Lullabies for a daydream | 3/09 - 5/28, 2023
ONLINE EXHIBITION
with artwork by members
Sammy Bennett, Courtney Dudley, Jay Gaskill, Chris Mireles, and Lauren Packard
PARADICE PALASE is pleased to present this online exhibition as part of our 2023 partnership with Uprise Art. Lullabies for a daydream is curated by Uprise Exhibition Manager Hannah Antalek; an excerpt from her statement:
Whether working with found objects, textiles, ceramics, or paint, each artist in the show employs a specificity of material to explore the formal aspects of mark-making in service of storytelling… Exploring personal symbolism, the body, sexuality, memory, and the force of opposition, the artists [selected] utilize the innate and transformative qualities of their chosen materials to create meaning and build narrative
Scroll to Meet the artists and for more on the UA x PP Partnership.
CURATOR NOTE: PLEASE VIEW ON A DESKTOP TO ENJOY AS BEST INTENDED.
Jay Gaskill, Operation Sandstorm
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Sammy Bennett, Shadow of Alo
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Chris Mireles, ATM
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Lauren Packard, Side Shoulder
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Courtney Dudley, Brooklyn Dahlias
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Lauren Packard, Gender Reveal Party
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Jay Gaskill, Arbusto
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Jay Gaskill, Tswan Tsong
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Chris Mireles, Numbers Game
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Lauren Packard, They Want To Purify You
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Courtney Dudley, Quilt 1
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Chris Mireles, Untitled
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Sammy Bennett, Terrific Pig
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Chris Mireles, Head
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Jay Gaskill, Poppy
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Sammy Bennett, Lost & Found 1
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Lauren Packard, Queer Angst
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Chris Mireles, Still Life with Porcelain Puppies
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Lauren Packard, Put It In A Frame
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Sammy Bennett, A Hibiscus in the Desert
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Lauren Packard, In Your Eyes I See Right Through
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Courtney Dudley, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Jay Gaskill, Planet Love (Universal Romance)
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Uprise Art x Paradice Palase
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Uprise Art is an art gallery that helps you discover original contemporary artwork by emerging artists for the spaces where you live, work, and gather. Their SOHO gallery and viewing room offers exciting and fresh presentations and their digital site fosters discovery, browsing and collecting of their wide roster of artists. Their team of in-house art advisors also curate for individual collectors, corporate collections & architectural projects around the world.
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The PARADICE PALASE x Uprise Art partnership will occur in two parts this year; the first is this online show curated by Uprise staff, and the second is a Collaborative Collection selected by PP founders Kat & Lauren on the Uprise site. We are thrilled to partner and highlight our shared investment in expanded access to collectors using bespoke digital spaces and dedication to providing community and visibility to a wide cohort of emerging artists.
Hannah Antalek is the Exhibitions Manager for Uprise Art. She is also a painter based in Queens, NY whose practice explores an imaginary post-human landscape with roots in science fiction and environmental crisis. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and is a former participant of NYC Crit Club. Recent exhibits include Jungle Jinx at 5-50 Gallery and Heroes at SPRING/BREAK Art Show.
Meet the artists
Sammy Bennett’s paintings feature cluttered domestic settings, vibrant wood grain flooring and dirty windswept sidewalks. The surrounding neighborhoods and interiors become an overarching portrait of the artist employing specific objects and locations as signifiers. Bennett fills his tableaux with worn out shoes, house plants, old photographs and ornate vases. Merging biographical artifacts with found objects, Bennett unites the personal with universal. Pockets of commentary hide in plain sight that tap into a shared collective memory. Thus, the viewer can enjoy the beauty or see the ugly realism scattered throughout.
Bennett received a BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design and an MFA from Michigan State University. His has shown work including with Underdonk, Equity Gallery, Amos Eno Gallery, and the SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Bennett currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has been a PP member since 2022.
Courtney Dudley is an interdisciplinary artist with a specific interest in craft materials and the domestic space. Her practice includes research in archaic processes resulting in creation of works that position the artist and viewer in relation to cosmic time, underscoring the brevity of current power and social structures. Her current series of quilts dig into themes of self determination, birth, and loss while seeking to create a place of refuge. In contrast to the destruction of the earth at our hands, Dudley's process is a microcosm of a sustainable world. She cultivates dyes from vegetable food scraps, foraged plant matter, and ubiquitous kitchen items like baking soda and coffee into artifacts that suspend time and place. Dudley pours shapes on fabric that are familiar to what she sees on ultrasounds and while naked, in mirrors, following the dye paths and stitching connections that form peaks and valleys. Ultimately, however, each work generates its own identity - autonomous, free and without rules.
Dudley received an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2018 and has attended residencies including The Wassaic Project and The Studios at Mass MoCA. She currently lives and works in Kingston, NY and has been a PP member since 2020.
Jay Gaskill is an artist and curator who makes abstract paintings filled with shapes that allude to flames, leaves, feathers and hair - symbols of change, and reflections of the upheavals (cultural, political, ecological and personal) of the last several years. For the artist, they are the external manifestations of change in nature. Gaskill's current studio practice began following his exit from New York City and the introduction of daily meditation. He treats the act of painting as rooted in the perception of the interconnectedness of life and makes this explicit in his image making. The forms are competing thoughts, passions, and emotions; the colors are the energy given off by their interactions; the picture frame is the border between interior and exterior, struggling to hold everything together in a single imperfect vessel.
Gaskill received an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. His most recent exhibition was a two-person booth with PARADICE PALASE at Future Fair (NYC) in 2022. He has been interviewed for ArtNet News and his work has been featured in publications including Maake Magazine and Art Maze Magazine. As a curator, he is most known for his social-media-based projects Air In Space and The Drawing Exchange. In 2022 he curated his first IRL exhibition Golden States for SPRING/BREAK Art Show LA. Gaskill currently lives and works in Cathedral City, CA and has been a PP member since 2021.
Chris Mireles is a self-taught painter originally from San Francisco, CA. His moody color-scapes and rough textures imbue fleeting moments with weird, tense humor. Blending classical tableaus and traditional motifs with low-brow influences, Mireles produces work that is at once strange and familiar - grim, but maybe just a little bit funny. Mireles currently lives and works in New York City and has been a PP member since 2022.
Lauren Packard is a mixed media artist whose identity as a queer female and lived experience following unexpected surgery are integral to her work. After undergoing brain surgery in 2014 it was difficult to communicate verbally and Packard turned to paint. Across media Packard explores queerness, memory, and femininity and references punk, Riot Grrrl culture, and the domestic as she disorients and disrupts through a combination of marks, textures, and material. Her recent ceramic practice includes both hand building and clay piping techniques similar to cake frosting. Her textured objects become vulnerable, intimate worlds of their own that utilize the universally recognized dessert décor as a social entrance into guarded and unknown spaces.
Packard is a recipient of the ChaNorth Residency and Starry Night Residency Award, as well as a finalist for the Artists With Anxiety Residency. Her work has been exhibited at 5-50 Gallery, Site:Brooklyn, PARADICE PALASE, La Bodega Gallery, LIC Arts, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and Williamsburg Historical Society. She was a participant performer in the winning Venice Biennale Golden Lion Lithuanian Pavilion Sun and Sea. Her work has been featured in Fresh Paint Magazine and Makers Magazine. Packard currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has been a PP member since 2022.