Nicholas Buffon, Bruce Monteith, James Sheehan and Henry Gunderson’s Water McBeer Gallery exhibiting Ariel Zambenedetti

Lil’ Artworld presents a group of works that can’t just be looked AT- they must to be looked INTO. The artists use transformative shifts in scale to suggest continuous other-worlds in which their work resides. What results is an expansion of energy produced by an intense draw on the imaginative powers. Consequently, the artwork is given room to breathe, as are the viewers, in the midst of the chaos that will be Bushwick Open Studios.

Nicholas Buffon (b. 1987) lives and works in Manhattan. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College. He has been included in exhibitions at Callicoon Fine Arts, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Buffon’s work will be on view later this year in a solo exhibition at Callicoon Fine Arts.

Bruce Monteith (b. 1949) currently lives and works in Boston, MA. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Over the course of his career he has had numerous solo exhibitions in Chicago, New York, and Boston. His work has been shown at museums such as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts Providence, the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, the Indianapolis Museum, and the McMullen Museum at Boston College. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Fellowship.

James Sheehan (b. 1964) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his M.F.A., from the Tyler School of Art. Mr. Sheehan has consumed himself with super reductively-scaled paintings since the early 90's. A selection of works from the past 25 years were brought together for this show. He has exhibited widely in the US and abroad, including at Galerie Schedler in Zurich, Gallery 400 in Chicago, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Ronald Feldman Gallery in NY. He has been granted numerous awards, including by The New York Foundation for the Arts, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation.

Water McBeer Gallery has been operating since 2010. Henry Gunderson (b. 1990), the director of WMG, has selected Ariel Zambenedetti (b.1986) to fill the gallery inside Harbor Gallery. This is Zambenedetti’s first solo show in the New York City area. For more on Water McBeer Gallery, please visit www.watermcbeer.org.

*This will be Harbor’s last exhibition in it’s current space at 17-17 Troutman Building as per our landlord’s request to stop having galleries at this location. Currently we are looking for a new space and will be sure to keep everyone informed as we search, thank you for all your support thus far!