Salon Art + Design, 2022
Mindy Solomon is pleased to present a collection of line inspired works in her eponymous gallery debut at Salon Art and Design New York. Focusing on a curated collection of pieces by gallery designers and artists Donté Hayes, hettler.tüllmann, Ernesto García-Sánchez, Matt Phillips, John Gill, Jose Sierra, Ree Soo-Jong, Sunkoo Yuh, Julia Kunin and Jay Kvapil.
Solomon will bring a delightful array of gestural works with an emphasis on movement and linearity. Colorful, dynamic, functional and fresh, the presentation is sure to inspire new ways of considering interior decor.
About the Artists
Donté K. Hayes graduated summa cum laude from Kennesaw State University at Kennesaw, Georgia with a BFA in Ceramics and Printmaking with an art history minor. Hayes received his MA and MFA with honors from the University of Iowa and is the 2017 recipient of the University of Iowa Arts Fellowship. Recent art exhibitions include groups shows at the Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, Wisconsin, the Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, and the 2021 Atlanta Biennial at the Atlanta Contemporary in Georgia. Donté’s artwork has been presented at the 1-54 art fair, London, England, Design Miami, Florida, and a solo presentation at the 2021 Armory Art fair in New York City. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, the Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, the Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, and The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina, among others. Hayes is a 2019 Ceramics Monthly Magazine Emerging Artists and Artaxis Fellow. Hayes has been in residence at the Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska, Township 10, Marshall, North Carolina, Penland School of Craft, Penland, North Carolina, the Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, Georgia, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine and Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, Maine. Donté is the Grand Prize winner of the “Coined in the South: 2022” exhibition at the Mint Museum. He is also the 2019 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern art from the Gibbes Museum of Art. Donté K. Hayes is represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, Florida.
Ernesto Garcia Sanchez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1989, he studied at the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts from 2005-2009, graduating with a specialty in painting, and later at the ISA Higher Institute of Arts in 2010-2015.
During the years 2010 – 2012 he taught a free painting and drawing workshop for children in Havana. Years later he held a creative workshop for the children of Holbox _ Mexico as part of the residence island, and another for young people in the city of Merida Yucatan.
He has made 10 individual exhibitions among which are: Polimorfos, 2021, in Merida Mexico. “La Linea” at Arsenal Habana, Havana Cuba and “Linearity”, at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami USA. Schemes II, 2016, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, USA. “Schemes”, 2016, study six six, Havana, Cuba. “Annotations of a Stutterer”, 2014, Galiano Gallery, Havana, Cuba.
He has participated in 25 collective exhibitions, among which are: “Connections”, 2019, Factoría Habana, “From a Rockefeller Fanatic to a Kruchev Disciple”, 2019 Collateral show to the Havana Biennial. “yes Cuba!”, 2017, Avery Gallery, Philadelphia, USA. “Binary”, 2014, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, USA. Project “Behind the wall”, 2015, collateral to the Havana Biennial.
John Gill is a ceramic artist and educator. Gill is a professor of Ceramic Art at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. A member of the Council of the International Academy of Ceramics, he has travelled and lectured throughout the US, Canada and China. His work has been shown at the L.A.County Museum of Art; Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York City; Harvey Meadows Gallery, Aspen; Kraushaar Gallery, New York City; Revolution Gallery, Detroit, Michigan; Yossi Milo Gallery, New York City and Hadler Rodriquez Gallery in New York. Gill’s work is held in the permanent collections of numerous art museums including the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Newark Museum, New Jersey, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gill’s work was included in the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Shapes From Out of Nowhere. His work is featured on the cover of the catalog.
hettler.tüllmann is the collaboration of designer Katja Hettler and architect Jula Tüllmann with a focus on furniture and interior design. Their designs are often created in collaboration with cooperatives in Ethiopia and Malawi respecting traditional manufacturing techniques and sustainability. hettler.tüllmann is also part of the Makers Circle of the Shaker Museum in Upstate New York. Their newly launched PET lounger has been nominated for the 10th Recycling Designprize – Outstanding Ideas 2022 and is currently being exhibited at the Marta Herford Museum (marta-herford.de) and their Nebule Lamps have been selected for the Bundespreis Ecodesign Germany of the IDZ | Internationales Design Zentrum Berlin A selection of their unique one-of-a-kind objects are represented by Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami.
Jay Kvapil is a California artist whose work has been shown at the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; the Oakland Museum; Scripps College; the San Jose Museum of Art; San Francisco State University; the Taipei Fine Arts Museum; and numerous other national and international exhibitions. Formerly represented by the Dorothy Weiss Gallery in San Francisco, the Joanne Rapp Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, he is currently represented by Galerie LeFebvre et Fils, Paris; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami; and Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles.
