Marinaro is pleased to announce Stay Cool, a group exhibition including work by Ridley Howard, John Kacere, Kiki Kogelnik, Alice Tippit, and John Wesley.

Stay Cool is a cross-generational show that frames the legacy of late Pop within contemporary painting. The artists employ visual collage, appropriation, cropping, and elements of graphic abstraction to various ends. Pop reconsidered the construction of subjective and imaginative space, acknowledging shared experience and the impact of cultural iconography on how we see the world. The undeniable influence of photography and framing creates a distanced tone, and images become a site for projection. There is a cooling effect, even in pictures of longing or sexuality, that are no less sexy, but imply a tempered consideration. With aesthetics that hint at poster design, advertising, and cinema, the artists in this show create personal work while pushing the familiar into the uncanny.

Alice Tippit (b. 1975, Independence, KS) graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Solo exhibitions include Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (2023); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2021, 2018, 2016); Patron Gallery, Chicago (2020); Grice Bench, Los Angeles (2020); Kimmerich Gallery, Berlin (2019, 2017); Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago (2017); and KRETS, Mälmo, Sweden (2017), among others. Select group exhibitions include Office Baroque, Antwerp (2023); The Regional, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2022); Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth (2022); Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York (2020); Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (2019); CHART, New York (2019); Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (2018); Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2018); Peana Projects; Monterrey, MX (2018); Adams and Ollman, Portland (2017); and 47 Canal, New York (2015), among others. Tippit was a Finalist for the 2019 Artadia Award in Chicago.