Future Gallery Weekend Hours:

April 26, 11am – 9 pm
April 27, 11 am – 7 pm
April 28, 11 am – 6 pm

Future Gallery is thrilled to present Sparks, a group exhibition featuring works by Rush Baker IV, Kévin Bray, Amalie Jakobsen, Chanel Khoury, Anselm Reyle, Vickie Vainionpää, and Jack Warne. ‘Sparks’ delves into emergent artistic processes, from Augmented Reality to collaborative AI and simulated asteroid mining. This exhibition offers insights into the diverse and imaginative techniques these artists employ.

Rush Baker IV employs a diverse range of mediums to deliberately cultivate ambiguity, blurring the boundaries between the real and the digital. His method involves printing collaged images in grids and affixing them to the canvas with wheat paste, before layering the surface with plaster, concrete, paint, and resin. The resulting textured representation captures the urgency, energy, and chaos prevalent in today’s socio-political climate, inviting viewers to experience a wider narrative.

Rush Baker IV (b. 1987, Washington, D.C.) lives and works in Prince George’s County, MD. He received a BFA from The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in 2009 where he received the Jack Stewart Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting, and an MFA from Yale University in 2012, where he received the Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award for outstanding achievement in drawing or painting from nature. Recent solo exhibitions include Scaramouche Gallery and The Cooper Union in New York City, HEMPHILL Artworks and Honfleur Gallery in Washington DC, Keijsers Koning in Dallas, and in group shows at Zidoun-Bossuyt in Luxembourg, The Third Line Gallery in Dubai, The Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, Bowie State University, MOCADA in Brooklyn, NY, Koki Arts in Tokyo, and Yale University. Baker is a Lecturer in the MFA Program at American University’s Katzen School of Art in Washington, D.C.

For this new suite of works Kévin Bray has collaborated with an AI melding countless versions of his original hand drawn sketches processed by a generative engine. The resulting compositions are harmonious complex collages which are output onto to canvas and then worked over with paint and gel medium further confusing the line between the digital and physical hand of the painting.

Kévin Bray (b. 1989, Corbie, France) is a French interdisciplinary artist currently based in Amsterdam. Initially trained as a graphic designer with two MA degrees obtained in both France and the Netherlands, Bray soon after became an artist in residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (2018–2019). Recent solo exhibitions include Wills, Wheels, Wells, Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2021; Breakdown After Before, Dordrecht Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2021; Don’t forgive/get, them, Stigter Van Doesberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2020; and Morpher III, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2020. His work was also shown in group exhibitions, such as L’anima Navigue, Future, Ancien, Fugitif, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France, 2019 and RijksOpen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018.

Amalie Jakobsen’s latest work foregrounds important questions about the future of human activity in outer space by fabricating speculative technofossils in the form of sculptural remnants from future asteroid mining. Her sculptures confront viewers with the environmental consequences of expanding extractive economies into outer space, while exposing the embeddedness of our social conditions within the planetary-scale extractive regime of global capitalism.

Amalie Jakobsen (b. 1989, Copenhagen) lives and works in Berlin. Jakobsen graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University of London in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Art Museum Gl. Strand in Copenhagen, Gallery Brandstrup in Oslo and Gether Contemporary in Copenhagen. Her work is included in Public collections such as Arken Modern Art Museum, the Carlsberg Foundation, and The Danish Arts Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Chanel Khoury technically constructs digital worlds imbued with godlike qualities, revitalizing ancient tactile craftsmanship on canvas and reflecting on reality and fragmentation. Her meticulous hand-painting and relearning of digital images pay homage to timeless artistic expressions, inviting reflections on the dichotomy between familiarity and uncharted territories.

Chanel Khoury (b. 1998, Rhode Island) lives and works in Los Angeles. Khoury earned her BFA from New York University in 2020, along with a degree in philosophy. Solos include Loyal (Stockholm), Over the Influence (Los Angeles). Group exhibitions include K11 Musea (Hong Kong), Friends Indeed (San Francisco), ICA Miami New Acquisitions (Miami), among others. Khoury’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami (Miami), Pond Society (Shanghai), and X Museum (Beijing).

Anselm Reyle’s best-known works include his foil and stripe paintings as well as his sculptures. The characteristic of his artistic work is the use of various found objects that have been removed from their original function, altered visually, and recontextualized. Remnants of consumer society, discarded materials, symbols of urbanity, and industrial change play a central role in his oeuvre.

Anselm Reyle (b. 1970 in Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Since 2009 the artist has held a position as a professor of Painting/Drawing at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg.

Anselm Reyle’s works have been shown in numerous institutional solo exhibitions, including MoCA Westport, Connecticut, USA (2023), Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany (2022), Aranya Art Centre, Qinhuangdao, China (2020), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2012), the Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany (2012); The Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark (2011), Des Moines ArtCenter, Iowa, USA (2011), Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (2009), and Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (2006). Reyle’s works are part of numerous private and public collections worldwide, such as Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France; Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Nationalgalerie / Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany; Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany; Collection Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark; Leeum / Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea; Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico; Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria; among many others.

Vickie Vainionpää is known for her generative oil paintings that use code as a medium to create infinite relationships between diameter, curve and entanglement. Her softly textured, organic shapes fold and twist on themselves to create biomorphic forms that are non-representational yet familiar. Using data from many sources, the artist’s oeuvre began with an investigation into randomness and its relationship to abstraction. More recently, her research has included eye-tracking software in order to examine and respond to historical works of art.

Vickie Vainionpää (b.1992, Toronto) She has participated in group shows at The X Museum, Beijing, China and The Margulies Warehouse, Miami, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include Gaze Paintings, Olga Korper, Toronto, Canada; Metamorphoses at the historic site of The Museo Belvedere di San Leucio, CE, Italy; Software at The Hole, New York, USA as well as a solo presentation at NADA Miami, USA.

Jack Warne bridges two contrasting timeframes, merging personal history with innovative technologies to craft captivating presentations that transcend physical artwork. His utilization of augmented reality filters expands the viewer’s experience, establishing connections between tangible objects and hidden realities concealed beneath the surface.

Jack Warne (*1995, Cambridge, UK) lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include Mai 36, Zurich (2024); Hypha Studios, London (2023) ; Mirage Genesis, New York, USA (2022) ; Perfect Partner in the Near Future, YUELAI Art Museum, Chongqing, Chine (2022) ; Worm at the Core, SET, London (2022) ; In Crystallized Time, MoM, Seattle, USA (2021) ; Rtapte, Castor Gallery, London (2021) ; Old Friends, New Friends, Collective Ending, London (2021); 06, PM/ AM, London (2020-2021); In Our Blood, I Thought You Were Dancing?, Limbo, London (2020); Terra Nexus, Proposition Studios, London (2020); Graduate Show, Royal College Of Art, London (2019)