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Edie Fake, Flash Flood Warning, 2022. Acrylic gouache on panel, 12“x16”
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Edie Fake
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Laurel Sparks, Heaven and Earth Magic, 2024. Woven canvas strips, waterbased paint, poured gesso, graphite, paper pulp, xmas tree ash, sequence, mirrors, bells, velvet, 68 x 55 inches.
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Laurel Sparks
GRAM & Ox-Bow Summer Lecture Series: Edie Fake and Laurel Sparks
Saturday, Jun 28, 2025
11:00 am — 12:00 pm
Join GRAM and Ox-Bow for a lecture with painter and visual artist Edie Fake and painter Laurel Sparks exploring their time at the Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency.
Each summer, Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency hosts a series of distinguished visiting artists, art historians, and critics as part of their summer program, including academic courses and residencies. In this partnership between GRAM and Ox-Bow, our community is invited to hear from some of these extraordinary artists while they are working in West Michigan.
Registration coming soon.
For more information, contact Visitor Services at 616.831.1000.
Meet the Artists
Edie Fake is a painter and visual artist whose work examines issues of trans identity and “queer space” through the lens of architecture and ornamentation. Fake’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY and Marlborough Contemporary, NYC, and in group exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU in Richmond, VA.
His collection of comics, “Gaylord Phoenix,” won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel. Fake’s large-scale projects include mural installations for The Drawing Center, NYC and BAMPFA in Berkeley, CA. He is currently represented by Western Exhibitions in Chicago and Broadway Gallery in New York.
Laurel Sparks is a Brooklyn and Hudson Valley based painter whose work intersects queer craft, textile, occult and abstract histories. Esoteric correspondence systems are encoded in patterns and glyphs that reflect mysteries of macro and micro cosmologies. In tandem, elements of decoration and artifice pay homage to queer and feminist counterculture expressions. Exhibitions include recent solo projects at Kate Werble gallery, NYC; Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY and group shows at Cheim and Read gallery, NYC; Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; and DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.
Awards include a MacDowell Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation Studio Intensive Program at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY, Fire Island Artist Residency, NY, SMFA Alumni Traveling Fellowship, Berkshire Taconic Fellowship, and an Elaine DeKooning Fellowship. Sparks holds an MFA from Bard College and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University. In 2022/23 Sparks received a project grant to produce an immersive installation for Tinworks Art, Bozeman MT and received a 2024 Chiaro Award Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
In Partnership With
Ox-Bow School of Art & Artists’ Residency, located in Saugatuck, Michigan, connects artists to a network of creative resources, people, and ideas, an energizing natural environment and a rich artistic history and vital future. It offers a wide range of opportunities for artists at all stages in their career, with year-round programs that cater to degree-seeking students, professional artists, and those new to the field. Ox-Bow is a protected place where creative processes break-down, reform, and mature.
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