Out of Body: 7/13—9/09, 2022
ONLINE EXHIBITION
with artwork by members Courtney Dudley, Cara Lynch, Isabel Pardo, and Oakley Tapola.
Curated by PP co-founder Lauren Hirshfield this group show connects sculpture, painting, textiles, and mixed media from four artists who reflect on themes of birth, rebirth, the duality of psychological and metaphysical, and expansion of the self through materiality-driven production. Works selected range in scale from 9x12 inches to 36 x 36 x 67 inches.
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Meet the artists
Courtney Dudley is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn and Kingston, NY with a specific interest in craft materials and the domestic space. Courtney completed a MFA from Pratt Institute in 2018 and has attended residencies including The Wassaic Project and The Studios at Mass MoCA. Her first solo show, Sudden Burials, took place at Paradice Palase in August 2020 and received a glowing review from Antemag.com. She was included in the gallery’s 3rd Annual Open Call Show, Celestial Opera, Human Cathedrals, juried by Lauren Wolchik of Gloria’s Project Space as well as Wassaic Projects Summer exhibition Now, more than ever and The Vision of Care curated by Robert R. Shane at the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum in 2021. Courtney has been a PP member since 2020.
Cara Lynch is an artist working in New York. Lynch received her MFA from Columbia University in 2020, and her BFA from Adelphi University in 2012. She is currently making suncatchers, vases, and wind chimes in the form of the human figure. Recent exhibitions include Rolling, Rolling, Rolling, curated by Nathan Catlin at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, and Clearing the Air, curated by Jay Davis at Southampton Arts Center.
In addition to her studio work, she also creates large-scale murals and public artworks that incorporate color and pattern in joyful compositions. Lynch has created permanent public works for the NYC MTA and NYC Health and Hospitals. She has also been commissioned by Nashville International Airport, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and NYC Parks and Recreation. Cara has been a PP member since 2022.
Isabel Pardo is an artist and curator based in Baltimore, MD. She has a BFA in Painting, Art History, and Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Curatorial projects include “This Is Not The End,” a virtual exhibit in January 2021 and MICA’s 2019 Exhibition Development Seminar’s ‘Historically Hysterical’ at Baltimore’s Peale Center. Solo exhibitions include, "Have You Seen the Horsemen Yet?" at The Alchemy of Art in Baltimore, MD and "Half Sinner, All Saint," virtually at The Aerogramme Center for Art and Culture. Inspired by surrealism and alchemy, She strives to create dynamic experiences for the viewer through multimedia paintings and immersive assemblage installations. Isabel bas been a PP member since 2021.
Oakley Tapola works at the intersection of water-based media and sculpture. She takes photographs of the people in her life and integrates those images as source material into her paintings. The motifs and sculptural forms that she uses in her practice are inspired by her empirical observations of ecology, sci-fi narratives, myth, art nouveau symbology and craft. The construction and final shape of each piece is intuitively guided by the respective portrait it incapsulates. Tapola is presently adjunct faculty at MCAD and the University of Minnesota. She graduated from NYU with my MFA in 2019. She has been the recipient of a Visual Art's Fund grant through the Andy Warhol Foundation. Her work has been shown at Hair and Nails (Minneapolis, MN), 80WSE (NYC, NY) A. D. Gallery (NYC, NY), and Titanik Gallery (Turku, Finland). Oakley has been a PP member since 2022.