David Smalling
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 takes its title from the Elizabethan collar, the veterinary device colloquially known as the “cone of shame”—a protective apparatus designed to prevent an animal from tearing at its own sutures. The collar, as depicted in Cone of Shame, becomes a metaphor for conditional belonging: entry into a space that promises safety and prestige while quietly limiting autonomy.
Keiran Brennan Hinton
Keiran Brennan Hinton (b. 1992, Toronto) lives and works in Toronto and Elgin, Ontario. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute in 2014 and his MFA from Yale University in 2016. Past international solo shows of Brennan Hinton’s work include exhibitions at MAKI...
Polina Barskaya
Polina Barskaya (b. 1984, Cherkassy, USSR) received a MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and a BA from Hunter College, NY. Barskaya received an Artist Fellowship in Painting from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in 2021, and an Elizabeth Greenshields...
Will Pappenheimer
Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist and educator working in new media, performance and installation. His current work explores the collage of the virtual and physical worlds in the recent mediums of augmented or mixed reality and artificial intelligence. He...
Isaac Aden
Isaac Aden is an American artist. Aden’s work has always engaged painting from the periphery and approached content as a conceptualist. Deeply informed by Art history, Aden implements a structuralist theory developed Rosalind Krauss in her seminal text Sculpture in...
Jasmin Anoschkin
Jasmin Anoschkin creates her sculptures entirely by her own hand, whether she is carving wood with a chainsaw or molding clay. Eschewing attempts at technical perfection, she does not hide evidence of these physical processes, embracing uneven surfaces or unexpected...
Joel-Peter Witkin
This is the 2nd interview with Joel-Peter Witkin on this program, the fist one can be found here. Note: All the images discussed in order in the interview can be seen here. Joel-Peter Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939. In 1959, Edward Steichen, head of the...
Se Yoon Park
Se Yoon Park, 2023. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park, New York. Se Yoon Park 박세윤 (b. 1979, South Korea) is a sculptor living and working in New York. Park’s foundation in architecture is reverberated through the deft construction of his geometries and manipulation of...
Daniel Handal
Originally from Honduras, Daniel Handal lives and works in New York City. He received his BS in Applied Sciences from Rutgers University and studied photography at the International Center of Photography. His work centers on portraiture and explores issues of gender,...
David Kennedy Cutler
David Kennedy Cutler (b. 1979, Sandgate, VT) is an artist, writer and performer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His practice addresses traces of domesticity; he presents material objects as witnesses of unseen labor and hidden objects. He observes,...
Tomás Díaz Cedeño
Tomás Díaz Cedeño (b. 1983, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. Most recently his work has been shown in a solo exhibition at Silke Lindner (New York) and featured in the group exhibition Equis, I Griega, Zeta at Anonymous (New York). Previously, his work has...