The Painting Show

This show grew from a conversation between two HAIR+NAILS artists, Emma Beatrez and Rachel Collier. They made these parameters, an artistic challenge, to share: Dimensions of 60x40 inches, stretched canvas. PAINTING (these two artists create with an expansive definition of “painting” but for this challenge, they aim for paint applied to stretched canvas). They were interested in investing several months on their paintings. To let them develop over time. Ryan Fontaine joined in on the challenge and the idea grew into this show.

Included Artists

Lee Noble

Mary Griffin

Bruce Tapola

Andrea Qual

Gregory Rick

Joe Schaeffer

Rachel Collier

Ryan Fontaine

Emma Beatrez

Kristen Sanders

Mathew Ziefeldt

Matt Momchilov

Lauren dela Roche

Autumn Garrington

Christina Ballantyne

Maiya Lea Hartman

Jonathan Herrera Soto

Cameron Patricia Downey

Kieran Myles-Andrés Tverbakk

Artist Bios:

ANDREA QUAL

Andrea is an oil painter. She received her BFA at NDSU with an emphasis in oil painting. She currently has a studio in Des Moines, IA. @andreaqual

AUTUMN GARRINGTON

Autumn Garrington is a painter from small town Iowa currently based in Minneapolis. Garrington graduated from MCAD in 2017 and has been showing her work regionally. She makes personal narrative work that centers her complicated relationships and bittersweet fantasies. The subjects of her paintings are often experiencing radical vulnerabilities that are both real and imagined. For her, painting is a fool’s paradise, and she is taking a permanent vacation. @aut.umngarrington

BRUCE TAPOLA

Bruce Tapola is an artist living in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his BFA from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and his MFA from Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. He has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been the recipient of several awards including the McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship. He is a member of several artist collectives including Paintallica, Free Art School, and The Weekend Group. He likes long walks on the beach at sunset, dogs and cuddling. @btapola

CAMERON PATRICIA DOWNEY

Cameron Downey is an anti-disciplinary artist and environmental scientist from North Minneapolis. Downey's work mediates concepts and bounds of world-building and survival artistry by way of Black, fantastical and precarious spaces and forms. Cameron uses sculpture, film, photography, archive, the written and the performed to tease language out of the minute. cameronpdowney.com @killkamdow

CHRISTINA BALLANTYNE

Christina Ballantyne lives and works in Chicago, IL, and Milwaukee, WI. She received her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 and was recipient of the Helen Frankenthaler Award in 2020. She has shown work in Chicago, IL; New York City, NY; Milwaukee, WI; and Austin, TX. She is an adjunct professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. www.christinaballantyne.com @xtinaballantyne2.0

EMMA BEATREZ:

Emma Beatrez is a transdisciplinary artist from Minnesota. They graduated from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2020 with an MFA in Interdisciplinary studio art. Beatrez received their BFA with an emphasis in oil painting at North Dakota State University in 2018. Beatrez is the co-founder/curator at Night Club Gallery in Minneapolis alongside artist Lee Noble. www.emmabeatrez.com @emma.beatrez

GREGORY RICK 

Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in South Minneapolis. He received his BFA from CCA  and his MFA from Stanford University. Developing a historical imagination and a fondness for  drawing stories, Gregory Rick collapses history while confronting personal trauma. His works exist as  reflections of his personal experience while being in dialogue with the wider world. Gregory Rick  has received the Combat Infantry Badge, the Yamaguchi print making award, the Nathan Oliviera  fellowship, and the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award, the Daedalus award, the SFMOMA SECA  award, the Artadia award, and the Tournesol fellowship and has shown in museums and galleries in  both Minneapolis and California. @gregoryrick2017 

JOE SCHAFFER 

Joe Schaeffer (b. 1990) is a graphic designer, artist and educator. He was born in Santa  Barbara, CA, raised and currently resides in Sioux Falls, SD. Schaeffer is a co-owner at graphic  design studio Made By Thaw, maintains his own art practice and is an Assistant Professor of  Graphic Design at the University of Sioux Falls.

