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Founded by Katie Michel in 2013, Planthouse Gallery is a project space located on 28th street in New York City. Planthouse took its namesake from its original home located on the storied block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, representing the vibrant center of the city’s flower district. In 2015, the gallery relocated nearby to 55 West 28th Street, trading in tulips and trees for the wholesale shops that now populate Tin Pan Alley, the strip between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, which historically housed the city’s musicians, shops, and music publishers in the early twentieth century. We hope the (colorful) ghosts of the past will continue to inspire our future and our commitment to exhibiting and publishing the contemporary work of emerging and established artist
Contemporary, Publisher of Fine Art Prints
Katherine Bradford
Giraffe
2016
28 x 22 inches
Silkscreen and linoleum cut print in 9 colors
26
The print depicts a man and a woman inside a giraffe. The figures in this print are a departure from Bradford’s typical environments of moonlit pools and crashing waves. Here the figures are placed inside of a giraffe, a highly unlikely place for a man and a woman to be, but exposed nevertheless. While the external outline gives the two figures the guise of protection, they still seem vulnerable, appearing as they are naked: a sight that is as perplexing as it is comedic, mysterious and theatrical. Giraffe, continues the artist’s investigation of enigmatic themes that often explore life and death in her signature droll, yet seductive style.
Matt Magee
Fragment Flag
2019
30 x 41 1/2 inches
Three-color silkscreen on Rives BFK
22
“Fragment Flag equals divisive speech, divisive tweets, divided families, divided migrant families, fragmented politics, fragmented political parties, a star spangled symbol of red, white and blue in disarray.” – Matt Magee
Victoria Burge
Cirrus
2017
19 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches
Four-color silkscreen print with embossing
26
Named after the wispy Cirrus clouds, the print’s imagery is inspired by atmospheric ephemera: light reflecting on water; particles of snow hanging in thick cold air; the changing landscape of a cloud. Burge imagines the topographic surfaces of these phenomena as abstract terrains in each of the four hand-drawn layers of the print, including the painterly background. Subtle variations in color and a dense network of circular nodes and trembling lines capture a sense of effervescence and movement. Cirrus builds upon Burge’s interest in celestial mapping and recent work that renders the effects of light through an elegantly minimal aesthetic.
Anders Bergstrom
Double Life, Large #4
2021
36 x 72 x 1/2 inches
Viscosity monotype and linoleum cut, hand-cut and folded, on Akatosashi
Unique
Bergstrom’s artistic focus is the brown paper bag— a common, seemingly inconsequential item present in our everyday life. Yet, Bergstrom takes this item and transforms it, masking a piece about the production process under the veil of a finished product. Bergstrom’s paper bags pay tribute to the individual labor behind the gears of mass production. However, his paper bags look as they usually do (crisp, flattened, or greasy); they are also constructed, through skilled print methods, in a way that speaks to the process of manual reproduction in the mass production sphere.
Valerie Hammond
Chimera (Fox, Brown Eyes)
2023
19 x 25 1/2 inches
Etching. Ink and watercolor on handmade indigo-dyed Gampi paper
Unique
Painter, printmaker, and sculptor Hammond explores the nuances and fluidity of identity in her exquisitely rendered and detailed work, combining images of ora, fauna, and the human body to convey the external and internal forces by which we are shaped.
Louise Eastman & Janis Stemmermann
Players Constitute the Pieces No.6
2023
49 1/2 x 68 inches
Linoleum block on linen
Unique
Players Constitute the Pieces is a series of collaborative works by Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann, including monoprint textiles, a silkscreened edition on linen, and ceramic tiles. Combining the dotted grid of the childhood game Twister with stylized daisies––motifs borrowed from each artist’s independent practice—Players construct an immersive environment of visual play and permutation. Together, Stemmermann and Eastman interrogate the capacious and productive nature of artistic collaboration; considering tools, materials, and even users as co-creators, Players invites viewers into new relations with artistic objects through touch, use, and re-arrangement.
Katherine Bradford, Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine, Victoria Burge, Susan Goethel Campbell, Richard Dupont, Louise Eastman, Margaret Garrett, Simryn Gill, Valerie Hammond, Nina Jordan, Ruth Lingen, Matt Magee, Martin Mazorra, Katie Merz, John Mitchell, Robert Olsen, Rachel Ostrow, Katia Santibañez, Janis Stemmermann, Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli, Victory Garden, Heather Watkins, Chuck Webster, Anton Würth