Object: Subject; Featuring Katie Butler, Nora Riggs, Stacey Beach and Gabriel Kasor

Marrow Gallery is pleased to present Object: Subject, a still life  show which features the work of Katie Butler, Nora Riggs, Stacey Beach and Gabriel Kasor. Objects collected and organized are symbolic of who we are, who we want to be and how we represent ourselves. Collections, Tchotchkes, books; things are given value, whether sentimental, monetary or aesthetic. To capture and create an index of objects romanticizes them and gives them meaning. Beyond the traditional; culinary, floral, Memento Mori, the four artists take a contemporary approach to the genre, mimicking the ideology of the still life, with stylized, posed and edited objects, but centered in the here and now through political and social commentary. 

Stacey Beach is a California artist whose piece-sewn textile works celebrate the marginalized traditions of textile, decorative and folk arts and their inextricable association with the maternal, the domestic and the feminine. Beach holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and has shown across the US. She has been shortlisted for the Hopper Prize twice and previously worked as painting assistant to Takashi Murakami.

Katie Butler is a painter based in Akron, Ohio. Her allegorical still life paintings provide critical commentary on the financial disparities in American society. Recent exhibitions include the Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI; Tchotchke Gallery, New York, NY; Steven Zevita sGallery, Boston, MA; Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Butler received her BFA from the University of Akron in 2017 and her MFA from Kent State University in 2021.

Gabriel Kasor is a San Francisco based emerging artist. Kasor’s work explores faux naïveté and romanticism in quick, awkward paint applications and use of found materials. He has exhibited across the Bay Area and has been featured in the San Francisco Examiner and ParcelMag.

Nora Riggs received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from Indiana University in 1996.  Riggs, a Northampton, Massachusetts. based painter whose work explores the complexities of relationships, whether of objects or people. Exhibitions include solo exhibitions with Tif Sigfrids (New York), Emma Gray HQ (Los Angeles), and group exhibitions at The Pit (Palm Springs). Queens (Los Angeles) and Control Room (Los Angeles).