Interviews by Brainard Carey

Se Yoon Park, 2023. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park, New York. Se Yoon Park 박세윤 (b. 1979, South Korea) is a sculptor living and working in New York. Park’s foundation in architecture is reverberated through the deft construction of his geometries and manipulation of gravity in his sculptural installations. Integral to his perspective is the deconstructivist approach of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Netherlands, where Park began his career as an architect. Koolhaas’ concept of the diagram, sourcing all possibilities on approach to a structure, is a defining principle of Park’s practice as a sculptor. Park conducted his undergraduate studies in architecture at the department of Architectural Engineering at Yonsei University in Seoul and holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York. In addition to his time at OMA, his work in the realm of architecture includes positions with Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Fernando Romero Enterprise (FREE), and with Joshua Ramus (REX). Park began his exploration of light and shadow in his own work as a sculptor in 2014. His work has since been shown by the European Culture Centre in Venice, in tandem with the 57th Venice Biennale, at the United Nations in the 13th UNCCD exhibition, and in solo and two-person exhibitions in New York and Seoul, at Carvalho Park (New York), Gallery Mark (Seoul), and Huue Contemporary (Seoul, Singapore), and as public art commissions in South Korea. His work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail, Wallpaper* magazine, Artnet News, Dovetail magazine, Surface, Naver Design Press, Artsy Editorial, the Seoulive, Segye Daily, Seoul Economy Daily, among others. Se Yoon Park, Installation view of Dream Pulley (left) and The Dark Blooms and Sings (right), 2023, Roots and Wings exhibition at Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park. Se Yoon Park, Installation view of Continuum: Father (left) and Continuum: Mother (right), 2023, Roots and Wings exhibition at Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park. Se Yoon Park, detail view of Continuum: Mother, Roots and Wings exhibition at Carvalho Park, New York. Image courtesy of Carvalho Park.

Originally from Honduras, Daniel Handal lives and works in New York City. He received his BS in Applied Sciences from Rutgers University and studied photography at the International Center of Photography. His work centers on portraiture and explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, and community. He has had a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Public Library (Flatbush Branch) and has been shown in group exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Art, FotoFest in Houston, and the Center for Photography in Woodstock, among others. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Australian Centre for Photography and MKII in London. Handal’s photographs have been published in HuffPost, Slate, and Hyperallergic. He has been awarded residencies at The Millay Colony for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and VCAA—France. Handal currently serves on the board of directors of Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Worcester Art Museum, 21c Museum and Hotels, Transformer Station Contemporary Art, Kala Art Institute, Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts, and more. Here is a link to Daniel's exhibition where you will find the exhibition press release and more details. © Daniel Handal; “Tulip Thijs Boots (Misty Gray),” 2023; Pigment print on gesso-coated aluminum, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs); 16 x 20 x 1.5 inches, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York. © Daniel Handal; “Red Hobbit Columbine (Rustic Wood),” 2023; Pigment print on gesso-coated aluminum, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs); 16 x 12 x 1.5 inches; Courtesy of CLAMP, New York. © Daniel Handal; “Bunny Tails (Black Iron Silhouette,” 2022; Pigment print on gesso-coated aluminum, painted museum box (Edition of 3 + 2 APs); 13.5 x 9 x 1.5 inches, Courtesy of CLAMP, New York.

David Kennedy Cutler(b. 1979, Sandgate, VT) is an artist, writer and performer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His practice addresses traces of domesticity; he presents material objects as witnesses of unseen labor and hidden objects. He observes, transfers, and transforms recognizable every day and artistic materials to create installations, paintings, and performances.Cutler received his BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at Derek Eller Gallery (NYC),Halsey McKay Gallery(East Hampton, NY), Essex Flowers (NYC),The Centre for Contemporary Art (Tallinn, Estonia) and Nice & Fit (Berlin, Germany). Cutler has performed in various spaces in New York including Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Essex Flowers, Printed Matter, Halsey McKay, Derek Eller Gallery, and Flag Art Foundation, and internationally atthe Center for Contemporary Arts Estonia, among others. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Wellin Museum at Hamilton College and The RISD Museum, and his artist’s books are included in the libraries of the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. He has been reviewed and featured in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, The New Yorker and Modern Painter, among others. Cutler is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, NY and Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton.Currently on view is a two person show, Hedge, with Mosieur Zohore. David Kennedy Cutler, Late Shift, 2023 Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and permalac on canvas, armature wire 88 x 69 x 3.5 inches (223.5 x 175.3 x 8.9 cm) David Kennedy Cutler, Barricade, 2023 Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and permalac on canvas, armature wire 82.75 x 64.5 inches (210.2 x 163.8 cm) David Kennedy Cutler, Balthazar, 2023 Inkjet transfer, acrylic, and permalac on canvas, armature wire and wood 39.5 x 20.5 x 20 inches (100.3 x 52.1 x 50.8 cm)

Tomás Díaz Cedeño (b. 1983, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. Most recently his work has been shown in a solo exhibition at Silke Lindner (New York) and featured in the group exhibition Equis, I Griega, Zetaat Anonymous (New York). Previously, his work has been featured in the 2021 New Museum Triennial Soft Water, Hard Stone (New York, NY ) Museo MARCO (Monterrey, MX), Fundación Casa de México en España (Madrid, Spain), PEANA (Mexico City and Monterrey), Francois Ghebaly (Los Angeles, CA) and Galerie Nordenhake (Mexico City). Residency programs completed by the artist include LaCasaPark Artist Residency in New York and Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido. Tu, Casi Todo El Tiempo (You, Almost All the Time), 2023 Terracotta, glaze, steel 26 x 20 inches Earthy, Almost Comforting Scent, 2023 Terracotta, glaze steel 38 3/4 x 30 inches Humming Song II, 2023 Cast aluminum, electronic mechanism, rattles, outlet Various dimensions

Sara Berman (b. 1975, UK) received a BA in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins in 1999 after which she founded and ran her eponymous fashion brand for 15 years. In 2016 Sara Berman graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with a MFA in Painting. Berman’s background in fashion influenced her visual arts practice through the use of various textures, layers, mathematical geometry, pattern and materiality. In her work Berman examines how people see and define themselves through the relationships with their clothes, belongings and the spaces they occupy. The character in Sara Berman’s work is inspired by the trope of the female Harlequin in her ascribed role of the Trickster Whore. Through this character Berman explores space and the role of the feminine within it. Solo Exhibitionsinclude (Upcoming) Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin (2024);(Upcoming) No Visible Means of Support, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA (2023); The Armory Show NYC, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, New York (2022); Taking Space, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2021);Double Ententre, Anat Ebgi, LA(2018);Between Community and commerce, Site specific installation ZAZ10TS Time Square, NYC (2018);Matter Out Of Place, 93 Baker St. London, Frieze (2018) andBig Cactus Little Cactus, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong (2017) Sara Berman Kiss Me. I Dare You, 2023 Oil on linen 100 x 100 cm 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. Image courtesy of the artist Sara Berman / Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. Sara Berman Cowgirls, 2022 Oil on linen 200 x 200 cm 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. Image courtesy of the artist Sara Berman / Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery. Sara Berman What Part Of NO Don't You Understand, 2023 Oil on Linen 200 x 200 cm 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. Image courtesy of the artist Sara Berman / Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.

Tanya Minhas is a New York based visual artist. Raised in Karachi, Pakistan, the artist moved to the United States to attend Princeton University. She received her graduate degree from Columbia University, and painted portraits in oil at The Arts Students League. Minhas started Tanya Minhas Studio in 2012, as a space for her various artistic expressions – painting, drawing, textile designs - to come together. Her current work reflects her practice of repetitive drawing, utilizing ink, paint, and other various media. She meditatively explores the state of harmony between the internal and the external, the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the elusive. Through these explorations, she examines how the strength of one’s intrinsic life force affects this harmony, offering an impetus that seeks to balance our internal lives with an increasingly tempestuous external world. Tanya Minhas, Earth, 2023 Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches Tanya Minhas, Melancholy of Stolen Time - Illumination Sunrise, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 9 x 12 inches Tanya Minhas, The Moon Taps at the Ocean's Heart - Summer Stage 2, 2019 Acrylic on wood panel 9 x 12 inches

Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali Zhang Dali was born in Harbin, China in 1963. He graduated from the painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing with a BA in 1987. An influential figure in socio-political artistic movements in China, Zhang Dali has, for decades, challenged the conventional with his social documentation in graffiti, sculpture, photography, and painting. Zhang was exiled from China after graduating from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and spent six years immersing himself in Western art and art history in Italy. Upon his return to Beijing, he developed a keen interest in portraiture (usually of himself), documentary and public urban art, often interrupting spaces with confrontational political statements. The photograph series 'A Second History' consists of propaganda and found images under the rule of Mao, which have been doctored or altered to the Chairman's artistic 'vision' of politics and appropriation. He is critically recognized as one of China's first graffiti and street artists. In 2011, Zhang Dali’s work was featured in New Photography 2011 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The New York Times reviewed the show, mentioning that “the evocation of Orwellian busywork constantly varnishing truth for the benefit of dictatorial dominion is chilling to contemplate.” In 2014, Zhang Dali presented a comprehensive solo show at Klein Sun Gallery titled Square, which featured his cyanotypes, fiberglass sculptures, and paintings. Art in America praised Zhang’s work as it ”compels his audience to acknowledge those who are damaged and marginalized, in hopes of expanding civic awareness and empathy” and stated that “it is now time for the Western media to accord Zhang recognition for his powerful, courageous artworks, which speak up for those who cannot freely speak for themselves." His work is in public collections including Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Smart Museum, Chicago, IL; and Asia Society, New York, NY. Zhang Dali currently lives and works in Beijing, China. Zhang Dali Dove (41), 2021. Red cyanotype on cotton, 63 x 90 1/2 inches (160 x 230 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali Zhang Dali Dove (57), 2023. Blue cyanotype on cotton, 59 x 74 3/4 inches (150 x 190 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali Zhang Dali, Herbarium Pagoda Tree (S. japonicum) (2), 2020. Blue cyanotype on cotton, 53 1/8 x 37 3/4 inches (135 x 96 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery © Zhang Dali

