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The Hole is proud to announce a special two-person project combining Kristine Moran and Russell Tyler: Free Style.

For this exhibition we juxtapose eight new paintings by Canadian artist Kristine Moran with six new acrylic paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Russell Tyler. The repeated geometric shapes across these fourteen paintings resonate in surprising ways, as Moran’s abstracted swimmers splash into the black-edged rectangles of Tyler’s proliferating polygons. Hung in a gallery painted three feet up each wall with aqua blue, the show wades into the territory between figuration and abstraction with interesting results.

Russel Tyler (b. 1981, Summertown, TN) received his MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and his BFA from Concordia University in Montreal. He has had solo exhibitions at Richard Heller Gallery in Los Angeles, Denny Gallery in New York City, Galerie Bernard Ceysson in France, Ribordy Contemporary in Switzerland, DCKT Contemporary in New York City, Freight + Volume in New York City, Alon Segev Gallery in Tel Aviv, Gordon Gallery 2 in Tel Aviv, and EbersMoore Gallery in Chicago. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the Torrance Art Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Anonymous Gallery, Retrospective Gallery, The Fireplace Project, Ana Cristea Gallery, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, ACME (Los Angeles), among others. His work has been reviewed or featured in Artforum, Hyperallergic, Modern Painters, T The New York Times Style Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail and Le Monde.

Kristine Moran (b. 1974, Montreal, Canada) earned a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 2004 and went on to earn an MFA from Hunter College, NY in 2008. She has exhibited at Monica DeCardenas Gallery, Milan; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York City; the Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto and the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, FlashArt, MOMUS and Artslant, as well as in NYArts Magazine, Canadian Art Magazine, Bordercrossings, Art Papers, Elle Magazine and Harper’s. Moran’s work is featured in Phaidon’s painting anthology, Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. Her work is included in the collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Glenbow Museum and the University of Toronto.

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