Emma Webster

To understand why Los Angeles-based artist Emma Webster’s (b. 1989) landscape paintings have so captivated art lovers recently, look no further than A Setting Scene from 2021. In it, we encounter a distant, cool-blue tornado formation dancing against the lilac sky, with a blazing, warm valley our only refuge. Grounded among the trees, we are immersed in the sublimity of the scene as the foliage catches and reflects the opposing forces of light. This environment strikes us as somewhere between imagination and reality, an encapsulation of Webster’s approach to blending Romanticism and artificiality. As the artist explains, “To paint from and in the world is to cope with it. To refashion a landscape to one’s own tastes is entirely different, it’s almost like shifting the goal posts.” Having received her MFA in 2018 from Yale, Webster’s work is already in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, LACMA, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and many more. In April 2026, Petzel New York presented her first major solo exhibition entitled Rues and Leaves Themselves Alone, and she is currently preparing a solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, opening February 2027.

Sabine Moritz

The fallibility of memory and perception is central to the painting practice of Sabine Moritz (b. 1969). Building on her early works, often based on recollections of her East German childhood, her recent abstractions — such as Olymp 1 — employ blurred, mutating forms to visually mirror memory’s shifting terrain. This work’s expressive strokes of cerulean, turquoise, and vermilion bleed together to create a sense of continuous motion that oscillates between pure abstraction and faint suggestions of natural forms. Long collected by major institutions like the Tate, London, and the Aïshti Foundation, Moritz’s work is garnering fresh acclaim, supported by recent solo exhibitions at Gagosian, Rome (2023); Pilar Corrias, London (2023); and Lyonel-Feininger-Galerie, Quedlinburg (2022).

Suchitra Mattai

Auction debut

Guyana-born, Los Angeles-based artist Suchitra Mattai (b. 1973) explores themes of alienation, immigration, and cultural history through a remarkable multidisciplinary practice that spans mixed-media painting, fiber art, sculpture, and large-scale installations. This 2021 work utilizes a mix of textiles, beads, and an Indian theater mask across a delineated composition to signify the divided nature of the immigrant experience. The right side features a fierce Kathakali dance mask with red eyes. Beside it, a brown-skinned woman in colorful attire stands in profile, partially obscured by a mesh covering. This contrast may symbolize how immigrant women are often dehumanized, directly referencing the artist's experience as an Indo-Caribbean woman.

Mattai holds an MFA in drawing and painting and an MA degree in South Asian art from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work is held in prominent permanent collections worldwide, including the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Denver Art Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

“I am interested in how memory and myth allow us to unravel and re-imagine historical narratives. My primary pursuit is to give voice to people whose voices were once quieted by focusing on oral histories and family archives.”
—Suchitra Mattai

Nicholas Bierk

Auction debut

Canadian artist Nicholas Bierk (b. 1985) creates contemplative, darkly lit paintings drawn primarily from photographs of his everyday surroundings. In Dahlia from 2024, a glass vase holds a cluster of muted pink, cream, and earthy brown blossoms that catch the light before dissolving into shadow. This fleeting arrangement echoes the metaphors of 17th-century Dutch floral still lifes, but seen from a contemporary lens, these flowers are stripped of their historical associations with trade, leaving us a more pure meditation on beauty, decay, and the passage of time through Bierk’s quiet visual poetry. Making his auction debut in this sale, Bierk’s work has recently been the subject of monographic exhibitions including In the Absence of Paradise at Gladstone, Brussels in 2025 and Midnight at Pangée, Montreal in 2022.

Amanda Ba

Auction debut

Amanda Ba’s (b. 1998) auction debut has been hotly anticipated following her acclaimed first New York solo exhibition Developing Desire at Jeffrey Deitch in 2024. Her works are lauded for the distinctive way she centers Asian female bodies — psychologically charged, unapologetic, surreal, and ultimately, a challenge to problematic Asian feminine visual norms. This 2020 work perfectly captures the Ohio-born artist’s fearless vision, presenting a mysterious scene of human figures and pigs in a fleshy depiction that glows with acid green, and deep violet. Quickly gaining momentum, her recent exhibitions include The Great American Nude at Jeffrey Deitch, Art Basel Miami (2025) and Algorithms of Longing at Pace Gallery, Hong Kong (2025).

