Take the Long Way Home
Opening Thursday, October 20, 2022, 6-8pm
Curated by Julie McKim and featuring artwork by Eric Ramos Guerrero, Jennifer May Reiland and Molly Springfield
Open to the public October 17 - December 17, 2022

CLOSING RECEPTION and CATALOGUE LAUNCH: Thursday, December 16, 6-8pm
Catalogue: Take the Long Way Home

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Project: ARTspace is pleased to present Take the Long Way Home, an exhibition curated by Julie McKim, that brings together the work of Eric Ramos Guerrero, Jennifer May Reiland, and Molly Springfield.

There is an underlying sense of rebellion in the drawing-based work of the artists in Take the Long Way Home. A kind of unnamed defiance that runs through the subjects they depict, the way they push their chosen mediums, and the challenges they undertake in both scale and detail. Their practices are labor-intensive, and they share a similarity in how they employ their work as a tool to delve deeply into a topic. They use graphite, pen, watercolor, and an all-encompassing attention to detail to construct precise and intricate images and compositions that, when closely examined, provide layer upon layer of unexpected information.

These artists take the long way in their work, whether they are precisely hand-copying the corrected manuscripts of Virginia Woolf, exploring the US/Mexican Border through a dystopian southern California landscape, or examining the history of religious martyrdom as a way to understand contemporary gender roles.

Eric Ramos Guerrero is a multi-disciplinary artist based in New York City whose work investigates ideas of the West through landscapes of suburban California, the US/Mexican border and the tropical spaces of migratory expansion. Ramos Guerrero exhibits work internationally and in New York including at The Drawing Center, El Museum De Barrio, The Knockdown Center, Beaux Arts, France, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Inside-Out Museum, Beijing, Mathilde Hatzengerger Gallery, Belgium, and Green Papaya, Philippines. Eric has been a resident artist at The Drawing Center, Marble House Project Residency and Triangle Arts Organization, and IEA Alfred University. @ericramosguerrero, www.ericramosguerrero.com

Jennifer May Reiland is based in New York. She graduated from Cooper Union in 2011. She has received the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship in Paris (2012-2013), was granted a studio through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in New York (2014-2015), and was selected as an artist for Jéune Creation 2016. She was a resident artists of Open Sessions at the Drawing Center in Soho from 2015-2017 and at the Queens Museum from 2018-2020. She has shown her work internationally including at the Drawing Center, the Fondation des États-Unis, and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin. She has had solo shows at Galeria Enrique Guerrero (Mexico City) and at Lawndale Art Center (Houston). She loves medieval art, alligators, and reading about history. @jennifermayreiland, www.jennifermayreiland.com

Molly Springfield has had international and national solo exhibitions, including shows in New York, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Chicago, and Cologne, Germany. Her museum exhibitions include the Baltimore Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University; The Drawing Center, New York; Hafnarborg Museum, Iceland; Indianapolis Museum of Art; Portland Museum of Art; and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004, participated at Skowhegan in 2006, and was a MacDowell Fellow in 2016. @mollyrspring, www.mollyspringfield.com

Reviews of Springfield's work have appeared in ArtForum, Art Papers, Modern Painters, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Village Voice, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. Her work has also been included in books, including The Thing The Book: A Monument to the Book as Object (Chronicle Books, 2014), Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy (Artbook/DAP 2014) and It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers (Siglio Press 2011).

Julie McKim has held curatorial positions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Performa and The Kitchen. She was the inaugural curator-in-residence at the Queens Museum, where she worked closely with the museum's teen initiative to realize the exhibition We Are Your Future. From 2010-2015 she served as curator for the Brooklyn-based experimental art space Kunsthalle Galapagos. She has produced curatorial projects in New York, California, Berlin and Vienna and was the artistic coordinator for the 2020 LA exhibition DRIVE-BY-ART: Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing. Currently, she is coordinating the Guild Hall exhibition, Swept Away, a collaboration between 130 New York and LA artists, and serves as an artist advisor for the International Lab for Art Practices. She began her career as a volunteer at the Oakland Museum of California, giving tours of Gordon Parks' photography and Dias de los Muertos. @juliemckimprojects, www.juliemckimprojects.com

A catalogue is available. For questions or to receive hi-res images, contact info@projectartspace.com Attn: Michelle or Leslie.