EARLY MAY 2026

See These by May 9th!

As you know, we’re always looking at art. Below are some additional exhibitions that we urge you find the time to see. They are really special!

Suzanne and the SRFA Team

Byron Kim: A Little Deepness

James Cohan Gallery

48 Walker Street

Closing May 9, 2026

A Little Deepness brings together early large-scale skyscapes with an entire year of Kim’s landmark ongoing Sunday Paintings series. Together, these works celebrate a lifelong dedication to the close observation of the natural world, offering an intimate and expansive portrait of an artist for whom abstraction has long expressed the interconnectivity of the universe.

A slash of Blue / A sweep of Gray

James Cohan Gallery

52 Walker Street

Closing May 9, 2026

Conceived as a companion to Byron Kim’s solo exhibition at 48 Walker Street, A slash of Blue / A sweep of Gray traces the enduring influence of the sky, clouds, and atmosphere on artists’ practices from the early twentieth century to the present day. Moving across generations and mediums, the exhibition considers how artists have looked upward to grapple with perception, time, emotion, and the sublime—treating the sky not merely as subject matter but as a site of observation, abstraction, and reflection.

In dialogue with Kim’s sustained engagement with color, light, and daily variation, A slash of Blue / A sweep of Gray situates contemporary approaches within a longer history of artists responding to the ever-shifting conditions of the atmosphere. Works range from intimate plein air paintings, in which the scale of the canvas heightens the personal, immediate quality of the encounter, to expansive explorations of the sky as a field for abstraction and formal inquiry.

Ficre Ghebreyesus: Color is Supreme

Galerie Lelong

528 West 26th Street


Closing May 9, 2026

Titled after an homage to the John Coltrane album A Love Supreme written by Ghebreyesus in his personal papers, the exhibition highlights Ghebreyesus’s deft handling of vibrant color in his often-abstract compositions. Drawing from recent discoveries in the artist’s archive by his son Solomon Ghebreyesus, the exhibition presents a selection of photographs and ephemera to the public for the first time, revealing common subjects and compositions found across media. A polymath in the truest sense of the word, Ghebreyesus operated his family’s well-loved Eritrean restaurant in New Haven, excelled in painting at the Yale School of Art, and maintained a connection to the fight for Eritrean independence as an activist in New York, all the while cultivating a rich inner life across art history, the mastery of seven languages, and the development of new poetry, music, and recipes.

APRIL 2026

“Creativity takes courage.” - Henri Matisse

As spring fights to come into bloom, we too are stretching our bodies to shed winter’s layers. We invite you to enjoy these exhibitions that capture the figure in moments of movement and repose. Please enjoy!

Suzanne and the SRFA Team

Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony

Acquavella Galleries, New York

April 9 - May 22, 2026

Acquavella Galleries is pleased to present Matisse: The Pursuit of Harmony, an exhibition featuring fifty paintings, works on paper, and sculpture by Henri Matisse on loan from museums, foundations, and private collections.

You can follow the Matisse path to Paris to the major retrospective Matisse: 1941 - 1954 at the Grand Palais from March 24 - July 26, 2026.

If You Go Into the Woods Today...

Spoof.Project, New York

April 12 - May 24, 2026

Spoof.Project is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition: If You Go Into the Woods Today..., a group exhibition of figurative painting and sculpture that draws from folklore, fantasies and fairytales. Borrowing its title from the familiar refrain of Henry Hall’s “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic,” the exhibition transforms a nostalgic phrase into a reference point for narrative painting.

Joan Semmel: Continuities

Alexander Gray Associates, New York

April 17 - May 30, 2026

“I never thought about being representational as being important, but I thought about the figure as an object—as an icon rather than as representation of any reality.” - Joan Semmel

Alexander Gray Associates and Xavier Hufkens present Continuities, an exhibition of recent paintings by Joan Semmel (b. 1932). Conceived with the artist as a single presentation across New York and Brussels, the exhibition’s structure mirrors the paintings’ own logic, playing with doubling and immediacy to extend the act of seeing across continents.

Semmel paints her own body as an authored image—internalized rather than observed. In her nineties, that act carries weight. While the aging female form is routinely edited from view, these canvases place it squarely at the center, without apology or disguise. Her compositions do not treat the body as symbol, memory, or ideal. Works reject any impulse to memorialize or prettify.

MARCH 2026

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” - Elbert Hubbard

As the veil of winter is finally lifting, we wanted to share exhibitions that wrap up winter with beauty and power as we look at the work of Helene Schjerfbeck and Wifredo Lam, and open the doors to the emerging colors of spring with a studio visit to the colors and forms of artist Almond Zigmund and the contagious joy of the works by Pat Oleszko. We hope you get to see the shows before they close. Enjoy!

Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Through April 5

Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. Overcoming immense personal struggles and working in a remote location for decades, she produced a powerful body of work through sheer force of will. This exhibition affirms her rightful place in the story of modern art.

Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

MoMA

Through April 11

Wilfredo Lam’s paintings expanded the horizons of modernism by creating a meaningful space for the beauty and depth of Black diasporic culture. Born in Cuba at the start of the 20th century, Lam forged his political convictions and commitment to modern painting in war-torn Europe in the 1930s. His exile and return to the Caribbean after 18 years abroad drove him to radically reimagine his artistic project through Afro-Caribbean histories. Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream is the first retrospective in the United States to feature the full trajectory of Lam’s remarkable vision, inviting us to see the world anew.

SRFA IN THE STUDIO

Almond Zigmund

East Hampton, NY

We have known Almond and her wonderful work for many years and it was a pleasure to finally visit her in her East Hampton studio.

You will see the source of her ideas that manifest in colorful energetic forms. As she discussed her work, she talked about the way her forms are influenced by classical sculptures - legs, torso and head - reading and activating the real and illusioned space she creates.

Pat Oleszko: Fool Disclosure

SculptureCenter

Through April 27

SculptureCenter presents the first solo exhibition in a New York City institution in over 35 years of Pat Oleszko. Rooted in humor, sharp social commentary, and the defiance of all forms of authority, Oleszko's sculptures lend themselves to raucous performances that use linguistic wit to address concerns about the state of the world. As her work developed, Oleszko devised some defining strategies: using her body, which led to costumes, and using air, which produced large inflatable works. In both cases, her art “walked out the door,” in her words, “using all the world as a stooge.”

UPCOMING

Marcel Duchamp

MoMA

Apr 12–Aug 22, 2026

Featuring some 300 artworks, this exhibition marks the first retrospective of the artist’s work in the United States since 1973. Scholarship mining the artist’s famously enigmatic work has flourished in the intervening half-century—as have myths and misconceptions. This exhibition offers a sweeping account of Duchamp’s multifaceted career across all mediums from 1900 to 1968, offering today’s audience the first opportunity to view the full breadth of his creative output.

FEBRUARY 2026

“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” - Wassily Kandinsky

As the weather is fighting hard to bring warmth to our days, we wanted to share several current one-person exhibitions in Chelsea, in which each artist delights us with the vibrancy, radiance, illumination and the warmth of their powerful use of color to convey their unique message. You can bathe in the auras created by Dan Flavin and Rob Pruitt, feel the tension between the colorful forms in the works of Odili Donald Odita or get lost in the elegant layers of color and textures in the works of William T. Williams. The shows are within a few short blocks from each other and together offer one of the most satisfying, brief and spectacular viewing experiences we have had in a while. Enjoy.

DAN FLAVIN, Grids

David Zwirner, NYC

January 15 – February 21, 2026

An exhibition of works by Dan Flavin featuring the artist’s grids, a key body of work that he began in 1976. The first focused examination of this form, this presentation will include several re-creations of the way Flavin installed the grids in significant exhibitions during his lifetime, and will feature loans from important public collections as well as the Estate of Dan Flavin.

ODILI DONALD ODITA, Shadowland

David Kordansky Gallery, NYC

January 15 – February 28, 2026

Shadowland is an exhibition of paintings, photo collages, and a mural by Odili Donald Odita as well as two works from the 1970s by the artist’s father, Dr. Okechukwu Emmanuel Odita (b. 1936, d. 2025). This exhibition considers three distinct bodies of work—current, past, and inherited—as integral parts of a creative whole, one that not only reveals the evolution of Odita’s formal interests, but also connects his practice as a Nigerian American artist to familial and geopolitical legacies.

ROB PRUITT

303 Gallery, NYC

January 15 – March 7, 2026

The third solo exhibition at 303 Gallery of new work by Rob Pruitt. The exhibition is comprised of time-based works from the artist's ongoing investigations of the spectral gradient. Paintings and works on paper, scaled from intimate to grand, capture moments, hours, days, months, and years. Each day of the show will have a different title. It will open as “Skyscapes,” and on each subsequent day, Pruitt will improvise and announce the next title.

WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS, Word of Eye

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, NYC

February 7–April 4, 2026

This exhibition includes eleven paintings created between 2024 and 2025 whose luminous surfaces shift according to the positioning of the viewer, demanding sustained looking and insisting on a phenomenological viewing experience. Simultaneously a continuation of the artist’s decades-long engagement with surface and a deliberate broadening of his palette, these new works show Williams pushing the boundaries of abstraction, furthering a dialogue with the entirety of his oeuvre, and enacting an endless exploration of the possibilities of his medium.

JANUARY 2026 

"There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions."

- Korean Proverb

For SRFA, art always has the magic of warming our hearts and stirring our souls. As we each seek to find warmth during this unusually harsh winter, SRFA wanted to share several current exhibitions which capture the beauty of the winter landscape and virtually invite you into the warmth of the studios of two artists we visited late last year.

We hope the unique visions of these and of all artists will serve as a reminder of the value of creative expression and of our unique voices as well.

DC MOORE

New York, NY

NIGHT Group Exhibition

January 15 – February 7, 2026

BOOKSTEIN PROJECTS

New York, NY

Dave Walsh: Viewshed

January 15 – February 27, 2026

BOOKSTEIN PROJECTS

New York, NY

Ron Milewicz: Beside Still Waters

January 15 – February 27, 2026

SRFA IN THE STUDIO

Ellen Harvey

Brooklyn, NY

SRFA IN THE STUDIO

Molly Herman

Brooklyn, NY