REPRIEVE SAMANTHA HARING & TESS MICHALIK
REPRIEVE SAMANTHA HARING & TESS MICHALIK
On the covers:
“Tiger
Lilies in Decline” by Tess Michalik
“Litha” by Samantha Haring
January 16 - February 22, 2025
529 West 20th, Suite 6W
New York, New York
Samantha Haring & Tess Michalik
Samantha Haring and Tess Michalik met while studying at Northern Illinois University and have maintained a friendship ever since. Though their respective techniques diverge, they find common ground in their romantic treatment of domestic subjects.
Haring’s oeuvre commemorates the quotidian trappings of the artist’s life. Bubblewrap, cardboard boxes, and glass jars are portrayed with the masterful sensitivity of a Dutch still-life. Of her work, the artist states, “I make quiet paintings in a noisy world.” Indeed, in subdued shades of chalk pastel and oil paint, Haring crafts an immersive scene, offering a serene reprieve from the excess of consumer culture.
Inspired by vintage wallpaper designs, Michalik renders delicate floral subjects in voluptuous layers of impasto. Languid brushstrokes animate each petal and leaf recalling the sensuous ornamentation of Rococo. On her practice, Michalik writes, “painting is a celebration of joy, anxiety, simple pleasures, decoration, ornamentation, and the material nature of paint.”
20 x 20 inches
“Release,” 2024 oil on paper on panel
“Cover,” 2024
chalk pastel on paper
15 x 15 inches
“Crystal Clear,” 2024
chalk pastel on paper
15 x 15 inches
20 x 20 inches
“Enough,” 2024 oil on paper on panel
“Litha,” 2024
chalk pastel on paper
18 x 18 inches
“Pileup,” 2024
chalk pastel on paper 15 x 15 inches
20 x 20 inches
“Static,” 2024 oil on paper on panel
“White Noise,” 2024
oil on paper on panel
20 x 20 inches
“Sic Transit,” 2023
oil on paper on panel 16 x 16 inches
15 x 15 inches
“Stack,” 2024 chalk pastel on paper
“Itty,” 2024 oil on panel
7.5 inches
“Bitty,” 2023 oil on panel
7.5 inches
31 x 31 inches
“Bernini’s Stucco Guy in Blue,” 2024 oil on canvas
“Tiffany 1, ” 2024 oil on panel
22 x 10 inches
“Tiffany 2, ” 2024 oil on panel
22 x 10 inches
“Irises in the Wild,” 2024 oil on panel
24
x 20 inches
oil
7 x 5 inches
14 x 11 inches
“Canna Lily Tart,” 2024
oil on panel
“Blue Jay,” 2024
on canvas
“Golden Iris Afternoon,” 2024 oil on canvas
36 x 48 inches
B,” 2024 oil on panel
10 x 8 inches
2024 oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches
“Francis
“Manet’s Nosegay,”
“Irises,” 2024 oil on panel
24 x 20 inches
“Anime Candy Crash,” 2024 oil on canvas
x 51 inches
“Shell Cascade,” 2024 oil on canvas
x 12 inches
“The Still of Night,” 2024 oil on panel
14 x 11 inches
oil on panel 7 x 5 inches
oil on panel 14 x 11 inches
“Nemesia,” 2024
“Strawberry Chardonnay,” 2024
“The Shade of the Magnolia,” 2024
oil on canvas
60 x 40 inches
“The Last of Summer,” 2024
oil on panel
27.5 x 19.75 inches
“Tiger Lilies in Decline,” 2024 oil on canvas 14 x 11 inches
“Swamp Grace III” 2024 oil on panel 12 inch tondo
