Jump Shot Group Show

Ben K. Voss lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has had solo exhibitions at Left Field in Los Osos, California; Gazebo in Brooklyn, NY and 57W57 Arts in NYC. Group exhibitions include Sperling, Germany; Tourist, Vermont; Peninsula Art Space, New York; George, New York; Fjord, Philadelphia; Wild Palms, Germany; and Monte Bianco Montagna Sacra, Italy. His paintings have been published n New American Paintings, Edition 140, and ArtMaze, Issue 13. A collaborative publication Imprints with artist Midge Wattles and publisher Chateau International was released in Sept 2020. 

Marianne Gagnier lives and works in Brooklyn and Copake, New York.  She has had one-person exhibitions at Thomas Deans and Company, Maurice Arlos Gallery, and Prince Street Gallery.  Selected group exhibitions include: Equity Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, Anthony Philip Gallery, Life on Mars, Western Carolina University, Haverford College, Ingber Gallery, Cedar Crest College, the New York Studio School, P.S. #1, “The Times Square Show” and “The Dinner Party Project”.  Her work is in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of Western Carolina University, Bryn Mawr College, and the Public Securities Association.  She received a B.A from Yale College in 1977 and an M.F.A from Parsons School of Design in 1993.

Calvin Burton lives in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been included in exhibitions at Present Company, Brooklyn; Jack Hanley Gallery, New York; Branch Gallery, Durham; Bronx Museum, New York; Appetite, Buenos Aires; Raw & Co., Cleveland; Reynolds Gallery, Richmond; Samson Projects, Boston; Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, and Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Veracruz. Burton was awarded a Virginia Museum Artist Fellowship and a Fellowship at the Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace program. He holds a BA in Art and Mathematics from Brown University and an MFA in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University. 

Maria Walker (b. Philadelphia, PA 1980) received her MFA from Tyler School of Art and her BA in Visual Art from Brown University, where she also completed a Capstone Project in Poetry. She attended the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture in 2011, and received an Individual Grant from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development in 2013. Walker’s work has been published in the Smithsonian Magazine and reviewed as a Critic’s Pick on Artforum.com, as well as in the Brooklyn Rail, New American Paintings, and Beautiful Decay. In 2014 Walker released Wise Object, a chapbook of her poems, in conjunction with her solo show at Projekt722 in Brooklyn.

Al Svoboda (*1991) grew up in Syracuse, New York, a post-industrial city in central New York State. He received his BFA in Sculpture from Syracuse University and went on to participate in a formative guest residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany in 2013, culminating in an exhibition in the same city. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation of paintings at 57W57 Arts in New York City (2021) and participation in group shows in London (2021) and Karlsruhe, Germany (2022). Svoboda lives and works in New York City.

Julie Torres is a Hudson NY-based artist and curator. Torres’ artwork and projects have been covered by PBS, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Gawker, and Gothamist. She co-directs LABspace gallery in Hillsdale NY with partner and fellow artist Ellen Letcher.

Christopher Peterson is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and lives and works in central Virginia. His work was exhibited in a solo show at Tourist Gallery, White River Junction, Vermont in 2021.

David Scanavino (b. 1978, Denver, CO) lives and works in New York City. A graduate of RISD (BFA Painting, 2001) and the Yale University School of the Arts (MFA Painting, 2003), Scanavino has had recent solo museum exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, and at the Pulitzer Foundation of Art in St. Louis, MO. He has had solo and group exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York; Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; Marlborough Gallery Broome Street, New York; Team Gallery, New York; Bureau Gallery, New York; Marianne Boesky, New York; and Derek Eller Gallery, New York. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtReview, The New York Times and the New York Observer, and other publications.