Paul Gagner & Todd Bienvenu

Painting Everyday is a fall curatorial series presented by Spoonbill Studio under the keen curation of Madeleine Mermall. It is composed of four succinct exhibitions, featuring Polly Shindler, Bella Foster, Kathryn Lynch, Gretchen Scherer, Paul Gagner, and Todd Bienvenu. Using the traditional method of display, the canvas, each artist engages the viewer with images, environments & non-typed communication that return us to the estranged everyday world in which we exist. The result enables a small escape from the normal mental-delve into the uninhabitable spaces of the digital. Painting Everyday encompasses the return to the familiar, and because the familiar has been so absented, the familiar will even seem a bit uncanny.

Paul Gagner received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Recent shows include Katharine Mulherin Contemporary, Toronto, ON, Allen & Eldridge, New York, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, David & Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, Driscoll Babcock, New York, and Linda Warren Projects, Chicago.

Todd Bienvenu received his BFA from Louisiana State University and pursued his MFA from the New York Studio School. Recent exhibitions include Harper’s Books, East Hampton, yours mine & ours, New York, Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva, Life on Mars Gallery, Brooklyn, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen, 0-0, Los Angeles, Adam Baumgold, New York, Flag Art Foundation, New York, Louise B. James, New York, and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA.