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“[B]locs need pockets of air and emptiness, because even the void is sensation. All sensation is composed with the void in composing itself with itself, and everything holds together on earth and in the air, and preserves the void, is preserved in the void by preserving itself. A canvas may be completely full to the point that even the air no longer gets through, but it is only a work of art if, as [Huang Pin-Hung] says, it nonetheless saves enough empty space for horses to prance in (even if this is only through the variety of planes).” - Deleuze and Guattari
New Release presents Void Is Sensation, a group exhibition including Louis Appleby, Hannah Beerman, TJ Bohm, Michael Childress, Aisling Hamrogue, Dave Kinsey, Hiejin Yoo and Monsieur Zohore.
LOUIS APPLEBY (b. 1991 Lancaster UK) lives and works in Lancaster North England. He graduated with a BA in Painting at Wimbledon College of Art 2014 and an MA in Painting at Royal College of Art London in 2019. Appleby has exhibited throughout the UK, Belgium, Poland and China.
HANNAH BEERMAN (b. 1992 Nyack, NY) lives and works in New York and received her BA at Bard College and her MFA from Hunter College. In 2020 she was a resident at the Macedonia Institute and exhibited with Kapp Kapp New York, New Release Gallery, Underdonk, among others. Upcoming shows include a 2 person exhibition at Ober Gallery in Kent, CT and a solo project at Kapp Kapp in Philadelphia. In 2020 she founded the Artists For Humans initiative.
T.J. BOHM (b. 1996) is based in Long Island, NY. He received his BFA in 2018 from Parsons The New School for Design.
MICHAEL CHILDRESS (b. 1987, New York), was the recipient of the 2018 Leslie Lohman Museum Queer Artist Fellowship. He has exhibited in New York at the Leslie Lohman Museum, Half Gallery, New Release, Cuevas Tilleard, Radiator Gallery, and False Flag. Childress curated a group exhibition “The Small Exceeds” at New Release in 2017. He received his BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2009. Childress lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
AISLING HAMROGUE (b. 1980, Queens, NY ) received her MFA from Hunter College in 2017. Most recently, Hamrogue was in a group exhibition at Fredericks & Freiser, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
DAVE KINSEY (b. 1971, Pittsburgh, PA) oeuvre encompasses painting, sculpture, works on paper, and outdoor murals. Often drawing inspiration from the natural world, Kinsey creates figurative abstractions, placing them in barren landscapes. Constructed from organically-shaped planes of flat color, these solitary forms recall a feeling of existentialist loneliness. Kinsey’s works convey a sense of a society in perpetual fragmentation through his use of abstraction, suggesting the illusions of a distorted reality.
HIEJIN YOO (b. 1987, Germany) received her MFA from UCLA in 2018. Yoo has exhibited throughout the US and internationally including Half Gallery, NY; Konig Gallery, Berlin; Blum and Poe, Los Angeles; Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin and Almine Rech, Brussels and London.
MONSIEUR ZOHORE (b. 1993, Maryland) is an Ivorian-American artist based in New York and Baltimore. Zohore received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2020. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Palo Gallery, New York; Terrault Gallery, Baltimore; New Release, New York; 56 Henry, New York; Canada Gallery, New York and 315 Gallery, New York as well as at the 2020 Material Art Fair (Coyoacan, CDMX). Zohore has also been invited to exhibit at The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Washington Projects for the Arts (Washington D.C.), and at The Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus). He will also participate in NADA House with New Release in May 2021.