“I’ve always painted nude women that are unabashed, and I think it’s about pushing against the trope of the obedient, hyperfeminine and conservative Asian woman […] I like to imagine that for them, nudity and autonomy are simply matter-of-fact, so obvious that it hardly warrants consideration.”
—Amanda Ba

Tau Lewis

Toronto-born, Brooklyn-based sculptor Tau Lewis (b. 1993) creates hand-stitched, eerie figures out of scavenged materials such as driftwood, discarded fabrics, leather, and thrifted textiles. This focus on material history as a patchwork surface gives her often towering sculptures an intimidating, almost uncanny presence as both physically and temporally shifting reminders of their prior and present forms, and engages the viewer to consider the works’ expansive journeys from supply-chain line items to diasporic totems of global exchange. The self-taught artist has seen a remarkable rise in recent years: following her 2021 installation of Symphony at the National Gallery of Canada, Lewis presented at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, and her work is held in the collections of the New Museum, the Hepworth Wakefield, and MoMA PS1.

Torkwase Dyson

Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973) describes her practice as Black Compositional Thought, an exacting visual language that makes use of “hypershapes,” or curved planes, arcs, and improvised lines derived from the architecture of Black emancipation. Dyson’s paintings and installations are rendered with direct reference to this real-world bearing, often featuring graphite and cement as materials and deeply saturated colors as an infrastructure that connects a Black geography, one that imagines how memory acts as a means of both extraction and escape. The artist presented at the 2024 Whitney Biennial and contributed designs to Superfine: Tailoring Black Style in 2025. Tougaloo, a large-scale installation incorporating sculpture, painting, and sound, is currently on view at the 61st Venice Biennale’s International Exhibition.

Rachel Eulena Williams

Rachel Eulena Williams (b. 1991) blurs the line between painting and sculpture through forms that hang, coil, sit, and suspend in ways that compose a relationship between the artist’s hand and the forces of gravity. Grounding this instability with ropes and various hardware (staples, fasteners, pins), Williams transforms the canvas into an inventive location where space is both fought for and liberated from its standard dimensions. A graduate of Cooper Union, Williams has earned international acclaim and an extensive exhibition history in recent years, including gallery shows with Xavier Hufkens in Brussels and the Modern Institute, Glasgow. Her work is featured in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Tanya Ling

Tanya Ling (b. 1966) initially made her name as one of fashion’s leading illustrators, having produced work for some of the biggest names in the industry, including British Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Louis Vuitton. In 2014, she launched Lines, an exhibition marking a decisive pivot to fine art, and her concept of the line itself has followed Ling’s practice ever since. Her practice regularly employs long, unbroken gestural lines, as seen here in Columba, that move across space with a deeply rhythmic, almost trance-like feeling, animating the work with an instinctive sense of movement. Ling’s drawings are included in the Victoria and Albert Museum’s permanent collection, and recent solo shows with Ronchini, London, Harper’s, New York, and Lyndsey Ingram, London, have cemented the artist’s rotation from the catwalk to the gallery.

Jake Longstreth

American artist Jake Longstreth (b. 1977) examines everyday landscapes and the built environment on their own terms: roadside strip malls, half-empty parking lots, and the smoggy skies that hang over Southern California with stark realism that recalls the deadpan follies of Ed Ruscha and Robert Bechtle. His works memorialize the shuttered chain stores and fast-food hangout spots of yesteryear as they give way to today’s delivery-app pickup locations, all while nature creeps back into view, absent foot traffic, and slowly poses a takeover threat in a combustible space. Longstreth holds an MFA from California College of the Arts and has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, as well as a recent solo exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in London.