Kerry Schuss Gallery

 

Gwenn Thomas & Monica Forrestall

February 16 - March 16, 2024

Kerry Schuss Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring photo emulsion on linen works from 1993-96 by Gwenn Thomas and recent ceramic sculpture by Monica Forrestall.

 

Gwenn Thomas lives and works in New York City.  Born in Rhode Island, she studied at the Sorbonne, Paris and is a graduate of the Cooper Union School of Art, New York.

Recent solo shows:  Exile Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Mélange; ung-5, Cologne, Germany;  Exile Gallery,Berlin, Germany; Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY;  Regina Rex, NY; 57W57ARTS, NY; Art Projects International, NY; Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Recent two person and group shows:  Wishing Well, Gwenn Thomas + Nikolai Nekh + Gonçalo Pena, Figura Avulsa, Lisbon, Portugal; Unbound: Performance as Rupture, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany; Facts of Light, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY; DUST: The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Gwenn Thomas + Jason Murphy, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Re-visions, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany; Please Enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY.

 

Monica Forrestall who lives and works in New York City was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Forrestall studied at The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York.

Forrestall’s earlier work included watercolor painting and were featured in the show “Calm Waters, Distressed Fields” with Steven Parrino (1994) Annapolis Royal Arts Center in Nova Scotia, Canada, and “The Joy of Painting” (1995) Here Gallery, NY, curated by Alix Lambert and Ami Arnault. Forrestall had her first one-person show of watercolor paintings, at Trinity Gallery in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (1999). Group shows included “Ballpoint Inklings (2003) Kerry Schuss Gallery, NY and “Colored Pencil” (2004) Kerry Schuss Gallery, NY, “NOTEBOOKS” curated by Joanne Greenbaum (2019) 56 Henry, NY. Other notable inclusions of Forrestall’s ceramic pieces in group shows were “Maintaining Sanity” (2020) at Kerry Schuss Gallery, NY, and “Anarchy of the Imagination” (2021) organized by Ryan Foerster at Kerry Schuss Gallery, NY along with group exhibitions at Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York in 2021, 2022 and 2023.