BRG Summer Series III: Jeffrey Hirst & Marco Querin

BRG SUMMER SERIES AUGUST 7 -29

Jeffrey Hirst & Marco Querin

JEFFREY HIRST

Jeffrey was awarded a 2019 Artist Residency from Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Co Mayo, Ireland

Chicago, IL

Jeffrey Hirst has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe since 1990. He holds an MFA from Louisiana State University and a BFA from the University of Minnesota. His work has been showcased at national and international venues including the Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Holter Museum, Helen, Montana; Addington Gallery, Chicago, McKinney Contemporary, Dallas, McLean Project for the Art, McLean, VA, and Bienal do Douro, Portugal.

Hirst has been a visiting artist at universities around the United States conducting painting and printmaking workshops and has taught workshops at NCSW-Bennington College in VT, Arrowmont School for the Arts in TN, Truro Center for the Arts in MA, Cullowhee Mountain Arts in NC, and has been an annual presenter at the International Encaustic Conference in MA. Hirst is the owner of Hirst Printmaking, a printmaking shop specializing in intaglio, hybrid processes, screenprinting, and experimental approaches towards combining printmaking and painting. In 2005, Hirst pioneered the process of combining silkscreen and encaustic painting and has conducted workshops on the process throughout the United States.

Hirst is a recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board grant, the DCASE City of Chicago Individual Artist grant and was awarded a fellowship residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in County Mayo, Ireland.

His work is in numerous public and private collections including Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Arcstone Technologies, Grant Thornton International, Great River Energy, SAP America, and Southern Graphics Council.

“My belief is that we create to answer questions that we might have about the world and how our piece fits into the puzzle.”

FADE AWAY VIEW Encaustic on shaped panel 57 x 57 in. $10,600

MUTED STRUCTURAL FLIGHT Encaustic on shaped panel 39 x 37 in. $5,000

PATTERNS & PLACES Encaustic on shaped panel 45 x 40 in. $5,800

BLAZE Encaustic on shaped panel 29 x 26 in. $3,000

FAZER Encaustic on shaped panel 12 x 12 in. $1,200

RIBCAGE Encaustic on shaped panel 12 x 12 in. $1,200

MARCO QUERIN

Marco recently held a solo exhibition of his series Observing Multiculturalism at Galery 924 in Indianapolis

Indianapolis, IN

Marco Querin is a former resident of Milano, Italy and therefore grew up in one of the world’s most renowned regions for fashion, visual art and architectural design. His fondest childhood memory is the way the light would cast rays across his home’s furniture, rugs and other accessories, breaking up the colors and creating new images to ponder. Querin’s father made art and influenced Marco’s exploration of materials and making. He first experimented with the use of various natural materials such as poppy seeds, cinnamon powder, saffron and vanilla tea. Eventually embracing the influence of the textile industry in Northern Italy, Querin settled on the use of fiber as his primary medium.

Querin imprints his demands on his materials, looking for three-dimensional solutions for his world of ideas.

His extroversion of the traditional canvas is conveyed through a mixed use of fabrics, textiles (thin cottons or silks, thick and rustic wools or rope) and even household materials (PCV tubing, copper, wire) create abstract compositions of color fields, geometric design elements in his own formal language - a nod to the aesthetics and expressions of ground breaking artists such as Mondrian, Kandinsky, and Agnes Martin.

Notable recent exhibitions include: La Calerta, Oaxaca, Mexico (2019); Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (2018, 2016), Kuaba Gallery, Indianapolis, IN (2015); Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK (2013); East Wing X, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK (2012); Kunstart 12, Bolzano, Italy (2012); Associazione Culturale Seragiotto ‐ Padua, Italy (2011); India Art Summit, Stark Projects, New Delhi (2011).

“Long ago I taught myself an elementary way to control time ‐ blink once to pause my life, and blink again to restart it. It was a simple escape mechanism permitting me to avoid pain. My blinking method evolved and I started to actually focus on each slice of time itself, rather than on what may have happened before or might happen after them."

my good deeds don't need an audience Wool, cotton, plastic 24 x 24 in.

SOLD

difficult transitions Cotton, cashmere, wool 23 x 13 in.

SOLD

observing multiculturalism - policy making with minorities in mind Wool, pvc, cowhide on cellophane 35 x 35 in. $3,600

observing multiculturalism - my family was persecuted for our religious beliefs and even here and now we are considered a threat Wool, pvc 24 x 24 in. $2,400

underneath it all,thoughts are just as bare Alpaca, nylon 22 x 22 in. $2,400

self sabotage in manifestation Synthetic fiber, alpaca, merino wool, rowing on canvas 36 x 36 in. $3,600

BRG SUMMER SERIES I. CAITLIN CARTWRIGHT & GAVIN BANJAMIN GALLERY HOP EXHIBITION RECEPTION: JUNE 5, 1-5 PM ON VIEW: JUNE 5 - 27 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION AVAILABLE THROUGH JULY 31

II. RICHARD LILLASH & ERIKA STEARLY GALLERY HOP EXHIBITION RECEPTION: JULY 3, 1-5 PM ON VIEW: JULY 3 - AUGUST 1 VIRTUAL EXHIBITION AVAILABLE THROUGH AUGUST 31

III. JEFFREY HIRST & MARCO QUERIN GALLERY HOP EXHIBITION RECEPTION: AUGUST 7, 1-5 PM ON VIEW: AUGUST 7 - 29

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