His work is grounded in his background of design. He works intuitively with ink, oil, acrylic, and  various other media to create works that reference elements of Calligraphy, Typography, and  Graffiti. Schaeffer’s use of black ink in his painting compositions is a distinctive feature of his  visual language. He continues to investigate ways in which elements of his paintings may  translate to other output such as digital design, sculpture, furniture and clothing. www.joeschaeffer.work/art @joeschaef 

JONATHAN HERRERA SOTO 

Jonathan Herrera Soto is a printmaker and makes work as ritual to celebrate his ghosts and  fragmented ancestral lineage. By animating gestures of wounding and mending he constructs  visual languages of remembering. He is interested in the fragmentation of memory, the task of  remembering, and the necessary failure involved in the process. 

Herrera Soto holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and is a current Paul and  Daisy Soros fellow supporting work towards an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at the Yale School of  Art. www.jonathanherrerastudio.com @produce.work 

KIERAN MYLES-ANDRÉS TVERBAKK 

Kieran Myles-Andrés Tverbakk (b. 1994 Houston TX) is a queer, first gen, trans-disciplinary artist  living on the unceded homelands of the Osage, Caddo, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ peoples. Utilizing  techniques from a range of practices including sculpture, photography, painting, DIY, and ritual, they  work to create art that can only be identified as the thing itself. Tverbakk received their BFA from  the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2016 and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas. www.ktverbakk.com @kieranito 

KRISTEN SANDERS 

Kristen Sanders (b. 1989, California) is an artist living and working in Minneapolis and St Paul, MN.  Her recent paintings investigate the tethers between consciousness and the body, often encircling  narratives of self-discovery. Prehistoric references coincide with post-human signifiers, resulting in  ambiguously human-ish figures that teeter between past and future. Mask-like faces and detached  skins intersect with things like fossilized shells, hominid skulls, or rudimentary marks scratched into a  surface.  

Kristen Sanders received her BA from the University of California Davis in 2012 and her MFA from  Virginia Commonwealth University in 2016. Recent exhibitions include Infinite Beach at Dreamsong  in Minneapolis, MN; Exit 26 at Monti 8 in Latina, Italy; Lucky Charm with Moosey Art in London,  UK; 44 Signs of the Times at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ; Early Bodies at Kathryn  Brennan Gallery in New York, NY; and Right Now at Hair + Nails in Minneapolis, MN. Her work 

has been reviewed on Artspace and in 2016 she was featured on the cover of New American  Paintings. Sanders has also been featured at NADA Miami in 2019 and Felix Fair Los Angeles in  2019.  www.kristensanders.com @kristen__sanders 

LAUREN dela ROCHE: 

A self-taught artist, Lauren Roche fully embraced her talents at the encouragement of her peers, Tynan Kerr and Andrew Mazorol. Having worked the autumn sugar beet harvests together in North Dakota, the three spent their free hours in a heated trailer drawing to no end. In 2012, she exhibited her first full body of work alongside theirs at Modern Times Cafe in Minneapolis, and shortly after was awarded the Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship (2012-13). Roche was then included in a number of group shows leading to her first solo show, Silent Partner, at Bockley Gallery (2016). She has shown at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, the Delphian Gallery in London, and the Material Fair (2020), Mexico City among other venues. She was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2018) and today her works are in the collections of the North Dakota Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art along with numerous private collections. 

Roche currently lives and works in St Louis MO, and maintains a cabin in rural Minnesota, to which she and her partner return often. www.laurenrocheart.com @roach_coache 

LEE NOBLE 

Lee Noble (b. 1983, Nashville, TN) is an artist and musician who works in painting, sound, video,  and installation. Drawing on influences that include film history, punk culture, and science fiction, his recent collage-style paintings explore images of American fear. He is currently based in Minneapolis where he received his MFA from MCAD in 2020. He attended the Mountain School of Arts in 2017,  and was a guest composer at EMS Stockholm in 2019. He has performed at venues and festivals  that include Hopscotch Fest in Raleigh, ReWire in The Hague, Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, and  the Walker Art Center. His visual work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Austin, Minneapolis, New  York, Manchester, and Berkeley, and in publications by Picturebox Inc., Thames & Hudson, Spector  Books, and Secret Headquarters. http://www.leenoble.rip/ @_leenoble 

