B.D. Graft
Tim Donovan and Sam Trioli are the founders of LAUNCH F18, a gallery in New York City. They have conducted over 50 exhibitions, showing the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists, including thoughtful exhibitions by gallery artists: Nathan Dilworth, Andrej Dubravsky, Eric Freeman, B.D. Graft, Meena Hasan, Erika Mahr, Frankie Rice, Didi Rojas and Bradford Willingham. Founded in 2011, the gallery moved in 2015 to 94 Allen Street and in that time conducted eleven exhibitions, mounting shows with artists Eric Freeman, Matt Ducklo, Nathaniel Robinson, with curatorial projects by Jack Pierson, Dan Nadel and others. In 2016 the gallery returned to its Tribeca location where it continues to organize meaningful and ambitious exhibitions.
Donovan and Trioli have selected artists B.D. Graft and Lisa Paige to be featured in this special exhibition, the first ever from an outside curator on the Schoolhouse Gallery’s walls. LAUNCH F18 Selects will open to the public on May 28th and remain on view through June 30, 2021.
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B.D. Graft was born in 1988 in Cologne, Germany. Working mainly in the fields of
collage and painting, Graft’s focus primarily lies on exploring concepts of ownership and
the deceptively decorative. Graft has exhibited extensively throughout the world
including The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, South Korea, France and the United States.
Recent solo exhibitions include “Trying To Feel More Yellow Than Blue,” Nina Sagt
Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany (2018), and “The Art of Yellow,” Mute Muse Gallery,
Seoul, Korea (2019). His debut solo exhibition, "Planted Thoughts" opened in New York
opened with LAUNCH F18 in early 2020 to much critical acclaim. B.D. has also
collaborated with programs such as Uprise Art as well as a fashion collaboration with
Off-White. Graft lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and is represented in
partnership with ABSTRACT GALLERY.
Lisa Paige is a New Hampshire based artist who graduated from The New Hampshire
Institute of Art in 2007. Focusing on embroidery, Lisa's work combines handsewn
imagery with an attention to the everyday. In the artist's own words, Lisa discusses her
work as "Representing the flashes of google searches, accessible and excess
information at a schizophrenic pace, but with some celebration instead of the continual
despair over where we are as a human race. " Throughout her work, there is not only
the familiar that one can find, but also the humor and joy that is associated or
recognized in the playfulness of this cherished medium.
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of summer and, with it, the gallery season in Provincetown, MA.