GDS is pleased to present ´Caddilac4´, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Minneapolis-based artist, Shaina McCoy. The exhibition features McCoy’s newest series of portrait paintings that traces her family heritage by using thick and glossy brush strokes.
McCoy´s paintings are not considered a documentation but stand as memory traces of the original images, scrubbed of their details. While withholding the realistic aspect of these images, she presents just enough information in them, balancing between the precipice of familiarity and anonymity and blurring private and public identity. The artist´s signature faceless figures is not an erasure but rather, an affirmation. Using the form of portraiture, she ascribes importance upon them, granting them permission to take up space.
Shaina Mccoy (b. 1993, Minneapolis, MN) is an artist living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. McCoy graduated from Minneapolis Community and Technical College with an AA in Fine Art in 2017. Selected exhibitions include BABIES HOLDIN'...BABIES, Stems Gallery, Paris, France (2021); B is for, Stems, Brussels, Belgium (2021); Father, Father, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Bread and Butter, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA (2019); Gold Standard: Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA (2019); Astral Art Theories, Radisson RED, Minneapolis, MN (2018); 33 Works By 3 Artists, Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA (2018); Now More Than Always (Gimme Gimme the Money Please Please I Want the Money Please), Gildar Gallery, Denver, CO (2017); OverNorth Part 2, Venture North, Minneapolis, MN (2015); and Rapper’s Delight, City Wide Artists Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2015).
Entrada actualizada el el 15 jun de 2022
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