Press Release

Mrs. is pleased to announce our participation in The Salon by NADA & The Community, with works by Alexandra Barth, Megan Bogonovich and Robert Zehnder; on view at 30 bis Rue de Paradis, 75010 Paris, France, October 17 - 20, 2024. 

The Salon is a new collaborative invitational art fair, bringing together the best of contemporary art from NADA’s network of galleries and The Community’s network of non-profit arts organizations, coalescing in four days of programming at the intersection of art, music, fashion, and publishing during the Paris Art Week. This partnership builds on The Community’s Salon de Normandy, which was held in 2019 and 2020.

Alexandra Barth documents objects, human intervention and absence. With the gentle touch of airbrush on canvas, she captures the memory of particular details using flat, soft color and a nuanced range of white. Hard objects are rendered softly, slowly appearing more clear as the gaze lingers. Light casts heavy shadows as angular objects converge and become personified in her contemplative scenes - the resulting compositions evoke the quality of film stills. Having grown up in Slovakia in the 1990s within the starkness of Soviet bloc architecture, Barth hones in on objects that offer a sense of minimalism or uniformity. 

Megan Bogonovich draws her aesthetic from the natural world, yet not one we recognize; her lavish and wild ceramic botanicals are a nature produced in the recesses of her mind rather than in the garden or forest. At times her work appears alien, like a flora found under the sulfur-rich rains of Venus. In other moments, pieces reflect the natural world with phallus and mammorial curves embedded in the lush vegetation. Bogonovich presents sex as a technical, even aesthetic facet with blossoms nestling bodily details among the fecundity of a stubborn weed. The sheer pleasure of these works offers a hint of critique; a world of imaginary nature calls caution to a future world of nature imagined.

Robert Zehnder’s landscapes emerge from feelings of isolation, uncertainty and obsession with art history. Re-envisioning the landscape tradition, the artist engages multi-perspectives in his compositions, approaching his artworks cartographically. Zehnder utilizes a reductive visual vocabulary, void of objects or inhabitants, to illustrate surreal geographies. The resulting paintings give the appearance of fictitious maps, guiding the viewer through meandering paths of environments succumbed to the effects of industrial civilization.

Alexandra Barth received her degree from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, SVK in 2013. A selection of solo exhibitions have been held at Phoinix and Hotdock Project Space, Bratislava, SVK; Urban Gallery, Pescara, IT; Stone projects, Prague, CZ; Chris Sharp, Los Angeles, CA and Mrs., Maspeth, NY. Recent select group exhibitions include Photoport; Temporary Parapet and White&Weiss, Bratislava; MiArt, Milan, IT; Document, Chicago, IL; Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA; Carole Lambert Presente, Paris, FR.  Mrs. presented a new body of the artist’s work at The Armory Show, NY, NY in 2024, which received the TCP Art Finance Prize. At present, the artist lives and works in Sanguinetto, Italy.

Megan Bogonovich received an MFA degree from The University of Montana with a concentration in Ceramics in 2003. She studied painting and drawing at The Maryland Institute College of Art, receiving a BFA degree in 1999. The artist received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts in 2008. Recently, Bogonovich’s works have been included in Think Pinker, curated by Beth DeWoody, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Full Disclosure: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection, The Plains Museum, Fargo, ND and Felix Art Fair, Mrs., Los Angeles, CA.  The artist lives and works in Norwich, VT.

Robert Zehnder earned a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Zehnder’s work has been included in exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA; Mrs., Maspeth, NY; DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL; Spider Gallery, Wichita, KS and the Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI, among others.  The artist’s first solo exhibition with Mrs. was held September 2022 followed by a solo presentation of the artist’s work at Independent in May of 2023.  His first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, CA was held in Spring of 2023 with C L E A R I N G. Zehnder’s work has been placed in the permanent collection of the ICA Miami, Miami, FL, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; the Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon; as well as the Warehouse, Dallas, TX.  The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

For more information please contact hello@mrsgallery.com.