Greene House Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition featuring the work of James Bertucci, Greg Carideo, Hank Ehrenfried, Bradley Milligan, Cal Siegel, Mack Sikora and Lynette Stephenson. The Sun Through Closed Eyes opens on Saturday, May 20, 2023 and remains on view through June 18, 2023.

The Sun Through Closed Eyes positions six artists, working across multiple media, in relation to each other through their shared sense of withholding. In each work, what is accessible implies something unseen: a street, a construction site, a studio, a lock, etc. The viewer becomes inextricably drawn to a space that we can only imagine. This quality offers both a conceptual kinship, and bodily obligation of the viewer. The sense of needing to lean in or out, and the urge to look behind or peer around presents a complexity of seduction and frustration. We are compelled to search for the inaccessible, something felt in both the body and mind.

James Bertucci (b. 1989, Chicago, Illinois) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Bertucci graduated with a BFA from Laguna College of Art & Design in 2012 and completed an artist residency at Vermont Studio Center in 2015. Bertucci was a selected artist in the 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial and has had solo exhibitions at Bob’s Gallery in Brooklyn, NY; Basement Projects (now The Painter’s Room); and B- Studios in Santa Ana, CA.

Greg Carideo (b 1986, Minneapolis, MN, US) lives and works in New York, NY (US). He received his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN (US) in 2008 and his MFA from New York University, NY (US) in 2015. Carideo is currently a professor in the Studio Art department at New York University. His work has been exhibited at Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY (US); Boers-Li Gallery, New York, NY (US); Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY (US); 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY (US); Icelandic Arts Center, Reykjavík (IS); Biennial of Americas, Denver, CO (US); MCBA, Minneapolis, MN (US); and Art of This, Minneapolis, MN (US), among others. Carideo has been an artist-in-residence at the Colorado Art Ranch in Salida, CO (US), the SIM Artist Residency and the NES Artist Residency, both in Iceland. He is also a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Fellowship and the Samuel May Rudin Fellowship.

Hank Ehrenfried (b. 1992, New Jersey) holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. He has exhibited at Semiose (Paris, France), Fredericks & Freiser (New York, NY), Quappi Projects (Louisville, KY), Danese Corey (New York, NY), AuxierKline (New York, NY), Public Swim (New York, NY), Tuesday Gallery (Richmond, VA), and Welcome Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), among others. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Bradley Milligan (b. 1996) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and his Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Boston University in 2021. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Our Land with Elizabeth Flood, Exeter Gallery, Baltimore, MD (2022); Handle With Care with Davis Arney, Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, MA (2021); Vestibules, Hoyt Institute of Art, Newcastle, PA (2018)l; among others. Selected group exhibitions include Human Nature, 263 Gallery, Boston, MA (2022); Pardon Our Appearance, University of Rhode Island Main Gallery, South Kingsont, RI (2022); Characters, All, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY (2021); and Tapped, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati OH (2018). In 2017, 2019 and 2020, he was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and in 2018, he was the recipient of the Museum Guild Purchase Award by the Evansville Museum of Art. Milligan’s work is in the permanent collection of Edinboro University and the Evansville Museum of Art. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Cal Siegel (he/his, b. 1987) was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. in Studio Art and Media Studies from Pitzer College in Claremont, California and his MFA from Columbia University in 2023. In 2015 he attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Solo and two-person exhibitions include, Mr. Fool at Deli Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Fine as all Outdoors, Matthew Brown Gallery, LA (2020); I am the box no roof can cover, CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY (2019); The house your road ends on, Outside Gallery, North Adams, MA (2018); S.L.A.B., Violet’s Café, Brooklyn, NY (2015); wallflower frieze with Meena Hasan, 6Base, Bronx, NY (2017); and Smile in The Dark with Matthew Stone, Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA (2016). He has participated in a number of group exhibitions including Vernacular Interior, Hales Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Double Play, The Pit Presents Left Field Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019); The landscape changes 30 times, Anahita Gallery, Tehran, Iran (2015); Inside/Outside: Works from the Skowhegan Archives, CSA Gallery, Waterville, Maine (2015); and To do as one would, David Zwirner, New York (2014); among others.

Mack Sikora (b. 1994 Pasadena, CA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In 2020 she graduated with an MFA in Painting from Boston University, and received her BA in Art and Art History from DePauw University in 2017. Two-person exhibitions include Sneak Show with Davis Arney, Greene House Gallery, New York, NY (2022) and Is This Okay with Julian MacMillan, Gallery 5, Boston, MA (2019). Selected group exhibitions include is it a dream or a memory?, Marathon, Ellenville, NY (2023); Superbird, Paradice Palase, New York, NY (2023); Trite and True, Dream Clinic Project Space, Cincinnati, OH (2022) and MAIL, OLYMPIA, New York, NY (2020). She was recently featured in Patron Parlor with Paradise Palace at Future Fair, New York, NY (2023).

Lynette K Stephenson (b. 1959) is a graduate of Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta. She was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Jackson State University in Mississippi from 1985 to 1998. Stephenson is currently a Professor of Art and Art History at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York where she lives and works.

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