January 26 - February 24, 2024
From McLennon Pen Co. Gallery:
“McLennon Pen Co. Gallery is thrilled to announce a group show curated by David Futscher featuring Austin-based artists Jeffrey From, Lindsey Lascaux, and Peter McRury, and Kansas-based artist Slater Reid Sousley.
These artists are united in treating their artworks as objects: as an end and aim of their practice. While artworks always transcend their visual presentation—either through the subjective reactions they elicit or through deliberately embedded messages—the works featured in this group show can be approached with little to no mediation. Each artist sees art as a parallel visual language through which they pursue their investigations and answer questions with visual objects. The materiality of their works is intrinsic to this pursuit. The material out of which they make their artworks stands as a creative choice and a means to pursue their investigation, but also as a self-imposed constraint. It is informed by their question, and through each material’s specificity, it is a crucial element of their answer.
From nostalgia to technology, from still life to abstract, from acrylic on linen to airbrush on canvas through to pen on vellum, this group show aims to inspire the viewer to wonder about what makes art beautiful in modernity.
The exhibition will run through February 24, 2024. We welcome you to make an appointment below, or on our website.
JEFFREY FROM (b. 1993, New York) is an artist and screen printer based in Austin, Texas. From graduated from Vassar College in 2015 with a degree in fine arts. After studying printmaking in New York, he spent the last five years working as a professional screen printer in Austin, Texas. Among others, From’s work was most recently featured in Austin based Icosa Gallery’s 2022 Concept Animals group show.
LINDSEY LASCAUX (b. 1991, Plano TX) is an Austin-based artist, writer, and educator. Lascaux has a BA in cultural anthropology and sociology from the Lewis & Clark College in Portland. More recently, she graduated from SAIC in 2019 with an MA in visual and critical studies from SAIC. Lascaux’s work delves into the complexities of mental health, societal inequities, and the tools we use to manage our emotions. Her work has been featured in exhibitions with Loyal Gallery, NADA, Martha’s, and Rift Contemporary, and her writing has appeared in various publications. She is also an active educator. Most recently, Lascaux led a course on 3D Modeling for Painters and Digital Painting at Austin Contemporary at Laguna Gloria.
PETER MCRURY (b. 1992, Toronto) is a Canadian artist living and working in Austin, Texas. McRury graduated from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with a bachelor of science in cognitive systems in 2017. During the pandemic, McRury showed works in virtual exhibitions hosted by galleries in Chicago, New York, and London. Since then, his work has been featured in the online publications Booooooom and Overstandard, and he has painted commissioned series for Ggiata Delicatessen in West Hollywood and, most recently, for New Balance’s Fall/Winter 2024 Paris Fashion Week showroom.
SLATER REID SOUSLEY (b. 1995, Kansas) currently splits his time working between his in-home studio in Overland Park, Kansas and his family’s farm in Central Missouri. Sousley studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, (SAIC), earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in May 2017. Continuing his arts education, Sousley received a Master of Arts in Art degree from Eastern Illinois University in May 2019, earning the Distinguished Graduate Award and the King-Mertz Award of Excellence. Most recently his work was included in a group show, titled Bloom, at Povos Gallery in Chicago, IL, in March and April of 2023.”
Reception: January 26, 2024 | 6–9 pm
2502 East 12th Street
Austin, 78702 Texas
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