Lauren Marinaro - Surf Point x NADA Gallerist-in-Residence, July/August 2025

Lauren Marinaro is a New York-based gallerist and the founder of Marinaro Gallery. Since opening the gallery in 2017, Marinaro has been committed to emerging and mid-career artists, often spotlighting work that explores identity and materiality. She had previously been a partner at Feuer/Mesler and a director at Zach Feuer Gallery. Lauren is on the board of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) and previously taught Understanding Contemporary Art at New York University.

Learn more about Marinaro Gallery here.

Alex Nazari - Surf Point x NADA Gallerist-in-Residence, July/August 2025

Alex Nazari is a Los Angeles-based artist and founder of Gattopardo. A graduate of the ArtCenter MFA program, she has exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, The Aster, The Box, LAXART, No Moon and Lane Meyers Projects.

Gattopardo is an artist-run gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Since opening in 2021, we have staged experimental collaborations, first solo exhibitions, idiosyncratic group shows and one night happenings. Gattopardo is dedicated to functioning as a capacious vessel offering tangible support for discursive, artist-led programming.

Learn more about Gattopardo here.

Nicoletta Pollara - Surf Point x NADA Gallerist-in-Residence, July/August 2025

Nicoletta Pollara (b. 1993) is a accomplished art professional with over a decade of experience in gallery management, exhibition planning, and strategic leadership. Joining Night Gallery in 2017, she rose to the role of Director, spearheading significant growth across programming, staffing, and infrastructure, including the launch of three new gallery locations. She has produced exhibitions for artists such as Anne Libby, Bambou Gili, Divya Mehra, Elaine Stocki, Han Bing, Julia Haft-Candell, and Rachel Youn, and has played a key role in the gallery’s international fair presence and collaborative initiatives. Her forward-thinking approach has guided the development of the gallery’s digital platforms and the implementation of innovative strategies that have shaped its evolution over the past eight years. She holds an MA in Art Business from Claremont Graduate University and a BA in Art History from Loyola Marymount University. Through her leadership, she continues to influence the landscape of contemporary art and champion emerging voices in the field.

Learn more about Night Gallery here.

Greta Bank - July 2025

Born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Greta Bank currently resides in Hollis, Maine. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and a MFA focused on painting from the University of Arizona. Her sculptural work, performance, installations and multimedia, often use both topical and historical content to provoke social inquiry. Bank describes her work as visual essays, positioning her audience to reflect on diverse matters such as environmental corruption, mass consumption and social constructs. She has exhibited at SPACE Gallery, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the Hunterdon Museum of Art , The Institute for Contemporary Art at MECAD, Speedwell Projects, University of Maine Farmington and the Portland Museum of Art.  Bank has received multiple grants from the Maine Arts Commission, as well as  from the Taconic Community Foundation, an Emerging Artist Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, The Horizon Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

See Greta’s work here.

Image from Deep Fake, 2024.

Nikki Darling- July 2025

Nikki Darling holds a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC. Her debut novel, Fade Into You, was published by Feminist Press in 2018. Nikki Darling’s music criticism and essays appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, KCET Artbound, and others.

See Nikki’s work here.

Michel Droge- July 2025

Michel Droge. Photograph by Andy Estey.

Michel Droge is a multi-media artist whose work engages with the environment and ideas of multi-species, non-binary, and entangled life systems. Inspired by oceans and land, mapping, and environmental research, their immersive collaborations, paintings, drawings, and prints visually explore vulnerable and under-represented environmental areas to promote awareness and conservation.

An element of Michel’s practice is collaborative engagement with scientific researchers, conservation groups, and communities, including the Schmidt Ocean Institute, Bigelow Laboratories, Maine Gun Safety Coalition, Good Food Council Lewiston, Eastport Health Care, and Maine Audubon,

Michel is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation award, a co-recipient of a Kindling Fund grant, and three Maine Arts Commission grants. They have been awarded fellowships and residencies at Surfpoint, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Hewnoaks Residency, The Tides Institute, The Joseph Fiore Foundation, The Stephen Pace House, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Their work has been included in exhibitions, amongst which are The Cue Art Foundation, Bates College Art Museum, University of Maine, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Maine Jewish Museum, Boston University, and Brandeis University.

Visit Michel’s website here.

Louis Bury - April-May 2025

Louis Bury. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Louis Bury is an art writer, author of The Way Things Go and Exercises in Criticism, and Professor of English at Hostos Community College, CUNY.

Visit Louis’ website here.

Stacy Pratt - April-May 2025

Stacy Pratt in the Surf Point archive room. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Stacy Pratt is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. A poet, art writer, and musician, she primarily writes for First American Art Magazine.