Cristina Canale (b. 1961, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) rose to prominence following her participation in the iconic group exhibitionComo vai você, Geração 80?, at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (EAV Parque Lage) in Rio de Janeiro in 1984. Like many of her colleagues from the so-called "Generation 80", her early works reveal the influence of the international context as painting resurfaced, especially with that of German Neo-expressionism. Loaded with visual elements and thick paint, her early paintings have a material or textural characteristic that is reinforced by her use of contrasting and vivid colors.In the early 1990s, Canale moved to Germany to study in Düsseldorf under the guidance of the Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets. Her compositions soon acquired a sense of spatiality, as she began to incorporate the use of planes and depth, while also adding greater fluidity to her use of colors. Cristina Canale’s work is often based off prosaic everyday scenes, which she extracts from advertising photography. Her paintings result in elaborate compositions that intertwine the figurative and the abstract, often blurring one with the other. According to the curator Tiago Mesquita, Canale’s production opposes the quest for constituing structures of the image, which artists such as Gerhard Richter and Robert Ryman engage with, tackling instead “the image and established genres of painting in a subjective manner following the belief in a singular experience.” Cristina Canale lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Her recent solo exhibitions include:The Encounter, atNara Roesler (2021), in New York, United States;Cabeças/Falantes, at Galeria Nara Roesler (2018). Cristina Canale Teach (Fessora) 2023 mixed media on canvas 110 x 100 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler. Cristina Canale Jackie 2020 acrylic, oil and linen on canvas 110 x 100 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler Cristina Canale The house and the dreams 2022 mixed media on linen 170 x 190 x 3,5 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler Cristina Canale Sincronias 2022 acrylic paint, oil paint and acrylic spray on linen 170 x 190 cm. Courtesy the artist and Nara Roesler

Owen Westberg (b. 1986, Pittsburgh) received an MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been included in recent exhibitions at Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; and Dunes, Portland, ME. Lake is his first solo exhibition. Westberg lives and works in Pittsburgh. "For over a decade, Owen has been painting discreet scenes in oil on smoothed birch panels or aluminum flashings that fit smartly into a purse or piece of hand luggage: late afternoon landscapes, round, glowy fruits, a fictional painter or pair of sneakers, tinted windows on a corporate building, and often, patterned fabrics. He paints these low-stakes subjects with wet, slightly oversized brushes that approximate rather than articulate. His marks are straightforward yet sensitive. Never sentimental. Tender but not sweet, and a bit unhinged—as if in a rush to get it all down. His color—always exact—pulls clarity from a hand that favors a wobbly line over a straight one. Simple shifts from cool grey to warm champagne cast a rippled cloth into full relief. The palette is limited but nuanced— soft ochre, medieval blues, kiwi, terracotta and buttercream, and the regular colors: yellow, orange, navy" - Anna Glantz Owen Westberg placemat, 2022 Oil on panel 10 x 8 inches 25.4 x 20.3 cm Owen Westberg ruin, 2023 Oil on aluminum flashing 7 x 5 inches 17.8 x 12.7cm Owen Westberg editorial, 2021 Oil on birch panel 12 x 3 inches 30.5 x 7.5 cm

Alison Judd is a multi-media artist whose work is rooted in themes relating to nature, the passage of time, and mothering. Recent shows include Vitality, Abigail Ogilvy, Boston, MA; Be-tween, Brandeis University Alumni Art Gallery, Waltham, MA; Sweet Season, Provincetown, MA; Raw Emotion, Boston, MA; Reprise, 13forest, Arlington, MA. Alison grew up in New York City, studied painting and art history at Brandeis University and received her Masters of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking at MassArt. She currently works out of her home studio in the Boston area where she lives with her husband, three children, and her dog. Garden Observer, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" 2023 Nighttime Reading, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" 2023 Back Home, oil on canvas, 40" x 30" 2023