The Armory Show
Javits Center, New York, NY

Preview: September 24, 2026
Public: September 25–27, 2026

Galleries Booth 118

Marina Adams, Kamrooz Aram, Paul Fägerskiöld, Nicholas Galanin, Alex Katz, Erik Lindman, Manuel Mathieu, Luisa Rabbia, Martha Tuttle, Rebecca Ward, John Zurier

 

 

Marina Adams

For more than three decades, Adams has developed a dynamic and powerful abstract language that explores the possibilities of form and movement through the structural force of color. Understanding abstraction not as theory but as a “synthesis of body and mind,” Adams embraces what John Keats termed “negative capability”—the ability to exist within uncertainties and mysteries without reaching after fact or reason. Drawing inspiration from the natural world, textiles, and the rhythmic cadences of poetry and music, Adams engages in an ongoing dialogue with Modernist artists—including Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, and Willem de Kooning—while maintaining a singular and distinctly contemporary voice.

Marina Adams (b. 1960, Orange, NJ) lives and works in New York, NY; Bridgehampton, NY; and Parma, Italy. She received her BFA at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and an MFA from Columbia University, New York, NY. Solo exhibitions include Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Longlati Foundation, Shanghai. Public collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. She was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2016).

Kamrooz Aram

Kamrooz Aram’s work disrupts the false opposition between ornament and abstraction, and challenges ornament’s relegation to discourses of criminality and excess. In his wide-ranging exhibitions, he stages an encounter between the Euro-American avant-garde and non-western forms of abstraction, interrogating the boundaries between art, artifact, and modes of display. His lyrical paintings and arrangements break down the hierarchies of modernist aesthetics, asking that we rethink its categories and re-encounter these ideas and objects anew. Combining painting, sculpture, collage and exhibition design, he creates an interdependence between object and display, revealing the significance of design and architecture in affecting the interpretation of art.

Kamrooz Aram (b. 1978, Shiraz, Iran) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received a BFA at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD (2001), and an MFA at Columbia University, New York, NY (2003). Solo exhibitions include The Arts Club of Chicago, IL (2022); and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX (2018). Public collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. Aram took part in the 2026 Whitney Biennial.

Paul Fägerskiöld

Paul Fägerskiöld explores perception and symbolism through reduced forms he finds in nature and the cosmos. His multilayered paintings create thick and shimmering sculptural surfaces of impasto that reveal underlying layers of color and linen. Fägerskiöld’s work explores the fundamental nature of painting. His approach is not to create illusions of three-dimensionality or to convey narrative content, but rather to emphasize the tactile, real nature of painting. As viewers, we are invited to engage with the materiality in his paintings.

Paul Fägerskiöld (b. 1982, Stockholm, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Solo museum exhibitions include Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland, (2021); Borås Art Museum, Borås, Sweden (2019); Jönköping läns Museum, Jönköping, Sweden (2018); Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden (2013); and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2010); among others. Fägerskiöld’s work is in permanent collections including Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York; SEB Collection, Stockholm, Sweden; The Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany; Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway; Public Art Agency, Stockholm, Sweden; and Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden; among others. He has been awarded the Åke Andrén Foundation's Scholarship (2018); the Fredrik Roos Art Grant (2013); and the Maria Bonnier Dahlins Award for Young Artists (2010); among others.

Nicholas Galanin

Examining the complexities of contemporary Indigenous identity, culture, and representation, Nicholas Galanin works from his experience as a Lingít and Unangax̂ artist. Embedding incisive observation and reflection into his oftentimes provocative work, he aims to redress the widespread misappropriation of Indigenous visual culture, the impact of colonialism, as well as collective amnesia. Speaking through multiple mediums, his concepts determine his processes, which include sculpture, installation, photography, video, performance, and textile-based work. This contemporary practice builds upon an Indigenous artistic continuum while celebrating the culture and its people.|

Nicholas Galanin (b. 1979) lives and works in Sheet’ka (Sitka), Alaska. He earned a BFA at London Guildhall University (2003), an MFA at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (2007). Solo institutional exhibitions include: MassArt Musseum, Boston, MA (2025); Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (2024-25); and SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (2023) among others. Permanent collections include The Museum of Modern Art, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY among others. He has received Don Tyson Award (2025); and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2024).

Alex Katz

Alex Katz is an American figurative artist known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints. Since 1951, his work has been featured in over 250 solo and nearly 500 group exhibitions in the U.S. and internationally. He is widely recognized for his large-scale paintings with bold simplicity and heightened color, considered precursors to Pop Art.

Alex Katz (b. 1927, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in New York, NY. He studied at the Cooper Union School of Art (1946–49) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1949–50). Recent solo exhibitions include: Museum of Modern Art, NY (2024); and the Guggenheim Museum, NY (2023) among others. Public collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The National Gallery of Art, DC; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY among others.

