Press Release

Mrs. is happy to present works by Chris Bogia, Oona Brangam-Snell and Mark Mulroney in Future Fair Online, May 6 - June 6, 2020.

Produced in New York City during the COVID-19 crisis, Chris Bogia’s new drawings are a sharp departure from the dynamic daytime palates of his recent works. These watercolors on paper present themselves as nocturnal:  dark and geometric, they are a pictorial means of processing day to day life during the ongoing pandemic.  The subjects of these works range from the artist’s hours of escapism spent playing video games, to political anxieties, the sounds of the city, and a longing for this “limbo-life” to end.

Oona Brangam-Snell’s jacquard tapestries are portals – spatial yet remote, comparable to stage sets.  Their large scale and forced perspectives create exaggerated tableaus, drawing us into life-size dollhouse environments. Both Golems at Dawn I and Golems at Dawn II depict the same enigmatically empty room, visualized one second apart as indicated by a digital clock face on a control panel at the center of the composition. The compositions evoke a semi-dystopian video game aesthetic; gloomy and surreal. The tapestry Ormolu Mirror, on the other hand, uses a dimensional, visual shorthand of bright yellow historical motifs to recall a gilded frame, jumbling designs from different eras in an asymmetrical composition.

Using custom silkscreened images created in collaboration with Pop!nk Editions in Chicago, Mark Mulroney has repetitively altered two depictions of Saint Rose of Lima.  Mulroney has used these images as a starting point to develop new techniques and compositional strategies.  Painting atop the silkscreens, new narratives are formed as variations on the original theme.  In the midst of crisis, these works resonate a collective sadness, reflecting on faith, illness and death.

Chris Bogia received his MFA from Yale University and his BA from New York University.  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 was also an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program from 2017-2018.  Recent exhibitions include Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA; The Bureau of General Services: Queer Division, Bravin Lee, Kate Werble, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and the New Museum, New York, Mrs., Maspeth, and Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY.  Bogia is the co-founder and director of Fire Island Artist Residency, the world’s first LGBTQ artist residency.

Oona Brangam-Snell (b. 1989, USA) is a New York based textile artist whose work highlights the enduring power of traditional symbols and the emerging power of contemporary iconography, in an era defined by the digitization of fabric production. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.  Brangam-Snell is influenced by centuries of textile production, from medieval tapestries to theater curtains.  She works as a senior designer for the textile firm Maharam.

 Born in Dutton, PA, Mark Mulroney received his BFA from San Diego State University and his MFA in Studio Arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Currently, Mulroney lives and works in North Haven, CT. Recent exhibitions include Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR; CG2 Gallery, Nashville, TN; Mixed Greens, Joshua Liner, New York, and Mrs., Maspeth, NY;  Ever Gold [Projects] and Park Life, San Francisco; Left Field, San Luis Obispo, and Slow Culture, Los Angeles, CA.  His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, as well as The West Family Collection and the The Progressive Collection.

Future Fair Online is an exhibition and program, developed as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic causing the postponement of the inaugural New York show. We invite you to view and partake in a month-long program that includes an online exhibition, artist interviews, digital events, and weekly editorial newsletters featuring stories on artists, dealers and art lovers. The initiative aims to provide amplified visibility for the galleries and artists with a special focus on the personal narratives of those in their community.  The initiative will be hosted on Artsy, futurefairs.com, and on Instagram @futurefairs.