Kate Manire + Mike Geno | Sept. 10 - Dec 5 2019
Kate Manire was born and raised in Rye, New York. She began making oil paintings as a Fine Arts Major at Vanderbilt University, where she created light-driven nocturnes of transient or abandoned areas of Nashville. After graduation, she studied at Columbia University’s Advanced Painting Intensive and further developed her interest in urban nocturnal scenes. In the fall of 2012, she moved to Shanghai, China.
Mike Geno is a Philadelphia-based artist who is known for, among various food subjects, still-life paintings of cheese which he calls “cheese portraits”. His creative connection with cheesemakers and cheesemongers has been building an archive which visually honors the artisan food producers acting as an homage to their art.