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Z.T. Nguyễn

Z.T. Nguyen (b. 1997, United States) is an artist currently based in New Haven, CT.

He has exhibited at Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn; the RISD Museum, Providence; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn; and the Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hà Nội, among others. He has participated in residencies and fellowships at the Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn; The Alternative Art School & MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, online; and Asia Art Archive in America. Nguyen received his BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2019) and is currently on the cusp of receiving an MFA in Painting & Printmaking at the Yale School of Art (2025).

Facts Are Bigger in the Dark Year: 2025 23.5 x 36 x 6 Squid ink, graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic on letter-sized sheet of paper; found chairHold Me 2024 Acrylic and graphite on letter-sized sheets of paper 32.125 x 40 inchesInfinity 2024 16 x 10.4 inches Acrylic and graphite on letter-sized sheets of paperObey 2025 Acrylic and graphite on paper 10.9 x 8.5 inches

Nicolás Leiva

courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, New York / San Antonio

Nicolás Leiva is renowned for his exuberant sculptures and paintings that capture various expressive personal visions. Vessels, boats, abstract forms, flying carriages are transformed into ceramics in an explosion of lush primary colors embossed with metals like silver and gold. Animals and vegetables commingle in a garden of flowers amidst otherworldly places of shelter, are replicated as box-like reliquaries, and plate-like medallions in miniature close-up show territories transitioned from his works on paper. His imaginative world unfolds in infinite realms like a Möbius strip. Highly gestural, organic, or geometric, Leiva presents a host of archetypes in his emblems of flight, safety, and delight.

Born in 1958 in Tucumán, Argentina, Leiva graduated from the Fine Arts School of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. He continued his studies in Buenos Aires and moved to Miami in 1990. In 1996, he extended his practice to sculpture and ceramics. He lives part-time in Faenza, Italy, where he works with a variety of materials at the workshops of Ceramica Gatti. His work is the subject of the 2005 monograph Nicolas Leiva: The Fire of Self and Multiplication with scholarly text by Ricardo Pau-Llosa and Mariza Vescovo published by Bandecchi & Vivaldi in Italy. He has had many important solo and group exhibitions in the US and internationally, notably his 2023 solo exhibition, Historia de un día, Museo de Bellas Artes Laureano Brizuela, Catamarca, Argentina. Leiva was recently selected for the 2023 Miami Individual Artist (MIA) Grant, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs in Miami, FL. His works are in the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana; the Berardo Collection in Lisbon, Portugal; the Gollinelli Collection in Bologna, Italy; and the Museum of Art of Fort Lauderdale in Florida. The Civic Museum of Marble, Carrara, Italy; Museo Maria Zambrano, Malaga, Spain; José Luis Cuevas Museum, Mexico City, México; Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA; and Fundación Federico García Lorca, Madrid, Spain.

Nicolás Leiva, Sopera, 2015 Signed and dated on the underside Majolica ceramic with gold and platinum lustrous Ceramica Gatti, Italy 17 x 18 x 17 in. courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, New York / San Antonio.Nicolás Leiva, Sopera, 2015 Signed and dated on the underside Majolica ceramic with gold and platinum lustrous Ceramica Gatti, Italy 17 x 18 x 17 in. courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, New York / San Antonio.Nicolás Leiva, Sea Flora, 2024 Signed and dated on the underside Majolica ceramic with gold 35 x 15 x 15 in. courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, New York / San Antonio.Nicolás Leiva, Arbol de los Sueños (Tree of Dreams), 2017 Signed and dated on the underside Majolica ceramic with gold and lustrous Ceramica Gatti, Italy 30 in diameter. courtesy of Ruiz-Healy Art, New York / San Antonio.

Duane Michals

Duane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text.
Michals first made significant, creative strides in the field of photography during the 1960s. In an era heavily influenced by photojournalism, Michals manipulated the medium to communicate narratives. The sequences, for which he is widely known, appropriate cinema’s frame-by-frame format. Michals has also incorporated text as a key component in his works. Rather than serving a didactic or explanatory function, his handwritten text adds another dimension to the images’ meaning and gives voice to Michals’ singular musings, which are poetic, tragic, and humorous, often all at once.

