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  Art By Don Hershman Award-winning Artist Don Hershman marked the latest chapter in his 30-year art career spanning both America’s East and West coast with the opening of his solo exhibition, = OUT OF LINE =, at One Art Space in Tribeca.  The new exhibition, = OUT OF LINE =, Open through Tuesday, October 20th, 2026 is curated by MaryAnn Giella McCulloh and brings together works from four collections of his artwork creating a visual journey through some of the artists defining themes. Across portraiture, rural architecture, still lifes and urban surfaces, repeated and overlapping lines build color, rhythm, atmosphere and emotional resonance. The exhibition also offers a window into the unusual duality that has shaped Hershman’s creative life. Alongside his career as a surgeon, he has been an artist for three decades, developing and exhibiting his work from coast to coast while continually expanding the subjects through which he explores structure, identity and perception. Hers...

  Hunt Slonem  Hunt Slonem has spent a career filling canvases with bunnies, butterflies, tropical birds and exuberant color. This October, the internationally celebrated artist will step away from the studio and into The Plaza ballroom as one of the honorees of Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education’s Fiesta 2026. The honor creates an intersection between an artist whose work celebrates imagination and a New York institution that has spent more than nine decades encouraging young people to discover their own creativity. Founded in East Harlem in 1934 and now based in the South Bronx, Casita Maria works to enrich youth, families and communities through arts, culture and education. Its free educational programming combines arts instruction, academic assistance and youth development, reaching young people from kindergarten through middle school.   Hunt Slonem will be honored alongside art dealer and longtime cultural figure Sonia Gutt de Haime, while the Jackie W...

Code Switching     Artist Don Hershman will present = OUT OF LINE =, a solo exhibition opening Thursday, October 1st, 2026, at One Art Space in Tribeca. Curated from four distinct bodies of work, the exhibition brings together paintings from The Art of Code Switching (2023), I Am a Barn (2024), Urban Abstraction (2025), and Still/Still (2025) to reveal the evolution of a singular visual language centered on the line. Across barns, city surfaces, still life’s and portraiture, Hershman uses repeated and overlapping lines to build color, rhythm, atmosphere and emotional resonance. About Don Hershman: Don Hershman is a San Francisco-based artist who lives a compelling dual life, balancing the concrete position of medicine with the expressive freedom of painting. As a nationally recognized podiatric surgeon, he is known for his innovation, structural focus, and meticulous attention to detail. Those same qualities inform his artistic practice, where the confidence to make decisive m...

  Barn   Artist Don Hershman will present = OUT OF LINE =, a solo exhibition opening Thursday, October 1st, 2026, at One Art Space in Tribeca. Curated from four distinct bodies of work, the exhibition brings together paintings from The Art of Code Switching (2023), I Am a Barn (2024), Urban Abstraction (2025), and Still/Still (2025) to reveal the evolution of a singular visual language centered on the line. Across barns, city surfaces, still life’s and portraiture, Hershman uses repeated and overlapping lines to build color, rhythm, atmosphere and emotional resonance. Hershman’s path to = OUT OF LINE = begins with structure. In I Am a Barn (2024), the weathered planks, beams and architectural surfaces of rural barns offered a natural foundation for his developing visual vocabulary.  Those early paintings transformed agricultural buildings into meditations on resilience, shelter and memory, while establishing the repeated linear marks that would become central to his pract...

  WHEN FLOWERS WHISPER  Mark Seidenfeld is pleased to present Uncharted Waters, a solo exhibition of paintings, on view June 4th through June 21st, 2026. The exhibition inaugurates The Bridgehampton Museum’s Corwith Homestead Tractor Barn located at 2368 Montauk Highway, a newly renovated, contemporary exhibition space blended into the historic William A. Corwith Homestead campus.   Seidenfeld’s paintings evolve from earlier representational work into fully realized abstraction, where landscape gives way to interior vision. These are not depictions, but constructed fields, dreamscapes shaped through layering, interruption, and revision. Each work engages what the artist identifies as the Unknown: a condition that resists repetition and continuously shifts. What is resolved in one painting becomes insufficient in the next. The work advances through this instability, with each painting extending, rather than reiterating, the last.  A consistent pursuit of depth under...

  The Animals In The Street    One Art Space in Tribeca will present “Chuck Connelly: Tribeca’s Midnight Parade — When Art Runs Wild” Co-Curated by Adrienne Connelly and MaryAnn Giella McCulloh. This special exhibition honors the late artist Chuck Connelly through a body of work that reflects the energy, individuality and creative spirit of downtown New York.  The exhibition opens with a private VIP reception followed by the public exhibition on view from Friday, April 24th through Sunday, May 3rd, 2026, daily from 12:00pm to 6:00pm, at One Art Space, 23 Warren Street, Tribeca. At the heart of the exhibition is “Animals in the Street,” a 1994 painting created during a period when Chuck Connelly was living and working from his loft studio on Franklin Street in Tribeca. The work transforms everyday neighborhood life into something theatrical, charged and unforgettable. In Connelly’s vision, the people moving along the street take on animal identities, each one carrying...

  Elizabeth Sutton   Artist, designer, and entrepreneur Elizabeth Sutton will celebrate the grand opening of her first New York City retail atelier, marking a milestone in a decade-long journey of building an independent creative business rooted in art, design, resilience, and reinvention. The Elizabeth Sutton Collection Atelier, located at 897 First Avenue, between East 50th and 51st streets in Manhattan, is designed as a hybrid concept, with a working art studio in the back and a curated retail boutique in the front. The space offers visitors a behind-the-scenes look at Sutton’s creative world while serving as a destination for shopping fine art, photography, prints, rugs, fashion accessories, home décor gifts, and pieces from her growing dinnerware collection. A sixth-generation New Yorker, longtime Upper East Side resident, single mother, and self-taught artist, Sutton has built her brand through persistence, creative instinct, and a commitment to staying true to her value...

  Joy Ride By Chuck Connelly Salomon Arts Gallery will present “The Journey” by Chuck Connelly (1955–2025), A Neo Expressionist Retrospective, curated by Adrienne Connelly, from Thursday, March 19th through Thursday, April 16th, 2026, at 83 Leonard Street in New York City. The exhibition will be on view Tuesday through Saturday from 3:00pm to 6:00pm, or by appointment, offering New York audiences an opportunity to revisit the life, work and lasting impact of one of the most distinctive painters associated with the Neo Expressionist movement.   Bringing together paintings, drawings and documentary footage, “The Journey” looks at Connelly’s career through the lens of both artistic ambition and personal reckoning. According to the gallery, the exhibition explores themes of turmoil, transformation and triumph, underscoring the redemptive power of creativity in the face of adversity. The presentation positions Connelly not only as a formidable painter, but as a figure whose wo...

  MaryAnn Giella McCulloh With Mei Fung One Art Space in Tribeca launched a landmark February 2026 exhibition of works by acclaimed artist Purvis Young(1943–2010), timed for Black History Month 2026 and highlighted by the first New York showing of several of Young’s paintings. Curated by MaryAnn Giella McCulloh the exhibition centers on Young’s emotionally direct visual language and his recurring commitment to social commentary, compassion, and the possibility of a better future. MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, co-owner of One Art Space describes Purvis’s artwork as symbolizing hope and healing, shaped by Young’s visions and his desire to create work that offers joy and empathy in response to the world’s wounds.   Young’s work has entered prominent museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others, and his paintings are held by private collectors. Notable Attendees included: Mary...

  Take Cover Al Diaz This fall, One Art Space in Tribeca will present An Empire Fallen, a solo exhibition by acclaimed New York artist Al Diaz emerged as a first-generation subway graffiti artist under the moniker “BOMB-ONE” by age 15. He is widely recognized for his early collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat on the iconic SAMO© graffiti project, a cornerstone of NYC’s late 1970s avant-garde art movement. Samo “moniker” was revolutionary in its concept and widely accepted as one of the most influential forms of street art/poetry. Running from Thursday, October 30th through Monday, November 10th, 2025, the show explores the collapse and reinvention of cultural empires, from the street to the institution, through Diaz’s signature fusion of text, symbol, and socio-political commentary. The artist’s raw visual language captures the restless pulse of New York itself: poetic, disillusioned, and defiantly alive. There will be an opening VIP reception to launch the exhibition and on Thu...

  Don Hershman (2024), Acrylic, Ink, and Pencil on Wood Panel California-based painter and surgeon Don Hershman launched his new solo exhibition I AM A BARN at Artifact Projects in New York City. His new exhibition captures the quiet dignity and weatherworn strength of rural barns,  transformed into monumental meditations on human resilience and can be viewed at the Gallery Wednesday through Saturday, 12:00pm–6:00pm each week through October 26th. Don Hershman (2022), Acrylic, Ink, and Pencil on Wood Panel   I AM A BARN marks Hershman’s first major New York City solo show since 2023, following a dynamic 2025 season of exhibitions in San Francisco, Pleasanton, and Sonoma County. Crafted in layers of acrylic, ink, and pencil on large-scale wood panels, Hershman’s barns are more than just buildings. They are symbolic portraits — cracked, bowed, enduring — echoing the scars and strength that come with time. “Each aging plank tells a story”, Says Hershman. “These barns mirror ...

