NADA NEW YORK 2024

RACHAEL BOS, SALVADOR DOMINGUEZ, CLAIRE MILBRATH | BOOTH 1.16 |

2 May - 5 May, 2024

548 W 22nd St, New York, NY 10011

de boer (Los Angeles & Antwerp) is pleased to present a three artist presentation for NADA New York 2024. The presentation will consist of paintings by Chicago-based artist Rachael Bos, paintings by Canadian artist Claire Milbrath and encaustic wall reliefs by Chicago-based artist Salvador Dominguez.

Rachael Bos’ ‘sports’ paintings depict Olympic-level athletes in mid-motion. Pop imagery and advertising language become tools of subversion in Bos’ pictures as beauty and strength are compared and contrasted through depictions of grace and brutality. Muscles and uniforms such as leotards, tennis skirts, and ribbons contrast and provide a deadpan window into the strange obsession humans have with professional sports. Bos taps into this obsession, in relation to how, and the vigor in which she collects source material for the project. Both scanning and screenshotting images from vast sources, and often focusing on particular athletes or eras.

Claire Milbrath’s newest series of paintings depict skiers on mountain tops referencing the romance of remote ski destinations. Harkening styles from the advertisements of the 1970s these works imply hope and aspirations. Milbrath’s interest in seasons revolve around identifying oneself with the seasons, and beyond that with the cosmic cycle of death and rebirth, means to avoid being drowned in madness, to restore coherence and growth. The transformation from winter to spring becomes symbolic for the discovery of new stages of consciousness. In Vivladi’s sonnet accompanying his Four Seasons concerto he writes, “We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously, for fear of tripping and falling… This is winter, but it brings such joy.”

For first-generation Mexican immigrant Salvador Dominguez language is an important aspect to the works he creates. By arranging compelling materials and imagery through so-called blue-collar trade practices, Dominguez builds environments where craft is understood as a currency and the physicality of his artworks morph into luxurious iconographies of the working class. His newest body of work are wax encaustic wall reliefs made with Crayola crayons, and mason line. Inspired heavily by nostalgia, the grids themselves are created using mason line a reference to the artist’s father, a blue collar worker, and the patterns produced reference the patterns from his mother’s practice of embroidery. The resulting wall reliefs operate as ornate and highly visual forms of memory, memories that extend past family and into culture, heritage and human history.

ABOUT RACHAEL BOS
Rachael Bos (b.1999, Salt Lake City, UT) lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as Hans Gallery, Chicago IL; Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY; Sulk Chicago, Chicago IL; No Gallery, New York, NY; The Hole, New York, NY; The Material Room, Richmond, VA; Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy; and de boer, Los Angeles, CA.

ABOUT CLAIRE MILBRATH
Claire Milbrath (b.1989, Victoria, BC) is a self-taught artist working with painting, sewing, ceramics, and drawing. Adopting an artistic style reminiscent of the Naive Painters, Milbrath incorporates large swaths of lush color to construct her compositional space, renewing the coloristic tradition with vignettes relating to spirituality, love, and isolation. In recent years, Milbrath has exhibited at de boer, Los Angeles (USA); Pangée, Montreal (Canada), Eve Leibe Gallery, London (UK); The Hole, New York (USA), and Marvin Gardens, New York. She is the editor-in-chief and founder of Editorial Magazine.

ABOUT SALVADOR DOMINGUEZ
Salvador Dominguez was born in 1985 in Zacatecas, Mexico, and grew up in Pomona, California. He now lives and works in Chicago, Illinois-where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago–and Los Angeles, California. Like many first-generation immigrants, language is an important part of Dominguez’s narrative. Not just in terms of communication but also in its relevance within a broader contemporary American culture.

Dominquez’s work has been exhibited at de boer, Los Angeles, CA; Ralph Arnold Gallery at Loyola University, Chicago, IL; Walker Art Gallery, Garnett, KS; National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, IL; Carroll University, Waukesha, WI; DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN among others.