TWO LIES AND A TRUTH

Brooke Frank, Kyle Holland, Ingrid Schindall, Beth Sheehan

June 3-17, 2023

ARTIST TALK

Brooke Frank is an artist and painter currently based in Miami, FL. Frank paints from a position of uncertainty, using the surfaces of paintings as spaces to gather and synthesize information about the relationship between survival and joy. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and has exhibited at FAR Gallery in Fort Lauderdale, FL; Bridge Red Studios in Miami, FL; Field Projects in New York, NY; and at Moonmist in Houston, Texas. Frank’s residencies include the Art Farm in Marquette, NE, and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Boca Raton, FL. 

Kyle Holland is a visual artist whose recent works involve mimetic acts and sympathetic gestures to affirm—in diametrical opposition to the hegemonic masculine culture he experienced growing up in the South—that distinct and individualized expressions of masculinity deserve to be acknowledged. His work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, and UC Berkeley, among others. Holland is currently an instructor and studio manager for the book arts programs at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Ingrid Schindall is an artist based in Miami, FL. Her object-making practice and collaborative publishing practice connect through the manipulation of archives and examination of authority through material language. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is held in several collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Special Collections, the University of Iowa Special Collections, and the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, among others. In addition, Schindall runs IS Projects, South Florida’s only artist-run, public-access printmaking and book arts studio, and directs Tropic Bound, Miami’s first international artists’ book fair. 

Beth Sheehan is an artist and educator currently living in Tuscaloosa, AL. Sheehan’s work investigates scientific ideas of memory and perception to explore her own lack of episodic memory, often through the mediums of papermaking, printmaking, and book art. Sheehan has worked as a professional printer at Durham Press and Harlan & Weaver and was the Lead Bookbinder at Small Editions. She also co-authored the 2019 book, Bookforms: A Complete Guide to Designing and Crafting Hand-Bound Books. Sheehan’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in several public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Center for Book Arts, and the San Francisco Public Library.