The Contemporary Dayton

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

CURATOR'S TOUR   Once a month on Saturdays at 2 p.m. in The Co's galleries with Curator, Michael Goodson.   September 11 and October 9

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.

Combining elements of composite photography and experimental film and performance video, Brooklyn-based artist, Sara Cwynar, is interested in how objects circulate via the Internet, in the lives they have now that they could not have lived before. In 2016’s Soft Film, she collects, arranges, and archives her eBay purchases of dated objects according to a logic based upon color, material, vintage, and use.

The premiere of Dayton-based artist, Mychaelyn Michalec, featuring her newest body of work consisting of embroidered “drawings” and deeply textured tufted rug “paintings” that conflate issues of craft and cultural value. Using her own family as her primary subject, she depicts those closest to her in a shared space preoccupied by different things. Exhibition Dates August 6-October 24, 2021 Member's Preview: August 6, 5-6 p.m. Public Opening Reception: August 6, 6-8 p.m.

Nina Chanel Abney Aug 6–Oct 24, 2021   At the forefront of a generation of artists that are unapologetically revitalizing traditional narrative figurative painting through the lens of contemporary urban life, Brooklyn-based painter, Nina Chanel Abney, draws on animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines to create large-scale paintings and collages that are scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities.