Interviews by Brainard Carey

Antelman both deconstructs the body and then reassembles it, not just as a way of imagining a deeper connection with nature, but also as a way of expressing how malleable the very idea of it has become. In place of a techno-utopianism, in which the steady advance of technology is uniformly celebrated, Antelman expresses an atavistic position instead, one which delights in the complexity of nature rather than seeking to explain or instrumentalize it. Her work reminds us that what is mysterious in the world often connects us to what is mystical in it as well. Born 1971 in Athens, Greece, Maria Antelman received her MFA in New Genres from Columbia University and a BA in Art History from the Complutense University, Madrid. Her work has exhibited internationally, including at the Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE; Pioneer Works, New York; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; Visual Arts Center at the University of Texas, Austin; Botanical Garden I&A Diomidos, Athens; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens; Benaki Museum, Athens; Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Cerillos, Chile and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. Antelman’s work was included in Companion Pieces: New Photography 2020 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has been the recipient of grants from the Onassis Foundation USA, as well as the National Museum of Contemporary Art and the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, Athens. Antelman has taken part in artist residences including Silver Art Projects, Pioneer Works and the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. Antelman currently lives and works in Athens. Maria Antelman, Conjurer, 2024. Archival pigment print, 21 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches. © Maria Antelman. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York Maria Antelman, Hypnos, 2020. Archival pigment print, 58 x 52 inches. © Maria Antelman. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York Maria Antelman, Hall of Mirrors, 2020. Archival pigment print, 39 x 19 inches. © Maria Antelman. Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York

Benjamin Freedman is an artist whose practice spans multiple mediums including photography, video and computer-generated imagery with an interest in the restorative potential of photographic research and play. He received his bachelor’s degree in photography at the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) in 2013 and his Masters at The Ecole cantonal d’art de Lausanne in 2023. While probing the relative truths and deceptions of photography, he purposefully adopts visual vocabularies from cinema and television in an effort to create expanded documentary projects. He has exhibited extensively across the greater Toronto area and internationally at the Aperture Foundation in New York City, Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Foto-Undustria Biennale in Bologna and in the Riga Photography Biennale in Latvia. He recently presented work at the Images Vevey Biennale, Vontobel in Zurich, Switzerland and at Ptolemy Gallery in Queens, New York. Installation view: Benjamin Freedman: Surface Imperfect. Ptolemy, Glendale, NY, 2025. Installation view: Benjamin Freedman: Surface Imperfect. Ptolemy, Glendale, NY, 2025. Benjamin Freedman, "I Spy," 2025. C-Print, 24 x 29 in. Benjamin Freedman, "Musings," 2025. C-Print, 24 x 29 in.

Michelle Im creates ceramic sculptures that explore themes of home, displacement, and cultural identity in the context of globalization. Drawing inspiration from ceramic traditions, she examines how historical and cultural forces shape her experience as aKorean American. Using handbuilt figurative forms, Im addresses the psychological tension of embodying conflicting cultural ideologies such as individualism and collectivism. By portraying service workers such as flight attendants, she navigates the nuanced space between cultural dualities, using these figures to reflect on labor, performance, and community. Michelle Im is a Korean-American ceramic artist based in Queens, NY.In 2024, she was selected as the Artist Fellow at the Museum of Arts & Design. Grants and awards include the Center for Craft Teaching Artist Grant, American Craft CouncilEmerging Artist Grant,Penland School of Craft Distinguished Fellowship, and Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist Award.Shewas a Visiting Artist in Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Artsand has attended residencies atTownship10,Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and Penland School of Craft. Herwork has received mentions byThe New York Times, ARTnews, and The Korea Times.She holds a BA in Biological Sciences & Art from the State University of New York atBuffalo and is a faculty member at Greenwich House Pottery in New York, NY

Joyce Weidenaar is a painter and monoprintmaker living in New York City. She began pursuing art ten years ago after retiring from a real estate career. Her works have been seen in solo and group exhibitions, and in private collections. Her paintings are rendered realistically but with unusual framing, bright colors and often a bit of whimsy. Her prints emphasize texture and are purely abstract. Joyce is a member of the National Association of Women Artists, Pleiades Gallery, The Art Students League of New York and the West Side Arts Coalition. Her paintings and prints are viewable on Instagram (@joyceweidenaar) and on her website (http://www.joyceweidenaarartworks.com). Her gallery talk at the Port Washington Public Library can be seen here. In addition to her art endeavors, Joyce is an avid ballroom dancer and skier.

