Megan Borah: ‘Girls and Horses’
February 17 - March 23, 2024
Group Show: I Cast to Earth a Seed
Jan 6 - Feb 11, 2024
Featuring Bertrand Fournier, Lori Larusso, Robert Minervini, Juan Alberto Negroni, Michelle Wasson
Group Show: The Process of Seeing
November 18 – December 27, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to present The Process of Seeing, a group exhibition featuring: Emily Bartolone, Meghan Borah, Saskia Fleishman, Melinda Laszczynski, and Jessica Simorte.
Peter Frederiksen: I tried to warn you.
November 18 – December 27, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to present I Tried to Warn You, Chicago artist Peter Frederiksen’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.
Samantha McCurdy: A Lick Between The Eyes
October 5 – November 11, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to present A Lick Between The Eyes, an exhibition of new sculptural paintings by Samantha McCurdy.
Drea Cofield: Send N*des
October 5 – November 11, 2023
Galleri Urbane is proud to present Send N*des, a solo exhibition of work by Drea Cofield, drawing from her ongoing “selfie” project and opening topics of both self-expression and censorship, the canonical art-historical narrative and the contemporary realities of technology and AI.
Jessica Drenk: On Edge
August 26 – September 30, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce On Edge, an exhibition of artwork by Jessica Drenk. This represents the fifth solo exhibition by the artist at Galleri Urbane.
Paho Mann: Latent COnstructions
June 24 – September 30, 2023
Opening June 24, 2023 is Latent Constructions, a solo exhibition of works by Paho Mann, presented by Galleri Urbane.
Arden Bendler Browning: OFF SCREEN
June 24 – August 12, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce Off Screen, an exhibition of artworks by Arden Bendler Browning made following a residency in Newfoundland, Canada.
Gail Peter Borden: dimensional iterations
April 1–June 3, 2023
Galleri Urbane welcomes new works by Gail Peter Borden for his fifth solo exhibition at the gallery.
Loring Taoka: VS
April 1–June 3, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce vs, an exhibition of artworks by Loring Taoka. Following his recent solo installation at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, this represents the fifth solo exhibition by the artist at Galleri Urbane.
Group Show: Stack and Smoosh
Curated by Benjamin Terry
Feb 18–March 25, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce Stack and Smoosh, a group exhibition of works by Dallas-based artist Claire Kennedy, Austin-based Niva Parajuli, and Los Angeles-based Megan Reed. The exhibition is curated by artist Benjamin Terry and follows his four solo exhibitions at the gallery.
Sarah Haba: My Letters Bloom In Your Mouth
Feb 18–March 25, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce My Letters Bloom In Your Mouth, an exhibition of artworks by San Francisco-based Sarah HaBa. For her third solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane, Haba presents two bodies of work: a series of gestural floral paintings paired with text works, screen printed on paper.
József Csató: Lush Ferns in Empty Wells
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Nov 19–Feb 10, 2023
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce Lush Ferns in Empty Wells, an exhibition of artworks by Budapest-based artist József Csató. For his third solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane, Csató returns from his foray into sculptural materials with a collection of 13 paintings on canvas as well as aquarelle paintings on A4 paper.
Aron Barath: Color is the Dope
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Jan 7–Feb 10, 2023
Galleri Urbane welcomes Hungarian painter Aron Barath for his first solo exhibition in the United States. Color is the dope is a chromatic experience featuring canvases of bold, gossamer strokes of paint. Following his inclusion in the gallery's 2021 group summer show, RIPE, and a list of presentations across Europe, Barath introduces a broader array of hues in his ongoing investigation of color for this exhibition.
Sam Mack: buff
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Nov 19–Jan 4, 2023
Galleri Urbane welcomes back sculptor and ceramicist Sam Mack for their second solo show with the gallery, buff. This follows their inclusion in the gallery’s 2020 summer collective and their 2019 solo exhibition, Pass.
Tammie Rubin: I Pick Up My Life
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Oct 8–Nov 12, 2022
Galleri Urbane welcomes back Austin-based artist Tammie Rubin for her debut solo show with the gallery, I Pick up My Life. She presents an exhibition surrounding Black Americans' metaphysical, physical, and spiritual relocation. Following her inclusion in the gallery's 2020 winter group exhibition, Rubin brings together family images, coded symbols, and historical maps to visually contextualize The Great Migration, referencing the first line of One-Way Ticket by Langston Hughs in the show’s title.
