Nick and Cherry expanded their family business in Midwest City. Nick and Cherry were very proud that both of their sons decided to join them in the family business.
They worked side by side to grow their business and raise their children Gary, Bruce, and Sydney. Nick and Cherry both came from a deep-rooted Lebanese heritage that pushed them to rebuild their lives with the freedom they deserved. Crest Foods is her fourth solo presentation with the New York gallery.Not long after starting the business, Nick married his beloved wife, Cherry, who would remain his partner in every sense of the word for more than 60 years. She received her MFA from Yale University in 2011 and is represented by Sargent’s Daughters. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, ARTFORUM, ARTnews, The Art Newspaper, The New Yorker, Artnet News, Time Out, The Observer, and Hyperallergic, among other publications. She has recently exhibited at Charles Moffett (New York, NY), Josh Lilley (London, UK), Zero Gallery (Milan, Italy), Kate Werble Gallery (New York, NY) and The Museum of Sex (New York, NY). 1982, Oklahoma City, OK) lives and works in Oklahoma City, OK. In Crest Foods, the viewer is allowed to look at the past through the lens of Twilley’s present, refracted through hardship and healing.īrandi Twilley (b. In this way, the application of paint operates like layers of the artist’s memory, both preserving and transforming her subject matter. Each image could be a snapshot, as it centers the artist’s gaze and perspective on her subjects, yet her delicate brushwork grants an unreal luminosity to even the price tags and cleaner’s cart. Many of these portraits are invented likenesses based on memory, similar to previous bodies of work which depicted additional fires at the family's home. Wide, sunset-streaked skies transform parking lots into contemplative vistas, while sensitive portraits of her co-worker's faces evoke difficult lives lived.
Twilley’s paintings employ her masterful use of oil paint to produce images that range from darkly humorous, to strangely beautiful, to hauntingly sparse. The exhibition of the works coincides with a return to health and a reentry into the world for the artist herself. For Twilley, this body of work has become a tool for understanding the cycles of loss and renewal that she has experienced, mirrored over time. The unfinished paintings traveled with her and were completed while she recovered, ironically in proximity to Crest Foods once again. However, after becoming ill with Lyme disease, she once again moved home to Oklahoma to recover and rest. Twilley returned to these sketches over time, and while living in New York in 2020, began producing this body of work.
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I was moved by the way their hard lives showed in their faces and bodies.” In her free time, Twilley made sketches of the store, her brothers, and her coworkers. As a result I had time to observe and contemplate those around me, my coworkers and the customers.
The best part was that I was left alone, working and thinking without any interruptions. I cleaned the bathrooms and then swept and mopped the aisles of the store. Reflecting on this time in her life, Twilley writes, “At 7 a.m. After a fire at her family’s rural home, which was the second fire to destroy a family residence, they relocated to Midwest City and Twilley took a job as a cleaner at the Crest Foods, where her three brothers would also go on to work.
In 2003, Twilley returned home from college in Boston to Oklahoma to recover from severe depression and insomnia. These intimate works depict the difficult realities of working class life while also allowing flashes of beauty and transcendence to break through.
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For Twilley’s fourth solo presentation with the gallery, she created a series of over forty small-scale oil paintings that both document and reinterpret her time working at the titular Crest Foods, a local grocery store chain in Oklahoma. Sargent’s Daughters is pleased to present Crest Foods, an exhibition of new work by Oklahoma City-based painter Brandi Twilley.
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