Adam Cable (b. 1989) creates vignettes of American domestic life using found digital images. His work entwines perception and narratives into the reconstruction of these environments, highlighting ways that impressions and expectations inform experiences of space. These compositions blur the lines between picture and collage by overlaying keyword-sourced materials onto component shapes. Challenging the conventional idea of “home” as a blank canvas, Cable presents it as a complex space influenced by countless factors. Even seemingly static forms become imbued with emotions and meanings through the images he incorporates, reflecting the intricate dance between social norms and cultural values in our everyday surroundings. Cable has shown in several group and solo exhibitions, including at the Amos Eno Gallery project space, NYC; The Painting Center, NYC; University of North Carolina, Asheville; PULSE Art Fair, Miami; Local Project, NYC; and The Plaxall Gallery, NYC. At the end of 2020, he co-curated "Annus Horribilis" with Float Magazine, a group exhibition of work created that globally significant year, while in 2021, The Wassaic Project included his work in the book Secrets of the Friendly Woods. Cable holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (2017) and a BFA from the University of North Carolina, Asheville (2013). He lives and works in Brooklyn NY. Adam Cable, Am I There Yet?, 2022-23, archival pigment print, 24 x 18 inches Adam Cable, Unrequited, 2024, archival pigment print, 20 x 14 inches Adam Cable, Anywhere But Here, 2021, archival pigment print, 15 x 15 inches

Natalia Zourabova was born in Moscow, Russia in 1975, lives and works in Tel Aviv since 2004. She studied at the Russian Academy of Theater Art in Moscow (1995-2000) and the University of Arts in Berlin (2000-2003). Zourabova is primarily a figurative painter. She paints scenes that she knows intimately – oftentimes city streets in her neighborhood in Jaffa, or familiar interiors. Color is central to Zourabova’s work; her palette and the mood of her paintings range from naturalistic to absurd, and her paintings vary along the spectrum of realism to abstraction. Zourabova has exhibited various solo shows in Israel, at Haifa Museum of art (2024), Herzliya Museum of contemporary art (2019-20), Janco Dada Museum, Ein-Hod (2005); as well as at the Iragui Gallery in Russia (2008-2019), and had multiple solo exhibitions across Israel, Russia, France, Sweden and more. She has participated in group shows internationally at such venues as The Israel Museum (2015, 2018), Mediterranean Biennale (2020,2013), the Garage Triennial of Contemporary art (2020; Salaisons in Paris, France (2010); and the Vasternorrland Museum in Sweden (2000), among others. Zourabova, Nightlight, 2025, 90.5 x 127 in, Oil on Canvas Zourabova, Evening Meal, 2024, 51.2 x 51.2 in, Oil on Canvas Zourabova, Women, 2024, 47.25 x 67 in, Oil on Canvas

