FALL ART PREVIEW
AUGUST 2025
With the New York art fairs just around the corner, here is a sneak peak at some of the works that will be on view along with some artist shows opening this Fall. So kick back while you enjoy these last few weeks of summer and check out some highlights below....
ANDREW BUSH
Woman heading southbound on the 101 freeway at approximately 77 mph on weekday in June 1994
Andrew Bush's Vector Portraits remain one of the most distinctive and revealing photographic chronicles of Los Angeles life. Shot between 1989 and 2012, Vector Portraits captures Angelenos through their cars: those air-conditioned living rooms on wheels that define so much of the city’s rhythm and culture. Using a medium-format camera mounted to his passenger seat, Bush drove the freeways and surface streets, photographing drivers at 20 to 70 miles per hour or paused alongside them in traffic. The result is a uniform yet endlessly varied series: each subject framed at the same scale, their vehicles as much a part of the portrait as the people themselves.
Men traveling 61 mph on the Ventura Freeway near Santa Clara Avenue in Oxnard, California on Thursday afternoon in the summer of 1992
Andrew Bush graduated from Yale University with an MFA in Photography in 1982. The Vector Portraits series has been exhibited extensively in solo and group shows, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier (Paris, France), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts) and Staatliche Kunsthalle (Baden-Baden, Germany). Bush’s work is held in prominent public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum, and The Getty Museum.
CALEB HAHNE QUINTANA
Building on earlier explorations of family, friendship, and the memory of home, Caleb Hahne Quintana's new works mark a turn inward in his practice. This new series explores the mysteries of selfhood and the unconscious through the solitary figure of an adolescent boy depicted in repose and moments of contemplation. Where previous paintings bathed figures in the mythic light of radiant landscapes, these new pieces mark a tonal and formal shift, embracing a more ascetic, introspective, and somber mood. These works will be on view in New York starting Sept 5th.
Caleb Hahne Quintana was born in 1993 in Denver, CO but now lives and works in Maspeth, NY. He received a BFA in Fine Arts from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. Hahne Quintana’s works are in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; X Museum, Beijing; Denver Art Museum; and the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL.
SHIWEN WANG
Shiwen Wang, born in 1995 in Shanghai, is an artist currently based in London. She earned her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2021, after completing her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019, and an earlier degree in Art and Technology from the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art in 2017.
Shiwen’s work explores the edges of representation and the spaces in between—where the abstract meets the atmospheric. Her paintings often reflect on themes like creation and collapse, meditation and method, all woven together through rich textures and fluid, ambiguous forms. There's a sense of escape in her use of ambience—something both immersive and quietly powerful. Wang’s richly painted abstractions of the natural world will be shown at the Armory Fair in New York in September.
WILLIAM BRICKEL
William Brickel’s paintings often begin with himself—but they quickly become something more. His figures act like stand-ins or performers, carrying a heavy emotional weight that the viewer is invited to witness. While he projects his own face onto these subjects, they remain strangely distant—deeply personal, yet emotionally guarded. Each painting feels like a scene from a memory, or maybe a dream—drawn from a mix of lived experience and imagination. For Brickel, these works are a way of expressing emotional vulnerability. Rather than aiming for anatomical accuracy, he relies on a tactile sense of the body—capturing the human form through touch and intuition more than sight.
Brickel's work has been collected by major institutions around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami. Most recently, he celebrated his first solo museum exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in California. These paintings can be seen at the Armory Show at the Javits Center from September 5 - 7.
TERESA MURTA
Teresa Murta's work delves into the realms of the fantastic, the absurd and the poetic metamorphosis of the real. Intuitively, Murta weaves together elements from both the artificial and natural worlds, offering a gateway into alternate and uncanny realities that beckon to be explored. Her forms straddle the fence between figurative and abstract, keeping viewers guessing. Murta nails the spirit of abstraction, leaving space for the viewers’ contemplation without being shackled to recognizable representations.
Teresa Murta was born in 1993 in Portugal but now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. You can find her work on view at the Armory Fair in New York.
DAVID ALEKHUOGIE
New work by David Alekhuogie brings together pieces from his series A Reprise—layered, wall-mounted works that combine photographs, collage and sculpture. In a show opening September 2nd in New York, Alekhuogie continues his exploration of how narrative and authorship are embedded in Western presentations of African art while reflecting on how Black aesthetics are circulated, accessed, valued and interpreted today.
Alekhuogie’s show responds to Walker Evans’ 1935 photographs of African sculptures, originally commissioned by MoMA and later revisited in the Met’s 2000 exhibition Perfect Documents. Confronting how Black aesthetics have been shaped by Western display and documentation, Alekhuogie reworks Evans’ images in this new series of vibrant collages that seek to reanimate these historical objects beyond their original photographic capture.
