin and his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1973. His solo exhibitions include Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York; Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; American Academy, Rome, Italy; and Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria. Lipski's group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota;and the Hudson Museum, Yonkers, New York. His work has been acquired by private and museum collections including the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney, The Menil Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), among others. His awards and honors, include The Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Awards, The Academy Award of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship, and The Rome Prize.
Joe Mancuso lives and works in Houston, Texas. He received his MFA from Indiana University and BFA from Colorado State University. Mancusoís solo exhibitions have included the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, with an accompanying catalogue; the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy; New York University, New York; and Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas. His group exhibitions have included the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH); Edward Albeeís Other Eye, Selections from the Albee Collection, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookeville, New York; ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas, Texas; Serio Tossi Contemporary in Florence, Italy; New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, with an accompanying catalogue; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Rotoff, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Phoenix Art Museum, School 33, Baltimore, MD, and the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, with an accompanying catalogue, and Kiyo Hagashi Gallery, Los Angeles. His works are included in a number of private and museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, El Paso Museum of Art, and the University of Houston.
Anna Mavromatis was born in Athens, Greece, studied Architecture at the University of Naples, Italy, holds a BA (Hons) from London College of Fashion - University of the Arts London, and learned and practiced printmaking at Glassell School of Art, MFA Houston. Her work has been exhibited at various venues around the world and belongs to many public and private collections and art institutions, including: Harvard Fine Art Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Muzeum Ksiaz ki Artystycznej (Book Art Museum) in Lodz, Poland, University of West England, Bristol, Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and recognition, invited to give talks, demonstrations and workshops (Printmaking, Rice University, Houston, TX; Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY) and her work has been included in a variety of art publications both in print and digital form.
Abinadi Meza is an artist primarily working in experimental film, video, and sound art. He received a Rome Prize in Visual Art from the American Academy in Rome, as well as awards from the Jerome Foundation (New York/St. Paul), and National Association of Latinx Arts and Culture (San Antonio). Meza's work has been presented at Anthology Film Archives, New York; Blaffer Art Museum, Houston; Bogotá Experimental Film Festival; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill; Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art, Toronto; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro; Helicotrema Festival, Venice; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival; Lisbon Architecture Triennale; MAXXI, Rome; Mexic-arte Museum, Austin; Mientras Tanto Cine, Montevideo; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Radio Kinesonus, Tokyo; Sonorities Festival, Belfast; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, among other places.
Eduardo Portillo was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador in 1986 and currently lives and works in Houston, TX. He received a BFA in painting at the University of Houston in 2011. His work has been exhibited at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, Site 131 in Dallas, the Galveston Art Center in 2013 his exhibition with the Houston Community College was included as part of the Texas Biennial. He has been awarded artist residencies with the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas as well as the Vermont Studio Center.
Deborah Zlotsky received a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship and NYFA Artist Fellowships in Painting in 2012 and 2018. Zlotsky’s work is in a variety of public, private and corporate collections in the US and abroad and she has been awarded recent residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Bemis Center. She is represented by Robischon Gallery in Denver. Zlotsky has a BA in art history from Yale University and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut. She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in the Hudson Valley.
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