GAVLAK

About the Gallery
GAVLAK is an internationally recognized contemporary art gallery with locations in Palm Beach, Florida and Los Angeles, California. Founded by Sarah Gavlak in 2005, the gallery represents over twenty acclaimed artists, primarily focusing on the representation of women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ artists. Over the last two decades, GAVLAK has staged highly conceptual, pioneering exhibitions, including early solo presentations by Lisa Anne Auerbach, Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.), Wade Guyton, Shelia Hicks, Elizabeth Klay, Simone Leigh, Marilyn Minter, and Betty Tompkins. In 2014, the gallery expanded to Los Angeles, taking on representation for artists Karen Carson, Judith Eisler, and Viola Frey. Gallery artists regularly Participate in national and international museum exhibitions, international biennials, as well as solo exhibitions. Museum acquisitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Tate Modern, London, UK; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Since opening in 2005, GAVLAK has regularly participated at art fairs, including Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL; The Armory Show, New York, NY; EXPO Chicago, Chicago, IL; Independent, New York, NY; Independent, Brussels, BE; Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX.

About the presentation
GAVLAK presents Andrew Brischler’s Self Portraits, a series that marks a figurative shift for the New York-based artist. Turning from text-based imagery toward portraiture, Brischler continues his investigation of pop culture’s outsize influence on our visual landscape and psyche. Each Self Portrait reproduces a cinematic character in complex dot patterns resembling silkscreen printmaking. Yet these large-scale works on paper are painstakingly hand-drawn in colored pencil over gouache. Brischler projects onto his chosen characters as refractions of his own queer identity.

Gavlak will also present two site-specific paintings by artist Maynard Monrow on the 5th and 6th floors of Spring Studios during the fair.