Lin Wang, China Oslo-based ceramicist Lin Wang produces large-scale still life installations and sculptural assemblages which investigate the corporeality and historic resonance of porcelain. Over centuries, porcelain’s combination of a kaolin-rich white clay body with deep cobalt glazes has registered the ongoing effects of contact and trade, as well as the phantasmic projections of a long-standing dialog between East and West. As an artist working between China and Norway, Wang’s interest in this interchange holds personal significance, tinged by her own wanderlust, homesickness, and experiences of cultural discovery. Since 2016, Wang has explored these themes through a cycle of exhibitions, video works, performances, and workshops titled Exotic Dreams and Poetic Misunderstanding. As a group, these works intersperse the iconography of traditional blue-and-white chinaware with imagery of sailors’ tattoos, Buddhist and Christian religious deities, and the fantastic creatures populating the terra incognita of early maps. Wang engages these varied histories, combining her own experiences as ceramicist and tattoo artist, traveler and immigrant, fantasist and materialist. Her craft-based interdisciplinary practice is structured by the many forms of sculptural tableaus (the scroll, the folding screen, the still life arrangement) — artistic scenarios rife with complex interactions between personal objects, symbols of status, reminders of mortality, and allegorical stand-ins. Throughout, the delicate materiality and translucence of porcelain — which itself summons comparison with bone and skin — is refigured not only as canvas but as a quasi-corporeal body, marked by the ambitions of commerce and the aftermath of empire. Wang received a bachelor’s degree in sculpture from the China Academy of Art and a master’s degree in fine art from the University of Bergen. Her central research project Exotic Dreams and Poetic Misunderstandings consists of an ongoing series of exhibitions over the past decade. In 2019, as part of the research for this project, she produced two solo exhibitions at the Kunsthall Grenland and the Vigeland Museum. She has completed numerous public commissions, including for the Hammerfest Hospital, Sarpsborg Library, and Tønsberg Courthouse. Her work is included in the collections of the Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Oslo Kommune, Porsgrunn Kommune, and the National Museum, Oslo, Norway.

Naomi Okubo’s work explores delicate and often uneasy relationships between individuals, society, and the spaces that shape them. Drawing on her personal experiences, particularly her complex relationship with her mother, she examines how guise, decoration, and inherited roles—especially restrictive notions of “femininity”—affect human interactions. In her early work, Okubo depicted women without faces as a symbol of the pressures to conform in Japanese society. Over time, these faceless figures have come to function more broadly as a mirror, allowing viewers to project themselves and reflecting both individual experiences and societal dynamics. In recent years, she has also been exploring the motif of the “greenhouse/home,” a confined yet seemingly nurturing space that resonates with her upbringing and contemporary life, highlighting how environments can both protect and constrain. Her works involve a complex, multi-layered process, where materials and techniques accumulate to convey the depth and contradictions of lived experience. Okubo earned her MFA from Musashino Art University in 2011 and lived in New York from 2017–2019 with grants from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan and the Yoshino Gypsum Foundation. She has exhibited widely in Asia, Europe, and the U.S., including Fou Gallery, New York (2024/25); GALLERY MoMo, Tokyo (2023); ELSA ART GALLERY, Taipei (2022); and Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, Tokyo (2022). She served as a residency artist at mh PROJECT, New York (2019); Residency Unlimited, New York (2017); and Art Department of Halland Municipality, Sweden (2014). Her work has been featured by Airbnb Magazine, ZEIT-magazine, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Financial Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and a PBS documentary. Bird Collector, 2025, Acrylic on raw canvas, 57 × 44 in. Canary Cave, 2025, Acrylic on raw canvas, 38.2 × 51.3 in. Dancing in the Flames, 2025, Acrylic on raw canvas, 28 × 12.4 in.

Eva Lake studied art history and archaeology at the University of Oregon and painting at the Art Students League of New York. She has exhibited internationally since 1980. As a singer in post punk bands she recorded with Trap Records in the Pacific Northwest. Her day job was in makeup, beauty and fashion and this, plus her studies in art history, have formed the foundation and subject matter for much of her work. For over a dozen years she interviewed other art people on the radio, specifically KPSU and KBOO, and has written about art for various publications including Art Week, Visual Art Source, Preview and the Bay Area Guardian. Lake also curated exhibitions and worked at artist-run and commercial galleries including Lovelake, Chambers Fine Art, Portland Arts Collective and the Russo Lee Gallery. Born in Los Angeles, she then grew up on a dirt road in southern Oregon. Lake currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon and is represented by Frosch and Co in New York City and Modernism in San Francisco. Eva Lake, Crystal Helmet No. 4 Paper collage 17.5 x 14 2024 Eva Lake, Egyptian Sculpture Helmet Paper collage 23.5 x 19.5 inches 2024 Eva Lake, Giotto Helmet Paper collage 25.5 x 19.5 inches 2025

