New York, NY - My Pet Ram is proud to present Furrow, featuring new drawings by Alexandra Eastburn, Casey Jex Smith, and Joey Parlett.

Furrow, like drawing, can be a noun or a verb. It can relate to gardening, hiking trails, water paths, wrinkling one's brow, or to make grooves in paper. Alexandra Eastburn, who also works as a gardener, uses automatic drawing to create surreal botanical compositions that are mysteriously odd and alluring. In Casey Jex Smith’s finely crafted monochromatic drawings, fantastical landscapes, mythical beasts, role-play gaming, and battles are used to mirror real-life scenarios where the individual looking for meaning is controlled or squashed by superior forces. Joey Parlett carefully builds up thousands of tiny marks to create densely textured allegorical landscapes that float between fiction and photorealism. In Furrow, paper is the common ground for these artists to record what is seen and what is below the surface.

Furrow will be on view September 9 through Sunday, October 2, 2022. The gallery is located at 48 Hester Street in the Lower East Side. Gallery hours are Wed-Sun from 12-7pm and by appointment. For inquiries and more information about this exhibition, please email info@mypetram.com.

About the artists

Alexandra Eastburn (b.1987) lives and works in Memphis, TN, as an artist and a gardener. She received a BFA in Drawing from the Memphis College of Art. Her most recent exhibition in Tokyo,MusicFromASpiralCorridor, featuredherworkalongsideintricatecostumejewelry based on her drawings by the Japanese design duo EETY-MEWO. She has exhibited at the Portland Museum of Modern Art in Portland, OR, Panel in Los Angeles, CA, Amy Li Projects at 166 Mott Street in New York, NY, and the Garrison Art Center in Garrison, NY. Eastburn is represented in TN by Goetze Art & Design.

Casey Jex Smith received a BFA in Painting from Brigham Young University and an MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. He currently resides in Provo, Utah with his wife and fellow artist Amanda Smith and their two children. His art has been exhibited at The Drawing Center (NYC), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UT),  and Spring Break (LA). His work has been featured in Art Review Magazine, The Boston Globe, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Rhizome.org, Wired.com, ArtMaze Magazine, and New American Paintings. Smith also curates the Instagram account @thedrawingstall.

Joey Parlett is an artist that works on paper. In 2021 he was featured on the NY PBS documentary series “Flowstate /North Brooklyn Artists”. In 2015, he was selected to participate in the Arctic Circle Residency along with a group of international artists and writers. He has work included in the Pierogi Flat Files and has work in the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Collection. He has exhibited nationally in group shows at numerous galleries including the former Pace Wildenstein Gallery in New York, NY, Rush Gallery in New York, NY, Platform Project Space in Brooklyn, NY, TSA NY in Brooklyn, NY, Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Transmitter Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated with a Masters Degree from Kent State University in 2006.