THE ECOLOGY OF THE SELF | 27 July - 31 August 2023 | Miles McEnery Gallery

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New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘The Ecology of the Self,' 27 July - 31 August 2023
EFE BES
Da Bighedz 1, 2023
Ceramic
10 1/8 x 7 1/8 x 2 5/8 inches
25.7 x 18.1 x 6.7 cm
"We live in a time seemingly obsessed with defining personal identity. While it might have always been so, identity—and the sense of self it requires—has suffered fatigue in the recent transition to a world more connected. "

- Alex Dodge and Markus Linnenbrink
LIESELOTT BESCHORNER
Red Puppa, 1975
Crocheted wool
13 x 6 x 3 inches
33 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm
- LIESELOTT BESCHORNER
  Blue Puppa, 1975
  Crocheted wool
  11 x 5 x 4 inches
  27.9 x 12.7 x 10.2 cm
- LIESELOTT BESCHORNER
  Bag Doll, 1975
  Crocheted wool
  25 x 9 x 7 1/2 inches
  63.5 x 22.9 x 19.1 cm
LIESELOTT BESCHORNER
Virus Drawings, 2020-2022
Oil pastel on paper
- LIESELOTT BESCHORNER
  Collaged Head, Four Eyes, 2016
  12 x 6 x 8 inches
  30.5 x 15.2 x 20.3 cm
- LIESELOTT BESCHORNER
  Collaged Head, Newspaper Neck, 2016
  11 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 8 inches
  29.5 x 16.5 x 20.3 cm
LIESELOTT BESCHORNER
Collaged Head, Curly Hair, 2016
13 x 5 x 8 inches
33 x 12.7 x 20.3 cm
JUAN PABLO GARZA
Llegaraìn a la puerta donde la luz se dobla, los arbustos siempre les recordaran #1, 2022
Mixed media
83 x 57 x 44 inches
210.8 x 144.8 x 111.8 cm
JUAN PABLO GARZA
Llegaraìn a la puerta donde la luz se dobla, los arbustos siempre les recordaran #4 , 2022
Mixed media
40 x 47 x 36 inches
101.6 x 119.4 x 91.4 cm
CLIFFORD PRINCE KING

G, 2022

Archival pigment print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM

30 5/8 x 20 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches

77.8 x 52.4 x 4.1 cm

"Suddenly a 'self' is no longer fostered in gradually-expanding social contexts and communities, but thrust headfirst into the vast comparative oceans of virtual experience, and at a younger age than ever. "

- Alex Dodge and Markus Linnenbrink
- CLIFFORD PRINCE KING
  Beneath Our Orange Tree, 2020
  Archival pigment print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM
  48 3/4 x 32 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches
  123.8 x 82.9 x 4.1 cm
- CLIFFORD PRINCE KING
  Untitled (Grapes), 2017
  Archival pigment print on Canson Rag Photographique 310GSM
  30 5/8 x 20 5/8 x 1 5/8 inches
  77.8 x 52.4 x 4.1 cm
SONGNYEO LYOO

Drawing on Figure, 2018

Ink and color on air drying clay

12.6 x 4.72 x 7.87 inches

32 x 12 x 20 cm

"Within the context of today’s social landscape, individuality is increasingly more difficult to establish. Thus, as if in a pareidolic fever, we grasp for faces in the ever-shifting informational noise that surrounds us, but find instead immaterial masks that dissolve in our hands."

- Alex Dodge and Markus Linnenbrink
SONGNYEO LYOO

Drawing on Figure, 2023

Ceramic with glaze

8.66 x 4.72 x 3.94 inches

22 x 12 x 10 cm
- Satoko Nachi
  Another Me, 2019
  Oil on canvas
  46 x 36 inches
  116.8 x 91.4 cm
- Satoko Nachi
  Summer Day, 2020
  Oil on canvas
  46 x 36 inches
  116.8 x 91.4 cm
"After all, our existences are shifting, fleeting, and contradictory across space and time; they are not the linear and terminal accumulations that we both fear and yearn for. "

- Alex Dodge and Markus Linnenbrink
KEIKO NARAHASHI
sleeper (open hand), 2023
Glazed Stoneware
5 x 15 x 5 1/2 inches
12.7 x 38.1 x 14 cm
KEIKO NARAHASHI
Yurei (streaky blue with 3 circles), 2023
Glazed stoneware
12 x 13 x 6 inches
30.5 x 33 x 15.2 cm
"As Ursula Le Guin aptly wrote in her 1974 novel The Dispossessed, 'To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.'"

- Alex Dodge and Markus Linnenbrink
DORIS ELIZABETH PROUTY
Going Home II, 2018
Hand appliqué, beading, cotton cloth machine quilting
47 x 44 inches
119.4 x 111.8 cm
"The act of art is one that seeks to integrate the self with its environment while simultaneously differentiating it. The work of art is one of the few things that sustains such a nuanced psychal balance."

- Alex Dodge and Markus Linnenbrink
- KELLI THOMPSON
  In Waiting, 2022
  Oil on panel
  42 x 36 inches
  106.7 x 91.4 cm
- KELLI THOMPSON
  Mother, 2023
  Oil on panel
  38 1/4 x 32 inches
  97.2 x 81.3 cm
Alex Dodge, 2022.

Alex Dodge (b. 1977, Denver, CO) received his Master of Professional Studies from New York University and his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.

He has been the subject of recent solo and two-person exhibitions at BB&M Gallery, Seoul, South Korea; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Faro Collection, Tokyo, Japan; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; and the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts at Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA.

Dodge has been included in group exhibitions at the Art Bank Collection, United States Department of State, Washington, DC; Artists Space, New York, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; EFA Project Space, New York, NY; Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium; International Print Center New York, New York, NY; The Re Institute, Millerton, NY; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and elsewhere.

His work may be found in the collections of the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.

Dodge lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Tokyo, Japan.
Markus Linnenbrink in his studio, 2023, Brooklyn, NY

Markus Linnenbrink (b. 1961, Dortmund, Germany) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany and the Gesamthochschule, Kassel, Germany.

Recent solo exhibitions include Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain; Fundación DIDAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Museum of New Art, Portsmouth, NH; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and Maurizio Caldirola Gallery, Monza, Italy.

Linnenbrink has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey; Daegu National Museum, Daegu, South Korea; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; and the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA.

His work may be found in the collections of the Clemens Sels Museum, Neuss, Germany; El Espacio 23, Miami, FL; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Ministry of Culture, The Hague, The Netherlands; Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and elsewhere.

Linnenbrink lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
- KELLI THOMPSON
  In Waiting, 2022
  Oil on panel
  42 x 36 inches
  106.7 x 91.4 cm
- KELLI THOMPSON
  Mother, 2023
  Oil on panel
  38 1/4 x 32 inches
  97.2 x 81.3 cm

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