The Armory Show | Booth 337: Jordan Ann Craig, Anthony Cudahy, Sarah Faux, Haroun Hayward, Virginia Jaramillo, LJ Roberts, Kay WalkingStick

 On the occasion of the 2023 edition of The Armory Show,  Hales is delighted to present works by Jordan Ann Craig, Anthony Cudahy, Sarah Faux, Haroun Hayward, Virginia Jaramillo, LJ Roberts and Kay WalkingStick. The presentation features a collection of historic and contemporary works by artists who reflect the programming and vision of the gallery.

 

Jordan Ann Craig (b. 1992 San Jose, CA, USA) received her BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Dartmouth College in 2015. She lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for her large-scale paintings and prints, Craig's abstract compositions are characterized by a dynamic exploration and interpretation of Northern Cheyenne material culture. Incorporating vivid colors, recurring patterns, and interwoven forms situated in grids, Craig's work explores and celebrates her Native ancestry, posing questions about the languages of modern abstract painting and the relationship to both historic and contemporary indigenous culture. In 2020, Craig's first solo museum exhibition, Your Favorite Color is Yellow, was held at Roswell Museum of Art, NM, USA. Jordan Ann Craig's first solo show with the gallery is currently on view at Hales New York.

 

Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989 Ft. Myers, FL, USA) received a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY in 2011 and completed an MFA at Hunter College, NY in 2020. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cudahy is a painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gesture. Personal and poetic, Cudahy's figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments in fluid brushstrokes. Cudahy's first solo museum exhibition is currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France. His first solo project in the UK will be on view in a dual solo exhibition at Hales and GRIMM in London opening early October.

 

Sarah Faux (b. 1986 Boston, MA, USA) received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2015. She gained a joint BA and BFA from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Faux lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Faux is a painter whose somatic work lies at the threshold of figuration and abstraction. Her paintings embrace unabashed sensuality, autonomy and pleasure. Faux's fluid compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our emotional and sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Sarah Faux's had her first solo show Sweetbitter at Hales New York earlier this year.

 

Haroun Hayward (b. 1983 London, UK) received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting from University of Brighton in 2006 and an MA in Fine Art Practice from Goldsmiths University, London in 2010. He lives and works in London. Hayward's paintings are a celebration of hybridity, harmoniously converging art historical and musical references with distinct modes of making. The paintings honor what informs Hayward's personal and artistic narrative - rave culture, abstract expressionism, post war British landscape painting and his mother's textile collection. In combining all these methods of making, Hayward explores multiple interplays of visual possibility in one united picture plane. Striving in painting for the ecstasy found in raving, the structure of the works mirrors the repetitive rhythms of 80s and 90s house music. Resisting categorization, Hayward embraces an affinity to his diverse array of his influences to complete his symbiotic vision. Hayward's first solo show Event on the Downs was on view at Hales London earlier this year.

 

Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939 El Paso, TX, USA) studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, from 1958-61. Jaramillo lives and works in New York. Born in El Paso, Texas, Jaramillo spent her formative years in California before moving to Europe and settling in New York City in late 1960s. Central to a career spanning nearly six decades is Jaramillo's drive to express materially our sensory perceptions of space and time in what she describes as 'an aesthetic investigation which seeks to translate into visual terms the mental structural patterns we all superimpose on our world.' Whether creating bold abstract paintings, sculptural mixed media compositions or meticulously formed handmade paper works, Jaramillo has forged a unique voice, experimenting with material and process to pursue her ongoing explorations of human perception of reality. Jaramillo's first museum retrospective took place at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO in 2023.

 

LJ Roberts (b. 1980 Royal Oak, MI, USA) received a BA in English and Studio Art from the University of Vermont, VT in 2003 and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies, as well as an MFA in Textiles from the California College of the Arts, CA in 2007. They live and work in Providence, RI. Their practice investigates overlaps of queer and trans politics, activism, protest, narrative, and craft. Roberts makes intimate embroideries, as well as large-scale textile installations, artist books, and collages. In Roberts' intricate embroidered portraits, they create a beautiful tribute to each subject and the artist's relationship with them. Each piece is stitched by hand, labor-intensive and takes months, even years to complete. In 2021, their first solo exhibition in New York City, Carry You With Me: Ten Years of Portraits opened at Pioneer Works and then showed at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Roberts' work has been shown in many institutions including The Victoria and Albert Museum, UK; The Brooklyn Museum, NY; The 8th Floor, NY; Museum of Arts and Design, NY; The Powerhouse Museum, Australia; The Oakland Museum of California, CA; and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C. where their work is in the permanent collection.

 

Kay WalkingStick (b. 1935 Syracuse, NY, USA) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, she has Cherokee/Anglo heritage. She received a BFA from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) Glenside, PA in 1959 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1975. She lives and works in Pennsylvania. Over a career spanning six decades, WalkingStick's practice has focused on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. WalkingStick draws on formal modernist painterly traditions as well as the Native American experience to create works that connect the immediacy of the physical world with the spiritual. The Museum of Modern Art, NY and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR have recently acquired works by WalkingStick.