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Upcoming:

All Art+, Autumn on Orchard

November 13th - November 23rd, 2025

Opening Reception:

Thursday, November 13th, 6 pm - 8 pm

Adelphia von Derka

I’m a multidisciplinary contemporary artist, creative director, and tattoo artist, with a strong focus on canvas painting and visual storytelling. My work explores themes of transformation, deformation, and moments of stillness, captured through layered compositions, bold contrasts, and expressive color. With over 14 years of experience in motion design and broadcast media across Europe, I bring a narrative-driven approach to my canvas work, merging structure with spontaneity and blending traditional techniques with a modern design language. Trained in media but rooted in fine art, I move fluidly between digital and analog processes to create emotionally resonant, visually striking pieces. My practice on canvas is a dialogue between discipline and intuition, story and form. Each piece reflects an ongoing fascination with imagination, emotional depth, and the delicate balance between chaos and calm. I’m particularly inspired by contrast, in shape, form, and color, as well as by nature: the light, the ocean, the sun, and the quiet spaces in between. In addition to painting, I work as a motion designer, illustrator, and tattoo artist, creating across disciplines while always returning to painting as the core of my evolving artistic journey.

 

Albert John Belmont

Albert John Belmont is a New England-born, contemporary artist based in New Hampshire.

 

Working since the mid-'90s, his art focuses on the deconstruction of subjects to convey form and feeling through simplicity. He developed this approach while studying art in Boston, exploring abstraction, cubism, expressionism, color, and line. 

 

​Since 2020, his work has delved into autobiographical explorations of space, experience, and memory. He has exhibited in several states and cities over the course of his career, most recently in New York, Boston, Chicago, and throughout New England. 

 

Allie Sutherland 

Allie Sutherland is a New York based artist whose work explores the liminal spaces between the human and spiritual realms. Trained as a classical architect, Sutherland is drawn to structure while allowing it to yield to intuition. Informed by surrealist automatism, her compositions begin with initial strokes made by her non-dominant hand.  This is a practice designed to connect with and stimulate the subconscious mind, allowing form to emerge through discovery rather than control. Sutherland’s work is rooted in mythological study, drawing upon the timeless narratives that inform human experience and shape consciousness. Through her practice, Sutherland aims to intertwine symbolism, history, and emotion to develop subconscious portals in which rhythm, color, and texture evoke a visual synesthesia, translating internal states into form and inviting viewers to engage with what lies beneath the surface of perception.

 

Angelina Annunziato  

My artistic practice is dedicated to creating impactful abstract art that serves a dual purpose. As a multidisciplinary fluid artist, I guide dynamic mediums to capture moments of both energetic flow and serene balance. Each piece is designed to become a unique focal point, bringing a modern and contemplative energy to the spaces it inhabits.

 

A fundamental commitment to giving back is woven into the fabric of my work. I dedicate a portion of all proceeds to support organizations that aid individuals and communities facing displacement and hardship. This isn't an afterthought; it is a core principle. This ensures that every acquisition of my art extends its impact beyond the aesthetic, transforming a personal collection into a direct contribution to collective well-being and support for those in need.

 

Avalon Lafosse  

Avalon Lafosse (she/they) is a recent graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Class of 2025 with an BFA in Painting and a concentration in Literary Arts and Studies. Originally from Orange County, CA, she currently resides in New York City. Their work focuses on the fragility of human connection and the intersection between what she deems the Crass and the Sacred.

 

Bret Garwood 

I am a paper artist and professional city and regional planner located in Brooklyn, New York.  My geometric, abstract designs are created by imagining a strict series of rules and patterns that interact with randomness. The designs are realized through layers of hand-cut cardstock paper cutouts and depict a moment in time of a system, either natural or human-made, during a period of growth, change, or transformation.

 

Camar Worthey 

I don’t just paint pictures—I bend rhythm, break systems, and dot vibrations into stories that make you feel.

 

Carrie Elston

Carrie has worked as an artist in New York for twenty years, focusing most recently on abstract painting. Her work is loose and gestural, with saturated compositions of bright color, blunt mark-making, and erasure. The layering implicit in her process is reflective of an emotional excavation, in which feelings and memories are built up over time, calcified, and later broken down. Carrie was awarded the New York Art Marathon Prize, a curatorial grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship. She has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Bronx Museum, NARS Foundation, Artists Alliance, and the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. She received her B.A. from Yale University and M.F.A. from Hunter College. Carrie lives and works in the Bronx with her family.

 

Cash Christopher  

My work explores the tension and vitality of urban life through large-scale neo-expressionist paintings. Using bold, raw color and aggressive mark-making, I aim to capture the grit, energy, and emotion embedded in the city’s streets. The canvases are intentionally messy, layered, and imperfect — much like the environments and human experiences they reflect.

