JONAH GROENBOER, SAEED JONES & SHELLEY MARLOW

@ Molasses Books

May 14, 2015

Jonah Groeneboer is an interdisciplinary artist working in sculpture, installation, drawing, video and photo. This fall, he will have a solo show at Platform Centre in Winnipeg, MB and his work will be included in a group show at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston. He has shown at Bellwether Gallery, Andrew Edlin, and Museum 52 in New York, Shoshawna Wayne Gallery in LA, Ideobox Artspace in Miami, Roots and Culture in Chicago, GAR in Galveston, TX, Exile Arts in Berlin, Brown Gallery in London, and Torpedo Kunstbokhandelen in Oslo. Artist residencies include Ox-Bow School of Art and FIAR. He was a founding board member of the Shandaken Project. His work has been written about in publications such as The NY Times, the New Yorker, Art 21, and Art Journal in a conversation between Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy on Queer Formalism. He has taught studio, art history and theory classes to undergrad and graduate students. He is based in New York City.

Saeed Jones’ debut poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE (Coffee House Press) was the winner of the 2015 Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award and a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has appeared in publications like Guernica, The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Blackbird among others. Saeed is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and Queer / Art / Mentors.

Shelley Marlow’s first novel Two Augusts In a Row In a Row is published by Publication Studio, Portland Oregon. Marlow is the prose editor for Ping Pong Magazine. Marlow’s writing and visual work appears in several publications and art catalogues including LTTR, aLuPiNiT, Drunken Boat,saint-lucy.com, The Literary Review, Zingmagazine, New Observations, Log Illustrated, and the St. Petersburg Review. http://www.publicationstudio.biz/books/294