SASHA BAILEY: METROPOLIS

Gloria’s is proud to present Metropolis, a solo show of new work by Sasha Bailey created during her semester at the New York Arts Program. Working across collage, painting, and fiber art, Bailey’s practice emphasizes play with color and texture, resulting in an energetic and bold body of work. Often inspired by modern architecture and design, her exploratory process yields pattern-heavy pieces that mirror the urban landscape. Bailey’s training in painting and drawing informs her work with fabric and allows her to explore the relationship between art and craft. Disrupting the functionality of her quilts by stretching them like canvasses, for example, she blurs the line between traditional quilting and modernist painting. Originally from Santa Clarita, California, Bailey is currently pursuing her bachelor's degree in fine art with a focus on textiles at Earlham College. She was the Fall 2019 Gloria's Project Space Gallery Fellow.

Metropolis marks Gloria’s first collaboration with the New York Arts Program. Since 1967, the semester-long program has helped more than 4,500 students prepare for careers in theater and dance, music and media, visual arts, and writing and publishing. Qualified students accepted into the program spend a semester or term sharing this milieu with professionals representing all professional arts fields: visual artists, designers, museum curators, performing artists, authors, publishers, film makers, people in theatre and communication arts, etc. Each student is assigned a faculty advisor who teaches a seminar and works closely with the student and his or her apprenticeship sponsor.

BIG AURA is an improvisational electronic music group founded by Greg Faison and Jake Vest in 2018 following a decade of musical collaboration in Memphis, TN, and New York City. The band uses modular synthesis, sampling, and programmed electronics to create lush psychedelic soundscapes and propulsive rhythms.

Described by The New Yorker as “a musician and composer who uses the entire body as part of his sonic arsenal”, ROARKE MENZIES incorporates his voice, mouth, and body with audio tools and toys to craft deeply human electronic music (or deeply electronic human music). His work has been presented at the Material Art Fair in Mexico City, the Untitled Art Fair in Miami, Knockdown Center in New York City, VOLUME in Los Angeles, Quiet City in Vancouver, CHANNEL in Toronto, the Wayward Music Series in Seattle, and many other venues. His music has also been presented on KCHUNG Radio, KFFP Freeform Portland, WNYU's Bentwave FM, and on BBC Radio 3 as part of the series “New Year New Music: exploring iconic masterpieces, avant-garde experiments and the next generation of talent”.

TOE THROES is an amorphic trio comprised of Jen Steinbeck, Annie Horner, and Sarah Peterson. Their backgrounds are involving of performative and sonic dabbles across the mediums.