Baker—Hall and Marlee Katz Snow are pleased to announce a co-curated exhibition entitled Windows, featuring thirteen artists from around the country — Anna Berghuis, Bradley Wood, Deb Koo, Javier Hernandez, Jeremy Shockley, Josiah Ellner, Kiernan Pazdar, Melissa Middleberg, Melissa Wallen, Nicholas Bono Kennedy, Sara Suppan, Saskia Fleishman, & Thomas Bils. The show opens Friday, March 28, 2025, from 5—8 PM. and will be on view through April 26, 2025.
The stillness imposed in 2020 provided an extraordinary moment to engage with the immediate environment, often overshadowed by the relentless pace of daily life. A simple window became a portal to the natural world, where the rhythmic dance of swaying trees, the subtle shifts of light, and the melodies of birdsong unfolded with newfound clarity. These phenomena, ever-present yet previously overlooked, emerged as profound sources of solace and wonder, illuminating the beauty in what had long been taken for granted.
Within the confines of the home, this deceleration fostered a heightened awareness of personal interiors. Objects amassed over time—books, flowers, family heirlooms—assumed sculptural qualities, embodying layers of memory and identity. In solitude, these items became both companions and mirrors of the self, offering grounding while inviting introspection. The boundaries between physical and spiritual landscapes dissolved, revealing that the spaces we inhabit are defined not only by what we observe but also by how we perceive and feel.
This exhibition convenes artists who delve into themes of stillness, interiority, and mindfulness. Their works illuminate the potential for rediscovery within everyday environments, from the intimate corners of a living room to the vast natural panoramas beyond the glass. By inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and reconnect with their immediate surroundings, the exhibition fosters a deeper appreciation for the present moment as a site of beauty, meaning, and care.
Through the lens of these artists, the often-overlooked becomes a wellspring of insight, reminding us that the present is both a reflection of the past and the foundation for the future.
Anna Berghuis
Anna Berghuis (b. Baltimore, 1996) is a New York based visual artist. Berghuis’ work reckons with authenticity and performance of personality in a time of prolific image making and sharing online. Her work highlights the uneasy relationship between the desire to connect and the impossibility of being fully known. Distortion and the unreal play a large role in her psychological figurative paintings. Her paintings utilize methods of distortion through scale, visibility, and mono-printing to challenge and mirror contemporary image-making. She received her AB in Art History and Studio Arts from Princeton University. She has exhibited nationally in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and Boston. She has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center and most recently was an inaugural resident at Long Meadow Art Residency, a four month solo residency in the Berkshires.
Bradley Wood
Bradley Wood (b. 1970, Regina, Saskatchewan) lives in Larchmont, New York, and works in Port Chester, New York. Wood has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. He also studied Art and Experimental Film at CalArts, and Art and Design at Art Center Europe, Montreux, Switzerland. In 2017, he received the Moth Art Prize and residency in Ireland. He has also been selected as an artist resident at ChaNorth in Pine Plains, NY and at the Woolworth building in NYC through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Deb Koo
Deb Koo (b. 1990 in Seoul, Korea) is an oil painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her interest in art began at Smith College where she studied Studio Art. Afterwards she continued her studies at Ewha Womans University in Seoul where she got her MFA in Western Painting. Currently she is a member of Goodyear Arts Collective
in Charlotte, NC, as well as an art professor at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. She has shown locally in Charlotte, NC at Goodyear Arts, LaCa Projects, Sozo Gallery and The Mint Museum Randolph. Out-of-state and international shows include Lorin Gallery in Los Angeles, Tchotchke Gallery in New York and Open Call and Four Year Anniversary Shows at Delphian Gallery in London.
Jeremy Shockley
Jeremy Shockley (b.1982) considers painting a form of storytelling. Influenced by the literary techniques of magical realist writers, he renders the impossible and the surreal in a matter-of-fact way. Shockley was born in Travelers Rest, SC, a town pocketed in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, known as a haven for tired livestock drovers. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Josiah Ellner
Driven by a longing for connections that transcend the physical and enter the spiritual realm, the artist’s work explores deep ties to the earth and the relationships humans yearn to cultivate with their environments. Through careful observation, he finds meaning in subtle natural phenomena—a dandelion reaching toward the sky, a breeze whispering the arrival of fall, or cracks in concrete hinting at unseen movement beneath the surface. These moments ground him in existence and suggest the unseen forces shaping daily life. Anchored by elements like the sun, moon, stars, seasons, and landscapes, his paintings center on reflection and contemplation, often depicting hands that grasp, reach, and guide, expressing a profound sense of desire. Playful narratives interwoven with curiosity and childlike wonder create space for imagination, questioning assumptions and revealing new possibilities. By embracing presence and seeing beyond the obvious, his work invites viewers to engage with the world through fresh eyes, uncovering magic in the everyday.
