Trevor King | Eric Palgon | Lisa Seebach | Elise Siegel | Hae Won Sohn | Paul Vogeler
Exhibition | June 30th – July 31st
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
EMMANUEL BARBAULT Gallery presents INVINCIBLE SUMMER featuring works by six figurative and abstract artists.
Trevor King (b. 1988) is a visual artist based in Queens, New York. Working between sculpture, video, and installation, King undertakes open-ended, immersive projects that ruminate on the endurance of the human spirit in the face of time and mortality. King received a BFA from Slippery Rock University (2011), an MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan (2015) and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland (2010). He has been a resident artist at Touchstone Center for Crafts, Ox Bow School of Art, Haystack Mountain School, and Sculpture Space NYC. King has had his work published in CFile, Floræ, and Maake Magazine and was a fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts’ AIM Program. Recent exhibitions include Melting Point at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles,
CA, and STILLNESSNESS a solo exhibition at Emmanuel Barbault Gallery, NYC.
Eric Palgon is a painter and poet living in New York. His landscape-inspired paintings combine emotional color with gestural marks. His artwork navigates uncertainty, beauty, and play. Palgon received his MFA from Columbia University, BA From UCLA, and was a guest student at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie.
Lisa Seebach (born 1981, Cologne, Germany) studied at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 2016, she received the Friedrich-Vordemberge Prize of Cologne, the Gustav Weidanz Award in Halle and the artist’s prize of Brandenburg. Seebach’s solo shows include Kunstverein Braunschweig (GER), TURN Gallery, New York , Meliksetian / Briggs Gallery, Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Lingen (GER) and Kunstmuseum Moritzburg (Halle/Saale) (GER). Past shows include a solo exhibition at arthothek, Cologne (GER) in 2016 and group exhibitions at Meliksetian / Briggs Gallery, Los Angeles (2017), Kunstverein Hannover (GER, 2015) , Villa Arson Gallery, Nice (FR, 2015), Idling Gallery, Berlin (GER, 2014) and Biennial Mulhouse (FR, 2012). In 2018 Seebach was the recipient of the Working Scholarship from Kunstfonds, Bonn (GER) and as well as a resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York. Seebach lives and works in Berlin
Elise Siegel (b. 1952) lives and works in NYC. She is best known for her psychologically charged figurative ceramic works. Siegel studied at theUniversity of Chicago and completed her BFA at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC. She has presented solo exhibitions and major installations at venues including Museum of Fine Arts Houston,TX; Studio10, Brooklyn; Nancy Margolis Gallery, NYC; Garth Clark Project Space, Long Island City; Third World Ceramics Bienniale, South Korea; Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan Univ., CT; Jane Hartsook Gallery, NYC; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; and Halsey Gallery of the College of Charleston, SC. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum at FIT, the Neuberger Museum, the Sculpture Center, and many other venues. Siegel has been the recipient of fellowships to Yaddo and MacDowell, and has received three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has also been awarded grants from the Virginia A.Groot Foundation and from Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is in private and public collections, including Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Chazen Museum, Madison WI, and Arario Gallery, South Korea.
Hae Won Sohn (b. 1992, South Korea) is an artist currently based in Baltimore, MD where she is a resident artist at Baltimore Clayworks. Her artistic practice evolves through the process of casting and mold-making; physically, conceptually and methodically. Coming from Seoul, South Korea; Sohn earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Design at Kookmin University (Seoul, South Korea). She moved to the United State in 2016, earning her Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, MI). Sohn was the recipient of the Tony Hepburn Scholarship and the Chrissy Award of the year of 2017 at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Zahoorul Akhlaq Gallery (Lahore, Pakistan), Gray Contemporary (Houston, TX), MONO Practice (Baltimore, MD), Sculpture Space NYC (Long Island City, NY), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), and Kyung-In Museum of Fine Art (Seoul, South Korea).
Paul Vogeler (b. in Columbus, Ohio) was educated in architecture and design before finishing his degree in fine arts at the School of Visual Arts New York (SVA), graduating with Honors in 2009. He has also worked as an architect and designed his own line of modular “flat-pack” furniture. In 2010, he moved to Berlin and started the collective The New Berlin Painters in 2012, organizing and curating 3 subsequent exhibitions to critical acclaim. Paul was represented by Galerie Albrecht from 2013-2016, showing in Berlin, Zürich, Karlsruhe and Budapest. In 2015, he launched a second collective, the New International Society, receiving funding from the Berlin Senate Chancellery, organizing and curating exhibitions in Berlin and Detroit in association with Detroit's Museum of New Art (MONA) and Galerie Camille. In 2016, his Sugar Skull Chapel project was chosen as a finalist for the Deutsche Bank Sculpture Competition in Berlin. In 2017, Paul moved back to New York City setting up an Atelier in Northern Manhattan. He is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College and is focusing on painting, printmaking and drawing. In 2019, Paul will launch an artist Tarot Deck made from hand cut linoleum prints.