Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021

November 29 - December 24, 2021

Geary is pleased to present a two-person presentation at Untitled Art Fair featuring the work of Alan Prazniak and Sun You.

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Alan Prazniak’s oil landscapes have evolved into abstracted color fields that recall their subjects but suggest a more expansive perspective. While Prazniak’s compositions have developed into something beyond the landscape, they still manage to stay grounded in place.

Alongside Prazniak’s oil paintings are Sun You’s oven-baked polymer clay forms mounted on painted wood panels, alongside arrangements of sculpted clay forms in cardboard boxes. You’s polymer clay pieces are baked in her oven at home, and then transported to the studio in cardboard boxes. With this laborious practice, involving pinching, kneading, and pressing the clay like pieces of dough, You brings to mind domestic labor at home. The abstraction of her work doesn’t deflect the uncanny feeling of childhood objects that mingle with the expert skill of the work.

Alan Prazniak was born in 1985 and was raised on a horse farm in rural Pennsylvania.

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Alan Prazniak

The artist received a BFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and an MFA from Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Prazniak’s work has been shown at: Geary in New York City; Hesse Flatow in New York City; Kristen Lorello in New York City; and Silvermine Galleries in New Canaan, Connecticut; among others. Prazniak has also shown work with Geary at Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach in 2021, NADA Miami in 2019, and Untitled San Francisco in 2019. Prazniak’s work has been covered in Artform, Forbes, Whitehot Magazine, Two Coats of Paint and Flaunt Magazine, among others. Prazniak lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.