Fall 2024 Art Commissions

Andrew J. Greene

Andrew J. Greene is a jokester, a provocateur who twists savoir with the banal. Stainless steel sculptures of glitzy cocktails in chemical hues rotate on sleek rods, and toy vending machines vow to spit out a variety of tchotchkes, from skyscraper-shaped salt and pepper shakers to tiny Uncle Sam statuettes. The Los Angeles-based artist monumentalizes the rush of reaching for the glamorous, the urge to quench the desire for more—all while traversing the minefield of making alluring sculptures with quiet humor.

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Genesis Tramaine

Portraits by Genesis Tramaine scream and hush and absorb and hiss, all while thundering and resting. Erratically configured, she conducts Black portraiture with the energy of graffiti art, not only for the genre’s rapid gestures against time’s ticking but also with its tireless transformation in front of a living audience. Spray paint joins rather more conventionally painterly pigments to illustrate likenesses-marked psychological complexity as much as facial expression. These works refuse a direct delivery of an emotion and rather contain whirlwinds of ample feelings, from the most afraid to calm and aloof. Tramaine orchestrates essential human sensations along with those that defy vocabulary.

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terence koh

Radical, influential, and hard to pin down, terence koh alchemizes the intangible and the experienced into materials with indisputably arresting natures—think excrement, antiques, gold leaf, and dirt—or simply with the immediacy of the human form. After emerging in the late 2000s on the brink of the social media explosion, he flirts with invisibility and overexposure: living either off the grid or in a gallery. From his early ritualistic experiments with performance and body art to more recent intimate drawings and immersive sculptures, koh studies the rites of existence in a brutally physical world with a door open towards the immaterial.

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Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola

Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola mines the familiarity of everyday textures for their tactile aspects as much as for their ability to reveal generational bonds. Afro picks, durags,
and palm oil embody a connection to a motherland that has been felt through familial history and imagination. A first-generation Nigerian-American, Akinbola pulls these
materials from their utilitarian potential and transforms them into paintings and sculptures, elevating each object’s ritualistic and visual richness.

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Josh Kline

At the intersection of the hyper-visible and the overlooked, Josh Kline blurs exchanges the dynamics between the two seemingly binary states of inhabiting the social realm. From a Teletubbies SWAT team to 3-D scanned hands of blue-collar laborers, his multidisciplinary practice not only complicates the value systems it critiques but also questions the material understanding of being a high-demand contemporary artist. A blue-chip gallery or a lauded institution may house a work by Kline, but the artist’s vision extends beyond—and challenges—the structures that hold it. 

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Tolia Astakhishvili

Through sculptures, drawings, and installations, Tolia Astakhishvili commits to a vast unpredictability of materials, of the convictions and the experiences they evoke. Layers of debris and instantaneous drawings render space mutable. Astakhishvili suggests architecture is a body that is beautifully decaying while remaining erect to baffle us with its intention, whether to house or refuse. The artist integrates her installations into the environments she works in, challenging the distinction between the constructed and the real.

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Ana Vik

In a multidisciplinary practice that spans photography, fashion, installation and creative consultancy, Ana Viktoria Dzinic (Ana Vik for short) lets the descriptors between these categories spill into one another. As such, she ushers the role of the artist towards a broader understanding of artistic production. At the core of Dzinic’s fascination for images is the way they are reproduced, distributed, and, most importantly, contextualized. Internet, advertisement, editorial, and social codes
determine her operations, whether leading to a gallery show with an installation of black-and-white objects and photographs or a collaboration with Balenciaga for their social media strategy.

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Katerina Jebb

Katerina Jebb’s experimental approach to image-making conveys eerie visuals captured with a digital scanner. Clinical and even strange, the Paris-based artist’s images
strip her subjects of backgrounds and props to attribute immediacy to their raw physicality as well as emotional multitudes. Direct and at times anatomical, bodies and objects appear to equally evoke desire and caution. Jebb meanders through the realm of conceptual art to dismantle photography’s rooted standards of familiarity, beauty—even glamour—and technique.