The Next Generation

Irina Novikova – Stories to Tell

Moscow -based painter and illustrator Irina Novikova illustrates imaginative narratives and reinvents fairytales and myths. The artist explores fantastical stories and poetic imagery in detailed ink and watercolor. Find the spotlight here.


Abbi Kenny – Material Matters

Abbi Kenny captures materiality in objects and entities of the everyday. The artist infuses both experimentation with artistic material and fierce attention to detail into decontextualized compositions. Find the spotlight here.


Lucas Whittaker – Search for body and Soul

Lucas Whittaker’s dynamic abstract figurations reflect the search for body and form within rich and absorbing compositions. The Providence, Rhode Island- based painter and collager reveals the beauty and soul in the abstract. Find the spotlight here.


João Fortuna – Cut-and-Pasted Contradictions

João Fortuna is a Barreiro, Portugal-based collage artist with an interest in social and political issues. Fortuna’s multi-dimensional cut-and-pasted compositions confront our present reality while pulling from the past. Find the spotlight here.


Rebecca Poarch: Sacred Sensations

Long Island-based artist Rebecca Poarch’s luminescent oil paintings, and raw performance-multimedia works capture expressions of self-love through connections to the body and personal experience. Find the spotlight here.


Veronica Clements: Coming of Age

Veronica Clements is a Chicago-based oil painter who creates meticulous scenes of magical realism. Clements’ work often explores themes of vanitas, gender, and youth. Find the spotlight here.


Hanna Bang: Painting Codes

Vancouver, Canada-based oil painter Hanna Bang bends and flattens the picture plane to draw out the components of a personal code and perspective. Find the spotlight here.


Jiannan Wu: Set Stages

New York artist Jiannan Wu specializes in elaborate carved resin reliefs. Wu’s sculptures set the stage for eternal performances reflective of everyday life and contemporary culture to take place. Find the spotlight here.


Nibha Akireddy: Between Dimensions

Nibha Akireddy’s impasto-rich compositions are rife with movement between genres and dimensions. The Santa Clara-based artist’s work defies labels. Find the spotlight here