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2012 - 2013 Artist in Residence Exhibition
Featuring Work by:
Josh Bernstein, Davide Savorani and Zahar Vaks

On view June 1st through July 20th, 2013 

Josh Bernstein is a Houston based artist who inserts his own travels, sculptures and photographs into larger historical narratives.  His exhibition at GAR will include the most recent pieces from his ongoing, years-long project centered around the journal of the hapless Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.  Bernstein recently approximated Cabeza de Vaca's trip across Texas, and his work draws equally from his own experiences and those of his predecessor.
Josh Bernstein’s work has been exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Bryan Miller Gallery (Houston, TX) and the Emergency Room at Rice University.  He has had reviews in the Houston Chronicle and the Houston Press, as well as Artforum.com and Art Fag City.  Bernstein’s work is included in several private collections and the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  He received his B.A. from Amherst College and his M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University.



Zachary Zeke Podgorny was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  He approaches painting as a performance, often synthesizing aspects of writing, cooking, music and motion into his works. While at GAR, Podgorny fully embraced this fluid, experimental approach to painting, creating a new, continually shifting body of work, the final installment of which will be displayed in the GAR Gallery. His installation of painterly structures also serves as a set for performance, seamlessly enmeshing his physical (almost mythical) presence within the work, and acting as a means of documentation of an event.
Zachary Podgorny received his BFA from Tyler School of Art and his MFA from The Ohio State University.  He has exhibited work in Philadelphia, New York, Columbus and Vienna, Austria.

Davide Savorani (Faenza, 1977) is an Italian visual artist. He creates in a site-specific way, using a variety of different media.  At GAR Savorani will present a section from the Can't Get Away Club, an extended project and online platform he has initiated during his residency in Galveston, with the participation of Italian performer Michelangelo Miccolis. A selection of works will be shown in the main gallery while the artist studio will be turned into a site-specific installation. On the occasion of the exhibition, his upcoming publication, Banana Days Are Over (in collaboration with Danish artist Hannah Heilmann), will be also launched as an additional element to the project. http://thecantgetawayclub.wordpress.com
Davide Savorani has participated in several group exhibitions including: Not Just An Image But A Whole World, Kunstraum, Vienna (2012); Lo Inadecuado, The Inadequate, L’Inadeguato, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2011); Against Gravity, ICA, London (2010), Eppur Si Muove / And Yet It Moves, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2009). Solo shows include Green Room, Careof (2011) and Gallisterna, Brown Project Space (2008) both in Milan, Italy.

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