Accompanying these works are selections from Alekhuogie’s 2017 series Pull_Up. Referencing the fashion trope of sagging pants that reveal successive layers of clothing, Alekhuogie creates flattened and nearly abstract fields of layered color and contrasting textures. With the horizon line of the waist present yet concealed, Alekhuogie reimagines the body as a landscape, one where the coded representations of Black masculinity can be explored.
David Alekhuogie was born in 1986 and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2015 and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2013. His work will be featured in the Hammer Museum’s upcoming Made in LA 2025 biennial opening this October.
KELLI VANCE
Inspired by Louise Moillon’s mix of beauty and unease, Kelli Vance began exploring the complex space where women, food, and tension intersect. Her paintings are filled with rich symbols—luxurious foods, fine textiles, and ornate accessories—that seem to promise pleasure, but there’s always something unsettling just beneath the surface. The women in these scenes disrupt any easy sense of indulgence, adding layers of ambiguity and quiet threat.
In It Was Like Being in Church, featured above, a hand about to slice into a cake suddenly feels ominous, especially when paired with a Medusa bracelet and dramatic lighting. The reference to Medusa—now often seen as a symbol of reclaimed female power—reframes the act of looking and being looked at. Even the cake becomes loaded with meaning, evoking Agatha Christie’s A Pocket Full of Rye, where a poisoned dessert becomes a murder weapon. Through these references, Vance’s work channels the archetype of the femme fatale: seductive, dangerous, and completely in control. Each scene feels like a moment just before—or just after—something dramatic has happened, filled with mystery, charged with questions about power, desire, identity, and control, where beauty and danger are intertwined.
Kelli Vance graduated from the University of Houston with her MFA in Studio Art in 2008. Her work was recently acquired by Houston Airports, city of Houston, and is in the permanent collection of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico. Vance's paintings can be seen in New York in a show opening September 12th.
ANNIE LAPIN
In a solo exhibition of new work in Los Angeles opening September 13th, Annie Lapin offers a deeply personal homage to the landscape of Southern California—a terrain shaped as much by light and memory as by earth and sky. Drawing on her long-standing interest in visual perception, art history, and the natural world, Lapin paints the terrains she knows intimately: sun-washed hillsides, desert plateaus, tangled brush, vast urban spaces, and endless skies rendered in radiant layers of color and form. Drawn from an intimate, emotional response to her environment, these new paintings reflect a shift toward immediacy and presence in the artist’s exploration of landscape.
Lapin received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007, her Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 2001. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, England; among others.
NINA CHANEL ABNEY
Don't miss a trip to the Upper West Side to see this incredible commission by Nina Chanel Abney that graces the facade of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Abney’s monumental work of art pays homage to San Juan Hill. In the 1940s and 50s, this predominantly Black and Brown neighborhood was forcibly displaced to make way for redevelopment, including what would become Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Abney’s constellation of figures, words, shapes, and symbols reflects the thriving community that lived there. Featured residents include pioneering healthcare workers Edith Carter and Elizabeth Tyler. Also pictured are James P. Johnson, whose music gave rise to the Charleston dance craze, and Thelonious Monk, a pioneer of Bebop and other jazz styles. Reclaiming this important history in her bold and vibrant style, Abney aims to spark curiosity and inspire a more inclusive future.
It's on view through October 31st.
KEN KIFF
Ken Kiff's presentation at the Independent Art Fair in New York will highlight a pivotal body of work that began during his residency at the National Gallery in London, where he was the second artist to hold the post after Paula Rego. With round-the-clock access to the collection, Kiff immersed himself in the works of artists like Rubens, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Monet—not to copy them, but to distill their essence. During the residency, he produced numerous drawings, prints, and began around fifty paintings, many of which he continued to develop over years. A centerpiece of the presentation is National Gallery Triptych (seen above), the final triptych of his career, first shown unfinished during his solo exhibition at the National Gallery.
Kiff’s work is held in collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Yale Center for British Art, CT; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; The British Museum, London; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Tate Britain, London; Arts Council England, UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others.
UPCOMING NEW YORK ART FAIRS
Independent 20th Century: Focuses on art from the 20th century and runs from September 4–7, 2025, at the Casa Cipriani.
The Armory Show: Returns to the Javits Center from September 5-7 with a VIP day on September 4, 2025.
Art on Paper: 100 galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art takes place from September 4–8, 2025 at Pier 36.
Affordable Art Fair: A diverse selection of artworks ranging between $100 and $12,000 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building from September 17–21, 2025.