Primary is proud to present OMGWTF, a group exhibition featuring Oona Brangam-Snell, Tim Brawner, Andrej Dubravsky, Loren Erdrich, Gao Hang, Cody Hudson, Ted Lawson, Mía Lee, Tuilelaith-Fionnuala Onòra, Ryan Schneider, Mr. StarCity, and Wade Tullier.

In one way or another, this exhibit is a thick and sloppy brush stroke dragged across a surface of your preference. It is an illegal U-Turn from the right lane at 35 MPH; a high-speed crash course in ass shaking while mouthing the lyrics "cotton candy, sweetie gold, let me see the Tootsee Roll."

Sometimes, it may present itself as a decadent dessert for your first course at a late-night dinner. Other times, it could wander off into a field with a Florida man holding an alligator and picking mushrooms. Occasionally, this offering might sound like a punk riff with extra distortion played at 120 decibels. It could easily vibrate like blue text on a red background or move like a VW Cabriolet 5-Speed with the top-down blasting Young MC while waving a white flag.

The exhibition title, OMGWTF, is a contemporary cultural acronym commonly associated with a wide range of passionate responses. It is being utilized here as a compass. It serves as a reminder that instinct and intuition, opposed to academia, are unrivaled gifts to be built upon in the execution of creativity.

In the end, this presentation is the cultivation of unpredictability and the result of a dedicated search for honest works.

Opens: November 30, 2021 | 4 - 8 PM

More about the Artists:

Oona Brangam-Snell (b. 1989, New York City, NY) is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and works as a senior designer for the textile firm Maharam. Recent exhibitions include Nina Johnson, Miami, FL; Friedman Benda, New York, NY; Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been featured in Elephant Magazine, Artnet News, Artviewer, Artforum, T Magazine, and Architectural Digest Design. Brangam-Snell’s work is included in the collection of Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA and the X Museum in Beijing, China. Her first solo exhibition at Mrs. was held in January 2020. Brangam-Snell’s work has also been included in a three-person exhibition with Emily Ludwig Shaffer and Mike Goodlett in the summer of 2019 and presented by Mrs. for Future Fair online, May 2020. Mrs. will be presenting a solo booth of her work for NADA Miami 2021.

Tim Brawner (b. 1991, Omaha, Nebraska) Received and MFA from Yale School of Art, 2020. Exhibtions include Zang Gallery, Brooklyn, N, PAGE (NYC), New York, NY, Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT, Ashes On Ashes, New York, NY, Yale Painting & Printmaking MFA, Galerie Perrotin, Papa Projects, Minneapolis, MN, Union Pacific, London, Unit London, London. Residencies and fellowships include, Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art, Dumfries House, Royal Drawing School, Viewing Program, The Drawing Center. Tim Brawner lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC.

Andrej Dubravsky (b. 1987, Nove Zamky, SK) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2013. Andrej has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally, including monumental gallery and museum exhibitions such as: "Golden Sands,' Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin, DE (2012); "Sunsets Comments Insects Downloads," Zahorian & Co Gallery, Bratislava, SK (2014); "Potential Wasted," Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, DE (2019) and "Lava Run," Atelier XIII, Bratislava, SK (2019) among others. Andrej lives and works in Bratislava, SK.

Loren Erdrich has been awarded residencies at the Jentel Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, Sculpture Space, the Vermont Studio Center, and thrice at Art Farm Nebraska. She has notably exhibited with Shrine, Harper’s, and the Spring Break Art Show in New York, Wasserman Projects in Detroit, and Guts Gallery in the UK. Erdrich frequently collaborates with the poet Sierra Nelson, co-authoring the award-winning I Take Back the Sponge Cake (published by Rose Metal Press) and Isolation (limited edition, 2020). She holds an MFA from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. Erdrich lives and works in New York, NY.

Gao Hang. A Houston-based Chinese artist, Master of Fine Art degree in Painting/Drawing from University of Houston, and Bachelor of Art degree in Oil Painting from the Capital Normal University, 2020 Houston Artadia fellow. Gao's artworks have been shown in major galleries and art museums in China, America, Netherlands, Spain, Korea, Germany, and England. Gao Hang illustrates modern human habits with a sense of humor and absurdity while ironically commenting on the viewer's need for instant gratification. Hang evokes the postmodernist neo-pop movement by using subject matter and color as a conceptual and structural armature. Deliberately, Hang uses florescent hues which he considers to be the tones of his generation.

