Interviews by Brainard Carey

Loren Erdrich (b. 1978) lives and works in New York City. Her undergraduate degrees include a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (2000) and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2005).

In 2007 she received her MFA from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Erdrich’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at SHRINE New York (2022, 2023, 2026); SHRINE Los Angeles (2024); and Bricks Gallery Copenhagen (2024, 2025).

She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Harper’s (New York, NY...

Portrait of Jenna Gribbon by Shawna Ferreira

Jenna Gribbon is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, a comprehensive survey of 25 years of painting. She was also the subject of a solo exhibition at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2022–2023). Recent group exhibitions include She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists, Akron Art Museum, OH (2025); From Dawn Til Dusk: The Shadow in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2025); Day for Night: New American Realism, Palazzo Barberini, organized by the Aïshti Foundation, Rome (2024); Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New Yor...

Annie Hémond Hotte (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) received her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2009, where she was awarded the Warden Purchase Prize. In 2023, she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Margot Samel, New York (2026); The Pit, Los Angeles (2025); Marvin Gardens, New York (2024); Centre Clark, Montreal (2017); and Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, Germany (2009). Selected group exhibitions include Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York (2024); The Pit, Los Angeles (2024); Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2024); Marvin Gardens, New York (2023); Dimin Gallery, New York (2023); The Low Museum, Atlanta (2015); Contemporary Art Centre (CA...

Ana Segovia produces images through paintings that subvert the heteronormativity of popular imaginaries. The artist revisits mythical scenes and figures from industries like film and sports, reconfiguring their hegemonic role as idealized models of masculinity. An intimate connection to cinema constantly inspires and drives him to transgress norms. Segovia takes familiar images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre, intervening in their forms, altering their tonalities, and dislocating them. It’s in this disruption where he reveals the montage, artifice, and the performativity in constructing gender and national identities.

Segovia’s paintings confront view...

credit Ryan Warner-2026

Erin Milez (b. 1994, Pittsburgh, PA) received a MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY and a BA from Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Studio E, Seattle; Seattle Pacific University, Seattle Pacific Art Center, Seattle; Cob Gallery, London; Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.

Milez’s work is included in an upcoming group exhibition at Lazy Mike, Seoul in November 2026. The artist was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2021 and 2024. Milez lives and works in Seattle, WA and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY...

Photo of the artist filming in Antarctica. Photo credit: Robert Cmar

Janet Biggs’s work focuses on extreme landscapes and situations, drawing connections between physical terrains and psychological, societal, or political dynamics. She has had solo exhibitions, film screenings, and performances at the SCAD Museum of Art, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Virginia Tech’s Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, Jeu de Paume, Taubman Museum of Art, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Blaffer Museum of Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Tampa Museum of Art, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Herbert F. Johnson...

Wade Schaming (b. 1984; Pittsburgh, PA) lives and works in New York City.  He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA (BA 2006) and the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA 2010).

Residency awards include the Bronx Museum’s AIM program, Bronx, NY (2012), the Lower East Side Printshop’s Keyholder Residency, New York, NY (2015), Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (2016), Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY (2017), The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY (2017), Jentel Foundation, Banner, WY (2018) and Art & History Museums – Maitland, Maitland, FL (2020).

“EASY FEELINGS,” a solo exhibition of new work opens September 10, 2026, at Equity Gallery, Ne...

Yu-Wen Wu has exhibited at institutions such as the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.; Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece; Center for Border Studies, Cucuta, Colombia; the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Perlman Museum at Carleton College, Northfield, MN; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; and Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA. 
She was the 2024 Artist in Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and her work is held in public collections including the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA; the Amon Carter Museum of Americ...

Julian MacMillan (b. 1992) lives and works in New York. Working across painting, printmaking and sculpture he creates works that resemble mythical landscapes, mysterious figurations, and funerary objects. Through his multidisciplinary practice, which also spans carpentry and metalworking, MacMillan is able to combine and compress these genres, and make images that are both sensitive and other-worldly. Born and raised in Washington DC, MacMillan studied art at Dartmouth College prior to receiving his MFA in painting at Boston University. Recent exhibitions include Left Tower at Atlantic Mills (Providence, RI), Do It Again at East Manning Projects (Providence, RI), The View From M...

Maia Cruz Palileo

(b. 1979, Chicago) creates paintings, works on paper, installations, and sculptures that honor familial archives and imagined contemporary realities. Beginning from a space of personal inquiry around their family’s migration from the Philippines to America, Palileo quickly uncovered the immense connective points between individual histories and broader global systems, like colonization, displacement, assimilation, and the Philippine–American War. The artist’s research into overlapping historical timelines, paired with the transmutational effects of memory, provides a framework for their color-rich compositions. This overlapping is made physical through the layeri...

Studio portrait, Cornell University, 2025. Photo: Yun Hsiang Wang Michael Morgan (b. 1992, Syosset, Long Island) is an artist and curator whose work spans painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage. Raised in a conservative suburb of Long Island, Morgan’s early experiences navigating his sexuality within a community at odds with his identity profoundly shaped his artistic voice. Exploring identity, loss, LGBTQ history, environmental issues, and societal division, his practice often draws attention to overlooked histories and underrepresented voices, including a project honoring Christine Jorgensen, the pioneering transgender figure who grew up in his hometown. Morgan earned his B.A. in Environmental Sciences fr...

Portrait of Jimena Velarde-Alvarez in her studio, 2026, Portrait by Silver Mikiver Jimena Velarde-Alvarez (b. 2001, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian artist based in New York. She received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Emerging from attention—to and over time—Velarde-Alvarez’s work develops through a process of accumulation and return. Working primarily across painting, drawing, and sculpture, she approaches image-making as a practice of sustained attention, returning to an image as it gradually emerges and evolves. Through repeated encounters, her work follows the echoes of time as they su...

Meena Hasan (born 1987, NYC) received her B.A. from Oberlin College in 2009 and her MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013, where she won the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Painting. In 2010, she was awarded the Terna Prize Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome and in 2025 she was an artist-in-residence in the Winter TNT Residency hosted by Transmitter and Tiger Strike Asteroid Galleries in NYC. She has participated in group exhibitions at the Kristen Lorello Gallery, NYC, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC, Center for Book Arts, NYC, The Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, Deitch Projects, NYC, Nathalie...

Lola Stong-Brett (b. 1996, London, United Kingdom; lives and works in Margate) most recently graduated the Tracey Emin Artist Residency (2024) following studies at the Edinburgh College of Art (2016). Her first solo exhibition, For That, I'll Always Smile, was presented at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate in 2025. While her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions across the United Kingdom and in Mexico City, Sometime Somewhere Someone Is Dancing marks Stong-Brett’s debut in the United States. Working at a scale that envelops the body, Stong-Brett’s mark-making is deeply diaristic. Cartoon-like figures emerge from fields of heightened gestural abstraction, recording fluctuating inner...

Caitlin Keogh (b. 1982 in Anchorage, Alaska) lives and works in New York. Her work has recently been included in group shows at Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France, and The Church, Sag Harbor, NY. Keogh has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Melas Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece; and MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY. In 2021, Keogh completed a mural in the city of Holbaek, Denmark in conjunction with Holbaek Art, and in 2019, she participated in Art Basel Parcours, Basel, Switzerland. Her work has also been exhibited at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive...

Peter Acheson was born in Washington, DC, in 1954 and received his BFA from Yale University in 1976. An early member of Williamsburg's art scene in the 1980s, he relocated to upstate New York in the 1990s, where he continues to live and work in Columbia County. His paintings range from textured abstractions to restrained gestures that draw on a wide range of influences, including nineteenth-century French painting, Blinky Palermo, Raoul De Keyser, Bill Jensen, and Forrest Bess, alongside close observation of the landscape surrounding his studio. Acheson's concern is less with resolving these references than it is to allow them to...

Yuya Saito (b. 1982, Japan) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He makes wall-based works and freestanding sculpture in laminated and bent wood, a language he has developed over more than a decade out of the craft of bent-wood furniture-making. Saito’s work has been presented internationally at such institutions and venues as Rockefeller Center, New York; Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York; National Art Center, Tokyo; and Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo. Public commissions include installations for the Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York (2026) and Art Link at Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse (2022). He is the recipient of the TRiCERA Award and Jury Aw...

Portrait of Shaun Leonardo, 2024. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Shaun Leonardo (b. 1979, Queens, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work negotiates societal expectations of manhood, namely definitions surrounding Black and brown masculinities, along with its notions of achievement, collective identity, and experience of failure. Leonardo received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and has received support from Creative Capital, Guggenheim Social Practice, Art for Justice, and A Blade of Grass. His work is currently included in the traveling group exhibition Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, open now at the Perez Art Museum Miami. Leonardo’s work has also...

Izzy Barber (b. 1990) is originally from Gowanus, Brooklyn, and lives and works in Queens, New York. Barber paints from life: immediacy and physical presence are at the heart of her practice. Working on-site, in public, often at sunset and into the last light of day and night, her highly impressionistic, at times three-dimensional brushwork charges her paintings with the physical and temporal proximity of their making. Barber earned her MFA from the New York Studio School in 2017 and her BA in Studio Arts & Human Rights from Bard College in 2011. Her exhibition Badlands (2026, Pièce Unique, Massimo De Carlo, Paris) follows h...

Nick Fusaro (b. 1989) is based in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA in Sculpture from Hunter College in 2022 and his BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute in 2012. His sculptural practice combines humble materials, collections, and iteration to emphasize the effects of memory on lived experience. Fusaro also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2011 and is the founder of Three Four Three Four, an artist-run gallery in New York. He has shown at Gordon Robichaux (Manhattan, NY ), Parent Company Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Marwan (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Jupiter Woods (London, UK), Fisher Parrish (Brooklyn, NY), Strobe Gallery (New York, NY) and Long...

photo by Karla Del Orbe. Adelisa Selimbašić (b. 1996) is an Italian-Bosnian artist living and working in New York. In 2021, she graduated from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts with a Master’s in Painting. Her pictorial research aims to imagine a world in which the sense of inadequacy does not exist, opening to a nonconventional perception of the body. Through scenes drawn from everyday life and an essential figurative approach, the artist reinterprets the idea of femininity, focusing on the complexities of human experience, desire, tension, and the need for physical contact. Her practice is based on a dense and...

Giulio Noccesi by Ethan James Green Giulio Noccesi (b. 1996, Florence, Italy) is a painter based in Turin, Italy. He has participated in group exhibitions at Minor Gallery, Copenhagen, DK (2025); Monti8, Rome, IT (2024); Candysnake Gallery, Milan, IT (2024); and D Contemporary Gallery, London, UK (2023). He received a degree in Printmaking from Fine Arts Academy, Florence in 2018. “In Maurilia, the traveler is invited to visit the city and, at the same time, to examine some old postcards that show it as it used to be: the same identical square with a hen in the place of the bus station, a bandstand in place of...

Johanna Calle was born in 1965 in Bogotá, where she lives and works. Following her studies in the visual arts at the Talleres Artísticos of the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá from 1984 to 1989, Calle received a British Council scholarship in 1992 to earn a master’s degree at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. Her work draws on a range of archival and deciphering techniques, often associated with everyday life, to address the violence of recent Colombian history and evoke the victims of forced disappearances. Johanna Calle has been honored with numerous prestigious awards, including major prizes and h...

Anna Johnson studied English, Australian literature and Fine Arts at the University of Sydney graduating with a bachelor of arts in 1987. The following year she was appointed Art Editor of Interior Design magazine. Since then, Johnson has been a professional art writer and author contributing to Vogue (UK and Aus), Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveller, The Sydney Morning Herald and as a senior arts writer for Artist Profile Magazine. She is the author of several monographs and has been a critic for both television and radio. Holding many detailed artist interviews, provided an immersion in contemporary art three decades deeper...

Bat-Ami Rivlin is a New York-based sculptor working primarily in found and surplus objects. Notable exhibitions include Boat, Plastic, Tire, L21, Spain (2023-24); Simple Sabotage, Kunsthal NORD, Denmark (2023-24); The Socrates Annual, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY (2023-24); COLAPSO, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Spain (2022); EN-SITIO, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico (2022); whereabouts, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, NY (2022); No Can Do, M23, NY (2021); and more. Rivlin’s work was featured in publications such as Artforum, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Flash-Art, Emergent magazine, Artnet, PIN-UP, Office Magazine, The Paris Review, Public Parking, and more. Rivlin holds an MFA from Columbia U...

