Press Release

Mrs. is excited to announce our second participation in Art Los Angeles Contemporary, with works by Sarah Bedford, Chris Bogia, Meghan Brady, Damien Davis and Tracy Miller. ALAC’s 11th edition will be held at The Hollywood Athletic Club on Sunset Boulevard, February 13 - 16, 2020.

Born and raised in Roundup Montana, Sarah Bedford received a BFA from the Cooper Union and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  Bedford was a recipient of the National Academy of Design Painting Award and was also a Lower East Side Printshop Artist Fellow. Bedford has shown regularly with Bellwether Gallery and most recently with Mrs., Maspeth;  Jack Hanley Gallery, SFA Projects, New York; Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY and Foyer, Los Angeles, CA. Bedford lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Meghan Brady received her BA from Smith College and her MFA from Boston University.  She was the 2017 recipient of the Ellis Beauregard Foundation Grant, a 2018 Hewnoaks Summer Fellowship as well as a 2019 MacDowell Colony Fellow.  Recent exhibitions include The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Steel House Projects, Rockland, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, Mrs., Maspeth, and a residency/exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY which received a mention by The New York Times. Brady will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockand, ME and will have her first solo exhibition at Mrs. in April 2020. Brady lives and works in Camden, ME.

Chris Bogia received his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT and his BA from New York University, NY.  Bogia was a recent recipient of the Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation Grant, a Queens Council for the Arts, New Works Grant, as well as a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant.  He also was an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program between 2017-2018. Recent exhibitions include, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA; The Bureau of General Services: Queer Division, Bravin Lee, Kate Werble, Spring/Break, New York; Mrs., Maspeth  and Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY and the New Museum, New York, NY. Bogia is also the co-founder and director of Fire Island Artist Residency, the world’s first LGBTQ artist residency. Bogia had his first solo exhibition with Mrs. in September of 2019. 

Damien Davis, holds a BFA in Studio Art and an MA in Visual Arts Administration from New York University.  His works have appeared at The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY and various galleries across the country. He is the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Community Engagement Grant and has been awarded residencies with Triangle Arts Association, the Museum of Arts and Design, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pilchuck Glass School and Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling. Davis is currently an artist in residence Dieu Donné Paper Mill in Brooklyn, NY.  He is also a former fellow and current advisor for the Art & Law Program in New York. Davis lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His work is currently included in Assembly at Mrs. alongside Rachel Eulena Williams and Sun You as well a solo exhibition at the Weeksville Heritage Center.

Tracy Miller was born in Storm Lake, Iowa, and studied at the University of Iowa, the University of California at Berkeley and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  Her large-scale still life paintings of food have been included in nine solo shows and more than 50 group shows throughout the USA. In the fall of 2013 her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the American University Museum and was accompanied by a catalog.  Miller has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, three Pollock-Krasner Awards, an Elizabeth Foundation Award, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Grant and an American Academy of Arts and Letters purchase prize. Miller will be included in an upcoming exhibition at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockand, ME. Miller lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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