For Expo Chicago 2019, we are proud to present works from Michelle Charles, James Clar, Sarah Dwyer, and Elizabeth Schwaiger.
Michelle Charles is an artist who whose practice centers on painting and drawing, while also including cameraless photographs, films, and videos. After residing in the U.S. for almost two decades, she returned in 2001 to her native London, where she currently lives and works. Her work has been collected by such institutions as the British Museum; the Wellcome Trust, London; the Brooklyn Museum; the National Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts; and the Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis. She has received awards and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, The Arts Council of England, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
James Clar is an American artist of Filipino descent. He studied Film and Animation at New York University and received his Masters at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. His work explores the conceptual and narrative potential of light and technology. As an extension of the visual systems of film and television, he gravitates towards lights, LEDs, and technology systems, but often applied in a critical discourse these technologies have on our perception and reality.
Sarah Dwyer is a painter and sculptor from Ireland, she received her Master’s in painting from the Royal College of Art, in London where she continues to live and work. Her historically imbued “portraits” reveal traces of memory and fragments of found imagery, resulting in unpredictable forms and mark-making. Dwyer has her second solo exhibition with Jane Lombard Gallery, Tink, on view from September 12th through October 19th.
Elizabeth Schwaiger is based in Texas and New York. She received a Master’s degree from the Glasgow School of Art in 2011. She was recently awarded a residency by The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation at the artist's studio estate in Captiva, FL. Schwaiger's work is collected in North America and in Europe and has been exhibited in prominent museums in Liverpool, London, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Cardiff, and in Texas.
Jane Lombard Gallery, although (re)opened in 2015, has a rich 25 year history with an established reputation for bringing to the forefront artists who work within a global perspective aesthetic relevance to the social and political climate of today. The gallery seeks to promote both emerging and mid career artists in a variety of media - painting, sculpture, photography, installation and film - in the US, Europe and Asia, including new artists we have recently introduced to our program. Formerly Lombard Freid Projects, founded in 1995 in Soho, the gallery later moved to Chelsea, first to 26th Street and then to its current ground floor location on 19th Street in 2010.