MAIYA LEA HARTMAN 

Maiya Lea Hartman is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist and muralist based in Minneapolis,  Minnesota. Their work merges various materials, forms and approaches to blur the boundaries of  typical media-based categories, creating hybrids and new ways of understanding bodies and  identity. They incorporate fabric, hair, and objects into their large-scale paintings, giving the figures 

a sense of viscerality, as if they’re engaging with the physical space of the real world. In 2019  Maiya was accepted as one of nine artists in Studio 400, an incubator program for early-career  artists. Since then, Hartman has exhibited their work both locally and nationally. In 2021 Hartman  was awarded a VSA emerging young artist award through the Kennedy Center in Washington DC  and has a painting included in their two-year traveling exhibition. Maiya was a 2022 artist in  residence at Caldera Arts in Sisters, Oregon. Hartman just opened their first solo exhibition, That  Which Does Not Burn, as a conclusion to their year-long residency at the Minnesota African  American Heritage Museum and Gallery in North Minneapolis. They are a 2022 Next Step Fund  Grantee and current Artist in Residence with the ALVERA apartments in St.Paul, Minnesota. Maiya  also collaborates as a lead artist and administrator for the mural collective, Creatives After Curfew  and is the Co-facilitator of a critique program called the Conversation Lab through Public  Functionary. www.maiyaleaartist.com @maiyaleaart 

MARY GRIFFIN 

Mary Griffin was born and raised in Flagstaff, Arizona. She received a BFA from Northern Arizona  University in 2010 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. Material,  gesture, color and pattern strongly influence her visual language. Griffin exhibits work in the U.S.  and most recently at Nido, a residency and exhibition space at Monte Castello di Vibio (Umbria),  Italy. Based in Chicago, Griffin currently teaches painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago  and works in her studio in East Garfield Park. www.marygriffin.net @shoedazed_ 

MATHEW ZEFELDT 

Mathew Zefeldt (b. 1987, California) is Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing at the  University of Minnesota. He received his MFA in studio art from UC Davis in 2011 and received his  BA in Art at UC Santa Cruz. He has had solo exhibitions at The Hole, NY; Celaya Brothers, Mexico  City; Hair + Nails, Minneapolis; Big Pictures, Los Angeles; 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City; The Soap  Factory, Minneapolis; Circuit 12, Dallas; Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento; Minneapolis  Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Hap Gallery, Portland; and Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa  Monica. He has exhibited in group exhibitions at Joshua Liner Gallery, NY; Lisa Cooley, NY; MOHS  Exhibit, Copenhagen; Left Field, San Luis Obispo; and The Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul; Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Currier Art Museum, New Hampshire, and The Oklahoma  Contemporary, Oklahoma City. www.mathewzefeldt.com @mathew_zefeldt

MATT MOMCHILOV: 

Matt Momchilov (Born 1986) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. He received his BFA  from the California College of The Arts in 2008, but considers himself self-taught as he has spent the  last 10 years actively un-learning his formal conditioning, inherited priorities, and returning to the  freedom of a beginners mind. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, won awards,  been featured in magazines, but is most proud of being a conscious participant in the production of  joy. He loves you. @germ_burn 

RACHEL COLLIER: 

Rachel Collier is an interdisciplinary artist living in Minneapolis. She has her BFA from the School of  the Art Institute of Chicago and recent solo shows include: Hair and Nails Gallery (Minneapolis,  MN,) the Nemeth Art Center (Park Rapids, MN,) Saint Kate’s Arts Hotel (Milwaukee, WI). Recent  group shows include: Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY,) Rochester Art Center (Rochester, MN) and  (upcoming) NADA Miami. Residencies: The Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY (2021, 2022,) Anderson  Center Jerome Emerging Artist Residency Fellowship, Red Wing MN (2022,) Nido invitational  residency and exhibition, Monte Castello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy (2022,) (upcoming) Anderson  Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO (2022.) www.rachelcollier.com @rachelcolliermwa 

RYAN FONTAINE 

Ryan Fontaine is a self-taught visual artist, gallerist and musician based in Minneapolis, MN. He co directs HAIRandNAILS Contemporary Art, with partner Kristin Van Loon. www.ryanfontaine.com @oval_headley 

Gallery Hours

Walk-ins welcome: Thursdays/Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays 1:00- 5:00 October 6 - 23.

Image:  detail of Pete and Repeat (2022) by Maiya Lea Hartman, acrylic, oil, paper, synthetic braiding hair on canvas. 60”x 40”


This exhibition is proudly part of TC Arts week October 12-16, 2022. Learn More.