Janice Guy

Muscular Organ, 2012-2015, acrylic on canvas, 14 x 12 in / 35.5 x 30.5 cm

Direct Visual Representation, 2016, acrylic on linen, 8 x 10 in / 20.5 x 25.5 cm

Quick Defense, 2016, acrylic on linen, 16 x 14 in / 35.5 x 40.5 cm

Mollusca, 2017, acrylic on linen, 11 x 9 in / 28 x 23 cm

First Changes Were Sensory, 2017, acrylic on linen, 8 x 10 in / 20.5 x 25.5 cm

Development of the Whole Man, 2017, acrylic on linen, 16 x 14 in / 40.5 x 35.5 cm

Deep Sleep, 2015, acrylic on linen

Enables Connection, 2018, acrylic and oil on line, 10 x 12 in / 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Metamorphosis is Mostly Sleep, 2018, acrylic and oil on line, 10 x 14 in / 25.5 x 35.5 cm

Will Be Made in the Future, 2018, oil on linen, 10 x 12 in / 25.5 x 30.5 cm

Frustratingly Sensual, 2018, Oil on linen, 20 x 24 in / 51 x 61 cm

An Excuse to Touch, 2016, acrylic on linen, 8 x 10 in / 20.5 x 25.5 cm

Later and Later and Later, 2018, oil on canvas, 11 x 10 in / 28 x 25.5 cm

Lack of a Shell, 2016, acrylic on cotton, 8 x 10 in / 20.5 x 25.5 cm

River Water, 2018, Oil on linen, 12 x 10 in / 30.5 x 25.5 cm

MARLEY FREEMAN
Speechless

Janice Guy is delighted to announce a solo exhibition of paintings by Marley Freeman in collaboration with MBnb Project Space in West Harlem.

Just as memories collide and overlap, and events from years ago weave themselves into the present tense, Marley Freeman's paintings, small, abstract and gem-like, are an accumulation of layers with varying degrees of opacity and luster. The colors, hand-mixed acrylics or oil paint and slapped onto the canvas at a rapid clip, are anomalous and unexpected, contemporary and vintage in feel. There is a punk-fashion impulse and a sexuality of intuition, a calm elation. The painting licks and spits, desirous of a language that is located within the body, within spatiality, within color, and without definition.

I am speechless in the face of apathetic, dualistic thought patterns. These paintings are acts of resistance to that speechlessness - they long to speak fluidly in a tense that is both historical and forward-looking.

Born in 1981 in Boston, Marley Freeman earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery School of the Arts. Solo exhibitions include Californienne, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); Downstairs Projects, Brooklyn, NY (2017); Never Give a Sword to a Man Who Can't Dance, PSM, Berlin (2017); Decision 2015 (I Change), Cleopatra's, Brooklyn (2015). Amongst numerous group exhibitions, Marley Freeman's work was seen in What Ever Moves Between Us Also Moves the World in General curated by Sonel Breslav at Murray Guy, New York (2016).

MBnB Project Space is located at 520 West 143^rd Street between Amsterdam Avenue and broadway and can be reached via the A, B, C, D and 1 subway trains to 145 Street. map

MBnb is an ongoing artwork in honor of the great Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers. It was conceived, in part, to explore what it might mean "to sell something and succeed in life" in what is euphemistically referred to as the sharing economy, fifty years after Broodthaers uttered those famously doomed, aspirational words. read more...