Breaking Pattern

Exhibition Statement

The Schneider Museum of Art (SMA) presented Breaking Pattern, an exhibition curated by Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez of the Brooklyn-based gallery Minus Space. The exhibition highlighted several generations of artists from coast to coast whose works investigated and advanced the discourse around pattern, optical, and perceptual abstract painting.

The Museum showed the works of seven artists. Michelle Grabner has exhibited her work at Musée d´art Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. She also co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Gabriele Evertz’s artwork is included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art among others. Anoka Faruqee is an associate professor at the Yale School of Art. She has exhibited her work at MoMA/PS1 in New York, Albright-Knox Gallery in New York and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program. Gilbert Hsiao has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation and has shown in Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand and Thailand. Douglas Melini received a painting fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been reviewed in publications, such as Artcritical, Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Time Out New York. Brian Porray’s most recent exhibitions in 2014 included Abstracted Visions: Information Mapping from Mystic Diagrams to Data Visualizations at Cerritos College Art Gallery in Norwalk CA and Plant People at GAR Gallery in Galveston TX. Michael Scott has worked internationally for the last three decades exhibiting at Le Consortium (Dijon, France) and Musée des Beaux Arts (La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland) among others.

The curators of Breaking Pattern are respective artists themselves and the Museum featured their installations in the Treehaven Gallery: Sweet Like Candy to My Soul by Rossana Martinez and Zero-Sum by Matthew Deleget. Scott Malbaurn, Schneider Museum of Art Director explains, “More and more artists today are beginning to wear many hats, from curating to art criticism and gallery operations. This is a great example of today’s contemporary art discourse.”

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