Grace Weaver – Pedestrian

Grace Weaver's pictures are a discovery. Figurative painting, totally contemporary, graceful, sexy, thoughtful or amused. Images of Generation Z, that is connected across the globe and ›up-to-date‹, but still feels lost between exuberance and exhaustion. In expansive street scenes and solemn interiors, the young protagonists always seem to be asking: Who could they be or want to be?

For »Pedestrian«, Grace Weaver has put together drawings and sketches that, with delicate allusions and precise to the point, are reminiscent of Frank O'Hara's »Notes on Second Avenue«. They are notes in the progressive form, in which situational observation of everyday life meets subtle self-reflection: »everything in it either happened to me or I felt happening (saw, imagined)«.

Opening
Sunday, May 21, 11 a.m

Welcome
Wolfgang Riehle, Chairman

Introduction
Christian Malycha, Art Director

Grace Weaver: Born in 1989 in Vermont. 2009-2011 University of Vermont, Burlington. 2009 Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne. 2011-2015 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. 2012 Artist in Residence, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. 2014 VCUARTS Dean's Graduate Research Grant.

Selected solo exhibitions: 2018 Kunstverein Oldenburg. 2017 Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo. Koppe Astner, Glasgow. Pedestrian, Kunstverein Reutlingen. Super busy, Soy Capitán, Berlin. 2015 Skinny Latte, Soy Capitán, Berlin. Teenage Dream, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York. 2012 The Interior Landscape, Dakshina Chitra, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Emoticon, Burlington City Arts, Burlington. 2011 Thin-Skinned, Space Gallery, Burlington.

Selected group shows: 2017 Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco. Florine Stettheimer - Collapsed Time Salon, Jeffrey Deitch / Armory Show, New York. 2016 No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses, ARoS – Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus. Characters, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen. Surface Tension, Simone Subal, New York. 2015 Southern Hospitality, University of Georgia. 2014 Mash-up, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond. 2013 Once They Were, Burlington City Arts, Burlington. Blind Date, VCU FAB Gallery, Richmond. 2012 Like, whatever, Burlington City Arts, Burlington.