 

Each piece becomes both a confrontation and a conversation, challenging the viewer to sit with discomfort while also finding beauty in chaos. By working on a large scale, I want the viewer to feel surrounded, even engulfed, by the intensity of the work — to experience the same visceral urgency I feel when creating it

 

Connor Fitzsimmons 

Connor Fitzsimmons (born 1995) is an artist from Farmington, CT. Mentored by his grandfather in painting, Fitzsimmons makes use of both traditional and contemporary materials to record his

experience. He currently maintains a small studio in Connecticut and volunteers as a museum

 

Collections Assistant. Notable upcoming publications include: New American Paintings issue

no. 182, 2026.

Edward Kai Chiu 

Born in New York City in 1977, Edward Kai Chiu is a first-generation Chinese-American, New York-based artist whose work highlights a playful exploration of his unique identity. Self-taught as an artist and professionally trained as a physician, Chiu's creative process is a dynamic interplay between his scientific, left-brain logic and his imaginative, right-brain sensibilities, much like the convergence of the two brain hemispheres. He draws upon his understanding of natural forces and scientific theory, interweaving them with Asian and American pop imagery and Buddhist iconography.

 

Eva Carlini 

Eva Carlini is a self-taught painter and sculptor based in Chicago, Illinois. Since inventing her own painting technique over 12 years ago, she has been orchestrating and creating abstract paintings inspired by natural elements. 

 

Gabrielle Benak 

Gabrielle Benak is a mixed-media artist from New York, coming from a Moroccan-American family. Primarily a watercolor painter, she never limits her works to one medium. Themes of documentation, adornment, maximalism, and preservation are just some of the roots of her work. The combination of autobiography and false reality results in elaborate imagery.

The concepts of intention and reality are common threads in her work. Within these broader themes come "micro-themes", such as sobriety, restriction, connection, and more. Recently, she has been playing with the idea of perception and how one thing can look different to two different people. There is always a balance of hard and soft in her work, driving home that life is truly a balance of the rigid and the tender. 

 

Gome Alon 

Gome Alon is a 35-year-old artist based in New York City. His creative journey began on a large scale, with huge murals stretching across walls, followed by years of shaping visuals through graphic design. Over time, he was drawn toward something more intimate: the humble oil pastel.

 

Today, Alon focuses on still life and animation, where everyday objects come alive in bold colors, soft textures, and playful movement. He thrives on the mix of quiet observation and hand-made imperfection — a vase of flowers, a tin can, or a piece of fruit can become a small story when drawn again and again.

 

His work exists in the space between stillness and motion, seriousness and play, and many of his drawings have found a second life as animations.

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Jamel Carroll

Using oils and acrylics, I use color and light to evoke both realism and transcendence. My work is rooted in portraiture — not just as representation, but as revelation. Each subject becomes a vessel of history, dignity, and divine strength. Through every work, I aim to elevate the visual narrative in my paintings and invite collectors and viewers to see life itself — frozen in time.

 

Born in Brooklyn and currently based in Manhattan, my work has been exhibited in New York City, Miami, London, Philadelphia, Paris, and the Hamptons. I seek to affirm beauty, resilience, and sacred worth within each figure, offering a contemporary vision that celebrates spirit, identity, and legacy in its highest form.

 

Jessica Rosales ​​

My name is Jessica Rosales. I am an amateur artist located in New York City. My work and inspiration stems from exploring the city I love, my chosen home, New York City. My work is primarily focused on documenting the world around me through free flowing color and a mix of abstract and impressionist techniques. Art has always been my peace; my quiet time. It is the way I communicate the feelings and truths I can never find the words for. You can often find me painting en plein air in Central Park. Thank you for sharing my joy and stopping by my little corner of the world.

 

Jialu Gao 

Image functions as a spiritual language in my work—one that moves beyond words and into intuitive, symbolic forms. I create messenger-images: abstract symbols that arise through a meditative, layered painting process. Motifs such as doves, letter-like marks, waves, and architectural silhouettes recur in my compositions, often hovering within luminous color fields or dissolving into atmospheric space. Influenced by calligraphic rhythms and the introspective lineage of modern abstraction, my works suggest the structure of language and open a space for presence, stillness, and reflection. I’m drawn to thresholds—between sky and city, voice and silence, self and other. Each painting acts as a quiet offering: a site of encounter with themes of transformation, belonging, and grace. The image becomes a doorway—inviting the viewer to linger in what is sensed, remembered, or intuited, beyond words.

 

Joe Goldberg 

​​My photography is driven by the magical moments in everyday life. The greatest photo is around the corner and that search is what makes the journey of life so beautiful. I use techniques angles and perspectives to frame moments I believe need to be studied. The camera becomes a bridge between myself, my subjects, and the viewer, proving that despite our differences, we are all linked. I have had the pleasure of traveling the world with my camera. My adventures have connected me with people and places that have expanded my curiosity beyond anything I could imagine.

