Harris Lieberman is delighted to announce their participation in Liste 18. The gallery will be exhibiting works by Julia Dault, Zak Prekop and Matt Saunders.

Julia Dault’s works equally emphasize both process and final form. Often repurposing unconventional materials such as vinyl and pleather for her canvases, Dault’s paintings bear the traces of her mark making through her reductive process. Using a squeegee or plasterers’ comb, she removes layers of paint to expose the unlikely surfaces beneath. These works, often graphic and brightly colored, evoke a fusion of Bubblegum pop and 80s cool, further highlighted by titles like, Moonwalk (2012) and L.A. Confidential (2012). In 2012, Julia Dault (b. 1977, Toronto, Canada) was included in “The Ungovernables,” the New Museum’s second triennial; “Roundtable,” the Ninth Gwangju Biennale; and “Of Geometry and Speculation,” part of the Marrakech Biennale. She also presented a solo exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, London, as part of the gallery’s “Inside the White Cube” series.

Zak Prekop’s canvases serve to investigate the structural components and ideas that comprise painting. Both subtle and deceptive, Prekop’s works reference both the physical and experiential qualities of the medium: the stretcher bars, the compositional grid, the brushstroke, and the optical perception of color and depth. What originally appeared as expressionistic flicks of paint are revealed as meticulously measured strokes of color laid down bilaterally. By fusing two works on one canvas, Prekop expands the traditionally two-dimensional surface of painting. Zak Prekop graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Prekop’s work was recently exhibited in Greater New York, MoMA PS1, the 5th Prague Biennale and the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial. He is currently included in the in Painter Painter at the Walker Art Center.

Matt Saunders’s practice centers on mediating the boundaries between materials. Through an amalgamation of painting, drawing, photography and film, Saunders displays a keen understanding of a work’s physical presence and its optical reception. Saunders creates his enigmatic silver gelatin prints by using his own drawings and paintings as negatives. Developed by hand, the results are ghostly, corroded figures and painterly forms. Saunders received his BA from Harvard College and his MFA from Yale University. He currently lives and works between Berlin and Cambridge, MA. He has recently had solo shows at Tate Liverpool, and The Renaissance Society in Chicago. In March of this year, Matt Saunders was awarded the Jean-François Prat Prize for notable contemporary artists. His works are in the permanent collections of the MoMA, New York; The Whitney Museum, New York; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; SFMoMA, San Francisco and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

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