A Continuous StoryLine: David Askew, Gina Beavers, Jackson Casady and Matt Kleberg
EXHIBITION DATES: october 29 – november 23, 2024
RECEPTION: saturday, november 2, 3 – 6 pm
Closing RECEPTION: Saturday, November 23, 4 – 6 pm
The Painting Center is pleased to present A Continuous Storyline, Four Decades of UVA Painters, an exhibition of four artists; David Askew, Gina Beavers, Jackson Casady and Matt Kleberg, all of whom are University of Virginia alumni that studied under the artist and professor, Megan Marlatt. The exhibition will be on view in the Project Room from October 29 – November 23, 2024. Opening Reception is Saturday, November 2 from 3 to 6 pm.
Curated by Marlatt, A Continuous Storyline, Four Decades of UVA Painters represents a former student from each decade of her teaching at the University of Virginia. Each artist’s work tells their own story; from Gina Beaver’s thick lips that endeavor to speak in paint and canvas, to David Askew’s fantastic exploration of identity, beauty, and racial ambiguity. Jackson Casady’s paintings retell the tales of an upbringing in Hollywood, while Matt Kleberg’s pictures of architectural alcoves beckon us to climb on his stage and orate.
A Continuous Storyline also refers to the making of an artist. How artists who were encouraged by artists before them can then influence other artists to continue the creative research. Students become professionals and peers, guiding new generations of artists on their path to a creative life.
David Askew received a dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia in 2022. Askew is a Black, Queer portrait artist creating human-animal hybrids to bring emphasis to the exoticization and animalization of Black and Brown Queer individuals. Their goal is to celebrate the beauty and uniqueness of both communities. Askew currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Gina Beavers creates drawings, paintings, installations, prints and sculptural editions inspired by photos culled from the internet and social media and rendered in high acrylic relief. Her series have included paintings based on body painting, social media snapshots of food, make-up tutorials, memes, nail art, and bodybuilder selfies. She has presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in New York (2019) Never Essener Kunstverein in Essen, Germany (2021), Marianne Boesky, New York; Various Small Fires, Seoul; Carl Kostyal, London and Milan; GNYP Gallery, Berlin among others. Her work has been included in group presentations at the Barns Art Center, the Schlossmuseum Linz, Austria; Frans Hals Museum, Netherlands; Nassau County Museum of Art, New York; Flag Art Foundation, New York among others. Her shows have been reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Frieze, Artforum, Art in America among others. She is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Kistefos Museum in Norway, the ICA Miami, MOCA Los Angeles and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, among others. Her solo show, Divine Consumer, will open at Marianne Boesky in New York September 2024 and her work will be included in two surveys opening in November 2024, The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970-2020 at the MCA Chicago and Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 at MOCA Los Angeles.
Jackson Casady has had two solo shows at Richard Heller Gallery in Santa Monica, CA and also been included in group exhibitions at EXPO Chicago; Untitled Art Fair; Collaborations, Copenhagen, Denmark; LM Gallery, Latina, Italy; 0-0 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Impact Art Gallery in New York, NY. He was born in Pasadena, CA and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Studio Art and Business. Casady lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Matt Kleberg received his BA from the University of Virginia in 2008 and his MFA from Pratt Institute in 2015. He is represented by Pazda Butler Gallery (Houston), Berggruen Gallery (San Fransicsco), and Sorry We’re Closed Gallery (Brussels). Recent exhibitions include Eric Firestone Gallery (NY); Berggruen Gallery (CA); Studio Cromie (Italy); Pazda Butler Gallery (TX); and Sorry We’re Closed. His work has been written about in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Painting is Dead, Artsy, Vice, Maake Magazine, ArtDaily, New American Paintings, Blouin Artinfo, ArtMaze Magazine, Juxtapoz Magazine, Artillery Magazine, Glasstire and Hyperallergic. His work is included in public and private collections, including the Williams College Museum of Art, the University of California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Old Jail Art Center, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the National Gallery of Art. Kleberg lives and works in San Antonio, TX.
This exhibition is made possible with the support of the University of Virginia’s Department of Art and the UVA Vice Provost for the Arts.
For more information on the artists, visit: @gina_beavers, @soy.edamame, @jacksoncasady, @matt_kleberg.
