Expo Chicago 2024
11 -14 April
Booth 446
John Salvest
Leslie Holt
Maysey Craddock
Paul Stephen Benjamin
David Lusk Gallery
Greely Myatt is pleased to again exhibit at ExpoChicago. This year DLG features a carefully considered group of works that focuses on materialty: five artists working in wildly different media, each bringing important societal constructs to the forefront in captivating ways. With rich color nuances, alluring found materials, piecing and stitching of elements, meaningful subtexts, and subtle humor, the works challenge viewers to contemplate how we share this world.
John Salvest’s work employs literary humor and a keen eye, offering subtly provocative and often ironic insights into the human condition. With fully formed idea and construction plans made he uses found materials - business cards, postage stamps, cigarette butts, fingernail clippings, diet pills, crutches, shipping containers - to create intimate and monumental works that prompt viewers to examine the connotations between text and everyday objects. Love is… joins 1500 romance novels into a sleek study of color and consumerism. Another group comprised only of sliced art world business cards pronounces the industry all in vain.
practice revolves around visualizing mental th conditions through color and language. Her Brain n series explores the aesthetic qualities of scans of thy brains and those affected by mental illness, using scans to reveal compelling differences in color ciated with specific emotions. Drawing inspiration
m personal experience, Holt incorporates embroidered ds often written by family members who battled tal health struggles, honoring their experiences and ering dialogue around a topic that is often stigmatized.
Leslie Holt’s
Paul Stephen Benjamin
has devoted his artistic practice to studying the color black in all of its nuances. While people may assume the color is unidimensional and uninspiring, Benjamin’s work disproves that theory and requires one to observe and contemplate. The imposing scale of the burlap allows viewers to closely observe the dynamics of the different shades of black.
Maysey Craddock’s process begins with photographing the transient moments in nature, particularly Gulf Shore coastlines undergoing ruin and reinvention. Conceptually concerned with humankind’s impact on the environment, Craddock's formal interest lies in abstraction, breaking down imagery into integral lines and colors, with particular attention to empty spaces. Using found paper painted with gouache and stitched together, her pieces evoke a sense of impact and transport viewers to the shoreline, refreshing cyclical patterns of nature and our interaction with it.
Greely Myatt’s
The core of artistic vision is a fascination with materials and how they can be transformed. Myatt invites viewers into an accessible yet enigmatic realm, seamlessly weaving abstract elements such as light, air, and negative space into his innovative creations. This transformative process turns materials into subjects, concepts, forms, methods, and media. His eclectic Star arrangements transform the space they occupy into a magical, star-studded world, immersing viewers in the narratives of each material and the universe envisioned by Myatt.
Artwork List
John Salvest
Love is..., secondhand romance novels, 47x115x4.5, 2022
Omnia Vanitas, shredded art-related business cards on paper, 40x30, 2023
All in Vain, shredded art-related business cards on paper, 40x30, 2023
Leslie Holt
Bipolar Stain (steady), embroidery and acrylic on canvas, 36x36, 2019
Schizophrenia Stain (chatter), embroidery and acrylic on canvas, 20x16, 2022
Dementia Stain (darkness visable), embroidery and acrylic on canvas, 20x16, 2019
Bipolar Stain (Touched with Fire, for HKH), acrylic and embroidery on canvas, 20x16, 2019
Schizophrenia Stain (word salad), acrylic and embroidery on canvas, 36x36, 2021
Paul Stephen Benjamin
Black Abstraction 6, Valspar Noir, Behr Black Night, Behr Black Ink on burlap, 32.5x28.75, 2024
Black Abstraction 8, Behr Black Ink,Sherwin Williams Black Swan, Valspar Noir, Behr Black Night on burlap, 32.5x28.75
Maysey Craddock
midnight on the bay, gouache, flashe and thread on found paper, 15.75x15.75, 2024
Losses and Sorrows, gouache, flashe and thread on found paper, 21.5x18.5, 2024
Windrush, gouache, flashe and thread on found paper, 21x18.25,2024
the woods in lambent light, gouache, flashe and thread on found paper, 17x13.5, 2024
Greely Myatt
Various stars, found materials, 2024
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