Morph Me | 9/21 - 12/31, 2023
ONLINE EXHIBITION
with artwork by members Kate Casanova, Kathie Halfin, Alissa Polan, and Lauren Skelly Bailey
PARADICE PALASE is pleased to present our final online show of the year, Morph Me. This selection of artists each manipulates and contorts their subjects through varied mediums to produce artworks both strange and humorous.
CURATOR NOTE: PLEASE VIEW ON A DESKTOP TO ENJOY AS BEST INTENDED.
Alissa Polan, Customizable and One-of-a-Kind
Kate Casanova, Hydronic Mantle
Alissa Polan, Meant to Be
Lauren Skelly Bailey, Shift in Place
Kate Casanova, Innie Outie Gooey Center
Alissa Polan, Trim Adds a Sweet Signature Touch
Kathie Halfin, Emergence
Lauren Skelly Bailey, Popkatoo
Alissa Polan, Not Many Client Will Go This Far
Kate Casanova, Dribble Spawn #3
Kathie Halfin, Under One Sky
Lauren Skelly Bailey, Ciao Regazza Ciao
Kathie Halfin, Wisteria Spoke to Me
Alissa Polan, Known for its Fine Grain and Unique Pattern
Alissa Polan, Wonder How You Ever Lived Without It
Kate Casanova, Pepto Cephalo Mantle
Kathie Halfin, Fragments Of The Sky
Alissa Polan, I listen to My Intuition
Meet the artists
Kate Casanova is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the posthuman through sculpture and video. Casanova has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Black Cube Nomadic Museum (Denver), the Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis) and Doug Aitken's Station to Station, an exhibition that traveled by train from New York to California. Casanova is represented by Yi Gallery (Brooklyn) and Myta Sayo Gallery (Toronto). She received a Master’s of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota in 2013 and a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2008 and serves as Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Denver.
Kathie Halfin is a Ukraine-born, New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in textile, installation and performance art. Halfin earned her MFA in Fine Arts from the School Of Visual Arts, (NY). Kathie has been an AIM fellow at the Bronx Museum Of Art (NY), 2017 and received a full Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center among others. Halfin presented her projects at Halle 50 gallery, Munich, Germany, the Ely Center Of Contemporary Art, New Heaven, (CT), Bronx Museum AIM Biennial, Bronx, (NY), the A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, (NY), Itinerant Performance Festival in Smack Mellon, Brooklyn,( NY), Knockdown Center: Sunday Series, Brooklyn, NY, Art In Odd Places Performance Festival, (NY), Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY, and the Immigrant Artist Biennial, (NY) among others.
Alissa D. Polan is an artist and curator. She has attended residencies internationally and her collages and installations have been widely exhibited, including the Museum of Contemporary Art (Arlington, VA), mhPROJECTnyc, (New York, NY), Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, (Sonoma, CA), San Francisco Art Commission (San Francisco, CA), Joya: arte + ecología / AiR (Andalucía, Spain), Paradice Palase, (Brooklyn, NY), LMAKgallery, (New York, NY), and Klowden Mann (Culver City, CA). She is the recipient of the WorkingArtist.org Photography Award. She received her MFA in Sculpture from SFAI (San Francisco, CA). Alissa currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Lauren Skelly Bailey is a ceramic artist based out of Long Island, NY. She holds a Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design. As well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Adelphi University in Fine Arts. Skelly works in layers, in a sometimes modular recursive process. The foundation of her ceramic practice is her relationship with abstraction, the vessel, nature, color, and texture. Her works are formed by integrating the use of coiling, pinching, painting, and thrown clay structures to connect her sculptural vessels and corals. Her practice takes lessons from unexpected results from the kiln, as well as the layering of hand-painted surfaces.