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Fernberger could not be more thrilled to present an exhibition of works by Ernesto Burgos, Grant Falardeau, and Brett Goodroad. Among these three artists working in quite distinct modes, a theme emerges about an almost archaic or glyphic approach to representation.
Chilean-American artist Ernesto Burgos’s three dimensional works fall somewhere between the realms of painting and sculpture. Principally concerned with scale, material, and mark, Burgos paints upon shield-like substrates made from fiberglass, resin, wood and cardboard with a combination of oil paint and charcoal. Burgos’s images or symbols comprise a lexicon of gestures that interact formally with various shapes of his works and generate a sense of legibility.
Grant Falardeau, hailing from Los Angeles, makes ceramic busts and figures of imagined characters as well as portraits of people from his life. The exhibition features a tender portrait of his girlfriend, Lindsey, as well as a ceramic portrayal of cupid, for example. Though invented, the made-up characters his works depict have an uncannily familiar quality, and shimmer with a life-like intensity. Falardeau paints his ceramics in such a way that they appear to be made of stone, and for the first time has applied gold leaf to some of his works, giving the impression that these works may have been extracted from an ancient cache of objects.
Brett Goodroad’s paintings take place outdoors, meaning that is where he paints them, however they are not necessarily landscapes, and not en plain aire, in the traditional French sense. Hilton Als, in a review of Goodroad’s exhibition at Cushion Works in 2021 stated, “Goodroad’s work turns nature and paint into a Rorschach test.” The paintings are an index of the artist’s own consciousness, records of painting itself, more than any particular subject. They touch something innately human, and present a meandering gaze of a world begging to be deciphered.
Ernesto Burgos (b. 1979, Santa Clara, CA) was raised in Viña del Mar, Chile. He lives and works in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Nordenhake focus, Stockholm (2024); Gana Art, Seoul (2023); The Sunday Painter, London (2023); Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles (2023); Contemporary, Cologne (2022); Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris (2022); Ross+Kramer Gallery, East Hampton (2021); Ross+Kramer, New York (2021); Galeria The Goma, Madrid (2019, 2015, 2011), among others. He earned a BFA from the College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA followed by an MFA from New York University. His work is part of the public collection of Kunstmuseum Magdeburg in Magdeburg, DE.
Grant Falardeau (b. 1984, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He debuted a solo exhibition with Ono Gallery, Los Angeles (2016). Significant group shows include Temple Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles (2024); Sade, Los Angeles (2022, 2024); Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2023); From the Desk of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles (2019); Insect Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); Sandy Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); Ed Mell Gallery, Phoenix (2018); among others.
Brett Goodroad (b. 1979, Kearney, Nebraska) lives and works in San Francisco. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2022; in collaboration with Cushion Works, curated by Hilton Als); Cushion Works, San Francisco (2024, 2021, 2017); ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (2022); Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (2019, 2015); and Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, U.K. (2018). Significant group shows include Greene Naftali, New York (2024); Karma, New York (2021); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2019, 2018); and The Drawing Center, New York (2014), among others. He received a BFA from Montana State University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Ernesto Burgos
Ernesto Burgos (b. 1979, Santa Clara, CA) was raised in Viña del Mar, Chile. He lives and works in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Nordenhake focus, Stockholm (2024); Gana Art, Seoul (2023); The Sunday Painter, London (2023); Parrasch Heijnen, Los Angeles (2023); Contemporary, Cologne (2022); Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris (2022); Ross+Kramer Gallery, East Hampton (2021); Ross+Kramer, New York (2021); Galeria The Goma, Madrid (2019, 2015, 2011), among others. He earned a BFA from the College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA followed by an MFA from New York University. His work is part of the public collection of Kunstmuseum Magdeburg in Magdeburg, DE.
Grant Falardeau
Grant Falardeau (b. 1984, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He debuted a solo exhibition with Ono Gallery, Los Angeles (2016). Significant group shows include Temple Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, Los Angeles (2024); Sade, Los Angeles (2022, 2024); Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2023); From the Desk of Lucy Bull, Los Angeles (2019); Insect Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); Sandy Gallery, Los Angeles (2019); Ed Mell Gallery, Phoenix (2018); among others.
Brett Goodroad
Brett Goodroad (b. 1979, Kearney, Nebraska) lives and works in San Francisco. Recent solo exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2022; in collaboration with Cushion Works, curated by Hilton Als); Cushion Works, San Francisco (2024, 2021, 2017); ADZ Gallery, Lisbon (2022); Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (2019, 2015); and Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, U.K. (2018). Significant group shows include Greene Naftali, New York (2024); Karma, New York (2021); Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2019, 2018); and The Drawing Center, New York (2014), among others. He received a BFA from Montana State University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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