NEW YORK, NY.- The art gallery Alexander Berggruen opened the exhibition, a group show, Drew Bennett, Laird Gough, Lyndsey Marko, Alexandria Mento, Dominic Musa, Ben Walker last February with a reception at the gallery.

THE ARTISTS

Drew Bennett (b. 1981, Chicago, IL) received a BA in Fine Arts from Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. His work has been included in exhibitions at BOZOMAG, Los Angeles, CA; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco, CA; and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, among others. Bennett’s work is included in the collections of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA and Meta Open Arts Collection. He lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Laird Gough (b. 1981, Richmond, VA) received a Bachelor of Arts in History, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. She has studied art history at Instituto Lorenzo De’Medici in Florence, IT and ceramics at Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY. Gough held a recent solo show at Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia. Her work has been exhibited at Object & Thing, East Hampton, NY; R & Company/Pitkin Projects, Aspen, CO; and Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY. Gough lives and works in New York, NY and Charlottesville, VA.

Lyndsey Marko (b. 1990, Tampa, FL) received an MFA from Yale University in 2019 and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. Her work has been shown in recent exhibitions at International Waters, Brooklyn, NY; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL; Mollie White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Foyer LA, Los Angeles, CA; New Release, New York, NY; and The Hole, New York, NY. Marko will hold a forthcoming solo show at Gattopardo, Los Angeles, CA. Her work and accompanying interviews have been published in the Nashville Review and INSIDE / WITHIN. Marko lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Alexandria Mento (b. 1989, Bethlehem, PA) received an MFA in painting at Yale University, New Haven, CT and a BFA in sculpture and painting from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been exhibited at Jack Siebert Projects, Los Angeles, CA; Next to Nothing, New York, NY; Diane Rosenstein, Los Angeles, CA; ArtSpace, New Haven, CT; and Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, IL, among others. She was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize in 2018. Mento lives and works in Queens, NY.

Dominic Musa (b. 1989, Poughkeepsie, NY) received an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and a BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York, NY. He was an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME and was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. Recent solo shows of Musa’s work have been held at de boer, Los Angeles, CA; Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK; Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, CA; and Y2K Group, New York, NY. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Ben Walker (b. 1974, Chester, UK) studied at Turps Art School, London, UK; received an MA Fine Art from Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK; and received a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His work has been exhibited at M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Sto Lat, Brooklyn, NY; One Wall Gallery, Eugene, OR; Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; Terrace Gallery, London, UK; Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK; and Leeds Art Gallery, South London Gallery, UK, among many others. Walker was awarded the Jack Hill Painting Prize. The artist lives and works in Kent, UK.

Alexander Berggruen
Group Show: Drew Bennett, Laird Gough, Lyndsey Marko, Alexandria Mento, Dominic Musa and Ben Walker
February 28 - March 27, 2024