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1353 U street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009
www.project4gallery.com 202 232 4340
SCOPE MIAMI BEACH
2013 APPLICATION
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GALLERY MISSION STATMENT
Project 4 is a voice in the growing Washington, DC art scene that
aims to be as diverse as the art world itself. The gallery’s program-
ming promotes an international, forward-thinking exhibition schedule
of contemporary art and design by advocating for a range of emerging
and mid-career artists.
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PROPOSED ARTISTS
Katherine Tzu-Lu Mann
Ellington Robinson
Foon Sham

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1353 U Street NW #302 Washington, DC 20009 | 202 232 4340 | www.project4gallery.com
KATHERINE TZU-LU MANN
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann (b. 1983) earned her BA with honors in Visual Art from
Brown University, RI and her MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at
Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She received the Fulbright Grant:
Taiwan in 2006 and has attended the Triangle Workshop, Blue Sky Dayton,
Salzburg Kunstlerhaus, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Anderson Ranch
and Bemis Center residencies. Recent exhibitions include The Rawls museum
in Courtland, VA, Air Gallery in Brooklyn, NY and the Rice Gallery at McDaniel
College in Westminster, MD. Mann lives an instructor at the Maryland Institute
College of Art and lives in Washington, DC.
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann’s paintings show how patterned, highly-wrought,
decorative elements coalesce from the chaos and contingency of an organic
environment--and how they dissolve into that environment again. She begins
each piece with a stain of color, and from this shape, she nourishes the land-
scape of each painting, coaxing from this organic foundation the development
of diverse, decorative forms: braids of hair, details from Beijing opera costum-
ing, lattice-work, sequined patterns. Her paintings explore the potentialities of
growth, but also of overabundance.

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Katherine Tzu- Lu Mann
Climbing Plant
100” x 68”
Acrylic and sumi ink on paper

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Placeholder
60” x 40”
Acrylic and sumi ink on paper

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Pitch
112” x 106”
Acrylic and sumi ink on paper and cloth

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Colony
130” x 164”
Acrylic and sumi ink on paper and cloth

ELLINGTON ROBINSON
Ellington Robinson (b. 1975) earned his M.F.A. in Painting and Mixed Media at
the University of Maryland, College Park, MD and his B.A. in English from More-
house College, Atlanta, GA. His work is in many public and private collections
including The David C. Driskell Center and the Jean and Robert Steele Collec-
tion. He has received an Anne Truitt Fellowship and the David C. Driskell Award
of Excellence Teaching Fellowship. Robinson lives in Washington, DC and is a
Lecturer at Montgomery College in Takoma Park, Maryland.
Elington Robinson employs acrylic and oil alongside collected materials, such
as travel documents, cassette tape, record sleeves and found objects from
city sidewalks. He seeks to uncover the embedded histories and talisman-
themes of migration, Pan-Africanism, class divisions and the African American
experience.
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Ellington Robinison
The Unscrambling of Africa
85” x 45” x 18”
Found objects, table top, polyurethane,
and oil

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Ellington Robinson
Track 88
48” x 48”
Acrylic, collage, found objects, cassette
tape, polyurethane, oil on canvas

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Ellington Robinson
Tape 155
24” x 24”
Acrylic, collage, found objects, cassette
tape, oil on canvas

FOON SHAM
Foon Sham (b. 1953) received his BFA from California College of Arts and
Crafts in Oakland, California and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth Uni-
versity in Richmond, Virginia. His work has been presented in exhibitions
nationally and internationally including: New York City, Washington DC, San
Diego, California, Hong Kong, Australia, and Norway. Residencies in coun-
tries including Scotland and Chile have also bolstered his international expo-
sure. Sham is based in the Washington, DC area and is a Professor of Fine
Arts at the University of Maryland.
For years, Foon Sham has pursued his love of material in his intricate wood
sculptures. New motifs have emerged in his most recent work, including ref-
erences to reaching for the sky, fathoming the properties of light, and harmo-
nizing with natural forms and forces. In Sham’s deepening study of structure,
his sculptures have become more architectural in their reference to building
as well as to the human body and the environment.
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Foon Sham
Criss Cross
78” x 29”
Hickory, mulberry and walnut

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Foon Sham
S Column III
46” x 27” x 15”
Miscellaneous hard woods

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Foon Sham
68” x 36” x 30”
Walnut and cherry

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PRIOR ART FAIR INVOLVEMENT
Scope Miami, 2012
(e)merge Washington , D.C., 2012
Scope, New York, 2008
Aqua Art Fair, Miami, 2007

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