Keltie Ferris (b. 1977) forges a unique approach to abstraction, mapping the catalytic qualities of medium and technique onto expressions of physicality, energy, and change. By deconstructing his own process of painting into its most fundamental actions and materials, Ferris creates a site of formal experimentation and conceptual ingenuity. Keltie Ferris received his BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2004 and his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2006. His work has recently been shown in solo exhibitions at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Morán Morán, Mexico City, Mexico; Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, Germany; and Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; among others. He has received awards and honors including the Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for excellence in painting at the Yale School of Art, the Rema Hart Mann Foundation Grant Artist Pension Trust, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Painting from the Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is included in the public collections of the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; and Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY; among others.   

Over five decades, Marilyn Lerner (b. 1942) has developed a unique visual vocabulary of color and form, producing compositions that reverberate in their kaleidoscopic nuance. Allowing for symmetry and asymmetry to intermingle, any perceptible nods to strict theories of color unravel. Lerner lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BS from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI, and her MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 2017, she was awarded the American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Prize. She has held numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions including Sprüth Magers, London, UK; Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY; CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland; and Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY; among others. Her work has been exhibited in group shows including the Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; PS1, New York, NY; the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and more. Lerner’s work is the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida; Office of Public Works for the State Art Collection, Ireland; McCrory Corporation, New York, NY; Prudential Life Insurance, New York, NY; and Progressive Corporation, Cleveland OH; among others. 

Julia Rommel’s (b. 1980) surfaces are intensely wrought through processes of layering and erasure. Defined by subtle variations in colors and differences in facture and texture, her finished compositions contain a sense of the history of their own making. Rommel has presented solo exhibitions at MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris, France; Bureau, New York, NY; Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; among others. Her work has been highlighted in group exhibitions at Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; and Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; and more. She was a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist-in-Residence in 2018. Her work is in the public collections of Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Kadist Foundation, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and more.