Erik Lindman

Erik Lindman's artistic practice is defined by his innovative use of found materials such as shards of steel or canvas webbing as central elements in his paintings, allowing the built-up surface to direct the development of the work. The central forms—often avian or humanoid in appearance—emerge from monochromatic fields, creating a dynamic interplay between figure and ground. Never simply placed onto the canvas, these forms are synergistically integrated into the composition, with each shape and contour carefully considered while the thick layers of paint, bodied with shredded rubber and ground glass, add texture and depth to the painting’s topographical surface.

Erik Lindman (b. 1985, New York, NY) lives and works in New York. He earned his BA from Columbia University (2007) and received a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship in 2006. A recent group exhibition entitled Open Edges: Erik Lindman & Robert Motherwell was held at Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium (2026). Lindman was the Publishing Artist in Residence, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY, in 2025 and was honored at the Hirshhorn New York Gala “Artist x Artist” in 2019.

Manuel Mathieu

Manuel Mathieu is a Haitian multi-disciplinary artist. Working across painting, ceramics, olfaction, and installation, his practice investigates themes of historical violence, erasure, and spiritual legacy by considering cultural approaches to physicality and nature. Drawing from his upbringing in Haiti and later emigration to Montreal, Mathieu utilizes a distinctive abstract visual language to create phenomenological encounters that find meaning through a spiritual or asemic mode of apparition. By allowing amorphous forms to vacillate and dissolve, his work explores the tension between inherited tradition and boundless, traversable landscapes of desire.

Manuel Mathieu (b. 1986, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) has held solo exhibitions at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada (2025); MoCA North Miami, Miami, FL (2024); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK (2024); Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China (2022); and The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (2020). He participated in the 2026 Venice Biennale exhibition with installations in both Giardini and Arsenale.

Luisa Rabbia

Luisa Rabbia blends the distinctions made between the human and the natural, expressing solidarity with the cosmos through the organic, bodily landscapes of her expansive paintings. She alludes to interconnected natural processes forming a thread between microcosms and macrocosms. Upon closer viewing, her physical and intuitive process becomes visible with its rhythmically scraped paint, the stratification of pencil marks, and imprints of fingertips. Rabbia alludes to the minute traces that each person leaves over the course of a lifetime, yet simultaneously asserts an expansive and interconnected vision of a wider universe.

Luisa Rabbia (b. 1970, Turin, Italy) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her MFA from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, Italy. Solo institutional exhibitions include The Drawing Hall, Bergamo, Italy (2022); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2017-18); and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (2015; 2008) among others. Group institutional exhibitions include Studio Museo Felice Casorati, Pavarolo, Italy (2026); Museo della Permanente, Milano, Italy (2025); Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (2025); and Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY (2023) among others.

Martha Tuttle

Martha Tuttle’s practice embeds natural elements in the forms of her paintings. The compositions emphasize materiality, employing physical processes such as dyeing, weaving, and sewing that permeate each of the works that are colored with naturally derived substances. Together with the found minerals, the compositions resonate with the larger geological questionings concerning how relationships can be established with the geologic.

Martha Tuttle (b. 1989, Santa Fe, NM) lives and works in Bozeman, MT and she received an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. Solo exhibitions include: Moody Center for the Arts, Houston (2024); and Storm King Arts Center, New York (2020-21). Tuttle has recently received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2025) and participated in the Atelier Calder Residency (2026). Public collections include: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Rebecca Ward

Rebecca Ward's practice merges painting, sculpture, and craft by physically deconstructing and reassembling canvases to create geometrically grounded works. By exposing the multidimensional nature of painting and its constituent parts, Ward creates a spatial play of harmonious forms and color interactions that explore the relationship between the mathematical and the natural world. Through a manipulation of reassembled materials and viscous gradients, the artist explores spectrums—both literal and metaphorical—where shadow and form transcend their physical boundaries. The work invites viewers to contemplate the delicate nature of perception, blurring the lines between the tangible and the ethereal.

Rebecca Ward (b. 1984, Waco, TX) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a BA at the University of Texas, Austin, TX (2006) and an MFA at the School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY (2012). Solo institutional exhibitions include SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (2022); Site 131, Dallas, TX (2021); Columbia College, Chicago, IL (2018); and The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2017) among others. Public collections include Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The Warehouse, Dallas, TX; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; The Hepworth Wakefield, New Yorkshire, UK; and Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia.

John Zurier

John Zurier’s paintings of atmospheric color fields examine qualities of evanescent light as well as solid radiance. Offering nuanced examples of the medium’s possibilities, Zurier pares down painting to the essentials with a sensory and allusive richness embedded in their asperity. The structural vocabularies and limited palette emphasize the beauty inherent in nature without reference to landscape. This subtle beauty is apparent in the subdued visual incidents of delicate inconsistencies in the executions of lines, marks, hues, and margins while demonstrating a deliberate emphasis on the wholeness of chromatic surface.

John Zurier (b. 1956, Santa Monica, CA) lives in Berkeley, CA and Reykjavík, Iceland. He received his MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley (1984). Selected solo exhibitions include: Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden (2021); UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (2018 and 2014); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017). Zurier recieved the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowhip in 2010.