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Western Exhibitions is thrilled to be participating in the 20th edition of NADA Miami, to be held from November 30 to December 3 at the Ice Palace Studios:
1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136
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For the 20th edition of NADA Miami, Western Exhibitions will show paintings by Joey Fauerso, large-scale photographs by Jessica Labatte and artist books, unique prints and a performance by Miller & Shellabarger at the 2022 NADA Miami fair. While each artist maintains a distinct identity, the shared affinities in the work on view will include feminist and LGBTQ concerns as well as themes of the body, domesticity, partnership, love, joy, and pain.
Joey Fauerso’s large-scale figurative paintings use humor and theatricality to shift and subvert traditional gender roles and genres within Western art. Themes of waiting, confinement, leisure, pleasure and escape manifest in dense and playful ways-languid nude men recline in groups, gathering for no particular purpose but to be admired, women scramble and stride to escape their fixed position within the compositions. Created through a subtractive process from layered and un-layered acrylic paint, her bodies and forms interact inquisitively, somehow simultaneously cohabitating and threatening one another. An interdisciplinary artist working in painting, installation, video and performance, Fauerso’s subject matter is both personal and political, centering on her experiences as a woman, a mother and as someone who grew up in a Transcendental Meditation community, complex roles central to her expansive practice.
Joey Fauerso’s work is in the permanent collections of the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin; San Antonio Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum and Ruby City, all in San Antonio, TX; the New Mexico State University Museum and has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; The Drawing Center, New York; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art; Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas. Fauerso has been the recipient of multiple grants and residencies, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Fine Arts in 2022, the Joan Mitchell Grant for Painters and Sculptors, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, the Open Sessions residency at The Drawing Center in New York, the Golden Foundation Grant, Dallas Museum of Art Kimberough Grant, the RAIR Artist in Residence Grant, Yaddo, MacDowell, and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Fauerso was raised in a Transcendental Meditation community in Fairfield, Iowa. She received her BFA from the University of Iowa, and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives and works in San Antonio, Texas.
During the lockdown, Jessica Labatte explored and questioned not only her family traditions, gender roles, and societal expectations through the perspective of raising her children, but also her own artistic materials and processes. The large-format camera and film are still present, with dust specks and all, but so are lumen prints, digital photographs, Photoshop collage, video, and sculptures made in collaboration. These works explore the different ways generational time, environmental conditions, weather patterns, and family habits can create microclimates and microcultures within domesticity. For her series The Erratics, together with her child during the winters of the pandemic, Jessica Labatte filled milk jugs, bowls, and other containers with water and objects collected from around the house. They would then leave the potions in the landscape overnight to freeze. Bringing the ice sculptures into the studio, Labatte illuminates them with colored light creating glowing crystalline monuments. Similar to a glacier, the ice becomes transparent because of melting, allowing more light to permeate cracks, fissures, and crevasses revealing the stress points in the ice and everyday objects suspended in place.
Jessica Labatte’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Elmhurst Art Museum; Hyde Park Art Center; Higher Pictures, NYC; Golden Gallery, and Horton Gallery, NYC, among others. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Chicago Magazine. In Artforum, Zachary Cahill wrote “If the process sounds complicated to understand, that’s because it is, though the end results aren’t. The photographs are visually generous and are marked by blasts of color that register the living quality of time itself.” Labatte received an MFA and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and lives and works in the Chicagoland area.
Married artist collaborators Miller & Shellabarger explore physicality, duality, time, and romantic ideals in their current series, Homo- entanglement. Elaborate artist books and unique pressure prints address their ongoing concerns with an emphasis on entanglement, compression of time, mortality, and bodily and temporal limitations. Their work documents the rhythms of human relationships, speaking both to common experiences of intimacy as well as the specifics of queer identities. The books utilize images and methods from prior bodies of work, temporally and physically entwining their past into a single space in the present. Their heads, entangled silhouetted bodies, and handprints are layered and re-layered atop one another, traveling backward and forwards through time, in richly textured pressure prints and on the pages of cinematic and narratively confusing artist books.
Miller & Shellabarger will reprise their performance Untitled (Crochet) in our booth and on the fairgrounds, in which they simultaneously crochet at opposite ends of a long tube of pink yarn, a metaphorically-loaded object that both unites and separates them. This is a lifelong artwork which always performed together in public. When half of the couple passes away, the other person will reverse the act and begin to unravel the pink tube in public.
Miller & Shellabarger have had solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Chicago Cultural Center, INOVA in Milwaukee, the University Galleries at Illinois State University, and Gallery Diet in Miami and they have performed and/or been exhibited in group shows across North America. Miller & Shellabarger are a 2008 recipient of an Artadia Chicago award and a 2007 recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award. Their work in is the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Newark Public Library, Indiana University Art Museum and the National Gallery of Canada. Their work has been written about in Artforum.com, Art & Auction, Frieze, Artnet, The Art Newspaper, Flash Art, Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun-Times. Dutes Miller and Stan Shellabarger also maintain separate artistic practices. They are represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicagoland live and work in Chicago.
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