Kiernan Pazdar
Kiernan Pazdar (b. Hartford, CT 1992) currently resides and paints in the Hudson Valley in New York. Pazdar earned her MFA in Painting 2020 from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Textiles from the same institution in 2014. Her work has been exhibited with organizations including Abigail Ogilvy Gallery,Boston, MA; Space 10, Los Angeles, CA; 1969 Gallery, New York, NY; Field Projects, New York, NY; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; NHAI Sharon Art Center, Peterborough, NH; The Atwater Gallery, Kingston, NY ;The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, The Sol Koffler Gallery and Woods Gerry Gallery;Providence, RI . Her work is also included in the permanent collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
Melissa Middleberg
Melissa Middleberg is a figurative oil painter based in New York. Painting on canvas and panels, her
evocative work travels through time, in and out of memory, from quiet introspective moments to intimate
exchanges.
Melissa Wallen
Melissa Wallen’s paintings draw from a rich tapestry of personal snapshots, poetry, music, and art history, forming abstract landscapes that navigate the boundaries between memory and reality through the fluid nature of oil paint. Her work interweaves fragmented elements, creating spaces that are both familiar and otherworldly. Gesture and hue act as guideposts through emotional landscapes, offering a glimpse into the convergence of these disparate influences. Wallen’s explores fluid moments within landscapes viewed through the lens of dreams and emotion. Her intuitive paint handling, characterized by loose, swirling brushstrokes and a conscious embrace of the canvas surface. Fog, mist, and light mingle within her works, forming expansive dreamscapes that invite viewers to step into brilliantly lit nightscapes or traverse the astral plane.
Nicholas Bono Kennedy
Nicholas Bono Kennedy is a painter currently based in Los Angeles. His paintings explore the relationship of lived in environments and our ability as humans to alter and control those spaces. Inspired by every day life and what the artist observes in private and public environments. At the core of Kennedyʼs practice are formal concerns such as color, light and pattern, these shape the artistʼs densely populated scenes.
Sara Suppan
Sara Suppan (b. 1994) is a painter living in Minneapolis. She has recently had solo shows with Micki Meng (San Francisco), Moosey (United Kingdom), and Weinstein Hammons (Minneapolis). She has participated in group exhibitions with Hashimoto Contemporary (Los Angeles), Kutlesa (Switzerland), and Huxley-Parlour (London), among others. Sara has displayed at the NADA Miami, Untitled Miami, and CAN Ibiza art fairs with Micki Meng, Huxley-Parlour, and Moosey, respectively. She was a resident artist at Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria, 2019) and Moosey (United Kingdom, 2023), has been published twice in New American Paintings magazine (no. 155 and 173), and has received multiple grants for her work. This October she will open her newest solo exhibition with Primary Projects in Miami. Sara received her BFA in painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2015.
Saskia Fleishman
Saskia Fleishman (B. 1995, Baltimore, MD), graduated Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a B.F.A. in painting. She has been an artist in residence at The Jentel Foundation, Tongue River Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Wassaic Project, PADA Studios, ChaNorth and Trestle Studios, and a curator in residence at Otis College of Art and Design. Saskia has had recent solo exhibitions at Galleri Urbane (Dallas, TX), Red Arrow (Nashville, TN) and Pentimenti Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). Saskia’s work has also been included in group shows at Dinner Gallery (New York, NY), Kates-Ferri Projects (New York, NY), Unit London (UK), Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) and The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), among others. Her work has been featured in Make Magazine, ArtMaze, Root Quarterly, Friend of the Artists, and Galerie Magazine. Saskia is based in Philadelphia, PA.
Thomas Bils
Born and raised in central Florida before moving south to his current residence of Miami, Thomas Bils paints autobiographically in ongoing investigation into the precarious nature of the world and the banality of disaster. Reflecting from the absurdities he was accustomed to while growing up in the suburban south during the beginning of the opioid crisis, Thomas crafts images employing his role as the unreliable narrator to develop a fragmented reality where personal narratives intertwine with universal anxieties. Within that space the viewer is invited to meditate on the inherent contradictions that define our human experience and the fragility of certainty. The personal microcosm, in Bils’s vision, is a delicate construct, forever on the precipice of collapse, where even the most mundane occurrences can hold profound existential significance.
Baker—Hall is a contemporary art gallery founded by Amanda Baker—Hall in 2024. It is the successor to her previous project, Club Gallery. The gallery aims to promote emerging and mid-career artists through a fresh curatorial approach, while also offering comprehensive art advisory services. Baker—Hall specializes in painting and sculpture across narrative and non-objective styles, with a focus on collaborating with private collectors and prominent corporate institutions. The gallery boasts a robust exhibition schedule, featuring a minimum of eight rotating exhibitions each year.
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