Interviews by Brainard Carey

Hoda Kashiha (b. 1986, Tehran, Iran) is a painter whose work fuses humor, fragmented figuration, and political resonance. Trained at the University of Tehran (BFA, 2009) and Boston University (MFA, 2014), she spent several years in the U.S. before returning to Tehran in 2016. Her artistic language combines Persian mini

A photo of the artist: Judith Simonian with Charles Yuen Many of Simonian's works in the exhibition at JJ MURPHY Gallery are still lifes, such as “Marysia’s Salon” (2024), which was inspired by a visit to a Polish beauty parlor in her East Village neighborhood. “Bottle Symphony in Red” (2023) recalls Giorgio Morandi. W

phot of the artist by Ralph Gabriner Dena Schutzer in her fifth solo show at Bowery Gallery in New York City titled “Agitation and Retreat”, describes the work saying, “Together, these oil paintings are a chronicle of observed moments in public and private spaces.” Schutzer’s imagery reflects this wide-open approach—wh

Julianne Nash Julianne Nash (b. 1991, Massachusetts) is an artist whose work exists at the intersection between photographic collage and digital painting; she utilizes algorithms inherent to Photoshop in conjunction with traditional compositing techniques to create densely layered landscape images that contend with bot

Elizabeth Ravn (b.1994, Brooklyn, NY) received a Bachelors in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL in 2016. She lives and works in Berlin. Recent solo and group exhibitions include David Peter Francis, New York (2025); die raum, Berlin (2024); Deborah Schamoni, Munich (2023); SOX, Berl

Carolina Fusilier (b.1985, Buenos Aires) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the physicality of technology, notions of non-linear time, and post-human imaginaries at the intersections between organic and mechanical bodies, industrial and domestic settings. Her work takes various forms through moving image, paint