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. 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

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) 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 (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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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.

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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.

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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. 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.

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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. 

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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.

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Michel Droge- July 2025

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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Lauren Fensterstock- May-June 2025

Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations that bind our physical and metaphysical landscapes. Extravagant in their material presence and devotional labor, her work commands the eye to the present moment to bring attention to embodied experience. Lauren's work has been shown internationally including The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Reykjavik Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Chrysler Museum, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Rijswijk Museum, and Des Moines Art Center. Lauren has been awarded grants from United States Artists, Groot Foundation, and Artist's Resource Trust. She is a Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Lauren Fensterstock, "The totality of time lusters the dusk”, 2020, mixed media, Courtesy Claire Oliver Gallery. Photo by Ron Blunt.

Jamele Wright, Sr. - May-June 2025

Born and raised in Ohio, at the age of 22 Jamele Wright, Sr. moved with his family to Atlanta, Georgia. While raising a family Jamele produced art, jazz, and poetry events throughout Atlanta. Realizing that there were many young artists not being represented he started a gallery called Neo Renaissance Art House. After curating the gallery for over a year Jamele was inspired to pursue his own artistic career. After a number of solo and group exhibitions Mr. Wright graduated from Georgia State University with a B.A. in Art History. He concentrated on African and African American Contemporary Art. Jamele graduated with Master of Fine Art from School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, New York. He completed a residency at MASS MoCA, and Vermont Studio Center as well as artist in resident at Gibbes Museum, Charleston, SC. He currently maintains his practice in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Jamele Wright. Sr., "ReBORN #2”, mixed media, Ga. red clay on Dutch wax cloth, 60” x 96”.

iris yirei hu- May-June 2025

iris yirei hu. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

iris yirei hu is a multidisciplinary journey-based artist from Los Angeles who works across paintings, installations, intercultural collaborations, writing, and public art.

She roots her art practice in processes of material and spiritual transformation, as evidenced in labor intensive pieces and installations that explore the subterranean realms of grief and loss, cycles of life and death, the earthly and the otherworldly, and the infinitely evolving self. Central to her practice is learning from and working across territories and peoples, through which she investigates how geography, kinship, and the sacred are reflected in cultural technologies and ecological practices. Her work intimately probes the sentience in the natural world and the vulnerability in human connection across cultural, geographic, and generational differences, through which she creates imaginative ways to understand oneself and proposes relational and open-ended pathways towards solidarity.

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Detail from The transmission of the heart wisdom (universe), 2024.

Photo by Angel Xotlanihua

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.

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Abbey Williams - April-May 2025

Abbey Williams in the Hallam Studio. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Abbey Williams is a mom, a Libra, an amateur singer, an oversharer, and an artist who mostly makes videos, living and working in her hometown of New York City. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union, her MFA from Bard College, and was a participant at The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2004. Her work has been exhibited at TATE Britain, London; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv; The Studio Museum in Harlem, and was a part of the 2005 Greater New York exhibition at MoMA PS1.

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Kaitlin Kylie Pomerantz - February-March 2025

Kaitlin Pomerantz is a visual artist, educator, and arts researcher engaged with ecosystems resiliencies under extractive economies. She is the founder of MATTERS, an arts learning initiative connecting materials, labor and land.

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Untitled (Viriditas), 2024

Mary Henderson - February-March 2025

Mary Henderson is a visual artist living and working in Philadelphia. She received an AB in fine arts from Amherst College, and an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, the Center for Emerging Artists, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; she has also completed residencies at Pouch Cove, Soaring Gardens, the Jentel Foundation and the Hambidge Center (where she was the Nena Griffith Distinguished Fellow). Her work has been shown throughout the United States at venues including SPRING/BREAK Los Angeles, the Delaware Contemporary Museum, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Michener Museum, the Woodmere Museum, Marcia Wood Gallery, Lyons Wier Gallery and Wilding Cran Gallery. Her paintings have been featured in Artmaze, Harper's Magazine, L’Espresso (Italy), New American Paintings, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Art in America. Selected collections include the Rockefeller Foundation, the Muskegon Museum of Art and the West Collection. She is the former co-director of the Philadelphia site of the nonprofit network of artist-run spaces, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and currently works as a project manager for Mural Arts Philadelphia.

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Elijah Ober - February-March 2025

Elijah Ober at Surf Point. Photo by Kerry Constantino.

Elijah Ober is sculptor and animator born and raised in the north-eastern United States. His work explores our relationships with other species, nature at large, digital and manual fabrication processes, our past, and our future. His 2022 show at the CMCA “CALCIUM/ your future ex-squirrelfriend” explored the membranes of our built environment and the horizon of self-actualization. He was included in the PMA and CMCA Biennials in 2020. He graduated from Bowdoin college in 2015, and has attended residencies at the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Monson Arts, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

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Marc Handelman - January-February 2025

Marc Handelman (he/him) is a visual artist and teacher, based in Brooklyn, New York. Often involving long-term research-oriented projects, Handelman’s work examines the aesthetics of state, colonial and imperial power in the afterlives of Landscape in contemporary life. His practice explores the ways the present is haunted, as through a ventriloquism of these images, tropes, and forms of rhetoric, so ingrained, so naturalized and so seemingly emptied out, that they appear nearly invisible. Through painting, in addition to artists’ books, installation and video, his work resurfaces these afterlives, critically exploring their ideological violence, as it reimagines different way of seeing, feeling, and thinking through Landscape and our entanglements within it. Handelman received his BFA in Painting from RISD and an MFA from Columbia University. He has exhibited extensively throughout the United States as well as internationally in such venues as PS1 MoMA, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, The Orlando Museum of Art, The Royal Academy of Art in London, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, The Portland Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rubin Museum, The Matsumoto City Museum of Art, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, among others. Handelman is an Associate Professor at The Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University. He is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York.

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Marc Handelman, Installation view of Discovery of a Flower, Contours of a Pond, SE Cooper Contemporary, Portland, OR, 2022. Photo by Derek Franklin

Jarid del Deo - January-February 2025

Jarid del Deo is a painter living and working in Maine. His oil paintings utilize the New England landscape as a tested vehicle for investigating color, shape and composition. Del Deo prefers a long contemplative study of his surroundings, plucking out details that best describe a place. A personal point of view and sense of the mystical are important to him.

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