Relative to the Sun: Summer Group Show 2025

Aru Apaza, Eric Timothy Carlson, Mahsa R. Fard, Allan Gardner, Brittni Ann Harvey, Harry Gould Harvey IV, Don Christian Jones, Rose McBurney Hair + Nails is pleased to present its summer 2025 group show — Relative to the Sun — in New York City's Chinatown/Two Bridges. This show rounds out the gallery's first year of programming at their NYC location and their ninth year since establishing their mothership gallery in Minneapolis. In the long days of summer, the gallery is excited to share this assemblage of eight visionary artists' work in a range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, and sound. Hair + Nails’ 2024-5 season was a time of intense growth for the program. A ninth season in the Minneapolis storefront interwove with the inaugural season at their new NYC gallery on Henry St. and offsite presentations in Miami, Los Angeles, NYC, Wisconsin, and Rochester MN. Along the way, gallery founders and directors Kristin Van Loon and Ryan Fontaine met inspiring new artists and deepened existing relationships with artists from around the country and abroad. In the long days of summer, they are excited to share this assemblage of 8 visionary artists’ work in a range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, and sound. Allan Gardner (b. 1992, Glasgow) is a Scottish artist based in London, UK. He studied at Leeds College of Art and the Royal College of Art. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including projects exhibited with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Science Museum (London), Tate St. Ives (Cornwall), No Gallery (NYC), Hannah Barry Gallery (London), Annka Kultys Gallery (London), Cite Des Arts Internationale (Paris), The Art House (Wakefield) and many more. His writing has been published by Kaleidoscope, Dazed, Sleek, Mousse, Clot, The Quietus and many more. In 2021, he founded SCREW Gallery in Leeds, with a curatorial focus on the intersection of art and subculture. Gardner’s work takes shape in a variety of mediums including text, sound, performance, video, collage, publishing and most dominantly, painting. His practice is concerned broadly with the transience of meaning and its function in contemporary popular culture. His work has been known to meld pop and youth culture with religious imagery, including pre-abrahamic spiritual practice in his native Scotland. Aru Apaza works in sound and sculptural painting rooted in an Aymara worldview that embraces cyclical compulsion and rejects notions of purity. Their practice celebrates multiplicity, disruption, resilience, and mutation through gesture, musicality, and non-conventional materials such as earth and goat nails. Aru is interested in collaborating with the land, and uplifting sounds and textures often discarded as without value. Rather than presenting a pastoral indigeneity, Aru engages one that complicates and manifests in unpredictable ways, navigating the tensions between refuge and refusal. Their work resists containment, unsettles recognition, and insists on the radical potential of misalignment. Their work is for their lineage, past and future. Aru is currently in Quinnipiac territory, so-called New Haven, pursuing an MFA in Painting/Printmaking at the Yale School of Art, class of 2026. Brittni Ann Harvey (b. 1992, Rhode Island) lives and works in Fall River, Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017. Harvey has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; NOW: Gallery, Lima, Peru; Someday, New York, NY; and Anthony Greaney, Somerville, MA. Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions at Nino Mier, Los Angeles, CA; the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; P.P.O.W., New York, NY; Galleria Julien Cadet, Paris, France; Nir Altman, Munich, Germany; and Stilllife, Shanghai, China, among others. She is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art, a grassroots institution embedded in the post-industrial landscape of southeastern Massachusetts. DonChristian Jones (b. 1989, Philadelphia, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2012. DonChristian’s work and performances have been presented at MoMA PS1 (2025, 2018), Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles (2023), The Shed (2021), Brooklyn Museum (2019), Whitney Museum (2015), among others. DonChristian founded Public Assistants Inc. in 2020, a mutual aid network and community design lab based in Brooklyn, and won the Adobe Creative Residency from MoMA, New York. Eric Timothy Carlson (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2006. He has been living and working in Brooklyn since 2011. Carlson’s solo works have been exhibited at Pioneer Works, Printed Matter, and Fisher Parrish Gallery in New York. His collaborative works have also been showcased in exhibitions across the United States, including at Mass MoCA, and The Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. His work is featured in publications by MIT Press, The New York Times, The Baffler, Phaidon Press, Graphic, and 10x10 Photobooks. Carlson is also an educator and lecturer, having taught at MCAD and appeared as a panelist and speaker at institutions such as Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Tech, the Walker Art Center, Printed Matter, and the New York Public Library. His design work has been recognized with nominations for Grammy Awards in 2019 and 2017, for the 2020 Beazley Designs of the Year award at The Design Museum, London, and was included at Typojanchi 2023: International Typography Biennial in Seoul, South Korea. Harry Gould Harvey IV (b. 1991, Fall River, MA; lives and works in Fall River, MA) has been the subject of recent solo and two-person exhibitions at P·P·O·W, New York (2023); the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2023); the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, RI (2021); Bureau, New York (2021, 2019); Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York (2018); Motel, Brooklyn (2018); and Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA (2018). He has also presented solo exhibitions at Cordova, Barcelona (2024), and participated in two-person and collaborative exhibitions at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2024), and Post-Fair, Los Angeles (2025). Harvey’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2022), and the New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New York (2021). Harvey is the co-founder of the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MoCA), a grassroots institution embedded in the post-industrial landscape of southeastern Massachusetts. His work is held in the collections of the Frye Art Museum, Kadist, and the RISD Museum. He is represented by P·P·O·W, New York. Mahsa R. Fard (b. Tehran, Iran) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores memory, identity, and the emotional tension between private and public spaces, shaped by her experience as a woman growing up in Iran. Her paintings often depict solitary figures in intimate interiors or overgrown Persian gardens, accompanied by recurring women busts drawn from her personal sketches, quiet witnesses that carry layered histories. R. Fard’s process blends planned composition with intuitive shifts. She often begins with source images that transform significantly through memory and emotion. Her use of color emerges instinctively, with tones like red and green carrying psychological and symbolic weight across her work. She received her BFA from the Art and Architecture at Azad University in Tehran in 2014 and her MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019. Rose McBurney (b. 1976, Santa Cruz, CA) is a painter whose work interrogates the interplay between internalized structures of power and the formal language of painting. Drawing from a degraded palette sourced from YouTube home movies, McBurney reanimates digitally mediated colors into analog forms, invoking a simultaneous sense of past and future. Her compositions, developed through thumbnail sketches and executed in a single layer of oil on linen, reflect a commitment to constraint, material investigation, and conceptual depth. Through motifs of appropriation, dreams, symbols, and embodied gesture, McBurney explores painting as a site of resistance and reflection, where abstraction and figuration coalesce. Splitting her time between New Orleans, LA, and New Haven, CT, she earned a BA in Studio Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2023 and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2025. She was awarded the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship in 2024/2025 and the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting from the Yale School of Art in 2025. Her work has been exhibited most recently at The Felix Art Fair, Hair + Nails Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2025) Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME (2024); Hair and Nails, New York, NY (2024); Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA (2020); Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA (2020).

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