P.A.D. x Parent Company
SiSi Chen
Rachel Hillery
Jacob Jackmauh
Jessi Li
Ryan Oskin
Helen Xinan Ran
Alex Schmidt
Opening Reception on Friday, September 27, 2024, from 6–8pm
On view September 27 - November 16, 2024
Parent Company is pleased to announce a group exhibition in collaboration with P.A.D. [Project Art Distribution]. The exhibition features work by seven P.A.D. alumni artists including SiSi Chen, Rachel Hillery, Jacob Jackmauh, Jessi Li, Ryan Oskin, Helen, Xinan Ran, and Alex Schmidt.
Inspired by P.A.D.’s spirit of reciprocal generosity, this show hopes to replicate the gesture of rolling out the moving blanket and sharing artwork with an evolving audience of peers, friends, and strangers.
P.A.D. is a project space that stages single-day pop-up exhibitions on the street in Soho, New York. Under the guise of a street vendor, the endeavor aims to sell and distribute artwork as a way to make contemporary art more accessible. Gallery conventions, such as checklists and press releases, are upheld but the spontaneous, transient nature of the project invites more open, playful collaboration. The time spent on the street with the public creates a sense of community and facilitates a unique dialogue with strangers. Since the project began in 2017, P.A.D. has hosted more than 80 exhibitions.
P.A.D.’s creator, Patrick Mohundro, approaches the project with such magnanimous energy that inviting P.A.D. into Parent Company’s basement felt only natural. Making space for each other is fundamental to the artist-run ecosystem and P.A.D. has been incredibly successful in its efforts to carve out space for artists and their work.
SiSi Chen is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA from Laguna College of Art and Design (CA) in 2012, and an MFA from Hunter College (NY) in 2021. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, Chen approaches the world through a constellational understanding, in which positioning is not measured through fixed coordinates, but is continually shifting, contingent upon one’s own navigation through ever-fluxing time and space. Recent exhibitions include Tappeto Volante (Brooklyn, NY), Satellite Art Fair (Brooklyn, NY), SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York, NY), FiveMyles (Brooklyn, NY), McBride Contemporain (Montreal, Quebec),Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philly (Philadelphia, PA), Underdonk (Brooklyn, NY) and Hilbert Raum (Berlin, Germany).
Rachel Hillery is a Brooklyn-based artist who works across photography, bookmaking, writing, and performance. Hillery earned degrees in photography, psychology, architecture, and studio art. She is a graduate of HSPVA in Houston, TX, and has held residencies at Hercules Art Studio Program and the Center for Book Arts, NY. She has been photographing her family for 24 years.
Jacob Jackmauh lives and works in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2018 and an MA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015. He has had solo and two person exhibitions at International Objects, Subtitled NYC, NADA House, Governors Island, and White Columns. He is the co-Director of ART LOT.
Jessi Li (b. 1987 Poughkeepsie, NY) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work investigates the relationship between human intervention and the natural world. They hold an MFA in sculpture, Hunter College, 2019; a BA in ceramics, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 2009; a post-baccalaureate in glass from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Art, 2014. Recent exhibitions include: Gravity was an entity, Management, New York, New York, 2024; Form and Formless: Constellations of Knowledge, Urban Glass curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel Brooklyn, New York, 2023; Nowhere Fast, Olympia, New York, New York, 2023; Heavy Show, Spring/Break, New York, New York, 2022; 100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, New York, New York, 2021. Li is a recipient of the 2024 NYSCA Support for Artist Grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant. Li is part of the visiting artist program at Stone Quarry Art Park, a visiting scholar at Syracuse University, in 2024, and an artist in residence at Chautauqua School of Art, 2020 and Pottery Northwest, 2011-13. They teach sculpture, ceramics, and glass casting at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Greenwich House Pottery, and independently.
Ryan Oskin investigates the moments in between the formation and aging of architecture through photography, sculpture, and installation. He has had solo exhibitions at the NARS Foundation, Rubber Factory, and the Java Project in New York City. In addition, his work has been shown throughout the United States at Aperture Foundation, LVL3, Press Street, Newspace Center for Photography, and underneath the 6th Street Viaduct in Los Angeles. He graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Photography in 2012. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Helen Xinan Ran (b.1994. Inner Mongolia, China) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA from Hunter College (2022), and BFA from Pratt Institute (2017). She specializes in fabric, language, and found objects to construct emotional landscapes. She searches for the point where trauma, nihilism, and humor converge. Xinan is a New York State Council on the Arts Grant recipient (2024) and the recipient of More Art Emerging Artist Commission (2024) as one half of XenoDuo. She was a mentee in New York Foundation for the Arts’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (2023), a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center resident (2022), and an Ox-Bow Summer Fellow (2016).
Alex Schmidt (b. Chicago, IL) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Schmidt has held solo exhibitions at Leslie-Lohman Museum and 21st Street Projects for Critical Practices, and have performed at MoMA PS1, the Kitchen, the New Museum, and PERFORMA, among others. Their work has been featured in the New Yorker, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Dazed Magazine, PAPER, New York Magazine, and The Guardian. Schmidt holds a BA in Art History from Reed College (2009) and an MFA from Hunter College (2023) as a Ruth Stanton Scholar (2020-2023) and SPCUNY Actionist Fellow with support from the Mellon Foundation (2022). Schmidt is an Elaine G. Weitzen Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Studio Fellow (2024-2025).