Works by Miguel Carter-Fisher, Luis Colan, Skylar Hughes, and Walter Schrank
Opening Reception
Friday, February 10, 7-9 pm
artist talk
Saturday, February 11, 2-4 pm
Guest Curator, Miguel Carter-Fisher
Please, Don't Wake Me, a line taken from the Beatles song "I'm Only Sleeping," is the title of Eric Schindler Gallery's group exhibition featuring artists Miguel Carter-Fisher, Luis Colan, Skylar Hughes, and Walter Schrank.
The drawings, paintings, and prints are diverse in style but share a common root in the space between the ethereal and the tangible. These personal works are like pieces of faded dreams and give lasting form to the interiority of the self.
The opening reception will also feature a reimagining of "I'm Only Sleeping" by songwriter Sean Bullock.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Miguel Carter-Fisher
Miguel Carter-Fisher is currently based in his hometown, Richmond, Virginia. His interest in the arts began as a child and was nurtured by his father, the late painter Bill Fisher. At 18 he moved to Connecticut, where he studied both painting and philosophy at the University of Hartford. After graduating, Miguel moved to Brooklyn to attend the New York Academy of Art. There he studied traditional drawing, painting, and composition techniques. After graduate school, he worked at Soho Art Materials, where he educated artists, collectors, and galleries on diverse methods and materials of painting. Since returning to Richmond in 2014, Miguel has taught at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Milk River Arts, and Bon Air Juvenile Corrections Center through Art 180. Miguel was also an assistant professor and the studio arts coordinator at Virginia State University. He is currently an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Miguel’s work has been exhibited at various galleries throughout the United States and abroad.
Luis Colan
Luis Colan was born in Lima, Peru in 1980. At age ten he and his family moved to Connecticut, where he continued his education from middle school through college. Attending the Hartford Art School, at the University of Hartford, Luis was influenced by artists and professors Stephen Pat Brown, Fred Wessel, and Jeremiah Patterson. It is from these mentors he learned new techniques and color theory that pushed his work further. While at the Hartford Art School, Luis was introduced to abstraction under the guidance of professor Pat Lipsky. During the short period of experimentation with abstraction he was able to further explore color and the physicality of oil paint.
After graduating in 2004 Luis moved to New York City, where he currently lives and works. He has continued his education by taking classes at the Art Students League and the Teaching Studios of Art in Brooklyn, both schools have exposed him to the teachings of Dan Thompson, Adam Miller, Robert Zeller, and Bennett Vadnais. Working closely with these artists has allowed him to refine his ability to depict landscapes and figures. Partaking in numerous events and workshops, including Plein Air workshops in Tuscany in 2013 and 2015 has allowed him to continue to develop his vision as a landscape painter. He has been exhibiting in New York and surrounding areas in several group shows, five solo exhibitions, and in 2010 became a Junior Member at the Salmagundi Club.
It is at the Salmagundi Club where Luis was reacquainted with Monotype printing which has become an important part of his practice. The process has allowed him to explore and use what he has learned in painting the landscape outdoors to execute images from imagination and memory.
Skylar Hughes
“I am interested in art making as an embodiment of nature’s process of chance, change, and growth; I try to paint how it feels to be in nature, connected to something outside of ourselves and the confines of life’s everyday structures.
This body of work focuses on seasons, divisions, and terrain as visual framework for explorations on the concurrent nature of structure / temporality, fullness / emptiness, inner / outer, limitation / possibility, the present / what’s next.”
Skylar Hughes (b. 1986, New Britain, CT) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Recent solo exhibitions include Wren in the Privet, Alias Books East (2022), Warm into the Day, The Lodge (2019), New Torn Collage, Day Space Night (2018), We’re All Stone Raising, The Lodge (2016), and One Big Gust of Wind, New Britain Museum of American Art (2013). Skylar has participated in group shows in CA, NY, CT, Italy, and has work in the permanent collections of Lightforms Art Center (Hudson, NY) and the New Britain Museum of American Art.
Walter Schrank
The picture plane shares space with the imaginary and workaday world
wherein reappearing forms, marks and motifs, much like reoccurring dreams
are arranged to represent the real.
- Walter Schrank
Walter Schrank is originally from Houston, Texas. He received his MFA from Maryland Institute of College and Art. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to painting Walter is also a Poet. His two collections are Small Barbarisms and Battle Cries of Every Size.
Exhibition runs through March 18, 2023
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 12-5 or by appointment