Robert Janitz (b. 1962, Alsfeld, Germany) is a contemporary painter known for his bold, abstract canvases that balance humor, gesture, and materiality. After studying Sanskrit and art history in Germany, he lived in Paris for many years before relocating to New York and later Mexico City, where he currently lives and works. Janitz is best recognized for his large-scale works featuring sweeping, textured brushstrokes that recall the motion of everyday acts—like buttering toast or polishing shoes—transforming mundane gestures into painterly abstraction. His practice often blends saturated color fields with playful surfaces, exploring perception, language, and the boundaries of painting itself. Over the past two decades, his work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including solo and group shows across Europe, the United States, and Latin America. His works are part of the permanent collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, France; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA; Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia and the Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT, USA. Robert Janitz, Studio Rats, 2025, Oil, wax, flour on linen, 25 × 20 inches (63.5 × 50.8 cm) Robert Janitz, Masquerade in the Park, 2024, Oil, wax, flour on linen, 25 ½ × 19 ½ inches (65 × 50 cm) Robert Janitz, Camino a Comala, 2024, Oil, wax, flour on linen, 51 × 39 inches (130 × 100 cm)

The artist photographed by Geoffrey Biddle. Avital Burg studied at Bezalel Academy, the Hatahana School, the Slade School of Art, and the New York Studio School. Burg was the artist-in-residence at the Interlude Residency, NY, and the Peleh Residency, CA. Her works are in prominent collections, including the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection (NY), and the Bank Leumi Art Collection. Burg’s impasto paintings incorporate dry paint pieces from her palette into fresh layers, creating surfaces reminiscent of low-relief sculptures. Some canvases are painted over three or four previous works, signifying how each moment of creation encapsulates multiple points in time. The oil on canvas grows lush with life, prompting Burg to reflect on the impermanence of material existence and inviting guests into a rhythmic and meditative form of viewing. Cracks in the Pavement offers a glimpse into nature’s quiet cycles and beauty, often lost in the urban thrum of New York City. In Burg’s newest paintings, blue chicories push through the earth, wildflowers bloom in winter, then wither—making way for spring’s pink and lavender buds. The inevitability of impermanence is layered onto the canvas, with each painting titled after the street where the artist encountered the flower during walks to and from her Brooklyn studio. Avital Burg, Harlemville Road Purple Loosestrife, 2024, Oil on linen mounted on wood, 10 x 8 in. Image courtesy of the Artist and Fridman Gallery Avital Burg, Summer Crown Heights Flowers, 2024, Oil on linen mounted on wood, 10 x 8.5 in. Image courtesy of the Artist and Fridman Gallery Avital Burg, TJ Hyacinth (Week 35), 2023, Oil on linen, 30 x 26 in. Image courtesy of the Artist and Fridman Gallery

Yatika Starr Fields, 2025. Portrait © Tom Fields 2025 Born in 1980 in Tulsa, Yatika Starr Fields is a member of the Cherokee, Creek and Osage tribes, as well as a member of the Bear Clan. Yatika Fields studied landscape painting at the University of Oklahoma’s Sienna, Italy summer program before enrolling at the Art Institute of Boston from 2001 to 2004. While living on the East Coast, the artist developed a keen interest in street art. His dynamic, vibrant graffiti works quickly attracted attention, generating public and private mural commissions across the country from Portland to Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Santa Fe, and Bentonville. In 2018, he completed Astonishment of Perception, a monumental site-specific mural in downtown Bentonville, as part of Crystal Bridges Museum’s Art for a New Understanding (2018–2019). Spanning the side of Cripps Law Firm’s two-story building, the work depicts lady justice peeking from behind her blindfold, highlighting the dissonance between America’s ideals and its judicial system in practice. Like many of Fields’s works, the mural blends abstract and stylistic elements, figuration, and allegorical narrative, all in a dynamic, saturated Pop-palette. After joining the water protectors at the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, Fields began to give the Indigenous history of hope and struggle a greater focus in his work. In the 2017 series Tent Metaphor Standing Rock, the artist recovered tents after the infamous February 22, 2017 police raid on the protesters, sewing the recovered material into shapes resembling coffins, sleeping bags, or kites. Fields first worked with tents—a mainstay of middle-class camping holidays— after witnessing Seattle’s brightly colored homeless encampments. His interest only increased after noticing the structure’s role in modern protest movements. The artist recombines the vivid material into traditional Indigenous patterns, anti-pipeline slogans like “Stop the Black Snake,” and into dynamic, compelling abstract compositions. In its totality, the series blurs the boundaries between political polemic and abstraction, between distress, resistance, and hope. The painting, America Realized (2017), also memorializes the experience at Standing Rock. The composition is explosive: Torrents of ice and fire swirl through prayer ties and collapsing tents, recounting the freezing weather, police force, and fires that the activists braved at Oceti Sakowin, the central camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. A surveillance drone flies across the top of the expansive canvas packed with razor wire, floodlights, and debris. The scale of the 6- by-6-foot composition allows for Fields to replicate the embodied, fluid performance of mural and street art. As in graffiti works, Fields blurs the line between abstraction and representation, creating stylistic compositions out of recognizable elements, and setting them against dynamic, swirling fields of color and twisting forms. Fields has participated in over 43 solo and group exhibitions at venues across the United States and Europe, including: the Southern Plains Indian Museum, (2008, Anadarko, Oklahoma); Chiaroscuro Contemporary (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, Santa Fe); BlueRain Gallery (2015, 2016, 2018, Santa Fe); Peabody Essex Museum, (2015–2016, Salem, MA); Rainmaker Gallery (2017, Bristol, UK); the Grand Palais (2018, Paris); the Philbrook Museum (2018, Tulsa); the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, 2019); and the Gilcrease Museum, (2019, Tulsa). Fields’s paintings are featured in the collections of many museums across the country, including: the Heard Museum (Phoenix); the Hood Museum (Dartmouth College); Oklahoma State Museum of Art; the Peabody Essex Museum; and the Sam Noble Museum (University of Oklahoma). Yatika Starr Fields, Tahlequah, 2025 Polyester, nylon, aluminum rod and tyvek 67 x 50 inches 170.2 x 127 cm Yatika Starr Fields, Impermanence, 2025 Polyester,

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 Hoffmann Madeline 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 Hoffmann Madeline 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 (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 (b. 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator based in New York City. Her work utilizes humor and familiar motifs to confront themes of loss, memory, and the emotional charge of objects. Lloyd’s recent solo exhibitions include On Display at Ptolemy (Queens, NY), Goodbye Dolly at Alyssa Davis Gallery (New York, NY), and Abby’s Room at Freddy (Harris, NY). She has organized several events and exhibitions, including the recent Artists & Recipes at Marvin Gardens (Ridgewood, Queens), based on her 2020 cookbook of the same name featuring over 40 artists. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Frieze, and Vice. She has performed and exhibited throughout the U.S. and internationally, including presentations at the Musée d'Art Contemporain (France), White Columns (New York), Kunsthall Oslo (Norway), Montez Press Radio (New York), and The High Line (New York). Installation view, Abby Lloyd: On Display, Ptolemy, Glendale, NY, 2025 Abby Lloyd, It's fun, 2025 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 48 x 1 1/2 in 91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm Abby 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 cm Abby Lloyd, Jack, 2025 Foam, cardboard, acrylic paint, turntable 108 x 84 x 72 in 274.3 x 213.4 x 182.9 cm

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 (*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.jpg Out of Joint, 145 x 130 cm, Lexia Hachtmann, 2024.jpg Präsentierteller, 51 x 45.5cm, Lexia Hachtmann, 2025.jpg

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 inches Iva Gueorguieva Animal 12, 2024 acrylic and gauze on canvas 72 x 50.5 inches Iva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Birds, 2024 acrylic and gauze on canvas 78 x 50 inches Sketchbook of the artist referenced in the interview.

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

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 cm Daytime Time Travel, 2025 Oil on canvas 82 3/4 x 59 in | 210 x 150 cm Blind Spot Mirror #1, 2025 Stoneware, rearview vehicle mirrors, glaze 23 x 22 x 4 in | 58.5 x 56 x 10 cm