ambivalent figuration;people

Samson Projects is proud to present an exhibition treating figurative painting. “All representation is political.” It doesn’t matter how i/you look, that presupposes i/you want i/you to like the way i/you look. Alliterative need: formality is not form. Partner to Partner; you will never know a person like I do. a friend of yours can be positively fully yours, and never mine. my memories of a friend are never the same as yours of him/her. i learn more about your friends, through you. and i learn more about my friends through you. in the mirror; do you see the same person I do? Ida Applebroog. Hannah Barrett’s recent painting is from her Secret Society. Katherine Bradford has a solo exhibition with us in the Fall. Joe Bradley’s work is in the Whitney Biennial (NYC), and is represented by Canada (NYC) where Katherine Bernhardt has a solo on view. Nina Buxenbaum recently moved to Boston: welcome. Matthias Dornfeld has a solo show at Blanket Gallery (Vancouver) right now. Craig Drennen has a mistress here and one in Beijing at Gallery Paio Paio. Inka Essenhigh has an upcoming solo exhibition at Victoria Miro Gallery (London). André Ethier has a solo exhibition at Honor Fraser (LA) ‘til mid-May. Jason Fox's work proffers more answers than questions. Tim Gardner portrays a big, strong man tiny. Tomoo Gokita just closed a solo show at Taka Ishii (Tokyo). Kay Harwood is in a group exhibition at 11 Rivington (NYC) this summer. Daniel Heidkamp recently exhibited in the window of a very tall man’s home in Brooklyn. Daniel Hesidence is about to open at Feature Inc. (NYC) Khalif Kelly gets his MFA from Yale this month. Gustav Kluge? There should be more of Danielle Krcmar’s cement busts out in the world and in this exhibition. Steve Locke is somewhere in Turkey. PictureBox & ZieherSmith just published a monograph for Eddie Martinez. Keith Mayerson will have a solo at Derek Eller (NYC) this Fall. Sandeep Mukherjee currently has a solo exhibition at Sister (LA). Alice Neel! Anders Oinonen deters an understanding of figuration. Michael Patterson-Carver just got an Altoids Award. Marc Seguin has a solo with Envoy (NYC) this Winter. Suzannah Sinclair has solo show on view at Voges+Partners (Frankfurt). Neal Tait has a current solo exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (NYC). Andrew Tavarelli’s works are prints and paintings at the same time. Tommy White received his MFA from MassArt and shows with Harris Lieberman (NYC) where Thomas Zipp has a current solo exhibition. Balint Zsako just closed an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto).