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Madeline Peckenpaugh

Madeline Peckenpaugh (b. 1991, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) renders depth through iterations of adding and subtracting paint, creating a semblance of deep and flat space simultaneously. Probing the slips in perception between corporeal experience, memory, and imagination, she shifts the scale of everyday elements, interlaces components, and depicts forms in both single tones and fluctuating textures. The viewer’s trained perception of the landscape can become questioned, as monumental structures begin to vaporize, and natural forms become paper thin. There is a reconciliation of opposites: deep space of the real world with the flat space of the canvas.Peckenpaugh received an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and a BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. Peckenpaugh’s work has been exhibited at Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY; Bremond Capela, Paris, FR; 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; F2T Gallery, Milan, IT; Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, FL; PM/AM Gallery, London, UK; COMA, Sydney Australia; and The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; among others. Her work is included in the public collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA; Brown University, Providence, RI; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. She was recently an artist in residence at Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy. Peckenpaugh lives and works in Queens, NY.Madeline Peckenpaugh, In Orbit, 2025 oil on canvas 77 1/2 x 100 in. (196.8 x 254 cm.) Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Philipp HoffmannMadeline Peckenpaugh, Aries Moon, 2025 oil on linen 54 x 52 in. (137.2 x 132.1 cm.) Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Philipp HoffmannMadeline Peckenpaugh, Spring, 2025 oil on canvas 70 x 65 3/4 in. (177.8 x 167 cm.) Copyright the artist. Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Berggruen, NY. Photo: Philipp Hoffmann

JD Raenbeau

JD Raenbeau (b. 1985, Stony Brook, NY) currently lives and works in Rocky Point, New York.He received his MFA from The School of Visual Arts where he received the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in Art Practice.He holds a BFA from Alfred University. Raenbeau has exhibited his work in New York, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, New Mexico, and the UK.His work has been featured in New American Paintings, Artsin Square Magazine, and Sensitive Content Magazine.He was recently an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, The Golden Foundation for The Arts, and most recently was Artist in Residence at the Hafnarborg Museum in Hafnarfjordur, Iceland.© JD Raenbeau, “Canopy,” 2025, Oil on panel, 24 x 30 inches, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York© JD Raenbeau, “Full Moon,” 2024, Oil on panel, 12 x 16 inches, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York© JD Raenbeau, “X,” 2024, Oil on panel, 16 x 16 inches, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York

Abby Lloyd

Abby Lloyd is an artist and curator based in New York, working in sculpture, performance, video, and installation. Her work utilizes humor and common materials to explore themes of loss, memory, and the emotional charge of objects.
Lloyd’s recent solo exhibitions include Goodbye Dolly at Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY, and Abby’s Room at Freddy, Harris, NY.
In 2024, she organized a series of events and exhibitions, including Artists & Recipes at Marvin Gardens in Ridgewood, Queens, based on her 2020 cookbook of the same title featuring over 40 artists. In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at The Church in Sag Harbor, NY.
She will be performing in The Pigeon Impersonation Pageant on the High Line, New York, NY, on June 14 and participating in the exhibition School’s Out at Ten Barn Farm, opening July 5, organized by The Macedonia Institute in Ghent, NY.

Installation view, Abby Lloyd: On Display, Ptolemy, Glendale, NY, 2025Abby Lloyd, It’s fun, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 x 1 1/2 in 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cmAbby Lloyd, Smiley Face, 2025 Metallic pewter paint on foam 10 x 10 x 1 1/2 in 25.4 x 25.4 x 3.8 cmAbby Lloyd, Jack, 2025 Foam, cardboard, acrylic paint, turntable 108 x 84 x 72 in 274.3 x 213.4 x 182.9 cm

 

Tony Huynh

Artist portrait courtesy of Julian Espino.

Born in San Francisco in 1986, Tony Huynh graduated from the California College of the Arts and now works from his studio in Sacramento, CA.

His paintings are part of international collections and have been included in solo and group exhibitions, including at the San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY; Scroll NYC, NY; and Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany.Tony Huynh, Memento, 2025 oil on panel, in artist’s frame 12 x 12 in 30.5 x 30.5 cm Image courtesy of Mikhail Mishin. Tony Huynh, Morning Ferry, 2025 oil on panel, in artist’s frame 12 x 12 in 30.5 x 30.5 cm Image courtesy of Mikhail Mishin. Tony Huynh, Wish I knew, 2025 oil on panel, in artist’s frame 10 x 10 in 25.4 x 25.4 cm Image courtesy of Mikhail Mishin. 

Lexia Hachtmann

Lexia Hachtmann (*1993 in Berlin) is a British-German artist. She completed her Art and Design Foundation Diploma in 2013 in Brighton and returned to Berlin to continue her studies in Fine Art Painting at Universität der Künste Berlin. Here, she obtained a Meisterschüler degree in the painting class of Prof. Mark Lammert in July 2021. Lexia Hachtmann is alumna of the 2022 Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt and went on to study a Master of Fine Art (MA) in Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London for which she received the DAAD Grant.

