Rolando Anselmi

Rolando Anselmi is the owner and director of Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin and Rome. Established in Berlin in 2013, the gallery aims to promote an ambitious program that supports site-specific projects realized within the gallery space. In this way, the gallery exists not only as a commercial venue but also as a production center for contemporary art. In addition to its exhibition program, the gallery advocates artists by supporting publications, outdoor projects, residences, and participation in international art fairs. In 2020, the gallery will open its doors to a new headquarters in the center of Rome which will include exhibition spaces, show rooms, gallery offices and archive, as well as a space for artists' projects and residences.

Evan Halter

Born 1990 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

2016 MFA, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. 2013 BFA, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Ohio.

"Evan Halter is interested in painting’s ability to function in multiple states simultaneously, namely as both illusory space and physical surface. He works through various media such as oil on canvas, oil on panel, water color or gouache on paper. The imagery and framing devices in his work often reference artists such as Giovanni Bellini, Ambrosius Bosschaert, Fra Angelico, and, in particular, the still life paintings of Juan Sánchez Cotán, always using those references as a means of pointing toward something non-material, something we can grasp at, but that continually evades us."

Artwork Image: Threshold (Wisteria), 2018. Oil on wood panel. 20 x 16 in.

Dan Devine

Born 1940 in Kent, Connecticut. Lives and works in Ghent, New York.

1988 MFA, Bard University, Annendale on Hudson, New York.

"Dan Devine’s plaster sculptures explore the relationship between interior and exterior spaces, redefining the spectator’s relationship to internal volumes and to the idea of impacts. Resulting from the colliding of objects, impacts can also occur between cultures, philosophies, or changing natural environments. In his sculptural process, folds, dents, rips and slices all occurred upon a violent and piercing impact, and in contrast, the castings are formed by the slow flow of suspended plaster and their forms gently occur rather than being shaped or forged."

Artwork Image: Serac, 2019. Cast Plaster. 44 x 48 x 10 in. Cast in mold made from body of a crashed car.

Thomas Lawson

Born 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland. Lives and works in Los Angeles County, California.

"Thomas Lawson's pictorial practice explores the ways in which figurative representation allows for, and sometimes disrupts, the transmission of meaning. His paintings are suffused with surprising, critically astute, and often humorous disjunctions that reflect the instability of contemporary life. His pictorial practice is absolutely current although unchanged for many years, and his images suggest multiple allegorical possibilities through the long, historically-oriented ‘literature’ of representations that has, over the centuries, become the foundation for understanding how subjects relate to their social environments."

Artwork Image: Untitled, 2018. Oil on canvas. 84 x 60 x 3 in.