UPCOMING EXHIBITION:

DEVOTION
A Group Show
Curated by Geoffery Badner

ART OPENING PARTY:
Friday, September 18th
6-8pm

FEATURING:
Geoffrey Badner  
Issac Bruné
Sasha Davydova
Bridget Errante
Dee Lee
Justin Orvis Steimer
Jet Verello
Ian Vollmer
Voss

CURATORIAL STATEMENT
Devotion is a group exhibition exploring what draws us to give ourselves over to someone — or something.

Through visual art and personal writing, the exhibition looks beyond devotion as an act and toward the impulses behind it: love, obsession, ritual, care, fixation, surrender, longing, worship, attachment.

What do we return to again and again? What do we protect, sacrifice for, or build our lives around? And what does the object of our devotion reveal about us?

Curated by Geoffrey Badner for SHAG, Devotion brings together artists whose work approaches these questions through deeply personal perspectives on intimacy, sexuality, desire, identity, and human connection.

CURRENT EXHIBITION

YES NO
Paintings by: Krystl

OPENING RECEPTION:
Tuesday, September 1st
6-8pm

ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION:
Every year, a week following Christmas, Krystl would transform the family tree into a love tree, leading up to Valentine's Day. The tree would be wrapped in lights that glimmered hues of magenta and pink, adorned with red ribbons and her hand painted ornaments.
To add a spark to the long upstate New York winters between her and her partner, Krystl painted the words Yes or No on one side of her painted ornaments. The spark was lit for romance when she would flip the ornaments to Yes, and in hibernation if flipped back to No. On the opposite side of each Yes and No ornament was one of her illustrative paintings, containing no words. This two week pop up exhibition at Shag contains a selection of these unique pieces, along with a few of Krystl's larger paintings. The exhibition was curated by her partner as a surprise for their 24th wedding anniversary, which lands on the same day as the opening reception, September 1st.

ARTIST BIO:
“I am an artist/illustrator/graphic designer living in the Lower Hudson Valley, New York. I am happiest when I am in the middle of several paintings and projects, surrounded by color and paint, hiding out in my home studio, where I can see the mountains and my little town spread out before me. I am a mother, a lover, a sister, a daughter, a friend, a spirit guide, a muse, an artist model, a business partner, a home creator, and a world traveler. I am inspired by nature and fantasy, the realm of dreams and secrets, mysterious beings and lost worlds. I strive to be a collector, seeker and creator of beauty.”