Benjamin Terry: Inconsiderately Happy
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Oct 8–Nov 12, 2022
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce Inconsiderately Happy, an exhibition of artworks by Dallas-based artist Benjamin Terry. For his third solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane, Terry continues his painting practice in paint on plywood, taking on new challenges of gesture.
Adam Hedley: Unfamiliar Windows
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Aug 27–Oct 1, 2022
Galleri Urbane is pleased to announce Unfamiliar Windows, an exhibition of artworks by Bristol based artist Adam Hedley. For his first solo exhibition outside of the United Kingdom, Hedley presents an array of paintings produced over the past year. With the exhibition of Unfamiliar Windows, Hedley is continuing his exploration of painting through chance, using canvas as a sieve and color as sediment.
Michelle Wasson: Proto Grove
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Aug 27–Oct 1, 2022
Galleri Urbane welcomes back Chicago-based artist Michelle Wasson for her debut solo show with the gallery, Proto Grove. Following her inclusion in RIPE, the gallery’s 2021 summer group exhibition, Wasson migrates into a lighter and breathier environment with this body of work, offering a refuge from reality.
Intersections: 7th Annual Summer Group Show
Amelia Briggs, Benjamin terry, Chase Barney, Gail Peter Borden, Karen Navarro, Peter Frederiksen
July 9–Aug. 13, 2022
Jonathan Paul Jackson: Naturally Yours
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July 9–Aug. 13, 2022
This is the first solo exhibition by Houston-based artist Jonathan Paul Jackson at the gallery. After participating in Galleri Urbane’s 2021 summer group exhibition, Jackson returns with a solo body of work. ‘Naturally Yours’ features small photo collage pieces on pressed paper which reflect on Jackson’s time at an artist residency in Big Bend, and larger acrylic and oil pastel paintings on paper which represent his decade-plus years of work in paint.
Mel Prest: Time is Knots oon a String
May 21–July 2, 2022
Galleri Urbane presents San Francisco artist Mel Prest in her third solo exhibition with the gallery. Through paintings on panel and works on paper, Time is Knots on a String expands on the geometric line-based work that has been the focus of the artist’s career for numerous years. In these newest works, Prest explores the feeling of deep, elongated time and optical shifting.
Rachel Hellmann: The Shape of Color
May 21–July 2, 2022
Indiana artist Rachel Hellmann presents her solo show, featuring fluorescent-painted relief sculptures, paintings, and an analogous mural. This body of work echoes her recent paintings and installation at the Rockwell Museum (Rockwell, NY), Leaning Toward the Sun, which will be up through March 2023. These pieces provoke ephemeral conversations of light and assumed dimensionality between various mediums.
Anna Kunz: Naked Light
Apr. 9–May 14, 2022
Galleri Urbane is delighted to welcome back Chicago artist Anna Kunz for her highly anticipated solo show, Naked Light. Completed in 2022, this series of paintings asks viewers to experience the warmth of light, represented by color, as a purveyor of society. These paintings galvanize conversation between both viewers and color upon canvas while confronting the emptiness and lack of connection from physical distancing.
Stephen D’Onofrio: the Arborist
Apr. 9–May 14, 2022
Galleri Urbane is pleased to have Philadelphia-based artist Stephen D’Onofrio for his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Here, the botanical subjects that have peppered D’Onofrio’s canvases in the past are arranged into representational depictions of flora seated in large porcelain pots.
Samantha McCurdy: Subliminal Sublime
Feb. 19– Apr. 2, 2022
Los Angeles artist Samantha McCurdy returns for her third solo exhibition with the gallery. Subliminal Sublime highlights the artist’s use of spandex to explore the sculptural potential within the traditionally flat discipline of painting. Through stand-alone and multi-component works, McCurdy implements bold color and form to pay homage to the human figure and spark intrigue on what lies beneath the surface.
COLBY CURRIE: NEW PAINTINGS
Feb. 19–Apr. 2, 2022
Galleri Urbane is pleased to introduce Amarillo, Texas based artist Colby Currie in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. New Paintings pulls together a selection of canvases completed over recent years, highlighting the mereological approach that remains central to Currie’s studio practice. Currie’s work joins the canon of color field painters and abstract expressionists, executed with techniques and materials that place it firmly in the contemporary. Rich with subtle details, each work stands alone while in constant dialogue with the adjacent paintings.
Lori Larusso: CAre
Jan 8–Feb. 12, 2022
Galleri Urbane is pleased to introduce Louisville-based artist Lori Larusso in her inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. Care features new paintings that pay homage to the imagery and language spawned by her interactions with others in physical and virtual settings, especially as they relate to giving or having received care. For Larusso, these efforts, from the labor of preparing food to acts of indulgence shared on social media, reveal the underlying sociological complexities of issues like gender, class, domestic roles, and consumption.
