Curated by Alyssa Fanning, Michael Lee & Patrick Neal
Show&Tell is a series where two visual artists present and talk about their work live on Saturday afternoons from 3-5:30pm. Held every two months at New York Irish Center, 1040 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY (One stop from Grand Central on the 7 train.) Presentations are followed by a Q&A and meet-and-greet.
Alyssa Fanning
Photograph by Emma Fanning.
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Alyssa Fanning (born 1985, Teaneck, NJ) lives and works in northern New Jersey. A graduate of Pratt Institute (BFA) and Montclair State University (MFA), Fanning has exhibited at AC Institute, New York, NY; the Glass House, New Canaan, CT; Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Platform x David Zwirner, New York, NY; and Teckningsmuseet, Laholm, Sweden, among others. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include A Thousand Moons and Suns at Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, Alyssa Fanning: Drawings at Carlton Hobbs, and Alyssa Fanning & Kristin Cronic, at Pocket Utopia Gallery, both New York, NY. She has been published in Battery Journal, BOMB Magazine, the Drawing Stall: Volume I, Forever Magazine, Hyperallergic, Peer Review: Volume I, and Two Coats of Paint.
Her curatorial projects include Cosmological Maps at ABC No Rio, New York; NY, Multiples at Silent Space Gallery, Kingston, NY; Heat, Chaos, Resistance: It's Time to Live in the Scattered Sun at Radiator Gallery, Queens, NY; and Blue in Green at Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NJ. Fanning teaches drawing and design at Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ and Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. In 2022 she received a Distinguished Teaching Faculty Award at Stevens Institute of Technology. |
Michael Aaron Lee
Photograph courtesy of the artist.
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Michael Aaron Lee (born 1972, Cincinnati, OH) is a New York City based artist. He received a BFA from the University of Texas, Austin and an MFA from Hunter College, New York City. Lee has had solo exhibitions at Nightshift Gallery, The Painting Center (New York, NY) and Hudson County Community College’s Dineen Hull Gallery (Jersey City, NJ), and has been included in group exhibitions at Ulterior, Jason McCoy, and Calico galleries in New York City, the Museum of Drawing in Laholm Sweden, and the Luo Zhongli Art Museum at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China among others. His work has been reviewed in Two Coats of Paint and mentioned in Hyperallergic, New York Magazine, Bomb Magazine, the Huffington Post, and The Austin Chronicle, among others.
Lee was awarded residencies at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop and The Cooper Union and received an artist support grant in 2023 from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. The artist is an adjunct professor at Hudson County Community College and Montclair State University (New Jersey). In addition to teaching and making art, Lee has sought to build community and foster dialogue among New York area artists through the creation of The Artist Lecture Series, Brooklyn, NY and most recently Show&Tell Art Talks, Queens, NY. |
Patrick Neal |
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Patrick Neal – NYC based curator, arts writer and painter holds an MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT and a BS from The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY. He also attended Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, New York Studio School, NY and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
Recent solo shows include: Water Paintings, The Local NYC, Long Island City, NY, November 2024; Anonymous Oasis, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, in 2023; Ephemeral Triggers, The Hotel Belmar, Monteverde, Costa Rica, 2022; Atmosphere, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham, NY, 2022; Winter Was Hard. Awards include; Allerton Park Artist-in-Residence, 2025; Queens Arts Fund New Work Grant, 2024; The Hotel Belmar Artist Residency in Monteverde, Costa Rica, 2022; City Artist Corps Grant 2021; 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship recipient in painting. Neal is a contributing writer for the art blogs Hyperallergic and Two Coats of Paint and has written essays for several gallery and museum catalogs. He has served as a visiting critic at New Jersey City University, Residency Unlimited in Brooklyn, NY, The School of Visual Arts and New York Studio School, New York, NY. Neal recently organized the exhibitons; The Mirror Blue Night, Undercroft Gallery, Church of Heavenly Rest, Manhattan, in 2023 and Luscious Wasteland: Cathy Diamond and Laurie Fader, Radiator Gallery, Queens, NY, in 2022. |
Emma Fanning
Emma and Alyssa Fanning at the Glass House, New Canaan, CT.
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Emma Fanning (born 1989, Teaneck, NJ) is a visual artist with a focus on works on paper and ceramics based in northern New Jersey. Her ink and watercolor drawings are influenced by her background in art history, study of 17th and 18th century design, and love of animals, both large and small. Featuring a whimsical cast of characters including Clementine the orange cat and Leo the lion, Fanning creates imagined worlds in which elements from the art and design of eras past serve as a stage for ever growing array of charismatic creatures.
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