Press Release (Cycle VIII)

Aristotle Forrester, Kathryn Goshorn, Louisa Owen, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Wen Liu, Sebastian Burger, Elizabeth Flood, & Michiko Itatani

March 16th - April 13th, 2024

Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013

Storage is pleased to announce Press Release (Cycle VIII), presenting artists Aristotle Forrester, Kathryn Goshorn, Louisa Owen, Marcus Leslie Singleton, Wen Liu, Sebastian Burger, Elizabeth Flood, and Michiko Itatani. This exhibition is held in extension of the gallery’s ongoing, rotational exhibition survey, Press Release (2022-present), featuring international and overlooked artists.

• Events

  Opening Reception
  6-8pm
  Friday, August 2nd

  Storage Tribeca
  52 Walker St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013

• Aristotle Forrester

  Aristotle Forrester explores personal narratives of loss, mythologies, and of the Black experience to ground his work within the expanding field of contemporary abstract painting. Extending lines of inquiry that originate in the modalities of mid-century artists including Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell, Forrester develops upon the idea of a figurative landscape with gestural, loaded brushstrokes to release an expressive quality upon his thick, luscious canvases.

• Kathryn Goshorn

  Kathryn Goshorn builds images in depiction of the human condition, the purpose of life and how behavior can affect its quality. Goshorn contemplates a duty to understand the space we take up and our influence as we move through the world and interact, leaving those echoes of action, or cause and effect, where the effect is irreparable and one is left to speculate about the cause.

• Louisa Owen

  Louisa Owen’s works posit paper as a membrane material, able to soak and absorb the atmosphere into itself. Reminiscent of the bodily forms and orifices found in Lee Bontecou’s wall sculptures or recent paper works by Lynda Benglis, Owens develops abstracted, organic structures simultaneously suggestive of a cave or a spinal column. Emphasizing durability and the architecture of such a frame in place to support the facilities of the body, Owen’s sculptures provide chambers and inlets for holding expressions of spirituality, meditation, loss, and stasis.

• Marcus Leslie Singleton

  Marcus Leslie Singleton is a Seattle born artist celebrated for his distinctive figurative paintings that deftly intertwine personal observations with broader societal themes. Singleton’s process demands a delicate balance of interpretation and recollection. Through natural, carefree, and playful brush strokes, his work offers meditations on broader issues of race, representation and the historical significance of everyday moments. Using spontaneity, scale, and expressive placement of color, Singleton’s paintings offer a jovial yet serious perspective that is both poignant and bold.

• Wen Liu

  Wen Liu’s sculptures address loss and abandonment through the modification and assembly of found materials. She uses reclaimed domestic objects to build up her sense of belonging and security. Sculptural reinvestment and temporal shift of traces from past to present imply narratives of absence and presence as well as alienation and comfort. Liu ‘s work balances between the contiuums of temporality and permanence, seeking to address the disparities between public recollection and private memory.

• Michiko Itatani

  Michiko Itatani (b. 1948, Osaka, Japan) is a Chicago-based painter. Itatani studied literature and philosophy in her youth before relocating to the US in the 1970's, where she studied visual art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Marie Sharp Walsh New York Studio Grant and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship among others. She was selected by the Women’s Caucus for a Lifetime Achievement Award 2020.

Cosmic Encounters

Michiko Itatani
New York Solo Debut

October 27th, 2023 - Extended through February 23rd, 2024

Storage
52 Walker Street
4th Floor
Tribeca, New York 10013

Storage is pleased to announce Cosmic Encounters, a monumental collection of complex, medium and large-scale paintings by the inimitable, Chicago-based painter Michiko Itatani (b. 1948, Osaka, Japan). An established Chicago arts icon, Itatani's impact is preceded by her history of artistic, philosophical, and community-driven accomplishments. Itatani’s oeuvre is long-established by her transcendent tendency for painterly techniques and symbolism. In this exhibition at Storage, Itatani’s range of work offers a dream-bound iconography of figurative and symbolic objects from the greatest extents of human curiosity. The first solo exhibition at Storage within our inaugural, ongoing exhibition series titled Press Release, Cosmic Encounters is also Itatani’s first solo exhibition in New York City after 30+ years.

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• Events

  Opening Reception
  6-8pm
  Friday, October 27th

  Storage Tribeca
  52 Walker St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10013

• About Michiko Itatani

  Michiko Itatani (b. 1948, Osaka, Japan) is a Chicago-based painter. Itatani studied literature and philosophy in her youth before relocating to the US in the 1970's, where she studied visual art at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown paintings and installation work in a great range of exhibitions since 1973, and remains active as a prolific artist and professor emeritus at the Painting and Drawing department at the SAIC since 1979. Itatani currently lives and works in Chicago, IL.

  Michiko Itatani's work has been shown in more than 100 one-person and group exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally. The largest of these exhibitions were at Rockford Art Museum, Illinois (1987); Musée du Quebec, Canada, (1988); Chicago Cultural Center (1992); Tokoha Museum, Shizuoka, Japan (1998); Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany(2000); University of Wyoming Art Museum (2022-3), Wrightwood 659, IL (2022-3). Museum and institutional collections include the Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museu D’art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and many more.

  Itatani has received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Marie Sharp Walsh New York Studio Grant and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship among others. She was selected by the Women’s Caucus for a Lifetime Achievement Award 2020.