Group Show: Horse Show
Jan 8–Feb. 12, 2022
Curated by Meghan Borah & Jeane Cohen
Chase Barney, Meghan Borah, Jeane Cohen, Michel Droge, Benji Grignon, Emilie Stark-Menneg, Celeste Morton, Scott Schultheis
Gift Edit(ion)
November 20 - December 25th, 2021
This year Our annual Gift Edition exhibition features a selection of limited edition artworks by numerous gallery artists. With screen prints, lithographs, risographs, digital prints and the like, the collection aims to make work by our artists accessible to a wider audience. In addition to the online launch, framed works (ready to gift wrap for the holidays!) will comprise a physical exhibition at the gallery.
Gail Peter Borden: Spaced
October 9 - November 13, 2021
Galleri Urbane is pleased to welcome back artist and architect Gail Peter Borden for an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture. SPACED features Borden’s signature resin cast acrylic panels that employ geometry to create spatial configurations and produce depth from flatness. Through single unit and multi-panel compositions across a range of new series, Borden forges art and architecture and explores the perceptual potential within defined systems of shape and color.
Peter Frederiksen: Human Cannon Ball
October 9 - November 13, 2021
Peter Frederiksen presents Human Cannon Ball, the Chicago artist’s second solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane. In the exhibition of recent works, Frederiksen continues to utilize freehand machine embroidery to render stylized imagery associated with classic animation. Often humorous and lighthearted at first glance, each open-ended scene is embedded with darker undertones that illustrate the anxieties induced by impending physical and mental perils.
Michael p. berman: perdido
August 28 - October 2, 2021
Photographer and Guggenheim Fellow Michael P. Berman presents his first solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane since 2014. The show borrows its name from and follows the release of the artist’s most recent published book Perdido: Sierra San Luis (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2019). In his book, Berman traverses by foot the San Luis mountain range that cuts through the boot heel of New Mexico and south into the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. This journey, in addition to subsequent trips along the Texas-Mexico border, is captured through photographs in the exhibition. As does his book, this body of work captures the borderland’s beautiful and rugged landscape and provides a poetic opportunity to recognize its ecological significance.
Jeffrey Cortland Jones: Landscape Replica (Times are hard for dreamers)
August 28 - October 2, 2021
Galleri Urbane is pleased to host Jeffrey Cortland Jones in his third solo exhibition with the gallery. Landscape Replica (Times Are Hard For Dreamers) features all new paintings from a series developed over the last year and a half. In these works, Jones continues to find inspiration from urban scenes and natural landscapes in creating his non-objective paintings, though the introduction of a new format reflects a refined relationship between artist and his practice.
RIPE
July 10 - August 14, 2021
Galleri Urbane is pleased to present RIPE, an exhibition featuring the work of numerous artists from its roster. The group exhibition features recently created works to offer the latest updates from these artists’ studios located around the country and abroad. Also included are works from artists invited to exhibit with the gallery for the first time, a reflection of the gallery’s ever-evolving vision and pursuit of new perspectives.
Benjamin Terry: Bits and Bobs
May 22 - June 26, 2021
Dallas-based artist Benjamin Terry returns for his third solo exhibition with the gallery. Following a postponed exhibition that resulted in a hugely successful virtual presentation in 2020, Bits and Bobs exhibits the progression Terry’s painting has taken over the last year and a half. In this body of work, the artist relaxes the strong narrative approach that has driven his past installations in favor of a more formal investigation of his work. Terry takes a decidedly intuitive approach to his newest paintings to further hone an aesthetic that obscures the boundary between guileless impulse and refined sophistication.
Meghan Borah: All Dressed Up And Nowhere To go
May 22 - June 26, 2021
Galleri Urbane is pleased to present Chicago artist Meghan Borah in her first solo show with the gallery. All Dressed Up and Nowhere To Go softly reflects on the past year’s feelings of solitude and isolation. In her paintings on canvas and drawings on paper, Borah captures quiet, introspective moments through an all female-presenting cast of figures. Rendered with ambiguous expressions and a soft touch, the subjects confront the viewer in a manner that leaves each work open for interpretation.
Liss LaFleur: Don’t Worry Baby
April 10 - May 17, 2021
Galleri Urbane is honored to present Don’t Worry Baby by Liss LaFleur, the Denton-based artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show features the third and latest installment of LaFleur’s Sapphic Serenade body of work, an ongoing series of biennially produced site-specific installations that combines video, performance and synthetic fringe. Together with the first work in a new photographic series, the installation explores queer subjectivity, histories and visibility.