 

Mohamed Abdurrahman

To me painting is the act of ravaging a canvas by taking the violence and intensity  of the physical world and transferring it into the abyss of an empty surface. At first I painted only occasionally, usually when I am bored. But over  time obsession took hold. I no longer feel the need to replicate precisely on canvas what I envision in my mind. If what I  create even vaguely resembles my inner vision, I am content. I develop my technique not through rigid discipline, but  simply through the act of panting. By being bold enough to experiment, with little concern of what emerges, whether it comes out as a timeless beauty or Frankensteinian  monster, both suffice, for it could only sprang from me and only me. I paint because art reverts me back to that animalistic state that touches what is primal, and what is real.

 

Rae Grant 

Rae Grant is a New York–based artist currently completing a Master’s in Painting at Alfred University, with an international component in Düsseldorf, Germany, where she resides during this exhibition. Working with acrylic, spray paint, and watercolor on panel, Grant creates dreamlike landscapes and distorted figures that explore the shifting boundaries between inner life and the world outside. Her imagery captures moments of transformation and integration—echoing the way autumn blurs decay and renewal, warmth and withdrawal. Vibrant color and rounded forms coexist with unease, reflecting the beauty and risks of conscious action. Her practice embraces the responsibility of awareness, striving to participate in the interconnected flow of being with care, intention, and attentiveness, revealing the fragile equilibrium where empathy and self-preservation meet.

 

Seohyun Cho 

Have you ever perceived a pattern or meaning among things that seem irrelevant? It is an apophenic delusion, the human tendency to recognize meaningful patterns or connections within random or meaningless data. Through self-referential and overblown interpretation, the mind forges unexpected links between accidental fragments. I capture and visualize those ephemeral moments when the mind strives to construct meaning amid chaos.

 

Sophie Morro 

My work explores the interior lives of women—their private thoughts, quiet tensions, and moments of suspended emotion. I use painting as a way to translate intangible feeling into image, searching for the visual equivalents of memory and atmosphere. Recently, my process has become increasingly cinematic: I draw from found photographs and film stills, reframing them to locate a personal narrative within collective imagery. The resulting scenes exist somewhere between the familiar and the imagined, where gesture, light, and color evoke what cannot be said directly. Through muted tones and slowed-down compositions, I aim to create a space where stillness becomes charged—an invitation for viewers to linger inside another’s unspoken world.

 

Sophie Plimpton

Sophie Plimpton was born in Boston and currently lives and works in New York City. She received her BS degree from The New School and also studied at Bennington, Parsons, and NYU. From 1993 to 2002, she trained at the Boston Ballet School. Having lived, studied, and worked in Paris for several years, she is fluent in French and brings an international perspective to her practice.

 

Her exhibitions include Spring/Break Art Show, a solo show at The Tavern Club in Boston, a group show at Station Independent Gallery in Manhattan, Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City. She curated two shows in Chelsea. She has also completed commissions, including for Cadreon–Interpublic Group.

 

Plimpton’s paintings explore abstract graphic forms with bold strokes and layered textures, transporting viewers into realms that are both beautiful and unstable. Influenced by Franz Kline and Basquiat, her new series emphasizes gesture, raw edge, and emotional intensity.

 

Stan Unser

Stan Unser is a retired military physician creating artwork since 2016. Living and creating in Texas and New York City, his work has won multiple local awards and is displayed by collectors across the U.S. Inspired by images from multiple sources, he uses digital collage, photo transfer, and over painting with acrylic and oil to present his story. Combining abstract and figurative elements he allows ambiguity to invite viewers to create their own story. 

 

Sumaiya Khan

Nature has always been my greatest inspiration. In 'Whispers of Autumn's Tale,' I explore the gentle transition of seasons, the quiet beauty of falling leaves, and the warmth of golden light. My hope is that viewers feel the calm, nostalgia, and comfort that autumn brings.

 

Thomas Cox 

After graduating in 1977 from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in

 

Studio Arts, I printed original art lithographs at Universal Limited Art Editions in West Islip, NY.

For seven years I worked with artists who I greatly admire, including Robert Rauschenberg,

Helen Frankenthaler and Jasper Johns.

 

Since then, I have pursued a career as an independent fine artist. My artwork is included in the

collections of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Fidelity Investments, and numerous individuals.

I have participated in two International Art Symposia, in Aqaba and Amman, Jordan.

 

Art galleries that have handled my work include Björn Wetterling, Stockholm; Wolfgang Wittrock,

Düsseldorf; Betsy Magnuson, Boston; Thomas Barry, Minneapolis; and Lorence Monk, New York

Van Der Plas Gallery, New York City, has represented me since 2016.
 

ZK Truth 

My collage work begins with the discarded fragments of consumer culture: magazines, ads, and packaging created to persuade and manipulate. Shredded and reassembled, these scraps shed their original purpose and take on new meaning, becoming layered narratives where beauty and roughness coexist. As a New Yorker I am accustomed to the endless churn of media around me, and I have learned to redirect it to fit my own purposes. My practice is one of transformation; reflecting back the commercial world through the shattered mirror of my own perception.

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