Left to right: Dana Hargove; Treeline Boundary, 2023; Ada Trillo; Old El Paso 1, 2023, CPrint, 20x30

EXHIBITION

Dana Hargove: Enclosure

Enclosure, a solo exhibition by Dana Hargrove featuring all new paintings. Fresh off her two recent artist residences in Iceland and North Carolina, Enclosure will be Hargrove’s fifth exhibition with Bridgette Mayer Gallery. The show title is derived from the 18th and 19th century Enclosure Movement in England, which forcibly privatized public and communal British land. The work in Enclosureexplores our world’s changing landscape in the face of capitalism, industrialization, and environmental threats. Hargrove’s colorful and abstracted landscape paintings blur the distinction between natural and constructed environments. As a Scottish American artist and frequent world traveler, Hargrove is well-attuned to the underlying narratives found in natural and industrialized landscapes globally and over time. She states:

As a female artist working in an historically male-dominated society, I think about how our developed landscape is a product of short-term ambition and not of generational nurture. I find it astounding how far removed we have come from living naturally on this earth, and how we have arrived at a moment where nature has become increasingly simulated. Even the landscapes on my doorstep are ultra-processed, sometimes in strange ways that add back a sprinkle of nature, often striking me with a wry humor. My recent work comments on the ever-widening gulf between nature and culture and the narrowing green belt that protects nature from our sprawl.

Ada Trillo, Old El Paso

Bridgette Mayer Gallery’s Vault installation will feature new and recent photographs by Philadelphia artist Ada Trillo. Trillo is a first-generation, Queer Mexican American artist who combines documentary and fine art elements in her photography. A native of the US-Mexican border raised in the Juarez-El Paso binational metroplex, her work is informed by a deep interest in national and metaphorical borders and modernization processes. She has focused on walls of inclusion and exclusion, such as forced prostitution, climate, and violence-related international migration, and US internal exclusions resulting from long-standing barriers of race and class. Trillo's goal is to bring attention to the impact of these borders on exploited and marginalized people and amplify their voices.

Trillo's work is in Institutions and private collections, including, The Library of Congress, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Some of their awards include The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship (2022), The Eddie Adams Workshop Canon Award (2022), The Female In Focus 2020, and The Leeway Foundation Transformation Award. Trillo's work has appeared in publications such as The Guardian, Vogue, Smithsonian Magazine, and Mother Jones, among other publications. She was also awarded The Me & Eve Grant with the Center of Photographic Arts in Santa Fe and received First Place in editorial with the Tokyo International Foto Awards. Trillo has exhibited nationally and internationally in New York City, Philadelphia, Luxembourg, England, Italy, Germany, and Japan. They hold degrees from the Istituto Marangoni in Milan and Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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