B. Chehayeb: only the very young
April 10 - May 17, 2021
In her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Brooklyn artist B. Chehayeb presents a painting-based installation through which a number of significant personal memories are recounted. Chehayeb revisits these memoirs utilizing gestural, abstract canvases and reflects on the space they take up physically, mentally, and emotionally. Together with objects of definitive significance, the paintings provide Chehayeb an outlet to tenderly meditate on the history and future of her identity.
Stephen D’Onofrio: Produce(d) Paintings
February 20 - April 3, 2021
Philadelphia artist Stephen D’Onofrio presents Produce(d) Paintings, his third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition includes recently completed paintings that revisit D’Onofrio’s ongoing interest in centuries-old, European still life paintings and hone in on those that portray detailed studies of fruits and vegetables. The artist approaches this sub-genre from his characteristic viewpoint, offering a contemporary take on these classically depicted scenes.
Joseph Montgomery: Pigpen Dispossessed
February 20 - April 3, 2021
In his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Joseph Montgomery presents a series of new works that maintain his ongoing examination of abstract painting. Utilizing three distinctive, generative types of painting classified by the artist as shims, monotypes and collages, the exhibition points to an expanded understanding of painting through an exploration of its fundamental principles.
József Csató: Diary of Open Secrets
January 9 - February 13, 2021
Galleri Urbane is proud to host a solo exhibition featuring József Csató, the Budapest artist’s first physical solo exhibition in the United States. Following an online show in the spring of 2020, Csató’s much-anticipated Diary of Open Secrets arrives after nearly a year of exhibiting with the gallery and an exceptional reception from American audiences. The exhibition features all new work created in recent months and highlights a range of whimsical scenes completed in Csató’s distinct style that fuses multiple genres from the canon of painting.
Iren Tete: Phosphene
January 9 - February 13, 2021
Iren Tete presents a collection of recent ceramic sculptures for her introductory solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane. The artworks on view in Phosphene build upon established conceptual interests, such as the liminal space between stability and fragility, while also advancing a fascination with the potential found in spaces where logic leaves gaps. Tete invites viewers to reflect on these circumstances through a poetic implementation of color, form, surface and space.
Jason Willaford: In Stitches
November 21 - December 19, 2020
Jason Willaford presents a site-specific installation for In Stitches. Comprised of sections of vinyl billboard created over the last year (referred to by the artist as zooids in reference to their function as a singular unit in larger colonies), the large scale works revisit Willaford’s early interest in figurative movement. Loosely anthropomorphic figures tower above viewers and wrap around corners, appearing to run or stretch its limbs above its head. Various color palettes reflect changing approaches to the sewn constructions throughout the year they were completed over. Floating from the wall, the installation forms dramatic shadows and inhabits the space in a unique way.
Peter Frederiksen: In Stitches
November 7 - December 12, 2020
Galleri Urbane is pleased to introduce Chicago-based artist Peter Frederiksen in his first solo exhibition in Dallas, featuring new embroidered works on linen. With more than a decade of working in the medium, the artist’s current compositions are embedded with imagery from the golden age of American cartoon animation. Alluring in their warm familiarity, the works maintain darker notes that point toward an underlying sense of fear.
Jessica Drenk: Transmutations
September 19 - October 31, 2020
Returning for her first solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane since 2017, Jessica Drenk presents a highly-anticipated range of sculptural artworks in Transmutations. The exhibition is the gallery’s largest solo show of the year, situated across both of its front exhibition spaces. Known and sought after for her compelling transformations that make use of common materials like books, pencils, and PVC pipes, Drenk’s newest body of work continues to push the boundaries of her creative practice. The artist utilizes a number of new methods and materials that are being exhibited for the first time, furthering her fascinating ability to blur the boundary between the man-made and the natural.
Summer Collective
Gallery Group Exhibition
June 6 - August 29, 2020
Galleri Urbane is pleased to continue its exhibition programming with a group show titled Summer Collective. The show gathers together new work by many of the gallery’s represented artists alongside work by selected visiting artists. Installed across the entire gallery space, Summer Collective highlights a wide range of a mediums, conceptual interests, and approaches to making artistic objects. Alongside the physical exhibition in the Dallas gallery, an online version of the show has also been created for greater accessibility.