Jesse Egner is a queer artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Often taking the form of playful and absurd photographic portraiture of himself and other individuals, his work explores themes such as queerness, body image, relationships, collaboration, and humor. He received his BA from Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 2016 and his MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2020. His work is included in the permanent collection at the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, and has been exhibited and published globally. He is a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship recipient and has participated in residencies at the Santa Fe Art...

Nicola Tyson was born in 1960 in London, England. She attended Chelsea School of Art, St. Martins School of Art and Central/St. Martins School of Art in London, and currently lives and works in New York. Primarily known as a painter, Tyson has also worked with photography, film, performance and the written word, in addition to running Trial BALLOON, an NYC project space in the early 90s. In 2023, Nicola Tyson: Selected Paintings 1993-2022, the most comprehensive overview of the artist’s work to date, was published. In 2011, Tyson released the limited-edition book Dead Letter Men, which is a collection of satiri...

Christina Kruse, the New York-based artist whose practice navigates the shifting terrain of value, perception, and collective meaning, opens her latest solo exhibition Field Agents this April 2nd, 2026 at New Discretions. Curated by Tamar Dresdner, the exhibition unfolds as a study in instability – where systems of belief are unsettled and reassembled in response to a world in flux. Working across sculpture, wall relief, and collage, Kruse positions negotiation not as resolution, but as a condition of existence – an ongoing recalibration between competing truths. Bruchlinien (Fault Lines), 2026 Bedingter Anspruch (Contingent Claim), 2026 Der Erbe (The Heir), 2026 Der Porter (The Porter), 2024

In this new body of work, Giordanne Salley constructs shifting tableaus that attempt to visualize not time itself, but the feeling of the passage of time. Our experiences of life can often feel like we are riding along on time’s arrow. Days repeat and build like the rhythm of waves lapping at the shore. Each tide brings forth trash and treasures, bits of flora and fauna, before the lunar cycle pulls them back out to sea. So too does one's conscious experience of life move through time, accumulating, folding in on itself, and gradually building into the future. Ripples an...

Splat Daisies, is a solo exhibition of dreamlike paintings and sculpture by Sarah Alice Moran. Splat is a cartoon word and the spaces in these paintings draw on that system of suspended rationale. By loosening the rules of scale, gravity, and time, Moran creates dreamy pastoral scenes where humans, animals, and nature coexist without hierarchy. The show explores the quiet, almost mystical bonds between humans and animals, and the ways they shape our emotional lives. Moran paints wet-on-wet, letting thin washes of color blend and bleed across the canvas. Sunflowers dissolve into daisies, shadows become shapes, and light seemingly glows...

De Mont's practice emerges from her work as an intuitive guide, leading immersive experiences in which participants are invited into states of openness and release. It was within these rituals that she began making photographs — images conceived not as portraits but as reflections, offering back to each subject a picture of themselves liberated from the hierarchies of identity and status. The camera, in De Mont's hands, becomes a kind of witness to what she describes as a direct encounter with the divine. What results is a body of work of striking formal beauty and genuine spiritual weight. A figure floats in...

Michalik has exhibited internationally in art institutions, fairs, university galleries, community spaces, and commercial galleries the current show of this interview at Kathryn Markel. Her paintings have been published internationally in Architectural Digest, Michalik’s newspaper,  “Devour,” was published in collaboration with Brooklyn based Raw Meat Collective, and was recently acquired by the Museum of Modern Art Library in New York. It was displayed in the exhibit, “Please Knock: A Teen Album of Art” at MoMA through October 1st, 2023. Her painting “I Feel with my Eyes,” is in the permanent collection of WAG-Qaumajuq and is currently on view in the exhibition “Bac...

David Smalling portrait © Stefen Pompee Born in 1987 in Kingston, Jamaica, David Smalling lives and works in New York City. He studied Mathematics at Yale University, where he also trained at the Yale School of Art, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Drawing from the tradition of Mannerism and the Dutch Golden Age, Smalling’s paintings examine how contemporary social codes and gender norms shape identity and behavior. Through carefully constructed domestic and ceremonial scenes, he explores themes of belonging, aspiration, and restraint, questioning the roles we inherit and perform. The exhibition of all new paintings on wood panels tak...

