SELF Check Out | Grayson Cox and Nadja Frank
Press Release | Christopher Stackhouse Essay
The New York Times/T Magazine Blog: Multimedia Works That Explore The State Of Nature. – NADIA VELLAM
Halite, 2015
Resin, pigment
31.5 H x 31.5 W x 31.5 D inches
Iced Coffee, 2015
Silicone and vaccum sealed plastic (actual size)
Varied edition of 5
Grayson Cox. Self Check Out (Video), 2015. Video and wood (frame). Edition of 5.
Right:
Nadja Frank. Crust (blue), 2015. Resin, Pigment. 13 H x 10 W x 9 D inches.
Nadja Frank. Crust (pink), 2015. Resin, salt pigment. 19 H x 10 W x 8 D inches.
Self Check Out (Video), detail.
Self Check Out (Video), detail.
Self Check Out (Video), detail.
Crust (pink), 2015
Resin, salt pigment
19 H x 10 W x 8 D inches
Crust (pink), 2015. detail.
Crust (pink), 2015. detail.
Atmospheric Perspective, 2015
Grayson Cox
Self Check Out (Print), 2015
Enamel and acrylic on closed cell rubber
96 x 72 inches
Editioin of 7
Self Check Out (Print), 2015. detail.
Crust (purple), 2015
Resin, pigment, photograph
21 H x 12 W x 8 D inches
Crust (silver), 2015
Resin, pigment
17 H x 10 W x 9 D inches
Vent, 2015
Silkscreen and acrylic paint on canvas, wood and industrial seal.
Lost in Reality, 2015
Silkscreen and letterpress
18 x 25 inches
Edition of 10
Nadja Frank. Crust (himalaya), 2015. Resin, pigment, lamp. 20 H x 11 W x 9 D inches.
Bottom:
Grayson Cox. Self Check Out (Chair), 2015. Wood with industrial seal.
Grayson Cox (b. 1979, Indianapolis, IN) is a Brooklyn based artist working with painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Cox received his BFA from Indiana University and spent two years living in Tokyo before moving to New York City in 2005. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2010 and was soon after awarded the Daisy Soros Prize to study in Salzburg, Austria. He was the recent recipient of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic innovation and collaboration grant. He has exhibited in New York and internationally, including the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, Israel; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; The New Museum, New York; Elizabeth Foundation, New York; The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Queens, New York; and The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art and the Sculpture Center in New York. His solo exhibitions at Gasser Grunert Gallery in New York have been reviewed in multiple publications and he was recently commissioned to create a public sculpture, which was featured on the landscape of the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Grayson is a current resident of LMCC’s Work Space program and teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Nadja Frank (b. 1980 in Lohr am Main, Germany) received her Diploma in Fine Arts with Honors from Hochschule for bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany in 2008 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2011. She has exhibited internationally in numerous solo exhibitions including Denny Gallery, New York; 401 contemporary, Berlin/London; Margini Arte Contemporanea, Massa, Italy; Galerie Conradi, Hamburg, Germany, and group exhibitions including Kolbe Museum, Berlin; Socrates Sculpture Park, NewYork; Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin; ICAS Gallery, Singapore; Chelsea Art Museum, NewYork; Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Kunstverein Hamburg. In 2011 she received a DAAD scholarship and EAF Socrates Sculpture Park Fellowship