Emily Mae Smith (b. 1979, Austin, Texas) creates sly, humorous, and riveting compositions which nod to art historical movements such as Symbolism and Art Nouveau, though with a distinctly 21st century spin. Her genre-defying paintings speak through a vocabulary of signs and symbols addressing timely subjects including gender, class, and violence. Smith’s paintings tackle art history’s phallocentric myths and create imagery for subjectivities absent in visual culture, specifically the feminist perspective. Smith’s exhibition of new paintings, Transit of Venus, is currently on view at Petzel, 520 West 25th street, New York, through October 31, 2026. This marks Smith’s second solo show at the gallery and follows her 2024 survey exhibition at the Magritte Museum in Brussels, where the artist’s work was curated in dialogue with René Magritte’s oeuvre.
13 Oct 2026
Matthew Ronay: The Inner Life of Forms
New York-based artist Matthew Ronay (b. 1976, Louisville, Kentucky) is best known for his chromatic, handmade wood sculptures that suggest unearthly landscapes with futuristic architectures and bodily processes like digestion and aging. His fourth solo exhibition at Casey Kaplan, Cold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in Season; is on view through Saturday, October 24th.
6 Oct 2026
Peter Halley: Conduits of Culture
Peter Halley, born in 1953, New York City, came to prominence as a central figure in the Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s. He uses his visual lexicon to examine the technological forces that regulate daily life. Known for his use of fluorescent colors and synthetic Roll-a-Tex surfaces, Halley embraces materials that are anti-naturalistic and commercially manufactured.
Halley is currently presenting new paintings at Galleria Mazzoli in Modena, Italy, as well as Exploding Cell, a new series of digital prints, at Triennale Milano in Milan. This month, he has also created site-specific installations for Le Consortium (Dijon) and the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), extending his ongoing exploration of architecture, materiality, and pictorial space.
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