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Liz Ainslie is an abstract painter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her abstractions are generated from observations and memories spanning 1970s interior decor, the Upstate New York landscape, My Little Pony, and ancient Greek wall paintings. You can read about Liz's recent solo exhibition at Deanna Evans Projects on Two Coats of Paint. Liz's work has been featured in shows at White Columns, PLATFORM, Transmitter, Good Naked, Rhett Baruch, S...

Henry Gunderson (born 1990, San Francisco, CA) is an American artist based in New York. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Gunderson received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Gunderson has had solo exhibitions at 247365 (New York), Derek Eller (New York), Perrotin (New York and Shanghai), Gern en Regalia (New York), Loyal (Stockholm), Water McBeer (New York), Ever Gold (San Francisco), Carl Kostyal (London), C...

Chason Matthams' focus is on capturing the ephemeral experience of consciousness and pointing to its fragmentary nature. While at first glance his paintings seem to be contemplative experiments in mimesis, prolonged looking reveals threatening undertones. Matthams’ employs specific combinations of colors, angles of perspective, and exhaustive detail to anthropomorphize each of his subjects, rendering them just barely sinister. Flit...

Lucia Love’s visually rich paintings are loaded with references to art history, mythology, politics, and the dynamics of power. By layering these references, contemporary allegories emerge, pushing each piece into the realm of idea painting.  Their idiosyncratic paintings have appeared at Cue Foundation, Giovanni’s Room, Sargent’s Daughters, The Hole, JDJ, and others. Their work has been included in The Bunker Artspace of Beth Rud...

Mary Laube's work is fundamentally concerned with the contradictory nature of pictorial space, as it carries the promise of spatial expansion: an implied horizon with the illusion of spatial possibility. Yet, the physical surface of a painting agitates this illusion, as it asserts its truth as a flat surface. Within this plane her work antagonizes our relationship to culture, and the fraught process of defining it. Recent exhibitio...

Joe Fig is an artist known for work that explores the creative process, and the spaces where art is made and contemplated. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He is the author of the acclaimed books Inside the Painter's Studio and Inside the Artist’s Studio, which share an intimate view inside the studios of today’s leading artists. His work can be found in numerous museums and leading private collections in...

Esteban Cabeza de Baca is a painter of Mexican and Native American heritage who lives and works between New York and the borderlands of the Southwest United States. Cabeza de Baca’s work entwines layers of graffiti, landscape, and pre-Columbian pictographs in ways that confound Cartesian single-point perspective. Cabeza de Baca’s works are in the permanent collections of Harvard University, North Dakota Museum of Art, Museum of Con...

Cordy Ryman is an abstract artist who fuses painting and sculpture using humble materials, most often acrylic paint and wood. He’s known for large-scale, site-specific installations that can be broken down into smaller components and stand-alone pieces. Ryman’s works are often responsive, reacting to their environments, their own layered histories and to one another.  He maintains a prolific resourceful playfulness in his practice,...

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.  Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city life and the pressure...

Emily Noelle Lambert creates large-scale paintings and sculptures that navigate the space between abstraction and figuration. She holds an MFA in Painting from Hunter College (NY) and a BA in Visual Art from Antioch College (OH). Lambert has had solo exhibitions at  Freight+Volume Gallery (NYC). Additional solo exhibitions include Freight + Volume Gallery (NYC), Denny Dimin Gallery (NYC), Lu Magnus (NYC), Thomas Robert...

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and therapist. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante in San Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. Lydia was a Lighthouse Works Fello...

Nicholas Moenich was born in Cleveland, Ohio and received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and a MFA from Hunter College. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2023 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee, a 2021 Fellow in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts, and a 2019-2020 recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Award.

Clare Grill (born 1979, lives and works in Queens, NY) received her MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2005 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Recent solo exhibitions include Parlance, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY; Cutwork, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain; and Wich Language and Oyster, M+B, Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, ArtNews, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail, Th...

Dylan Vandenhoeck, born in New York City in 1990, is a painter and musician. His meandering and embodied perspective approach to observational painting questions what it means to paint from life today. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2012 and MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2017. His most recent solo shows include “Right Under The Nose” at Jack Barrett Gallery (2024), “Inside Out, Outside In” at Jack Barr...

Matthew Tully Dugan (b. 1986) is a New York born and based multidisciplinary artist. The artist’s interests span renaissance art, celebrity, psychology, occult practices, pop iconography, privacy, and fanaticism. Dugan often employs promotional, social, and found imagery as well as divinatory visions in a practice motivated by ritualistic impulse and alchemical processes that investigate media’s physical and emotional divide. His p...