Steve Turner is pleased to present Fiction Workshop, a solo exhibition of new work by Durham-based Kevin McNamee-Tweed consisting of ceramic paintings, drawings and small-scale ceramic and wood sculptures. Images of home, suns and moons and artists at work focus on themes of domestic life and the distortion of time, both made more timely as we mark the two year anniversary of the pandemic. The works also draw from the artist’s roots in North Carolina, a locale known for its rich tradition of clay. In many of the sculptural constructions, he combined several different clay bodies, including those dug up by hand near his home. In Fiction Workshop, McNamee-Tweed’s love of experimentation, play, the handmade and storytelling are on full display. Kevin McNamee-Tweed (b. 1984) grew up near Chapel Hill, North Carolina before studying at New York University where he earned a BFA (2008). After living in Austin, Texas for seven years, he moved to Iowa City to enroll in the MFA program at the University of Iowa where he earned an MFA (2020). He has had solo exhibitions at The Still House Group, New York (2016); Rod Barton, London (2017); Shrine Gallery, New York (2018); Devening Projects, Chicago (2019); Harpers Books, New York (2020); L21 Gallery, Palma (2021), Conduit Gallery, Dallas (2021) and Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2019, 2020 & 2021). Fiction Workshop is his fourth solo exhibition at Steve Turner. McNamee-Tweed lives and works in Durham. __ Steve Turner is pleased to present Nine Lives, a solo exhibition by New York-based Madeleine Bialke which features nine new paintings inspired by the trees of Five Ponds Wilderness Area, an old growth forest in the Adirondack Mountains. Bialke associates each of the paintings with a planet in our solar system. The connection is loose, sometimes factual, sometimes symbolic, but in each instance it inspired a painterly decision relating to color or composition. She thinks of trees as actors on a stage and has placed them in settings that are meant to provide an emotional backdrop rather than a realistic background. To her, trees can become as expansive and extra-terrestrial as celestial bodies, bridging a gap between our earthly ground and something otherworldly. Bialke’s skies are dreamy and romantic from the haze of industry and the effects of climate change and her title suggests that time is running out for our planet. Madeleine Bialke (b. 1991, Elmira, New York) received her MFA from Boston University (2016) and her BFA from Plattsburgh State University of New York ( 2013). She has had solo exhibitions at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London (2021); Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2021) Deanna Evans Projects, New York (2019) and Harper’s Books, East Hampton (2019). Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at Alexander Berggruen, New York (2022); Dinner Gallery, New York (2022) and Newchild Gallery, Antwerp (2021). Nine Lives is her first solo exhibition with Steve Turner.