STRETCH MARK
MaY 22 - JUNE 28, 2025
A two-person Exhibition of works BY Ellen Hanson AND Erica NEWTON
PRESS RELEASE
STRETCH MARK
Ellen Hanson & Erica Newton
May 22 - June 28, 2025
Ruby/Dakota is thrilled to present Stretch Mark, a concurrent duo exhibition with Nose Dive, hung in the Main Gallery, featuring works by Ellen Hanson and Erica Newton.
Cherry Blossom season, in all its painful ephemerality, is the shortest of the year,
and perhaps the most beautiful.
What is a birth if not a cosmic collaboration, a fleeting moment?
The air so ripe, we become allergic to life.
Organic matter floating to the earth’s surface,
raining down from The Heavens or at the very least the Brooklyn sky,
finding their way to Lycra
and plaster surfaces.
Baby.
Do you want to gouge a path unforged, or spread smooth like churned butter, over a landscape distorted by your own tension and time?
Soaking wet bathing suit In the dead of Summer Fireflies hovering at
The treeline
Scenes so sporadic, You make them up Entirely.
There is no existence without making a mark
ELLEN HANSON received her MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 2021 and BA in Painting and Art History at Bennington College, Bennington, VT in 2014. Her recent solo exhibitions include Battle of the Carmens, Smart Objects, Los Angeles, CA, Kiss and Cry, Naranjo 141, Mexico City, MX Bathers, Eden Airlines, Richmond, VA and Pissing in the Pleasure Garden, The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA. She has recently been included in group exhibitions at Care of Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Mey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY and The Hole, New York, NY. Hanson currently lives and works in Mexico City, MX.
ERICA NEWTON was born in Berkeley, CA. She received her MFA from the New York Studio School in 2022 and her BA from Bard College. She was an artist in residence at the NYSS Project Space at Dumbo in 2023. She had her debut solo show at Entrance Gallery in NYC in Spring 2024 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Summer 2024. She has a studio in Brooklyn and regularly paints outside.
Please join us at the gallery Thursday, MAY 22 for an Opening Reception, 6-8PM