Raft of Sanity & Garvey|Simon at Future Fair

Future Fair May 4–6, 2022 raftofsanity. com garveysimon.com Raft of Sanity

Garvey | Simon

1255 Niagara Street, FL 2 Buffalo, NY 14213

865 West End Avenue New York, NY 10025

On View

Roberley Bell + Sandy Litchfield Recognizing a shared formal language, these two artists engage in an ongoing conversation about landscape and the natural world. This exhibition pairs unexpected colors and distinctive compositions in both painting and sculpture, suggesting the ordinary (and extraordinary) nature of being in place.

Installation View, Bell + Litchfield

Perfect Pairs

FUTURE FAIR 2022

Sculptures in all manner of material (wood, ceramic, plaster, and bronze) find their perfect compliment posed next to lush gouaches and oils.

A shared sensibility and reverence for the natural landscape is expressed through harmonious choices of color and form.

Each use of media effortlessly captures the wonder and calm our environment inspires.

ROBERLEY BELL

A View Inside Roberley Bell's Studio

Artist Biography Roberley Bell is inspired by nature and time. Her practice draws on the world around her, in particular the scrutiny of nature and the built environment. Bell has had numerous residencies including the Cite International in Paris, Stadt Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria, The International Studio Program, NYC and Sculpture Space, Utica NY. Bell’s work has been exhibited internationally, including, Alan Gallery Istanbul, Medea Gallery Malmö, Sweden, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Black and White Gallery Brooklyn. She has completed public projects in cities internationally, including, Istanbul,Turkey; Kaliningrad, Russia; Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cambridge and Cleveland. She has participated in several art fairs, including Art Miami, Scope New York and Contemporary Art Istanbul.

Bell is the recipient of numerous fellowships including awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, a Pollock Krasner Fellowship, and a Senior Scholar Fulbright to Turkey. As a Fulbright Specialist Bell has been leading walking workshops internationally. Workshops have been held in Sharjah, UAE; Istanbul, Turkey and Malmö, Sweden. Her book Do You Know This tree? Published by Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York is the cumulation of a tenyear walking project in Istanbul.

SANDY LITCHFIELD

Sandy Litchfield installing her mural The Tree Inside Me, inside the lobby of PS14X, an elementary school in the Bronx. Funded by Public Art for Public Schools NYC, the only public art program dedicated to schools in the country

Artist Biography Sandy Litchfield uses a range of painterly mediums in her work along with collage and digital imagery. Her process involves gathering and piecing together fragments of collected imagery, which she then assembles into various configurations until they begin to make sense as a compositional whole. Her method of layering imagery, cutting, drawing, tearing, painting, scanning, printing and gluing obscures the distinctions between the mechanical image and the handmade. The fractured and rebuilt landscapes she creates are suggestive of a damaged place with fertile remains.

Born in New York, NY, Litchfield currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts where she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts. Litchfield received her BFA from the University of Colorado in Boulder and her MFA in 2003 from UMass Amherst. In 2007 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums including the DeCordova Museum, The Portland Art Museum and The Hunterdon Museum. Litchfield is a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship and the Puffin Foundation Artists Grant Award. She’s had solo exhibitions at Garvey|Simon, New York, NY, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, Metaphor Contemporary Art in Brooklyn as well as several New England Colleges. Her work has been selected for review by The Brooklyn Rail, New American Paintings and The Boston Globe.

PUBLIC ART Both Roberley Bell and Sandy Litchfield each have extensive experience with large scale public work, receiving commissions from museums, public and privately held companies, and individuals.

FUTURE FAIR 2022 Locus Amoenus, by Roberley Bell for The Albright Knox Art Gallery at Tift Nature Preserve, Buffalo, NY

“Forestation Syncopation” (2021) by Sandy Litchfield at New Hyde Park for the MTA

GALLERIES FUTURE FAIR 2022

RAFT OF SANITY raftofsanity.com Elisabeth Samuels Director elisabeth@raftofsanity.com 716.984.9572

Emily Tucker Director emily@raftofsanity.com 716.553.8483

GARVEY | SIMON garveysimon.com Elizabeth Garvey Co-founder and Director

Catherine G. Simon, Co-founder and collector

A Shared Mission Collaboration, perseverance, and dedication are key parts of each Gallery's history and identity. Each of the women involved in this joint proposal have spent their entire professional lives working tirelessly for the artists they champion, always with the aim of making exceptional, smart, contemporary art accessible and available to the broadest audience possible.

Learn More About the Artists Featured in our Booth SANDY LITCHFIELD Click to Access: WEBSITE | CV

ROBERLEY BELL Click to Access: WEBSITE | CV

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1255 Niagara Street Buffalo, NY 14213

865 West End Avenue New York, NY 10025

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