Upon finishing undergraduate studies, Jay studied tea ceremony ceramics in Japan at the Takatori Seizan Pottery on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan in 1974-75. After returning to the United States, he received both his MA and MFA from San Jose State University where he also served as Conference Director for the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts Conference in San Jose, 1982.
Now Professor Emeritus, he served numerous roles at California State University Long Beach over a period of 36 years, including Director of the School of Art, Associate Dean, and Interim Dean for the College of the Arts; and as Dean of the College of Arts, Media, and Communication at CSU Northridge. At the national level, he served as Board Member, Treasurer, and Member of the Commission on Accreditation of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
José Sierra was born in Mérida, Venezuela in 1975. While José is a self- taught artist, he was introduced to ceramics at the University of the Andes in Mérida, Venezuela from 1993-1996, where he learned the basic skills of mixing clay, glazes, as well as wheel throwing. In 1996, José began working professionally as an artist in Mérida, Venezuela, doing sculpture. In 2000, José moved to Iowa where he dedicated himself to both sculpture and pottery. José currently resides in New Mexico where he is a studio potter.
Julia Kunin lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.F.A. from The Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Solo exhibitions include: Mechanical Ballet at Kate Werble Gallery, NY, NY 2021, and Rainbow Dream Machine at McClain Gallery, Houston, TX 2020 -2021. Les Guerilleres Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, NY, 2015, Golden Grove, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2013, Nightwood, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, NY, 2012, Against Nature, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, 2007, Crimson Blossom Deutches Leder Museum, Offenbach, Germany 2002. Recent two person Exhibition: Wild Chambers, Mother Gallery, NY, NY 2022. Recent group Exhibitions include: Cosmic Geometries, curated by Hilma’s Ghost, EFA gallery, 2022, Fur Cup Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY 2019, Raw Design, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA 2018, “Said by Her” Lesley Heller Gallery, NY, NY, 2018, Kristen Lorello Gallery, NY, NY 2017 and Coming to Power Macarrone Gallery NY, NY 2016. Kunin was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary in 2013. In 2010 She received aTrust for Mutual Understanding Grant to Hungary. In 2008 she received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a residency at Art Omi. In 2007 she received the John Michael Kohler Arts/ Industry Artist Residency. Fellowships include: The MacDowell Colony, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, CEC Artslink grant to The Republic of Georgia, Artist Residency in Wiesbaden, Germany, Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, The Core Program in Houston, TX, and Skowhegan. Julia Kunin currently has a series of ceramic lamps at Ralph Pucci International. In 2022 she contributed artist interviews to Two Coats of Paint. She is also a member of the board of FIRE, The LGBTQ Fire Island artist residency. Her work was recently acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA.
Matt Phillips is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. His works o#en employ fundamental elements of painting: simple shapes, modulated values and color relationships. These rather rudimentary components are combined and remixed to produce unexpected outcomes. Color, shape, mark and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky and ultimately meaningful.
Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin, Germany; Studio d’Arte Raaelli, Trento, Italy; Devening Projects, Chicago, IL; Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine; and Steven Harvey, New York, NY. He has participated in group exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Hollis Taggart, New York, NY; Je Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.
Matt Phillips is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. His works o#en employ fundamental elements of painting: simple shapes, modulated values and color relationships. These rather rudimentary components are combined and remixed to produce unexpected outcomes. Color, shape, mark and form engage one another in both strange and familiar ways, becoming tense, humorous, quirky and ultimately meaningful.
Matt Phillips has had solo exhibitions at The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin, Germany; Studio d’Arte Raaelli, Trento, Italy; Devening Projects, Chicago, IL; Zillman Art Museum, Bangor Maine; and Steven Harvey, New York, NY. He has participated in group exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Hollis Taggart, New York, NY; Je Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR. Phillips has been an artist-in-residence at The Fores Project, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.
Ree Soo-Jong (born 1948) has long been recognised as one of Korea’s principal ceramic artists. Vitally, he has always been engaged with painting and drawing, running this thread alongside his ceramic activity. He is the painterly draftsman par excellence, and in many respects, drawing underpins everything he does.
Sunkoo Yuh was born in 1960 in South Korea, where he received his BFA from Hong Ik University. He immigrated to the U.S. IN 1988 to obtain his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred, NY and currently resides in Athens GA, where he is a professor of art at the University of Georgia. Yuh’s ceramic sculptures are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, and human figures. While Korean art and Buddhist, Christian, and Confucian beliefs inform some aspects of his imagery, his work is largely driven by implied narratives that often suggest socio-political critiques. Yuh’s current focus is on architectural- scale sculptures and pushing his medium to its limits of size.
