recorded in front of a live audience Jan 13, 2024 on the occasion of parallel solo shows in the Encinitas Kunsthalle Oolong residency. https://conta.cc/3SjVRsh above link leads to press release with links for the two exhibitions: exhibition views | sd magazine review | kent viewing room | mcphail viewing room thanks to Brandon Browning of the band SANDS for managing the audio for this live artist talk and polishing the recording, intro music by GAS. Please join us Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 2 - 4 pm in the ANNEX 1 warehouse gallery, functioning as a kunsthalle, for the sixth Oolong artist talk to conclude the inaugural exhibition on view in Encinitas. The featured moderator this round is Munro Galloway, artist and associate professor of art, who will lead a panel discussion with both current artists present: Natalja Kent in Kunsthalle · Nick McPhail in Foyer a two person solo presentation on view through January 14, 2024 gallery hours Wed - Sun 11 - 5 pm by appt: info@oolongallery.com Munro Galloway is an artist and associate professor based in Los Angeles, CA. A solo exhibition of his work will be on view at the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, in January 2024. Recent exhibitions include a one-person exhibition of paintings at Le Passage in Paris, a two-person exhibition at Basket Books & Art in Houston, Texas, and the exhibition "Dust: Plates of the Present" at the Pompidou Center, Paris, France. Past solo exhibitions include "California House" at The Tack Room, La Verne, California; “Chairs Missing” at Studio 10, Brooklyn, New York; “Four Years” at the University of Redlands Art Gallery, Redlands, California; and “Green River” at Murray Guy, New York, New York. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and other publications. He was a co-founder of Soloway, an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and is a co-editor and publisher of the zine Modern Pizza. He is an associate professor at the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA. Natalja Kent is Czech American and was raised in the Washington DC metropolitan area and is now based in LA. In the lineage of the Process Art movement, Kent creates performance constraints for her chromograms. The unique works on view in a major presentation at Oolong Gallery are titled with a process-specific name – chromogram which is a conglomeration of the words chronos (time), chroma (color) and gram (recording / drawing). Kent has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally: at Tate Liverpool (UK), Carpenter Center for The Visual Arts at Harvard (Boston), Pace Gallery New York (NY), The Berry Art Museum (VA), Hiromi Yoshi Gallery (Japan), The Museum of Museums (Seattle), PS1 and MOMA Queens (NY). In 2021, Kent. was an artist in residence at Google (Mountain View) and Camera Obscura (Santa Monica). Kent’s work has been reviewed or featured in WIRED, ArtNet, Voyage LA Magazine, and Manual/RISD Museum Publications. Nick McPhail was born and raised in Laingsburg, Michigan and is now based in LA. Nick attended Michigan State University where he studied painting and ceramics, graduating with a BFA in 2006. Since then, he has maintained a consistent practice that has evolved to rely on personal observation and photography as the basis for his intuitive compositions. Recent solo exhibitions include: Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA (2023); Massey Klein in New York (2023); Amélie Maison d’Art in Paris (2022); Ochi Projects in Los Angeles (2020); Untitled_1983 in Geneva (2019); and Holiday in Los Angeles (2018). He has completed residencies at Untitled_1983 in Geneva (2019); Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho (2019); and 100 West Corsicana in Corsicana, Texas (2018). He is a 2023 Hopper Prize Finalist and In 2017 he was awarded a grant to attend a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. His work is in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and beyond.