HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY

Kennedy Cutler and Greenbaum use digital scanning and printing techniques where Wilson and Robertson take more analog approaches to manipulate and destroy preconceptions of photographic printing. Through the use of concrete, aluminum sheets, formed acrylic and unruly chromogenic prints, all four coax, push and prod images out from the second dimension and into the third. While their inventive approaches to display take on the formal properties of abstraction, the imagery itself is surreptitiously autobiographical. Kennedy Cutler’s scans of his wife, groceries and cats, Greenbaum’s peripatetic city snapshots, Wilson’s environmental landscapes and Robertson’s performative dark room experiments bring a human element to the more apparent formalist concerns of the works.

David Kennedy-Cutler (b. 1979, Sandgate, Vermont) is a Brooklyn based artist.  He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery, New York and Nice & Fit, Berlin, and has been included in group exhibitions at The Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens; Lisa Cooley Gallery; New York, Kate Werble Gallery, New York; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Klaus von Nichtssaagend Gallery, New York; Portugal Are ‘10, Lisbon; Gallerie Michael Janssen, Berlin; and Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto. He is represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York City.

Ethan Greenbaum is a New York based artist. Selected exhibition venues include Hauser and Wirth, New York; Marlborough Chelsea, New York; KANSAS, New York; Derek Eller Gallery, New York; Circus Gallery, Los Angeles; Steven Turner, Los Angeles; The Suburban, Chicago; Michael Jon, Miami, The Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; and Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. a group exhibition at Brand New Gallery, Milan. He is represented by KANSAS gallery in New York City.

Mariah Robertson was born in 1975 and grew up in California. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has exhibited widely at public and private institutions including XL/19 Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art; Mariah Robertson, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, UK; Greater New York, MoMA/PS1, NY (catalogue); Mariah Robertson, Grand Arts, MO (booklet) and Out of Focus at The Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue). Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY and the LA County Museum of Art, CA and featured in an ongoing documentary for Art21 titled New York Close Up. Mariah Robertson is represented by American Contemporary in New York City.

Letha Wilson received her BFA from Syracuse University, and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. Letha’s artwork has been shown at many venues including Art in General, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, International Center for Photography, and the Essl Museum of Contemporary Art (Austria). She is represented by Higher Pictures in New York City.