In conjunction with Anne Buckwalter’s exhibition Reins on a Rocking Horse, Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to host a conversation surrounding the ideas of the body, intimacy, and eroticism within contemporary art. Buckwalter will be joined by artists Portia Munson and Alina Perez in a discussion facilitated by artist Adam Milner.
Anne Buckwalter (b. 1987, Lancaster, PA) received her BFA from Tyler School of Art, and her MFA from Maine College of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include a dual venue presentation at Rebecca Camacho and Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Rachel Uffner Gallery, NY; and Pentimenti Gallery, PA. Recent group exhibitions include ICA at MECA, Portland, ME; Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY; Monya Rowe Gallery, NY; Andrea Festa Fine Art, Rome, Italy; and Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium. Buckwalter received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2021 and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in 2016. Her work is in the collections of Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; Art Museum of West Virginia; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; and Zuzeum, Latvia. Buckwalter currently lives and works in Durham, ME.
Portia Munson (b. 1961) is a visual artist working in a wide range of media, focusing primarily onenvironmental and cultural themes seen from a feminist perspective. Recent solo exhibitions include The Pink Bedroom, Museum of Sex, NYC (2023); Bound Angel, PPOW, NYC (2022); Flood, Art Omi, Ghent, NY (2022) and Memento Mori, Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY (2022). Currently The Garden, a large-scale installation, is on view at 21c Museum Hotel in Bentonville, AR. Some recent group exhibitions include Rituals of Devotion, McEvoy Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Finders Keepers, VOSP Projects, Greenport, NY; Women’s Work, Lyndhurst Mansion, Tarrytown, NY; Cross Pollination, Olana, Hudson, NY; Dime-Store Alchemy, FLAG Art Foundation, NYC. Public works include Pink Projects, Art Production Fund, Rockefeller Center, NYC; MTA Arts for Transit, Bryant Park, NYC; & a permanent MTA Arts for Transit installation, Brooklyn, NY. Residencies include Civitella Ranieri, Italy; MacDowell, Peterborough, NH; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY. Munson was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2019. Portia Munson lives and works in Catskill, NY. She has been represented by PPOW Gallery in New York since 2005.
Alina Perez (b. 1995 Miami, Florida) received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Yale University of Art in New Haven. She was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2017, and has attended residencies at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown, the OxBow School of Art in Michigan, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her work was recently exhibited at the Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia; Atlanta Contemporary, Georgia; Deli Gallery, New York; Arcadia Missa, London; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; and Company Gallery, New York. Perez is represented by Deli Gallery.
Adam Milner (b. 1988, Denver, CO) is an artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. Milner received a BFA from the University of Colorado and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Milner’s practice centers the accumulation and preservation of everyday leftovers. Culled from the processes of living—from sleeping and eating, to walking, working, circulating blood, and having relationships—intimate fragments are contemplated and recontextualized, taking form as sculpture, drawing, intervention, text, and image. As parts are combined and reconfigured in the artist’s home studio, archives or assemblages emerge that offer new ways of considering material and social worlds. Recent solo presentations include the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; and Galería Mascota, Mexico City, MX. Recent group exhibitions include the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO; MCA Denver, Denver, CO; Casa Maauad, Mexico City, MX.
October 28, 2023
