4 August, 2025 – 31 December, 1969
Exhibition
Spencer Brownstone Gallery is pleased to present gallery artists Jaime Pitarch, Jane South, and Szabolcs Veres. Despite use of drastically differing material -paint, fabric, and found objects - their respective works are inspired by intimate, everyday experiences. Jaime Pitarch displaces and re-contentualizes ubiquitous objects such as pocket change, old furniture, and kitchenware to alter our understanding of such items, imbuing them with alternate meanings, primarily having to do with the human condition; time, grief, balance. Jane South’s patchwork of various fabrics, thread, and paint are combined to evoke harder material -urban architecture, fences, windows, and the trussells of the Brooklyn Bridge which is visible from her studio windows. The sights of her everyday routine are infused with the composition of her work. Szabolcs Veres’s subject matter originate from both his photography and memories. Combined with the loose, energized brushwork, and a vivid palette, his paintings recall the blurry moments of recollection, specific to his life but universal in their understanding.
Artist Bio
JAIME PITARCH (b. 1963) lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. He has exhibited extensively in Europe and in Spain. He has had solo shows in places such in: Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (2025, 2013, 2009, 2006); Tecla Sala,L’Hospitalet (2017), àngels barcelona (2013, 2009, 2004,1997); Fúcares Gallery, Madrid (2013, 2008); Galerija Vartai, Lithuania, 2011. His work has been selected for group shows in places such as Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Portugal; Artium; MASS MoCA, Massachusets; Manifesta; Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona; Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul, France; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; Carré d’Art Contemporain, Nimes or MACBA, Barcelona, amongst others. His work can be found in public and private collections such as the MACBA collection, La Caixa collection, Artium, the Bergé collection, the Museum Patio Herreriano or the Royal College of Art, London, amongst others.
JANE SOUTH in experimental theater before moving to the United States in 1989. She has a BFA in Theater from Central St. Martins, London, UK, and an MFA in Painting & Sculpture from UNC Greensboro. Solo exhibitions include Shifting Structures: Switch Back (2020), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Survey (2019), Mills Gallery, Central College, Pella, IA; Raked (2014), Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Floor/Ceiling (2013), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; Box (2011), Knoxville Museum of Art, TN and Shifting Structures: Stacks (2010), the New York Public Library, NY. Southʼs work has been reviewed in The New York Times, the LA Times, Artforum, Art in America, Sculpture Magazine, New York Magazine, Frieze, ArtNews, NY Arts Magazine, and The New Yorker. She is a contributor to the book “The Artist as Cultural Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life” (editor: Sharon Louden). Grants and residencies include the Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); Brown/RISD Mellon Foundation Fellowship (2015); Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2009); Dora Maar House, Menérbes, France (2010); Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (2010); Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2001 & 2008); New York Foundation for the Arts (2007); Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2008); MacDowell Colony, NH (2002 & 2004); Yaddo, NY (2001 & 2002). In 2018 South was elected to the National Academy of Design. Jane South is currently Chair of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute.
SZABOLCS VERES is a painter born in Satu Mare, Romania, and currently working and living in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He received his PhD, MFA, and BFA at the University of Art and Design in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Veres has had solo exhibitions at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NY; Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany; at Bazis - The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj Romania and Galeria Radio Cluj, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He had a solo booth presentation at Zona Maco, Mexico City with Spencer Brownstone Gallery. His work has been featured in several group exhibitions in New York, Romania, Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, and Italy.