MIRROR//MIRROR

Pop-up exhibition in NYC

Closing March 7th, with extended hours on March 6th from 6-8PM

February 12th -March 7th

Exhibition hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 11-6PM

154 E Broadway, Downstairs, NYC - Please visit Parent Company's

gallery for access on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Smoke smoke smoke, talk and tension. Fragile, ecstatic—is this romance? Such sweet fantasy, alone in the studio making their imaginings; they bring the outside in. Vessels or projection, remake us endlessly. Make make make, studio a factory. Sacred fetish of my mind: go outside, share this place.

Walking by the window—look out! or see what we gave up. Looking through glass, we must all see the same? It’s a great big world out there. With-children or LinkedIn, friends and family of industry wash it down with tea. So contemporary and so free, just another mythology.

Forgot reflections we see through. My friend a double, best friend another. Cycle back, mirror’s a trap, we’re all lost in longing. She makes paintings fun and free, pictures of smoking, never any anxiety. He sees Princes and babies, never any pregnancy; just businessmen with cutlery. Flesh and bone staging grounds, theater of terror. Digital veils and archetypes, perfect tits and voids. The pretty silhouettes are all our own.

ro art services announces MJ Lounsberry and Braden Skelton in MIRROR MIRROR, a two person exhibition of paintings and sculptures on the body, mind, what we make and where we lie. Building off her solo show Proven Lollygaggers with ro art services in Chicago, Lounsberry's new paintings depict women in a fracturing utopian fantasy. Her figurative works present alongside Skelton’s hyper-performanative material objects of body horror. He most recently exhibited with Good Mother Gallery in LA. Please join us for an opening Thursday, February 12th from 6-8PM at 154 E Broadway, Downstairs, NYC.

MJ Lounsberry (b. 1996, Iowa) lives and works in Chicago, IL. She received her BFA (2017) and MFA (2023) from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Primarily focused on painting and drawing, Lounsberry’s work builds and collapses utopian figurative narratives delving into nature, athletics, and spirituality. Lounsberry had a 2024 solo exhibition with ro art services in Chicago, and exhibited in group shows at RHAA (Chicago), ro art services (New York City) Secrist|Beach (Chicago), Rhona Hoffman (Chicago), Goldfinch (Chicago), and Baby Blue (Chicago). She is the recipient of the SAIC Leon W Guggenheim Scholarship 2021. Her first book was published by ro art services in 2024, titled “MJ Lounsberry’s Collected Sketchbooks, Volume. I: 1-3, 2024.” Braden Skelton (b. 1991) lives and works in Atlanta, GA. He received his BA from the University of Georgia in Philosophy and Film Studies, and his MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Intermixing readymades with contemporary fabrication methods, Skelton's surrealist sculptures create paradoxical relationships using imagery from the collective subconscious. Skelton's recent exhibitions include Good Mother Gallery (LA), Weatherproof (Chicago), and Athica (Athens, GA). He is the recipient of the SAIC Olive Clin Meskimen Scholarship (2022), the Howard and Donna Stone Scholarship (2022), and the New Artist Society Award (2022-2023).