Loring Taoka: Oh Well
February 22 - March 28, 2020
Returning for his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Loring Taoka (Fayetteville, AR) presents a new series of 13 paintings in Oh Well. This exhibition reflects a current shift in Taoka’s studio practice from his well-known paintings on plexiglass to new explorations on panel. Taoka utilizes this updated surface to advance his concerns with ideas of perception, a process that requires developing alternative approaches to communicating the illusion of flat and dimensional space. Significant roles are played by geometric shapes and color choices, altogether creating an experience that requires viewers to question what they are seeing.
Rachel Grobstein: Ghost Stories
February 22 - March 28, 2020
Galleri Urbane is proud to introduce Rachel Grobstein (Brooklyn, NY) in her inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. Ghost Stories presents the latest in an ongoing body of work comprised of small cut paper paintings and miniature sculptures. Expanding on the artist’s long-standing interest in memory and the accumulation of personal things and objects, this exhibition catalogues items that surround commemoration, grief, and celebration. From small scale roadside memorials to a cut paper scene of objects found in a cemetery, the work contemplates the act of memorializing in an era of mass production/hyper consumption.
Heath West: utopia
January 11 - February 15, 2020
Los Angeles-based artist Heath West presents a new series of paintings in Utopia, his third solo exhibition with the gallery. The work advances the conceptual basis for West’s long-standing architectural subject matter in his largest paintings to date. Created in a range of bold, monochromatic palettes, these architectural portraits of unique locations point to a bygone era of architectural design that has been lost with the rise of ideals fostered under late capitalism. West rejects these new values, creating paintings that offer aspirational alternatives.
Rachel Hellmann: cross fold
January 11 - February 15, 2020
Galleri Urbane is pleased to host the third solo exhibition by gallery artist Rachel Hellmann. Titled Cross Fold, the show features a new series of Hellmann’s trademark shaped wood paintings alongside vibrantly colored works on paper. Through these two complimentary bodies of work, the artist explores the tension generated from discrepancies between perceived and actual space.Central to Hellmann’s practice are the painted, sculptural wall pieces for which the artist has become known for. Meticulously crafted by hand, the work stems from her family’s history of carpentry and deep appreciation of craft. In a process that begins with cardboard maquettes, Hellmann constructs complex structures that fold in accordion-like forms. The works begin to dissolve boundaries between painting and sculpture as its profile juts out from the wall.
ARDEN BENDLER BROWNING: SIGHT-READING
November 23 - December 28, 2019
Returning for her second solo exhibition in Dallas, Arden Bendler Browning presents a series of exciting developments in Sight-reading. The Philadelphia-based artist has become recognized for her large scale abstractions that compress multiple ephemeral experiences into a single instance. The body of work in this exhibition takes these efforts to a new level, implementing immersive virtual reality environments that bring Bendler Browning’s interests into the digital realm. This VR experience, alongside new works on paper and large-scale shaped paintings, translates the artist’s ever-present desire to observe, experience, and absorb new sensory information.
DENNIS KOCH: TIME/LIFE
November 23 - December 28, 2019
Galleri Urbane is pleased to introduce newly-represented artist Dennis Koch in his first solo exhibition with the gallery. Primarily known for his large-scale colored pencil drawings, TIME/LIFE shifts focus to Koch’s ongoing series of Cutouts. The body of work is comprised from dozens of vintage Life magazines, published in the 1960s and early 70s, whose covers have been meticulously excavated by hand to unveil images below. The resulting objects feature unforeseen correlations between the original cover stories and the culture-influencing contents within, ranging from the light and humorous to the ominous and critical. Through this exercise, Koch draws parallels between the contemporary cultural climate and the equally turbulent events of the 60s and 70s to complicate the idea of a linear advancement of time.
JASON WILLAFORD: SUMMER PRODUCE
October 12 - November 16, 2019
Following the success of this year’s After A Long Pause… exhibition, Jason Willaford returns to present his most recent vinyl constructions. Summer Produce includes new work completed this summer in the artist’s Florida studio as well as pieces finished in the weeks leading up to the exhibition. Taking the momentum from his April show, Willaford has employed new techniques and materials to continue pushing his approach to the unique medium.
SAMANTHA MCCURDY: SUN SYSTEMS
October 12 - November 16, 2019
Returning for her second solo exhibition with Galleri Urbane, Samantha McCurdy presents Sun Systems. The exhibition includes a new collection of the artist’s signature shaped paintings created by stretching spandex fabric over concealed objects to generate forms that reach out beyond the standard, rectilinear picture plane. In contrast to McCurdy’s previously created objects that have referenced the human body, including those in her 2018 exhibition Personal Boundaries, this body of work invites viewers to consider them in relation to celestial bodies of the universe.