 

 

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Stephen Bron

Stephen Bron [b. 1993] is a painter living and working in Brooklyn. He received his BFA in painting at The Cooper Union in 2015, and received his MFA in Painting at NYU in 2017, and attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School in 2014. Bron has presented solo exhibitions with Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, Auxier Kline Gallery, New York and Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany.Stephen Bron, A Visible Breeze, 2025 oil on linen 30 x 40 inchesStephen Bron, Underfoot (The Divine Soil) #6, 2024-2025 oil on linen 12 x 9 inchesStephen Bron Strangers In The Garden, 2025 oil on linen 12 x 9 inches

Larissa Bates

Larissa Bates (b. 1981, Burlington, VT) was raised between Vermont and Vara Blanca, Costa Rica. She received a BA from Hampshire College, MA. Recent exhibitions include Taymour Grahne, London, Myriam Chair Galerie, Paris; and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY. In 2024, her work was included in the group exhibition “Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth” at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, which traveled to the Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH. Bates’ work is in the permanent collection of the Hood Museum of Art. Exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, among many others. Bates lives and works in Dobbs Ferry, New York and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.LARISSA BATES, MotherMen Luncheon/La Merienda de los MadreHombres, 2024-2025  egg tempera on panel 16 by 20 inchesLARISSA BATES, Spring Cleaning/Limpieza de Primavera, 2024-2025  gouache and egg tempera on panel 20 by 16 inches LARISSA BATES, Patricia del Carmen, I didn’t know your Name, 2023  gouache, gold leaf, acryla ink and acryla gouache on panel  36 by 30 inches

Mara De Luca

Mara De Luca’s (b. 1973, Washington D.C.) paintings evoke a sense of atmospheric abstractions that bring to mind dusk, sunsets, and planetary orbs. Throughout her work there is a sense of reflected ambient light. De Luca’s work today extends the celebration of illusionism, romanticism, and the sublime with a deeply informed response to modernist painting.
De Luca received an MFA from CalArts, Los Angeles, CA and a BA from Columbia University, NY. Her work has been displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego and is in prominent collections, including the Buck Collection at UC Irvine, JP Morgan Chase, New York; Fidelity, Boston; Alexander Plaza Berlin, Germany; New York Medical College, New York; and the University of Oslo, Norway. She has been reviewed in Artforum, Cultured Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Artweek LA, and others. De Luca is a recipient of the 2019 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists. She has taught Painting at UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC Riverside.
Based in Los Angeles for over two decades, De Luca now lives and works in New York.Mara De Luca, Western Gate 1, 2024 mixed media on canvas with copper plated element 54 × 96 inches (137 × 244 cm)Mara De Luca, Western Gate 2, 2024 acrylic on primed and unprimed canvas with brass plated element 59 x 132 inches (150 x 335.5 cm)Mara De Luca, Cut Western Clouds, 2024, mixed media on cut canvas with copper plated elements, 48 x 42 x 3 inches (122 x 106.5 x 7.5 cm).

Eun-Ha Paek

Eun-Ha Paek in her studio in Brooklyn, 2024. Photo by Helmi Korhonen. Courtesy of Hostler Burrows

Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Eun-Ha Paek’s sculptures give physical form to the artist’s inner narratives and personal history, while exploring broader themes of identity and human experience. Paek’s hybrid approach to ceramics is informed by her background in animation and film. Her attempts to roll increasingly smaller, tighter coils eventually led her to introduce 3D printing to her practice, enabling detail that would not be possible by hand. The resulting pieces, while finally static, are created through a process that in many ways mimics stop motion animation. Paek’s work, across media, investigates questions of identity through storytelling. Hints of recognizable references and motifs are present in her figures, but this host of characters is the unique product of a visual language developed to give shape to the artist’s internal dialogue.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1974, Paek currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she has also been a guest lecturer. Paek’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, and she is the recipient of several awards and grants including the Windgate Scholarship and Rudy Autio Grant from the Archie Bray Foundation. Paek’s animated films have screened in the Guggenheim Museum, Sundance Film Festival, and venues around the world. She has been a guest lecturer at the Fashion Institute of Technology, a visiting critic at the Maryland Institute College of Art, and she currently serves on the faculty at Parsons School of Design/The New School.Eun-Ha Paek, Pied Piper, 2025. Glazed stoneware. 17″ H x 15.5″ W x 9.5” D. Photo by Joe Kramm. Courtesy of Hostler BurrowsEun-Ha Paek, Duck Lips Redux, 2024. 3D printed glazed stoneware. 17.5″ H x 14″ W x 8” D. Photo by Joe Kramm. Courtesy of Hostler BurrowsEun-Ha Paek, Mongmong Mountain, 2025. Glazed stoneware, gold leaf. 17″ H x 22″ W x 16”D. Photo by Joe Kramm. Courtesy of Hostler Burrows

Fanny Allié

Fanny Allié was born in Montpellier, South of France. She received her Master’s Degree from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (The National School of Photography) in Arles, France in 2005 and moved to New York City.

