Candy Flipping

Peter Eide
Ryan Garvey

The Drawing Room

Sam Reeder

New in The Garden

Matt LaFleur

July 2–July 31, 2022
Opening reception Saturday, July 2, 3–5 PM

Explore the human body and psychic potency 
Gender-fluid, demonic love, torture, sex, and mayhem
My own queerness

My physical discrete objects
Consumption when I was a kid
Cheap, brightly colored
And stuck with me

I desire physical validation
Sexual pleasure
Power through
Coded language
In culture

Light is provocative
And needs to be seen
With potential appeal
That could remain silent

Peter Eide

I explore themes related to the human body; I often invent figures that are placed in proximity to images culled from both popular, and esoteric culture. I mine internet search engines, often with a general concept or reference in mind, and then select subjects not based on my personal attachment or relationship to them, but rather seek as objectively as possible, for themes, motifs, and images that contain strong resonance and psychic potency.

Invented figures are subsequently juxtaposed with visuals sourced from exterior subject matter. Moons, candles, palm trees, swords, and other subjects contained within my personal lexicon are anthropomorphized, and placed next to gender-fluid, demonic and human subjects, all engaged in various stages of love, torture, sex, and mayhem.

The hyperbolic maximalism of my subjects suggest extreme states of being, transforming the works into an ontological reflection of my own queerness, humanity, and personal identity.

Ryan Garvey

My painting explores color theory, perception, and how information is represented in our physical and digital worlds. My sculpture works are discrete groupings of found and collected objects; this work is concerned with consumption and the emotional value we place on inanimate objects. When I was a kid I loved collecting discarded items like small toys, cheap jewelry, and anything brightly colored, and something about that has stuck with me ever since.

Sam Reeder

I desire physical, bodily validation that stems from personal history as a child model. Drawing from my experience with digital communication for sexual pleasure, I negotiate power dynamics through an overt yet coded language found in contemporary queer culture.  

Neon light is provocative, sexy, and assertive, a material that needs to be seen. With communication through text and form, my work arouses sensation and potential appeal in a viewer that could otherwise remain silent.

Peter Eide is a multi-disciplinary artist that lives and works in New Windsor, Maryland. He received his MFA in interdisciplinary studio art from Towson University and a BFA in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art. His work includes painting, sculpture, installation, and experimental filmmaking. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Eide is the co-director of Jackson’s House, an experimental art space in Baltimore specializing in collaboration, residential, cross-disciplinary, and site-specific visual projects.

Ryan Garvey (b. 1981) lives and works in NYC and Stockbridge, MA. His solo exhibitions include Ryan Garvey’s Lower East Side at Lynch Tham Gallery, in Manhattan, and Finders/Keepers at Bronx Art Space. Ryan’s group exhibitions include Portrait of Zuck at Galerie Manqué, Brooklyn; State Property at Andrew Freedman, Bronx; and The Other Under Side at Bronx Art Space, Bronx. Ryan’s sculpture and installation works can be seen in Brooklyn and Yonkers, NY; Cambridge, MA; and San Francisco. Ryan earned his BFA in Printmaking from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2006.

Sam Reeder received his BFA in Sculpture and Dimensional Studies from Alfred University in Alfred, New York. He continues his studio practice as a neon artist and is the Studio Technician for Lite Brite Neon. He lives and works in Kingston, New York.

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New in The Garden

Matt LaFleur

Turley Gallery is also excited to present a new sculpture from Matt LaFleur in The Garden beginning July 2, 2022 from 3–5 PM. 

I have lived most my life in Taborton, NY on the Rensselaer Plateau, just east of the Hudson Valley. My studio is a lean to garage that I repurposed for a workspace over the course of 2006, and I have made most of my work there since. Although I often make sculpture, I am most at home at the table drawing.

From There to Here started during a Nor’easter in March of 2017. Taking breaks between going out to plow snow I would make a drawing, each time a different form stemming from a variation on brick patterns. I knew these were a beginning at the time. I was thinking about making something that could exist between drawing and sculpture. I made cardboard models of each variation. Each one was flat, but free standing, the support creating the dimension. As From There to Here exists outdoors, at scale, I hope it has a shifting sense of space in relation to The Garden.