Independent New York 2024

Spring Studios, New York, NY

May 9 – 12, 2024

Sargent’s Daughters will present works by Yevgeniya Baras, Lauren Dare, and Brandi Twilley. New York-based Baras incorporates found and unconventional materials in her textural abstract paintings addressing ideas of language, migration, and translation. Dare creates complex fields of refracted color with a gestural process on both paper and wooden forms. Since 2011 she has practiced with Creative Growth in Oakland, which advances the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities in contemporary art. Paint operates like layers of memory in Twilley’s intimate works, which depict the difficult realities of working-class life with flashes of beauty and transcendence.

Yevgeniya Baras (b. Syzran, former Soviet Union) is an artist based in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns (New York, NY); Nicelle Beauchene (New York, NY); Reyes Finn Gallery (Detroit, MI); Gavin Brown Enterprise (New York, NY); Inman Gallery (Houston, TX); Mother Gallery (New York, NY); Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York, NY); Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, NY) The Pit (Los Angeles, CA); as well as internationally including NBB Gallery (Berlin, Germany); Julien Cadet Gallery (Paris, France); Station Gallery (Sydney, Australia). She is represented by The Landing (Los Angeles, CA) and Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY).

Baras' paintings take shape through a process of layering and accumulation, combining oil media with various found and unconventional materials. The resulting objects hover between painting and sculptural relief, with layers that frequently extend onto the sides and supports of the canvas, refusing any definitive boundary. Within these stratified compositions, Baras creates symbolic topographies which address ideas of language, migration, and translation. The material richness of the work serves to generate abstractions that are encoded and deeply personal.

Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Baras was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Baras was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014, she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America.

Baras co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side (2010-2018).

Baras holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MA in Education from the University of Pennsylvania (2003) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2007).

Lauren Dare (b. 1977, Oakland, CA) has exhibited at institutions and galleries throughout the United States and internationally, including Nina Johnson Gallery (Miami, FL), Golestani Gallery (Dusseldorf, Germany), and the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, CA). Dare has practiced with Creative Growth since 2011. This is her debut solo exhibition. 

Brandi Twilley (b. 1982, Oklahoma City, OK) lives and works in Oklahoma City, OK. She has recently exhibited at Charles Moffett (New York, NY), Josh Lilley (London, UK), Zero Gallery (Milan, Italy), Kate Werble Gallery (New York, NY) and The Museum of Sex (New York, NY). Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, ARTFORUM, ARTnews, The Art Newspaper, The New Yorker, Artnet News, Time Out, The Observer, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and is represented by Sargent’s Daughters. Crest Foods is her fourth solo presentation with the New York gallery.