Good Naked (New York) is pleased to present:

FUTURE FAIR / A 2-person presentation of works by

Trevor King

Mary Tooley Parker

OPENING / WEDNESDAY, MAY 7 / 3 - 8 P

BOOTH F3

Chelsea Industrial / 545 West 28th Street / New York NY 10001

Good Naked (New York NY) is pleased to present FUTURE FAIR, a 2-person exhibition opening Wednesday, May 7th from 3-8pm.

The works in this presentation render daily gestures with sensitivity and play. Mary Tooley Parker makes textile tableaus with intimacy and familiarity using a time-intensive, historic rug making technique. Her process involves cutting fabrics into strips and pulling them up through a linen foundation using a primitive, wood handled hook. Incorporated in her work are new and recycled wool, cotton/silk fabric, fleece, handspun/commercial yarn, and metallic fibers. She makes use of natural and synthetic dyes to develop palettes both muted and hyperbolic. Trevor King’s polychromatic ceramic studies sculpt hands, feet, and ferns that leave indexical marks. His touch in hand building remains evident in these intentionally crude and truncated parts, forming moments of discovery and pause for us to ponder and engage. Both artists create opportunities for contemplating stillness and solitude, where figures and bodies inhabit their surroundings with comfort, awe, and wonder.

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Trevor King lives and works in New York City. He has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA, Ox-Bow School of Art, Haystack Mountain School, Sculpture Space NYC, & Greenwich House Pottery. Publications include CFile, Floræ, Maake Magazine, and Sculpture Magazine. Solo exhibitions include Art Lot (Brooklyn, NY) & Sculpture Space (New York, NY). Group Exhibitions include Spencer Brownstone Gallery (New York, NY), Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY), and the Craft and Folk Art Museum (Los Angeles, CA).

Mary Tooley Parker is a textile maker using wool and other fibers as paint. After a career in dance and then in art production at Vanity Fair and GQ magazines, Tooley Parker left New York City for a more rural environment. She then began pursuing an interest in textiles of different forms, eventually leading her to the American folk art of rug hooking. Parker's work has been exhibited internationally including New York, London, and Denmark and is held in public and private collections. She is honored to have been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship twice (2015 and 2024) and has also served as a NYFA panelist. Art critic John Yau recently wrote a review of her work in Hyperallergic.

FUTURE FAIR will be on view May 7 - 10, 2025

The exhibition is OPEN

Wednesday / May 7 / 2 - 8 pm

Thursday / May 8 / 12 - 7 pm

Friday / May 9 / 12 - 7 pm

Saturday / May 10 / 12 - 6 pm