Art

Mary Heilmann (b.1940, United States) is a contemporary Abstract artist renowned for her joyful, often unorthodox take on Minimalist painting. Raised in San Francisco and Los Angeles, Heilmann completed a degree in literature, before studying ceramics at Berkeley. After moving to New York in 1968, she began to paint. Her career, which spans over five decades, draws inspiration from eccentric counter-cultures; from the Beat poets to California’s surfers,1960s pop music and the hippie movement. ‘Everyday life and art history all join together in my work,’ she says, of the unpretentious style and nuanced color combinations for which she is best known. Heilmann’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Rashid Johnson (b.1977) is a multi-disciplinary New York based artist whose kaleidoscopic practice encompasses painting, sculpture, installation, film, photography and mosaics. His work explores questions of cultural identity, individualism and diasporic culture; weaving rich symbolism with art historical tradition to relay existential themes such as personal and collective anxiety, interiority and liminal space. Johnson’s large-scale mosaics are installed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and the new Delta Terminal at the LaGuardia airport. In 2021, his work was added to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Johnson’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.

Uman (b.1980, Somalia) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Upstate New York. Her technicolor large-scale paintings draw from a rich and multicultural childhood, as well as vivid dreamscapes and the Islamic calligraphy she learned as a child. Born to Somali parents and raised in Kenya, Uman emigrated to Denmark as a teenager, and later to New York as a young adult. She is renowned for creating joyous and intricate compositions that are comprised of abstract, geometric and symbolic motifs. Uman’s work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. 

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas
132.1 x 119.4 cm / 52 x 47 inches

George Condo (b.1957) is an American painter, sculptor, printmaker and draftsman. Born in Concord, New Hampshire he moved to New York in his early twenties, where he soon became a central figure in the East Village art scene, and witnessed firsthand the cultural collision of New Wave music, graffiti and visual appropriation tactics in art. 

Oil on canvas
198.1 x 294.6 x 3 cm / 78 x 116 x 1 1/8 inches

Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) is one of the great luminaries of twentieth-century art. His commitment to producing work from genuine emotion and lived experience ensures its enduring impact.

Collage printed fabrics

Duro Olowu (b. 1965, Nigeria) is a British-Nigerian fashion designer and curator, whose innovative combinations of pattern and texture draw from his international background. Nigerian-British Olowu is noted for his fluency in combining diverse aesthetics and mediums and was named ‘New Designer of the Year’ at the British Fashion Awards in 2005, just one year after launching his eponymous womenswear label. He continues to show his bi-annual womenswear collections at London Fashion Week and his designs have been acquired by the Rhode Island School of Art and the FIT Museum.