Cody Hudson (B. 1971, Kenosha, WI) Cody Hudson is a Chicago-based artist, also known for his graphic design contributions under the name Struggle Inc. His paintings, sculpture, and graphic works have been exhibited throughout the US, Europe, and Japan, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), V1 (Copenhagen), Hellerau Art Center (Dresden), MU (Eindhoven), Rocket Gallery (Tokyo), Elmhurst Art Museum, (Elmhurst, IL), Detroit Museum of New Art (Detroit, MI), and the Chicago Design Museum (Chicago). He is also a founding partner in the James Beard Foundation award-winning Land and Sea Dept. creative group.

Ted Lawson (b. 1970 Brookline, MA) lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works in Long Island City, Queens. He received his BFA in Sculpture from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. His work is an ongoing investigation of the male psyche, questioning notions of institutional privilege, asymmetrical power dynamics, and the discomfort of intimacy in a world where traditional discursive relations are constantly upended and continually under siege. In paintings, sculptures, and myriad situational tableaux, Lawson’s work generally adheres to an overall monochromatic tonality, even while its constituent parts are as disparate as synthetic hair, robotic eyes, petrified wood, or the cast-off readymades made instantly available by consumer culture and ever more rapid cycles of planned obsolescence.

Mía Lee is a visual artist born and raised in Chicago. She can be considered a neo-expressionist - exploring exaggerated forms and figurative images in her work. Mía shows a playful presentation of the object and subject while revealing an honest depiction of her feelings and inner thoughts, with no censor or hidden agenda. Her artwork is translated in many forms including, print, canvas, and textile, and was most recently included in“Growing Pains”, an exhibition that explores themes of community, narratives of family, nostalgia, and connectivity across their bodies of work at Anthony Gallery, Chicago.

Tuilelaith-Fionnuala Onòra - Some of my earliest memories are of being at my parents’ summer art camps and getting to play with clay as the older kids worked on ceramic projects. During the year my mother would do clay with the children in her daycare, and in the evening work on her own ceramic projects but she wouldn’t get far before I insisted on partaking.

I draw, paint and sculpt on slab-built clay pots or pinch pots creating small colorful functional ceramic objects that have tons of personality. I take inspiration from my interests in science fiction, pop culture, our animals, food I love, graphic novels, and everyday emotions.

Currently, I obsess over the never-ending possibilities that clay has to offer. That obsession translates into complex colorful, multilayered work that is forever getting busier and busier. I like a pot that has a lot to say and offers new discoveries each time you use it.

Ryan Schneider was born in Indianapolis, IN, and holds a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Ross + Kramer Gallery, New York, Louis Buhl, Detroit, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen. and The Pit, Los Angeles, CA. Recent group exhibitions include at The Hall Art Foundation in Reading, VT curated by Eric Fischl.

His work is held in public and private collections worldwide, including the Hall Art Foundation and the Bank of America Collection. He has been reviewed or featured in The New Yorker, Art in America, The New York Times, Modern Painters, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtInfo, Artsy, Kunsten.DK, and The Paris Review, among many other publications. After many years in New York City, Schneider now lives and works in Joshua Tree, California.

MrStarCity (b. 1979, Brooklyn, New York City) based out of New York City and Los Angeles, David MrStarCity White has become increasingly recognized for his experimental storytelling through means of figurative painting and poetry. MrStarCity creates bodies of work that span a diverse range of media from painting to sculpture, poetry to music, performance to the moving image. In recent years, MrStarCity has become increasingly recognized for his playful abstract portraits of both real and imagined subjects, embodying an otherworldly synthesis of the beauty, passion, and conflict that define our world.

White has exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions with renowned international galleries and institutions in New York City, Miami, Seattle, Los Angeles, London, and Stockholm. His work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Instyle, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic.

Wade Tullier (b.1988, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a visual artist working primarily in ceramics and sculpture. His work and process are heavily influenced by storytelling and being raised within the landscape of southern Louisiana. He holds a BFA from Louisiana State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Tullier has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent shows in Miami, Chicago, and Detroit. His work is included in ‘With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932’ at the Cranbrook Art Museum and is presenting new work in ‘Clay Pop’ at Jeffrey Deitch New York this fall.

More about Primary:

Primary. (Est. in 2007) is a context & research-driven curatorial collective with a focus on public arts. Located in Little River, Miami, our private residence explores modern ideas on the subject of live/work, connecting new voices in contemporary art with growing audiences & collections.

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