Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez

DORON LANGBERG

GABY COLLINS-FERNANDEZ

DORON LANGBERG GABY COLLINS-FERNANDEZ November 20 - December 23, 2015

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DORON LANGBERG ARTIST STATEMENT My work is about closeness — closeness to the surface of my paintings, to my subjects, and to the viewer. I paint my lovers, my friends, and the spaces and objects that surround me. In my process, I search for affinities between experiences that I’ve had and textures, marks, or color relationships. The various ways I touch the surface of the painting articulate my relationship to the image and shape its emotional narrative. I see my paintings as a conduit between the viewer and myself, through which my experiences become theirs.

I focus on love and desire in my work because they are both fundamental human experiences, but also what mark me as different. The sense that the social structure I live in was never intended to include my form of sexuality compels me to communicate my experiences in a way that others could empathize with. By foregrounding color, gesture, and the tactility of paint, I try to create a connection with a viewer that speaks to the shared sensations of the bodies we inhabit rather than the social categories that constrict us.

Seen as a whole, my practice engages different aspects of my life, ranging from the deeply personal to the everyday, creating textured emotional worlds that encompass a variety of experiences. Coming from a distinctively queer perspective, I want my work to speak of things we all share, such as friendship, intimacy, and pleasure.

Tom, 2014 oil on linen 60 x 50 inches

Tom #2, 2015 oil on linen 55 x 70 inches

Mark and Aubrey, 2015 oil on linen 80 x 40 inches

Tyler, 2015 oil on linen 35 x 45 inches

Drifting Off, 2014 oil on linen 70 x 55 inches

Gray Umbrella, 2014 oil on linen 45 x 60 inches

Gaby Julia and Amy, 2015 oil on linen 60 x 70 inches

Sleep, 2014 oil on linen 50 x 70 inches

Amy, 2015 oil on linen 18 x 24 inches

Julia, 2015 oil on linen 18 x 24 inches

Jarrett, 2015 oil on linen 18 x 24 inches

Window, 2014 oil on linen 24 x 35 inches

Gaby, 2015 oil on linen 18 x 24 inches

GABY COLLINS-FERNANDEZ ARTIST STATEMENT My paintings are representative of an interest in the intersection of material and image. One reason I’ve been working with crushed velvet is that it is very optical -- it creates a field which at once refers to the use of the fabric in the world (and with crushed velvet, that goes often to garments, curtains, costumes) and also creates an optically charged surface which functions as a contrast to the gestural, textural, and textual space of the painted elements of the work. The other fabrics I use also tend toward a painterly, optical space through transparency and patterning.

This is similar to how I choose the text for the work, as everyday words or phrases that feel spoken rather than written. Often the words are found in my day to day interactions with others, overheard within the urban clutter and movement of New York, and they seek to introduce a colloquial gesture in the paintings that point to both subject matter and the trace of a speaker. My experience with visual and emotional structure in life is that of overlay, of interfering structures of content, as in watching the variedly casual and intimate experiences of strangers in the city, or understanding from the visual cues of demeanor and appearance the huge differences of intention, desires, lifestyle, and opinion of a row of people sitting together on the subway. These fragments point to the systems they describe, but taken together one atop the other, they produce a density of emotion and meaning which I am interested in reproducing in the paintings.

Blue Velvet LIKE A FACE TOUCH GAZE, 2014 oil paint on fabric 21 x 16 inches

Blue Velvet SMILE HUNNI, 2014 oil and spray paint on fabric 14 x 22 inches

Yellow Spiral TO BE A MAN..., 2014 oil and acrylic paint on linen 21 x 16 inches

Blue Velvet SURE THING, 2015 oil paint on linen 21 x 16 inches

Blue Velvet DON’T SCREAM 2014 oil and acrylic paint, fabric on linen 21 x 16 inches

Blue Velvet UNFINISHED MOM, 2014 crushed blue velvet 23 x 16 inches

DREAMS BRING HOPES, 2014 oil and acrylic paint on fabric 24 x 17 inches

Blue Velvet LITE TOUCH, 2014 oil paint on fabric 21 x 16 inches

DREAMS BRING HOPES, 2014 oil and acrylic paint on fabric 24 x 17 inches

Red Velvet 2IN1 BODY, 2014 oil and acrylic paint on fabric 21 x 16 inches

DORON LANGBERG Born in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, 1985 Lives and works in Queens, NY

2011

It’s Hot Inside, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

Romantic Agony, Horton Gallery, New York, NY

EDUCATION 2012

MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2010

BFA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, summa cum laude

2010

Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), Philadelphia, PA

SELECTED HONORS 2015

Queer Art Mentoring Program

NYFA Painting Fellowship - Finalist

Asylum Art Retreat

2011

The Schoelkopf Travel Prize, Yale University

The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2015

Earnest, Jarrett, “What’s Love Got to Do With It? Gaby Collins-Fernandez and Doron Langberg,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2015, pp. 34-36.

