Lilian Garcia-Roig - September-October 2025
Lilian Garcia-Roig is a Cuban-born, Texas-raised Latinx artist living and working in Tallahassee, Florida where she is a distinguished Professor at FSU. She is most known for her perceptually based, large-scale, “all-day” cumulative paintings that formally interweave the illusionist possibilities painting with its abstract material nature.
Lilian Garcia-Roig is a Cuban-born, Texas-raised Latinx artist living and working in Tallahassee, Florida where she is a distinguished Professor at FSU. She is most known for her perceptually based, large-scale, “all-day” cumulative paintings that formally interweave the illusionist possibilities painting with its abstract material nature. On a personal level, her on-site works have been about negotiating the complex propositions of sense of place & belonging which influence the construction of identity. In 2021, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow. Other significant awards include the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Blackwell Prize in Painting, State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, M-AAA/NEA Fellowship, and Kimbrough Award (Dallas Museum of Art). Residencies include Skowhegan, Joan Mitchell Center, MacDowell, Art Omi, and Millay. Garcia-Roig has shown extensively across the U.S. including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and in exhibitions such as “Relational Undercurrents”, the “Florida Prize”, and the permanent collection of the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
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Efrat Klipshtein - September-October 2025
My artistic practice spans installations, performances, and two-dimensional works. The materials I work with are diverse and include: from everyday materials ; electrical cables, brooms, aluminum foil, plasticine, paper clips to botanical materials, wood sculptures and glass castings.
Photographer: Lena Gomon
My artistic practice spans installations, performances, and two-dimensional works. The materials I work with are diverse and include: from everyday materials ; electrical cables, brooms, aluminum foil, plasticine, paper clips to botanical materials, wood sculptures and glass castings. My work ranges from the formal formulation of shapeless physical spaces to the transformation of everyday objects, into poetic realms. The transformation that the objects undergo in my works distances them from the original form but preserves their identity. much like the transformations that heroes of journeys undergo in literary epics who set out but never return home the same person they left. In recent years, my work has traced the elements of the road; the lines of the routes, the depressions and cracks in the road, these elements that we are blind to, or simply prefer to avoid or stay away from. These take on form and substance in my work and become measurements of the desire for a destination. My work expresses the attempt to stabilize and preserve the element of movement already contained in the stopping, in memory and failure; the persistent preoccupation with the elements of the road blurs the destination until it is absorbed. I believe that there is no destination, there is only the material - a road, and the road grows bigger as its crevices accumulate.
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Em Rea - September-October 2025
Em Rea (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based artist who plays with trash to make improvisational sculptures, and paintings that reflect life under capitalism and dreams of possible utopias after its collapse.
Em Rea (they/them) transforms discarded and found materials into improvisational sculptures, assemblages, drawings, paintings, and portals to future worlds. A disabled, queer, and trans artist living in Lenapehoking (presently known as Philadelphia) their work explores themes of collapse, repair, disposability, and care. They encourage contemplation of our relationship with our environment, the transient nature of the objects we use, and the objectification of any being on this sentient earth.
Carly Sheehan - September-October 2025
Carly Sheehan paints, sews, and assembles found materials to make works that explore feltness, memory, and her body. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Washington and living and working in Seattle, WA.
Carly Sheehan (b. 1992, Massachusetts) is a painter and educator based in Seattle. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art (2020) and a BFA in Art Education and Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2014). Sheehan is a full-time lecturer in the Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking Department at the University of Washington. Her work has been exhibited in grassroots and artist-run spaces including Triangle Projects and North Loop West in Los Angeles. And most recently, a solo show at Specialist Gallery in Seattle. In 2024, she joined the artist team at Specialist, where she contributes to organizing exhibitions.
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Annika Earley - August 2025
Annika Earley (she/they) makes drawings and sculptures about the demands and joys of parenthood, sensuality and sexuality, gender, and pre-teen nostalgia.
photo by Marion Earley
Annika Earley (she/they) makes drawings and sculptures about the demands and joys of parenthood, sensuality and sexuality, gender, and pre-teen nostalgia.
Earley grew up in rural Switzerland but moved to mid-coast Maine in 2000. When she was very young, she used to play in the woods; there she found a small, shingled hut with tiny windows and a locked door. Raised on Grimm stories, Earley was absolutely certain that this must be a witch’s house and proceeded to avoid it at all costs as she had no interest in being baked into a pie. At age twenty, she returned to Switzerland for the first time after ten years and discovered that this hut was not a witch’s house but, in fact, a storage shed belonging to the forestry department of her village. This experience continues to have a profound impact on her work.
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Asuka Goto- August 2025
Asuka Goto is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who works across drawing, printmaking and photography. Her artist book, To Send a Telegram, was recently acquired by the Free Library of Philadelphia and was also selected as a semi-finalist for the MCBA Prize.
Asuka Goto is a Philadelphia-based visual artist who works across drawing, printmaking and photography. Her artist book, To Send a Telegram, was recently acquired by the Free Library of Philadelphia and was also selected as a semi-finalist for the MCBA Prize.
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Luis Sahagún- August 2025
Like DNA strings of mestizaje, Sahagun's practice confronts contradiction — indian/conqueror, violence/unity, ancient/contemporary, and artist/artisan. In his work he conjure indigenous spiritualities to embody the aesthetics of personal histories, cultural resistance, and colonial disruption.
Luis Alvaro Sahagún Nuño was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Luis is an artist and ritualist whose practice confronts the palpable inescapability of race and transforms art into an act of cultural and spiritual reclamation. He has exhibited widely at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Latchkey Gallery NYC, Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles), and The National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago), among others. He has held residencies at Roswell, NM; The Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program (LAP), Saratoga, CA, the Chicago Artist Coalition; and was a Critical Race Studies Scholar at Michigan State University. His work has been examined in publications including Artillery Magazine, Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, Newcity, and the Chicago Tribune. His work is included in the Fidelity Collection of Boston, Alta Med Collection of Los Angeles, the Allex Ko Collection, and the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, among many others. His practice has been spotlighted as having a unique voice helping to shape, shift, and touch the world on radio, podcasts, and television networks such as MundoFOX, NBC, UNIVISION and WBEZ-NPR. He received his undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University- Carbondale, an MFA at Northern Illinois University. Luis is 3Arts awardee and a 2023 United States Artist Fellow.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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 is a multi-media artist whose work engages with the environment and ideas of multi-species, non-binary, and entangled life systems.
Michel Droge. Photograph by Kerry Constantino.
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.
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Louis Bury - April-May 2025
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.
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.
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Stacy Pratt - April-May 2025
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.
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.