JONAH FREEMAN was born in 1975 in Santa Fe, NM and lives and works in New York City. He has a degree in Film Production and Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Since 1998 he has been exhibiting film/video, photo and environmental installations in galleries and museums worldwide. His several interconnected bodies of work have been primarily focused on the phantasmagoria of the constructed world. Recent solo exhibitions include Stray Light Grey, Marlborough Chelsea, NY (2012); Bright White Underground, Country Club, LA (2010); Black Acid Co-op, Deitch Projects, NYC (2009); In The Kaleidoscope Room, Mitterrand + Sanz, Zurich (2009); Hello Meth Lab In The Sun, Ballroom Marfa, (2008); The Long Goodbye, John Connelly Presents, NYC (2007); The Franklin Abraham, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC (2005); and In the Public Realm: Sixteen Scenarios, Public Art Fund, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY (2002). His films have screened in several film festivals that include The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Locarno International Film Festival and The Rome International Film Festival. His work has also been represented in the recent group shows: Paper Exhibition, Artists Space, NYC (2009); The Station, Miami, FL. (2008); The Future As Disruption, The Kitchen, NYC (2008); Le Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland; Grow Your Own, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2007); Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, South Korea; Intouchable (l’ Idea transparence), Centre National d’Art Contemporain – Villa Arson, Nice, France (2006); Day Labor, PS1/MOMA, NYC, and Vanishing Point, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Wexner, OH (2005).
JUSTIN LOWE was born in 1976 Dayton, Ohio. In 2004 he received his MFA from Columbia University. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California and New York City. Since 2003 he has been exhibiting large scale, immersive, site-specific installations in galleries and museums worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include Stray Light Grey, Marlborough Chelsea, NY (2012); Hair of the Dog, Peppin Moore, LA (2011); Bright White Underground, Country Club LA (2010); Werewolf Karoke, Wadsworth Museum, Hartford CT (2010); The New War, Galleria Cesare Manzo (2010); Black Acid Co-op, Deitch Projects, NYC (2009); Freedom Time is Here Little Kittens, Fredric Giroux, Paris (2008); Hello Meth Lab In The Sun, Ballroom Marfa (2008); Helter Swelter, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery (2006); Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Frederic Giroux Paris (2006); Waterfall, The Wrong Gallery (2004); Passage, PS1 Special Project Room, NYC (2004); Collecting Pictures in the Brain, Hotel Sculpture Center (2005); .45 0n the 33, Galleria Cesare Manzo, Rome, Italy (2007). His work has also been represented in the such group shows as: Greater LA (2011); The Station, Miami, FL (2008); Fit To Print: Printed Media In Collage, Gagosian Gallery, NYC (2007); FUORI USO 2006 – ALTERED STATES, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest, Romania (2007); The Pantagruel Syndrome, Museum of Contemporary Art in the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2005); Greater New York, PS1/MOMA, NYC (2005).
More information can be found here:
Dumpster Hive: Two artists turn a blue-chip Chelsea gallery into a junk-bin fantasyland, NYMagazine (2012)
VIDEO: Freeman and Lowe at Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, BLOUIN ARTINFO (2012)
VIDEO: JUSTIN LOWE AND JONAH FREEMAN ART TALK, Vice (2012)
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