Working in both figurative oil painting and printmaking, Lexia Hachtmann’s work deals with conceptions around miscommunication, identity and social hierarchies. To her, the area of the canvas presents a space on which to comprehend, reenact and visualize universal feelings of isolation, intimacy and longing. Lexia Hachtmann’s protagonists often move through displaced rooms, stagelike spaces of colour that are neither located in- or outside but rather depict moments of the in-between. Her figures often seem introverted and disconnected from one another, each in their own space, their own mind; fragile yet present. She is engaged in these motives that point to the thresholds; the boundaries between the private and public realm. This could be a physical and/or emotional space. The use of ambiguous objects and situations on the canvas enable her to create banal and yet uncomfortable situations. She aims to retain a certain ambivalence in her chosen subjects so that they may speak to our current and complex times by using fragmented, cropped, blurred, awkward and/or heavily enlarged images. In this way notions of both the fragmentary and the monumental are important trajectories in her work. Lexia Hachtmann’s paintings function like film-stills, paused in that very

Bella Donna, 145 x 130cm, Lexia Hachtmann, 2025.jpgOut of Joint, 145 x 130 cm, Lexia Hachtmann, 2024.jpgPräsentierteller, 51 x 45.5cm, Lexia Hachtmann, 2025.jpg

Iva Gueorguieva

Iva Gueorguieva (b.1974, Sofia, Bulgaria, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) received her B.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA.She has had recent solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Bradwolff & Partners, Amsterdam, and Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL.Her work is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, among others.Iva Gueorguieva, Field 8, 2025 acrylic, charcoal and gauze on canvas 76.25 x 53 inchesIva Gueorguieva Animal 12, 2024 acrylic and gauze on canvas 72 x 50.5 inchesIva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Birds, 2024 acrylic and gauze on canvas 78 x 50 inchesSketchbook of the artist referenced in the interview.

Graham Durward

Graham Durward was born in Aberdeen, UK and currently lives and works in New York. Durward attended the Edinburgh College of Art (both Undergrad and Graduate) and studied in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

He has had solo shows at Maureen Paley, London; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Peninsula, New York; Step sister, New York; Shrine, New York; White Columns, New York; Sandra Gering Gallery, New York; and more. He has also been featured in exhibitions at Peter Blum Gallery, New York; Gavin Brown, New York; and more. Durward’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Newspaper, Art in America, and the New York Times.

Graham Durward, International Male, 2025 32 h x 28 w inches Oil on linenGraham Durward, Jet Streaming, 2025 84 h x 60 w inches Oil on linenGraham Durward, Angel walking a dog, 2025 64 h x 52 w inches Oil on linen

Katja Farin

Katja Farin works in figurative painting depicting the interactions between the subconscious and reality. The relationship between figures is uncertain; the everyday life of sitting at coffee shops, wandering in backyard gardens, answering boring phone calls becomes the backdrop for the internal dialogue with the self that contemplates traumas, coping mechanisms, dreams and distortions. The works are dream spaces that allow the viewer to peek into the interior worlds of the figures, their relationships with the self and others. Bright colors, glowing hands and distorted bodies create the dreamlike dysphoric space that these androgynous figures embody.

Farin received a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 and is a candidate for an MFA degree from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Selected solo exhibitions include Friends Indeed (San Francisco), Era Gallery (Milan), Lubov (New York) and in lieu (Los Angeles). Their art has been included in group exhibitions at Pace Gallery (Hong Kong), Alexander Berggruen (New York), Shulmit Nazarian (Los Angeles), Wilding Cran (Los Angeles) and Nicodim (Los Angeles). Their work has been shown in several art fairs including NADA Miami, Miart Milan, KAIF Seoul and Art Taipei Taipei. They live and work in Los Angeles, CA and London, UK.

Backstage Pages, 2025 Oil on canvas,  47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in | 120 x 85 cmDaytime Time Travel, 2025 Oil on canvas 82 3/4 x 59 in | 210 x 150 cmBlind Spot Mirror #1, 2025 Stoneware, rearview vehicle mirrors, glaze 23 x 22 x 4 in | 58.5 x 56 x 10 cm

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Hoda Kashiha

Hoda Kashiha (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran) is a painter whose work fuses humor, fragmented figuration, and political resonance. Trained at the University of Tehran (BFA, 2009) and Boston University (MFA, 2014), she spent several years in the U.S. before returning to Tehran in 2016. Her artistic language combines Persian miniature and pop influences—with digital collage, airbrushed flat shapes, and emotive cartoon references—to probe identity, gender fluidity, and everyday acts of resistance.

Kashiha’s recent solo exhibitions reflect her international trajectory and evolving visual strategy. In 2021, In Appreciation of Blinking at Parallel Circuit in Tehran, followed in 2022 by I’m Here, I’m Not Here at Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brest. She was presented in Brussels in 2023 with Another World Is Waiting for Us at Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Most recently, she held her first New York solo exhibition, The Doubt Between Us Sways Like Hung Mirrored Eyes at episode, on view from April 12 to June 27, 2025. The show featured new paintings exploring surveillance, intimacy, and the shifting power dynamics between visibility and erasure.

Her work has been shown in notable venues like Palais de Tokyo, Gagosian & Jeffrey Deitch (Miami Art Week), and Helena Anrather in New York, and has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, and Art in America. She is a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and Esther B. & Albert S. Kahn Career Entry Award, and her works are held by the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center and Commonwealth Hotel collections.

Hoda Kashiha, Folding gaze, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 37.8 inches (122 x 96 cm) Image courtesy of the artist and episode, NY. Photography by Archtechtonic.Hoda Kashiha, The hole, 2024 Acrylic on canvas 14 x 18 inches (35.5 x 45.7 cm) 24 x 18 incehs (60.9 x 45.7 cm) Image courtesy of the artist and episode, NY. Photography by Archtechtonic.Hoda Kashiha, The nightmare, 2024 Acrylic on canvas 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm) Image courtesy of the artist and episode, NY. Photography by Archtechtonic.