HAIR+NAILS is thrilled to participate in NADA MIAMI 2023, featuring new paintings by Lauren dela Roche, new paintings by Julia Garcia and new figurative ceramic sculptures by Ginny Sims. Please join us in celebrating the work of these three amazing artists.

 

Lauren dela Roche (b. Santa Rosa, CA 1983) is a self-taught artist living in St Louis, Missouri. Her aesthetic is often rooted in autobiography and grapples with the elusive territories of the imagination and memory. Dela Roche’s drawings and paintings feature female nudes in ritualistic acts, inhabiting vivid interiors filled with repeating symbologies and motifs, almost always including cats, dogs, horses, and birds living harmoniously — all creatures sharing the same stripes, spots, and gestures. An avid reader, dela Roche cites the magical realist novels of Murakami and Kathy Acker’s punk poetry as influential to her practice.

 

Born in Pompano Beach, FL, Cuban American artist Julia Garcia (b. 1992) uses a collage-like application of acrylic and ink into wet raw canvas while painting. The relation to material flow, time, and permeability is underpinned by the dominance of water’s role in her process. From the highly constructed and controlled environment of Disney to the fabricated ideas of Americana permeating culture and media, in this selection of works, the paintings presented begin to ask questions about what lies at the heart of images meant to propagate fantasy.

 

Ginny Sims (b.1977, Little Rock, Arkansas) is a Minneapolis-based painter and ceramics sculptor. While she has a strong traditional crafts background, her work often deviates from those strict norms and expectations, pushing the medium into places where function and expression are combined.

Ginny Sims’ work often references different moments in ceramic history and incorporates the cultural information she finds there with present day social and political experiences.