Keeting, Zachary and Christopher Joy, Interview for Gorky’s Granddaughter, September 27, 2015.

Neal, Patrick, “8 Figurative Painters in an Atemporal World,” Hyperallergic, March 4, 2015.

2014

2013

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015

Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Danese/ Corey, New York, NY

8 Painters, Danese/Corey, New York, NY

Improvised Showboat #5, curated by Lauren Britton & Zachary Keeting, New York, NY

2014

You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, Project 68, Berlin, Germany Nighttime in New York, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany

Do the Yale Thing, N’Namdi Center For Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI

2013

Corpus Americus, Driscoll Babcock, New York, NY

Diff’rent Strokes, Louis B. James, New York, NY

Andrew Robinson/ Doron Langberg/ Kyle Coniglio, Anna Kustera Gallery,New York, NY

Deep Cuts, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, NY

2012

2012

The Dorian Project, Second Guest Projects & Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY Lost and Found, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI

Britton, Lauren. Interview for Fields Projects Hasset, Christopher. “Corpus Americus at Driscoll Babcock,” NY Arts Magazine, January 2, 2014.

Shukeylo, Anna. “Andrew Cornell Robinson, Doron Langberg, Kyle Coniglio,” Artcritical, May 1, 2013.

Staff, “Three NYC Group Shows To See This February,” NY Arts Magazine, February 5, 2013.

Drake, Colin. “Found: Compelling New Art Center in Detroit,” Huffpost Detroit, April 30, 2012.

Cohen, David. A Titan or a Toy: Picturing Dorian Gray, exhibition catalog, p. 7.

2011

Lubin-Levy, Joshua and Carlos Motta. Petite Mort– Recollection of a Queer Public, pp. 64-65.

“Editor’s Selections,” New American Paintings MFA Issue, pp. 170-173.

Haunted, Louis B. James, New York, NY

Eyes Off the Flag, Motus Fort Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2015

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Adjunct Professor in Foundations

Anderson Ranch, Painting Workshop

2013-15 Montclair State University, Adjunct Professor in the Painting Dept.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA

GABY COLLINS-FERNANDEZ Lives and works in Queens, NY

EDUCATION

Yale MFA Thesis Show, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

Romantic Minimalism, curated by Florencia Escudero, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2010

Perspectives on Design Award Show, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth Collage, Hanover, NH

Names for Parts that Ought To Be Inseparable, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH

2009

Senior Majors Exhibition, Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Gallery, Dartmouth Collage, Hanover, NH

2012

M.F.A., Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, Painting/Printmaking

2009

B.A., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Studio Art, cum laude

SELECTED HONORS 2015

Artist in Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

2013

Rema Hort Mann Foundation 2013 Visual Art Grant Award, NY

2012

Ralph Mayer Prize for Materials and Techniques, Yale School of Art

2011

Yale-Norfolk Teaching Fellowship, Norfolk, CT

2009

Marcus Heiman–Martin R. Rosenthal ’56 Award for Excellence in Studio Art

Dartmouth College Department of Studio Art Perspectives on Design Award

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015

Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Danese/ Corey, New York, NY

Cut N’ Mix: Contemporary Collage, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

2014

Improvised Showboat #2, curated by Lauren Britton & Zachary Keeting, NY

Night Tide, curated by Jarrett Earnest, Diet Gallery, Miami FL

The Whitney Houston Biennial, curated by C. Finley, Brooklyn, NY

Do the Yale Thing, Nnamdi Center, Detroit MI Paintingwall (Janus at 8:16), Touch Gallery, Cambridge, MA

4 Who Paint, Valentine Gallery, Queens, NY

2013

Come Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1, The Benefit of Friends Coming Together, Industry City, NY

SWEAR: New Work by Gaby Collins-Fernandez, A.p.A.I. Casa dell’Arte, Ravenna

2012

First Annual Alumni Invitational Show, Dartmouth College, NH

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Collins Fernandez, Gaby. Sensitive Surfaces, catalog essay for Evan Nesbit: / ˈkaɪˑæzəm. Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Culver City CA. Lowery, Glenn. “Glenn Lowery with Joachim Pissarro, Gaby CollinsFernandez, and David Carrier,” Brooklyn Rail, May 6, 2015.

Collins Fernandez, Gaby. New Objects by Amy Giovanna Rinaldi, Sushi Bar Gallery, Sushi Bar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Collins Fernandez, Gaby. “On Frederick Edwin Church,” Painters on Painting, March 9, 2015 < http://paintersonpaintings. com/2015/03/09/gaby-collins-fernandez-on-frederick-edwin-church/>.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition: Doron Langberg Gaby Collins-Fernandez Danese/Corey, New York, NY November 20 - December 23, 2015 Catalogue © 2015 Danese/Corey Works of art © 2014-15 the artists

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