Princeton University, Equity Gallery, Hyatt Centric (Philadelphia), DOT Art, A.I.R Gallery, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Fresh Window, Chashama and St Eustache Church (Paris, France), Hudson Yards Alliance have organized solo exhibitions and public installations of her work. Tappan Gallery, Owen James Gallery, NYU/Gallatin Gallery, Dorsky Gallery, Freight + Volume, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Dekalb Gallery/Pratt Institute, UConn University, Mana Contemporary, Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts, The Bronx Museum, Teachers College Columbia University among others have featured her work in group exhibitions.

Fanny is the recipient of various fellowships and residencies including AIM (Bronx Museum), BRIC Lab Fellowship, Emergency Grant (Foundation for Contemporary Arts), A.I.R. Fellowship Program, Robert Blackburn Printmaking SIP Fellowship, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program, Yaddo Residency, Dieu Donné Workspace Residency, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship (Craft/Sculpture), MacDowell Fellowship, Puffin Foundation Grant, Wildacres Residency and National Arts Club Artist Fellowship.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Time Out, ARTnews, NY Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, Hyperallergic, Le Monde Diplomatique, Blouin Art Info, DNA Info, Marie Claire Italy, AM New York among others.
Her neon light sculpture “The Glowing Homeless” and sound installation will be exhibited at the Church of St. Eustache in Paris from December 18th 2024 until May 31st 2025.
In 2025, Kaliner Gallery in New York City and Giovanni Bonelli Gallery (Milan, Italy) will present her work in solo exhibitions.

Fanny lives in Brooklyn and works from her studio at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in Manhattan, NY.

Exhibits discussed are KALINER and Giovanni Bonelli.

A Longing, March 6 – April 12, 2025, Installation view at Kaliner Gallery, 42 Allen St, NYCLadder Leg, 2024, found fabric, collagraph print and acrylic paint, 32.5in x 50inThe Night the Wind Learned to Dance, April 24 – May 25, 2025, Installation view at Giovanni Bonelli Gallery, Milan, ItalyShelved, 2025, found fabric and collagraph prints, 59in x 38.5inCircles, 2024, found fabric and collagraph prints, 55.5in x 55.5in

Emma McMillan

Photo by Dan McMahon

Born 1989 Atlanta, Georgia. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works in the Bronx, New York. Emma McMillan searches for the pulsing vitality of life through non-human figurative paintings. Drawing, collage, macroscopic photography, and archival research are avenues for abstraction of the animal form. For several years a local Spotted Lanternfly infestation has been a commentary on the current state of human and animal affairs. The series, now expanded across species, takes on lusty and religious overtones of reincarnation. Sampling psychology, the natural world, and pop culture, her gem-hued oil paintings are complex reflections on living and its mutations across time. Emma McMillan has had institutional exhibitions at Atlanta Contemporary ArtsCenter, Atlanta Georgia, “Project X” (2019) She has had solo exhibitions at Sebastian Gladstone, New York, 2025, Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles, 2024, PhilippZollinger, Zurich, 2024, and a solo booth with PhilippZollinger at Liste Art Fair Basel, in June 2024. Other solo exhibitions include “Bleu de Prusse” at Edouard Montassut, Paris, France (2019), “Ornament and Crime” at Lomex, New York City, New York (2018), and “Live Burial” at Bad Reputation Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California (2017). As well as select group and two-person exhibitions “Discard Phase” at Triest, Brooklyn, New York (2021), “Downtown Painting” at Peter Freeman, New York City, New York (2019), “Responsibility Fest” at Kunstverien Braunschweig Wolfe Island, Canada (2019).

Emma McMillan, Imago, 2025 Oil, oil pastel on linen 55″ H x 42″ W. Image courtesy, Sebastian Gladstone, and the artist.Emma McMillan Crush, 2024 Oil on linen 36″ H x 24″ W. Image courtesy, Sebastian Gladstone, and the artist.Emma McMillan, Cocoon, 2025 Oil, oil pastel on linen 55″ H x 42″ W. Image courtesy, Sebastian Gladstone, and the artist.

Greg Chann

Greg Chann has shown his work with Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC; Dorsky Gallery, NYC; Margaret Thatcher Projects, NYC; The Drawing Center, NYC; among other spaces around the country. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, NY Arts, and Time Out New York.

He has received a NY Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and the NY Foundations of the Arts/Felissimo Award and lives and works in New York.

Greg Chann, Stack XVI, 2024 Acrylic and ink 7 x 6 x 4 in.Greg Chann, Vertegres, 2024 Acrylic and ink 20 x 30.5 x 1.25 in.Greg Chann, Wall Stack IX, 2024 Acrylic and ink 15 x 13 x 3 in.