Happy New Year! I can’t wait to share the works below but I did not want them to get lost in everyone’s checked-out inboxes at the end of last year. Each one of these artists inspires me not just visually but also conceptually. I try not to include too much information on each work as instead I encourage you to reply with interest to begin a dialogue on the piece. This issue, however, I will include small excerpts from each artists’ bios.
As always, I would love to show the works in person so please let me know if you are in New York and I can arrange a viewing. I also wanted to share several gallery shows opening this month that I am looking forward to and highly recommend seeing in person:
Julia Jo at Charles Moffett (opening January 6)
Ravi Jackson at David Lewis (opening January 13)
Anne Libby at Magenta Plains (opening January 13)
Cynthia Talmadge at Bortolami (opening January 13)
Gilbert Lewis at Kapp Kapp (opening January 14)
Emma Kohlmann at Silke Lindner (opening January 18)
Ben Tong
Cazador, 2022
Oil on canvas
66 x 56 inches
$11,000
Ben Tong
Sound of a Black Hole, 2022
Oil on canvas
54 x 50 inches
$9,500
Ben Tong (b.1981 Toronto, Canada) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. His work has been exhibited at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Art Basel Film program, Hong Kong; Europa NYC, New York; Island, New York. He was a fellow at the Villa Aurora Foundation, Berlin, and in residency at the Soma Summer Program, Mexico City. Tong received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, a BFA in Photography from CalArts, and an MFA in Art from CalArts. - Jack Barrett website
Kiwha Lee
Multiplicity of Eddies, 2022
Oil on canvas
74 x 55 inches
$16,000
Kiwha Lee
Signs, 2022
Oil, acrylic, mulberry paper on canvas
72 x 48 inches
$14,000
Kiwha Lee (b. Seoul, Korea) is a visual artist based in New York asking questions about what Painting is in the 21st century and the projection of human relations in the world. Her paintings and wall objects complicate the viewer’s reading of pictorial hierarchy and visual perception. Nominated for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2018, she has exhibited at Fergus McCaffrey (NY, NY), Thierry Goldberg (NY, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects, Deanna Evans Projects, Far x Wide (Brooklyn), Leroy Neiman Gallery, 205 Hudson Gallery, Mother Gallery, Collar Works (New York), and Chan+Hori Gallery (Singapore) among others. Her work has been featured prominently in publications like New American Paintings, Vulture, The Business Times, Asian Art News, Harper's BAZAAR. Kiwha was named one of three emerging female artists in Singapore by Asian Art News Magazine in 2019 and was a finalist for the Harper's Bazaar Art Prize 2017. She has held residency at Chautauqua Institution in 2016 (New York) and the NPE Art Residency in 2018 (Singapore). Lee attended Columbia University’s School of Art for advanced painting and has completed her MFA (Painting) from Hunter College in Spring, 2022. - artist’s website
Alex Puz
Lower Glow, 2022
Flashe vinyl acrylic on canvas
37 x 1.5 x 49 inches
$6,400
Alex Puz
Neural Moonlight, 2022
Flashe vinyl acrylic on canvas
92 x 1.5 x 42 inches
$9,600
Alex Puz (b. 1989 Long Beach, CA) is a painter who lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut. His painting practice focuses on color study, optics and linear abstraction and explores the gap between emotion and cognition. Puz's process oriented painting practice systematizes color and line resulting in dense and ornate chromatic fields. He holds a BFA in Studio Art from CUNY Hunter College ('14) and an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from Yale School of Art ('22.) Alex Puz is a 2017 Rema Hot Mann Foundation Nominee and 2022 recipient of the YPEI Teaching Fellowship. His work has been written about in the Yale Daily News, on liveart.io and is featured in ArtMaze Magazine. Selected exhibitions include "Vibrant Matters" at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (NYC), "No Light Without Shadows" at Thierry Goldberg (NYC), "Elán Vital" at MoCA Westport (CT) and "Spirit Rift" at Underdonk (NYC). - artist’s website
Amna Asghar
Coronation, 2021
Acrylic and screen print on canvas
22 1/2 × 16 1/2 inches (57.15 × 41.91 cm)
$5,000
Amna Asghar (b. 1984 Detroit, MI) lives and works in Detroit and the Bronx, New York. Amna Asghar’s work looks to the American experience through a multitude of cultural motifs: from her family’s Pakistani popular culture ephemera to Disney movies to Jean-Léon Gérôme’s orientalist paintings, to Hudson River School works, to currents of contemporary political thought. Asghar draws from her own life in the Detroit area where she grew up and now resides, making sophisticated works that mix imagery across cultures, creating conversation between communities. She received her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (2014); and her BFA from Michigan State University (2007). - Klaus von Nichtssagend website
K.R.M. Mooney
Housing (c.) vi, 2022
Steel, electroplated steel, silver, brass, neodymium, copper coated polyethylene, paint, polymer resin, iron oxide
14 x 7 x 3 1/2 inches
$11,000
K.R.M. Mooney (b. 1990, Seattle, WA) lives and works in New York. He studied art at Central Saint Martins, London and California College of the Arts, San Francisco. Mooney’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin (2021), Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco (2019), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2017), and as part of the SECA Art Awards at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017), Pied-à-terre, Ottsville, PA (2015), and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2015). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2022), Braunsfelder, Cologne (2022), Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2021), the ICA, Los Angeles (2021), Yale Union, Portland (2020), Stadtgalerie Bern (2020), SculptureCenter, New York (2020), Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (2016), and Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco (2016), among others. - Miguel Abreu website
Eileen Quinlan
Joy of Life, 2020
Chromogenic print mounted on Dibond
24 x 20 inches
Edition 1 of 2 + 2 APs (#1/3)
$9,000
Eileen Quinlan (b. 1972, Boston) earned her MFA from Columbia University in 2005, and had her first solo museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2009. Quinlan’s work was recently included in Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020), Objects Recognized in Flashes, a major group exhibition curated by Matthias Michalka at MUMOK, Vienna, and VIVA ARTE VIVA, the 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel (2017). Previously, Quinlan participated in Image Support at the Bergen Kunsthall, What Is a Photograph? at the International Center for Photography, New York, and New Photography 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art, along with group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, White Columns, the White Cube Bermondsey, the Langen Foundation, Mai 36, Marian Goodman Gallery, Andrea Rosen Gallery, and Paula Cooper Gallery, among others. - Miguel Abreu website