Felix Art Fair 2025

Press Release

Af Felix 2025, Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present work by four artists: Brian Calvin, Hedwig Eberle, Magalie Guérin, and John Sparagana.

In the cozy confines of our poolside cabana at the historic Roosevelt Hotel, CvsD will spotlight these artists, whose work comes from distinct origins but intersects in complementary ways. Based in Marfa, Texas, Magalie Guérin's paintings tease the edge of representation, intimating objects while resisting the draw of the rendered. Her brilliantly colored canvases thus have a distinct relationship to modernist painting, but expressed obliquely and in a thoroughly personal and contemporary way. John Sparagana's works approach collage technique from an equally singular perspective, cutting and pasting tiny bits of image into complexes of color and form, blurred and atomized; in the case of the work at Felix, the source materials for the new works is one of the Houston-based artist's own catalogs, which he has remixed by slicing and dicing them, variations upon variations, into a dub echo chamber for images that originate in Dick Tracy comics. German painter Hedwig Eberle's economical canvases are all oblique portraits, head shots consisting of whipping lines and ghostly vapors, all set on a putty-toned monochrome background, calling to mind a generational reboot and update of Jean Fautrier's haunting otages. A large, vivid canvas by Ojai-based artist Brian Calvin anchors the room, with a selection of his recent graphite drawings – again, all heads – gathered in the bathroom, an elegant portrait gallery in an extra intimate space.