Limbless
M. David & Co. @ Art Cake
Friday / Saturday, 1 - 6 pm and by appointment
December 6 - December 28, 2024
Opening Reception: December 6, 6 - 9 pm
214 40th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232
In Gallery B:
Limbless: Selections from the Yellow Chair Salon’s Symposia! program
Featuring work by Lesley Bodzy, Robin Dintiman, Ginnie Peterson, Francesca Schwartz, and Sam Shaffer
Also on view:
In Gallery A:
Chuck Webster: The Completist - Works on Paper
In Gallery C:
We Can Be Heroes: with invited guests James Castle, Thornton Dial, Steve DiBenedetto, Chris Martin, and George Widener, co-curated by Michael David and Chuck Webster.
Hours: Friday - Saturday. 1 - 6pm or by appointment
Lesley Bodzy holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BA from Mount Holyoke College, and a JD from NYU. She also studied art at Hunter College and the Art Students League of New York. Her work is represented by galleries in Houston, TX, Saugerties, NY, Williamsburg, VA, and Jersey City, NJ and has been exhibited widely across the United States and abroad. Past exhibitions include SPRING/BREAK Art Show NYC 2022, ChaShaMa and Sculptors Alliance in New York City, Holy Art Gallery in London, UK, Site:Brooklyn, Emerge Gallery in Saugerties, NY, the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA, and the Meadows Gallery in Tyler, TX. Recent press includes White Hot Magazine, Art Houston Magazine, Cultbytes, Art Fuse, and Art Spiel.
Robin Dintiman’s work is characterized by a deep connection to nature. Whether she is working directly with objects found in nature or taking nature as her subject, Dintiman strives to capture the intimate, emotional quality of certain natural settings, suffused as they are with time, change, and personal memory. She has taught at California College of Arts as well as other CA colleges, Renaissance Arts School and the San Francisco Arts Foundation; she is on the faculty at the Manhattan Graphics Center. She was invited to submit to a collaborative PhD program at Sheiffield Hallam University “Lab 4 Living” Art Science Program, pending return to normal health situation in the UK. Dintiman was nominated for a Fleishhacker 2019. She has received fellowships from the Yaddo Corporation, Dorland’s Mountain Colony, Haystack School and Cooper Union as well as a California Arts Council Grants. Dintiman’s work—including sculptures, prints, drawings, and collages—have been exhibited in venues such as ICPNY, Christy’s Mid Town, museums and many venues across the country as well as abroad. Her works are included in permanent collections of the Philadelphia Art Museum, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Chrysler Museum and The Arkansas Museum of Art, Grace Cathedral San Francisco and Toyobo Senior Center, Osaka. She is a member of A.I.R. in Brooklyn, NY and GRO in Marin, CA.
Ginnie Peterson draws from her experience of farm work, decades in the flower world and from her work in her father's prosthetics lab to make her sculpture. She moves between materials from plaster to porcelain to found materials. Ginnie was born in NYC and has moved fifteen times. Her work wrestles with idea of time and mortality. Along the way, she has made work in Connecticut,Colorado, Minnesota, and most recently in West Falmouth, Massachusetts. Ginnie has found her art homes over the years at the Worcester Craft Center, Earlham college, University of Colorado, University of Minnesota at Split Rock and Castle Hill in Truro.
Francesca Schwartz is an artist and psychoanalyst based in New York. Her artwork is informed by a fascination with the materiality and metaphors of the female body. Schwartz works in a range of mixed media processes encompassing painting, sculpture, photography, and collage, and her diverse materials include paint, inks, dyes, wax, bone, textiles, and found objects. She has had solo exhibitions at Mu Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2022; M. David & Co. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2021; and Studio 1608, Miami, FL, 2018. Her recent group exhibits include “Homage” in Brooklyn, NY, 2024; “Feminine Visions” at Landmark Art Space in New York, NY; Lichtundfire Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, 2022; M. David & Co. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2022; Postcards from the Edge, New York, NY, 2019; and New York School of the Arts, New York, NY, 2018. Art fairs that have featured her work include Works on Paper, 2021; Market, Art and Design, 2021; and The Other Art Fair, 2021. Schwartz’s work has been featured in publications including, ROOM and Women United Art Magazine, and she has completed several residencies at M. David & Co. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Sam Shaffer’s paintings are about looking into oneself and looking out into the world to see what things may be and to find a way forward. He begins with drawings or a photograph--a kernel of an idea, a starting point to grow a painting from. Moving from there in a direction, sometimes right, sometimes a detour--back and forth, add and subtract— he keeps working. Hoping at the end, a painting will appear out of what is left. Some parts of the paintings move while others sit quietly. Stories about color, a dream, a passing glance. He uses paint to slow down the picture--a process both random and deliberate--finding new ways to explore.