Catherine Birk (b. 1994, she/her) is an artist and researcher currently based in Chicago, IL. Her interdisciplinary practice brings transgender studies, queer theory, and critical theory into the expanded field of painting. Catherine earned her MFA in Painting at the University of Wisconsin – Madison (2024), and BAs in Studio Art and Art History from the College of Charleston (2016). Solo exhibitions include My mother is a horse., at the Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, WI). She has exhibited in group shows nationally, including at Redux Contemporary Art Center (Charleston, SC), Trout Museum of Art (Appleton, WI), Arts + Literature Laboratory (Madison, WI), Real Ti...

dean erdmann lives and works between San Diego, CA and Brooklyn, NY. dean erdmann is an interdisciplinary artist in moving and still images, sculpture, and installation. Their sculptural practice evolved from their image-making practice. They live and work between Brooklyn, NY and San Diego, CA. Their work has been exhibited at ONE Archives, Mexicali Biennial, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Kavi GuptaBerlin, the Sheila Johnson Design Center, Torrance Art Museum, and Public Fiction, among many others. Their permanent public commission for the LA K-line Leimert Park Station opened Fall 2022. Over the following...

Rochelle Voyles (b. 1989, Toledo, Ohio) is a Brooklyn based multi-disciplinary artist whose works explore the cyclical nature of humanity’s patterns and the underlying impulses that drive behavior. Mining historical textile diagrams and found images, Voyles arranges fragments of different moments meticulously in collage on-wood cut sculpture. She dislocates, interrupts, and re-purposes found images in order to decontextualize her experience of reality and decipher our collective relationship to photographs. She received her BFA in Fine Arts/Printmaking from Pratt Institute in 2012. She is an upcoming resident of the Wassaic Project, and was a resident at The Peter Bullough Foundation, the By...

Sebastiaan Bremer and son Tobias Bremer turns photographs—found or snapped—of himself, his family, and appropriated imagery into trippy, dust-laden memories that, through his layered pointillist technique, reveal the subconscious and the real world in the blink of an eye. By laboriously painting his poetic braille over fast snapshots, he slows down time to render hauntingly beautiful interior landscapes—spaces where personal memory, art history, and cultural symbolism converge. He maintains an extensive archive of images, ranging from intimate family photographs to pages sourced from historical flower books, particularly those rooted in the Dutch tradition of floriculture. Carefully sorting throug...

Leonardo Madriz (b. 1987, Louisiana) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He makes expanded cinema installations and material assemblages regarding the inter- and inner-states of belonging. Madriz holds an MFA from Hunter College, NY (2021) and a BFA from Louisiana State University (2010). Residency awards include Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2024-25), Bemis Center (2024), Wassaic Project (2024), and Vermont Studio Center (2014). Solo shows include Sisyphus Altered at Strobe, New York, NY (2023) and Can't Forget, Dying to Know at NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (2023). His installation Letters to Home was selected for CURRENTS New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM (2022), and a reformatted excerpt of Letters...

Photo: Emma Jenkinson Torbjørn Rødland (b. 1970, Stavanger, Norway) makes photographic images that pointedly address their viewers, evoking a wide range of emotional and intellectual states. Curiosity, humor, criticality, artifice, reverence for the natural world, and romanticism appear throughout his work and often in the same image. Rødland also emphasizes the formal attributes of his photographs, pushing the medium toward modes of visual expression more commonly associated with painting, and forging links between twentieth-century art photography and twenty-first-century approaches to image-making common to advertising and social media. Often prompted by non-photographic imagery that he transforms into real-world photographic sub...

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Spending his early years between Los Angeles and El Salvador, Umaña’s personal history has profoundly shaped his visual language. In El Salvador, he was immersed in a rural environment rich with natural textures, vibrant flora, and traditional crafts. While in Los Angeles, he confronted the intensity of city life and the pressures of assimilation. This duality seeded the fragmented forms and layered symbolism that define his art today. His practice continues to carry echoes of Latin American patterns, nature’s geometry, and Am...