GaHee Park, Still Life with Fish, 2017. New Now New York.
GaHee Park
Born in Seoul and based in Montreal, GaHee Park paints in a style that juxtaposes the flatness of her images with heavily stylized richness that creates a sense of unease – the pear in the present work is ready to roll off the aslant table; likewise at any moment for the vases and fish, giving an imminent crash, splash, and bang to our notion of the mute still life. Her practice explores ambiguity, often compared to the “naive” style of Henri Rousseau, with layers of texture adding to the narrative quality of her work. Park has had recent solo shows with Perrotin, and has also been included in group exhibitions at the UTA Artist Space and FLAG Art Foundation.
Sarah Slappey, Yellow Touch, 2018. New Now New York.
Sarah Slappey
The synecdoche of the hand to the entire body, the partial object as representative of the whole is a characteristic motif in Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Slappey’s practice – the limbs and fingers in Yellow Touch contour around one another with no clear delineation between body and background. Examining themes of prescriptive beauty standards and media portrayals of the female form, her fully bare subjects are a tangle of smooth, enticing limbs rendered in mysterious postures and often confrontational poses. The 2016 Hunter College MFA graduate has held solo exhibitions at Maria Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, and Sargent’s Daughters in New York, as well as features in group shows at he Schlossmuseum, Linz, Carl Kostyal Gallery, London, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, and König Galerie, Berlin.
Angela Heisch, Adult Resting on a Flower, 2018. New Now New York.
Angela Heisch
With her imaginative use of color and repetition, Angela Heisch’s practice is defined by the artist’s expressive, energetic canvases. The New Zealand-born, Brooklyn-based artist holds an MFA from SUNY Albany and is now represented by GRIMM Gallery after successful solo exhibitions in New York at 106 Green and the Davidson Gallery, as well as a debut UK solo exhibition in London at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery. Heisch often returns to motifs and forms that unravel, grow, or mirror in patterns, as Adult Restong on a Flower exemplifies. Even within the abstract form, the artist employs a uniquely architectural, painterly style to create works of intense presence.
Anthony Cudahy, Ian With Knots, 2017. New Now New York.
Anthony Cudahy
Archival images and photographs factor heavily into Brooklyn-based figurative painter Anthony Cudahy’s intimate, poignant works. The artist complies historical snapshots, including queer photography, film stills, and hagiographic ephemera for inspiration, drawing upon these elements to create tender paintings that capture the subject with or without the context of its moment, looking instead at its potentiality, its myth-making quality. A 2020 MFA graduate of Hunter College, Cudahy's recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Hales, New York, Semiose Gallery, Paris, and a group show at Half Gallery, New York, curated by Vaughn Spann, entitled Friend Zone.
Caleb Hahne, Autumn, 2020. New Now New York.
Caleb Hahne
Caleb Hahne often works from memory, utilizing the fallible nature of recollection to create hazy, obscure scenes, as typified by the present work. The Denver-based artist obscures faces and turns subjects away from focus, offering glimpses of characterization shrouded in secrecy and innuendo. His art has been included in solo and group exhibitions in Denver, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Montreal, Berlin, and the United Kingdom and recently at MCA Denver, as well as the New Museum, New York, in collaboration with Adidas. Hahne was named by Westword as one of the 100 Colorado Creatives of 2014 and one of the Top 10 Artists to watch in 2015, as well as one of the top 10 contemporary artists under 40 by Widewalls.
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