Phil Davis, David Flaugher, Emma Schwartz

Gauzy

September 16 - October 21, 2023

In Lieu / Ethan Tate Gallery is pleased to present Gauzy, a three-person exhibition featuring new works by Phil Davis, David Flaugher, and Emma Schwartz.

While depicting a variety of subjects, each artist utilizes shifts in palette and application to exemplify contrasting moments within their paintings. Davis' pastoral scenes of subtly anonymous subjects are built up intuitively and rapidly, utilizing layered colors that create depth and richness. Flaugher depicts traditional still lives, or rather hazy memories of them. The heaviness of his application shifts as he moves between the fruits, flowers, and backgrounds of his scenes. Schwartz is a master of texture, combining a multitude of materials (paper, oil, pastel, and charcoal) that deepen the surface of her works.

Phil Davis (b. 1988, Pasadena, CA) is an artist based in Los Angeles. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012. His solo exhibitions include Night Gallery (Los Angeles), Phil Gallery (Los Angeles), and the Mountain View Mortuary (Altadena), and his work has also been shown at Fernberger (Newport, RI) Nara (Tokyo), and Ms. Barber's (Los Angeles).

David Flaugher is an artist based in New York, NY. He received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies in 2008 and received his MFA New York University in 2013. His solo exhibitions include LOMEX (New York), And Now (Dallas), Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI), and Jan Kaps (Cologne). He has participated in group exhibitions at Night Gallery (Los Angeles), And Now (Dallas), Gladstone (New York), What Pipeline (Detroit) and Griffin Art Space (Warsaw), among many others.

Emma Schwartz (b. 1992) is an artist who lives and works in New York, NY. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 and and MFA from Columbia University in 2019. Schwartz’s complex layering of several materials (including oil paint, pastel, charcoal, and pencil) imbues her paintings with a physicality that leans into a pyscho-spatial narrativism. She has had solo exhibitions at in lieu (Los Angeles), Annarumma (Naples), and Chapter (New York). Selected group exhibitions include Brunette Coleman (London), Unclebrother (Hancock, NY), Thierry Goldberg (New York), Y2K (New York), Christian Anderson (Copenhagen), and Circle Contemporary (Chicago).