  MaryAnn Giella McCulloh With Ilene Sichel Photographer and Artist Roger Sichel presented his Iconic Smokin’ Hot Kiss at One Art Space for a VIP Opening Reception for his exhibition which will be on view from Thursday, September 25th through Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 at 23 Warren Street in Tribeca.  The show opened with a VIP champagne reception and gourmet lobster bites, plus an exclusive first look at Sichel’s iconic work.  Situated in the heart of Tribeca, One Art Space is a dynamic contemporary gallery founded in 2011 under the curatorial leadership of MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, who serves as co-owner, gallerist, and curator with Mei Fung.  Known for its striking glass-front storefront and versatile exhibition layout, One Art Space advances its mission to showcase both emerging and established artists from around the world, fostering equity, artistic dialogue, and community engagement throughout New York’s vibrant art landscape.   Leesa Rowland   The ...

  Firouz FarmanFarmaian Victor Gallery hosted the opening night for the exiting new art exhibition "Patterns of Passage / Caravans of Tapestries," featuring the works of artist Firouz FarmanFarmaian curated by We R The Nomads. Showing for one month only in New York before travelling onto Washington DC in April, this exhibition delves into the post-tribal quality of the textile units, exploring themes of nomadic displacement and the intricate memories encapsulated within the artworks. By expanding on textile units from the recent exhibition in Tribeca and including past abstract paintings, the show invites viewers to reflect on the narratives of movement, cultural identity, and the profound connections we share through art.  For more details, visit www.werthenomads.com   About Firouz FarmanFarmaian: Firouz FarmanFarmaian (born in 1973 Tehran, Iran) is an artist, composer, film director, and cultural producer. He is a descendant of the Qajar dynasty, a Turkic tribe tha...

  Firouz FarmanFarmaian Firouz FarmanFarmaian presents a string of new works storming Manhattan in a week-long multi-event in NYC, a nomadic experiential trip into his mind. Work on print + canvas sets the scene weaving textile production into a new performative whole - draped within immersive sound + video integrations and coupled with a generative AI experiment.  Nomads of Persia will take its audience on an evolutive, creative-performative journey, an immersive voyage through the City. This December, two years after FarmanFarmaian’s transcultural movement made its mark on the 59th Biennale di Venezia at the Kyrgyz Pavilion, he takes Manhattan for one week.   Nomads Of Persia Contemporary art is finally revealing itself in nomadic form, mirroring the post-globalized cultural sphere where reconnections of craft and timeless tradition clash with contemporary transformative visions, cultural conjunctions, overlapping borders and the fusion of identities–powerfully intercon...

  Claire Florence Claire Florence, who is using her creative talents to launch a unique sustainable fine art jewelry line held a reception to celebrate her collaboration with Fierce Grace at their East Hampton studio which has captured the interest of visitors this summer season.  Notable attendees at the reception included: Claire Florence, Suzie Kondi, Antoine Verglas and Kelly Isaac.  Claire’s one-of-a-kind designs, featuring recycled and fair-mined18K gold and vibrantly-hued gemstones, are captivating industry veterans and clients alike with their avant-garde aesthetics and sophisticated combination of materials.  “Working with fine metals and gemstones is about permanency – using timeless materials to create things of beauty that tell a story and can be passed down through the generations." - Claire Florence   About Claire Florence: Claire Florence is an artist and former street wear designer who finds inspiration in nature, art, community, and technology....

  The robots spoke in a language that no one understood The woman looking in the mirror The Creative Journey of Sugarweks The artistic duo behind sugarwerks consists of celebrity photographer and artist Ann Lawlor  with artist and musician Oliver Corwin, both based in New York City. Ann’s portfolio has captured prominent figures like Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Adele, Keith Richards, Daniel Day Lewis, among others. Oliver on the other hand has published two children’s books with Harry Abrams. The first; “Hare and Tortoise Race to the Moon”. Which he wrote and illustrated”.   'The phone call to time in the chamber Mr. Fantastico says everyone has electricity in their heart The second book; “When I Grow Up” written by actress Tina Louise, and illustrated by himself. Ann and Oliver first crossed paths as artists around 2020.  Ann would often observe Oliver painting until one day, intrigued and inspired, she decided to try it for herself....

  Don Hershman Prizewinning artist Don Hershman will continue to carry out his successful assemblage of exhibitions with a new showcase premiering during Art Basel Miami 2023 at both Red Dot Miami and Context Art Miami.  Red Dot Miami is a curated gallery-only contemporary art fair during Miami Art Week. Taking place at the iconic Mana Wynwood in the heart of the thriving Wynwood Arts District, Red Dot offers the unique opportunity to connect with blue-chip galleries and emerging artists all under one roof.  Hershman will display 2 paintings during the fair at ARTIFACT (Booth #301), which will run December 6th until December 10th at Mana Wynwood (2217 NW 5th Avenue; NW 22nd St, Miami, FL 33127). Titles on display will include “Bungalow #1” (Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood - 36"x36" - $9,000) and “Bungalow #2” (Acrylic, ink, and pencil on wood - 36"x36" - $9,000).  For more details of Red Dot Miami, please visit: www.redwoodartgroup.com/red-dot-miami   Context A...