Sam Branden

We are excited to announce our participation in Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2024 with a group presentation of new works by Sam Branden, Whitney Oldenburg, Esther Ruiz, Leslie Smith III and Vincent Szarek. Hours December 3rd, 2024 - Preview Day: Invitation Only Wednesday, December 4th: 11am - 7pm Thursday, December...

Urban life, specifically navigating and surviving the boroughs of New York City, has long fascinated Branden, who has roots in street fashion and graffiti culture. Simultaneously, the artist originally hails from the Midwest, with his formative years spent immersed in the splendor of the natural world. This dichotomy of influence is central to the metaphorical underpinnings of DOGBANE, which takes its title from the fibrous flowering shrub whose stems can be used to make rope and thread but is also notorious for poisoning surrounding wildlife.

CHART is pleased to present Facture Fracture, a group exhibition featuring new paintings by Sam Branden, Kadar Brock, Shayna Miller, and Jack Arthur Wood. The works in Facture Fracture explore the potential of manipulated painterly surfaces as a way of communicating abstract ideas, demonstrating how accumulated influences and affects can only be pared down so far, and how future evolutions are inherently built on that which came before. The exhibition will open with a reception on Wednesday, June 26, from 6–8pm, and will remain on view through Friday, August 23.