Ellen Jong and Aura Friedman

Presented by Lola Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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Ellen Jong and Aura Friedman collaborate to create singular figurative works that merge their distinct practices. Jong (b. Queens, NY) investigates the intersections of body, material, and cultural lineage, transforming ink, a medium long associated with authority and tradition, into living, sculptural forms that evolve, decay, and leave traces with time. Friedman, a renowned hair colorist known for her technical and painterly approach, treats hair as both medium and surface, using pigment and gesture to shape identity and expression.

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Isolina Minjeong

Presented by COURT TREE COLLECTIVE, Brooklyn, NY

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Isolina Minjeong is a New York City-based muralist and ceramic sculptor whose visual style blends manga imagery with ancient mythology. The series draws from funerary sculptures in ancient Korea and Peru, regions connected to the artist’s family history, where hand-built figures served as guardians and markers of passage. Rather than replicate these influences, Isolina reinterprets gods and animals through her affinity for cartoon imagery and character design.

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Allegra Escalpon

Presented by Refusés, London, UK & New York

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Esclapon makes ceramic vessels derived from photographic images of bodies in motion. She isolates fleeting gestures and translates them into abstract form. She uses glaze to activate her sculptures, guiding light to emphasize or withhold form and shape the viewer’s experience of the object. By manipulating light, her vessels bring movement back into the material, but treat gesture as a form of memory rather than a fixed representation.

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Alison Croney Moses

Presented by Abigail Ogilvy, Los Angeles, CA

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Alison Croney Moses draws from her family’s traditions of making and from her own experiences of adolescence, motherhood, and community-building. Her sculptures function as vessels for memory and embodied knowledge, grounding transformation in material and generational continuity.

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Erica Westenberger

Presented by TINNEY, Nashville, TN

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As my practice has evolved, I've moved towards materials that can hold both softness and strength - care and armor at the same time. I often use moldmaking and casting as a starting point to echo this balance. Casting out of cement, resin, or pewter invites permanence or durability, and I might treat their surfaces with a softly flocked texture or carefully painted silver leaf to adorn with delicacy.

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Yehrim Lee & Chase Travaille

Presented by Laisun Keane, Boston, MA

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Travaille’s sculptural vessels draw from early figurative traditions such as Venus figurines and Cycladic idols, where the body functions as a symbolic form rather than a portrait. Lee’s sculptures channel the energy of spring through dense floral forms and abundant blossoms. Travaille and Lee met as residents at the Archie Bray Foundation, where their processes began to overlap.

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Adam Handler

Presented by Jakupsil, New York, NY

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Handler’s pursuit of formal purity can be traced to his engagement with Art Brut. With a background in art history, he became drawn to a creative impulse free of specific intent, resulting in a formal language marked by spontaneity, vitality, and pre-civilizational sensibility similar to the raw quality of children’s drawings, pursuing untamed expression and the purity intrinsic to art itself.

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Florencia Rothschild

Presented by Wishbone, Montréal, Canada

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Florencia Rothschild was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently lives in Coatepec, Mexico. Her practice revolves around existential themes linked to the human experience, the body, and its (de)construction. Through fragmented and contorted forms that evolve into new possible bodies, she challenges notions of individuality and subjectivity, favoring a more fluid and collective vision of identity.

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Valencia Valero

Presented by Wolf&Nomad, Miami, FL

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Vanessa Valero is a Colombian-based textile artist whose practice spans hand-tufted tapestries, embroidery, watercolor, and mixed media. Her work explores nature as both a physical and inner landscape—ranging from monumental mountains to microscopic worlds—where questions of consciousness, existence, and interconnectedness unfold. Rooted in a meditative process, her works function as visual diaries that translate lived experience into color, texture, and form.

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Kayla Dantz

Presented by Harsh Collective, New York, ny

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Dantz uses both archival and original photographs in her practice, which she prints on fabric. The artist then dissects the images into strips and hand-weaves them back together, as a way of replicating the process of revisiting memories. In physically manipulating her film, Dantz upends the notion of photography as a two-dimensional medium and presents a juxtaposition of both frailty and resilience.

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