New Vision

December 10, 2024, New York, NY—Cavalier Gallery in Chelsea is pleased to present New Vision, an exhibition highlighting the work of nine artists selected from an open call that elicited nearly 200 applicants. Featured artists include Britt Bair, Delaney Conner, Michael De Brito, Jason Homa, Kate Keery, Christos Palios, Leddy Sullivan, Jing (Ellen) Xu, and Kosuke Yuki. More than 20 paintings, photographs, mixed media, and fiber works will be on view alongside works by gallery artists. The exhibition opens Thursday, December 12, with a reception from 6 to 8 pm, and remains on view through January 18, 2025.

Britt Bair
Britt Bair is an abstract expressionist artist who works in acrylic, mixed media, collage and oil.
Her work has been seen at galleries, museums, art centers, and many local venues. She is a member of the Silvermine Artist Guild, Rowayton Arts Center, New Canaan Art Center and the Darien Art Center. Her work may be found in private collections from California to New York. Britt is also the co-founder of the Wilson Avenue Loft Artists (WALA), a group of 16 artists in 15 studios and a gallery space at 225 Wilson Avenue in South Norwalk, CT and past co-president of the Fairfield County ‘Plein Air’ Painters, a group of 45 artists who paint outside from May through October and show locally. Britt Bair graduated from Colby Sawyer College in New London, NH with a Liberal Arts degree and the University of California Riverside with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art and Photography. Her career began as a Graphic Designer and Photography Rep in New York City.

 

Delaney Conner
Delaney Conner is a New York City based artist whose classical background of being trained in traditional architecture has manifested into her emerging career as a highly technical fiber artist. Her work is inspired by the female experience and is a technical overlap between her soft skills in embroidery and her spatial and conceptual training as an architect. The geometric relationships of her abstractions, and the scale with which she works, challenges the normative domestic understanding of 'soft crafts'. Being a perfectionist, her work is acutely focused on the intentional placement and scale of each hand-stitch to create her large-scale 2-D fiber sculpture works. Conner's utilization of the punch needle technique deviates from her training in architectural watercolor rendering, but one that can be equated to “painting with textiles.” The artist currently lives and practices in New York City and is actively exhibiting works across the US.

 

Michael De Brito
Michael De Brito (b. 1980) transforms everyday moments into compelling narratives through his paintings, blending technical mastery with a naturalistic approach that imbues his work with immediacy and authenticity. Known for his intimate kitchen table scenes, De Brito explores themes of memory, tradition, and familial connection through depictions of unfiltered, yet universally resonant, domestic life. Born in New Jersey, the artist earned his Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design and pursued postgraduate studies at the New York Academy of Art.
De Brito’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent venues including the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York, Galeria Graça Brandão in Lisbon, and the University of Maine Museum of Art. His paintings have also been featured internationally at the National Portrait Gallery, London; MEAM, Barcelona; Abbaye Saint-André, France; and Museu Afro, Brazil. Among his accolades, De Brito is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant and was named a finalist in the BP Portrait Competition. His works are held in significant collections such as the Nevada Museum of Art, the Tribunal Constitucional in Lisbon, and Museu Afro in Brazil.

Jason Homa
Jason Homa, a native New Yorker, discovered his passion for photography at SUNY New Paltz, where he earned a BFA. Since then, he has been continuously creating and refining his craft. Early in his career, Homa's work gained commercial success, with his photographs being licensed for a range of uses from small-town editorials to national advertisements through Getty Images. In recent years, Homa has returned to his artistic roots with a focus on capturing the diversity and harmony that make his beloved home city unique. Homa’s New York Collection seamlessly blends the odd with the iconic, the gritty with the grand. Quirky storefronts and recognizable landmarks share space with peaceful parks and powerful infrastructure, while obscure streetscapes merge into familiar cityscapes.

 

Kate Keery
Kate Keery is a representational artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work captures the freedom of play and suspends it in time. It is driven by nostalgia, by her longing for the unfiltered wonder of childhood. It also reflects her deep gratitude for the connections we form through shared experiences from the moment we enter the world to the moment we leave it. Through her work, Keery conveys the simple joy of existence. Keery’s work is marked by specific and deeply personal references, drawing from photos taken over the years, as well as old 90s film found tucked away in her parents' closet. Boldened with colorful hues and bright light, Keery’s pieces bring to life the warmth of these memories and the people who shaped them.

Keery has exhibited throughout the United States, including Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, and Chicago. Her work has been featured in Northshore Magazine and Vanity Fair, UK. This year, she was recognized among 30 of Saatchi Art’s “Rising Stars” as one of the top investment-worthy artists. In addition to her artistic practice, she has also illustrated a highly anticipated children’s book in partnership with a Massachusetts based author.

Christos Palios
Christos J. Palios (b. 1979) is a fine-artist and first-generation bilingual Greek American whose perspectives were shaped by two disparate cultures. The artist's practice is born from a wellspring of curiosity among themes of memory, connection, and identity, consummated by intimate examinations of history, architecture, and socioeconomics. With an appreciation of metaphorical and physical space, his photographs evoke cogent, palpable awareness through distinct narratives and cohesive aesthetics. Palios resides in the American Northeast. His springboard originates in the visual arts with a BFA from the University of Maryland. The artist's photographs adorn a multitude of private and corporate collections throughout the U.S.A. Palios' work has been recognized through awards, publications, and exhibitions throughout the nation and abroad. Venues include the Baltimore Museum of Art, Blue Sky Gallery, Grimaldis Gallery, the Houston Center for Photography, CPA, among others. He has been featured in Musée Magazine and Dodho Magazine, and he was shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival and Communication Arts. Awards include Prix de la Photographie and IPA.

 

Leddy Sullivan
Leddy Sullivan is an expressionist painter working in upstate New York whose work is inspired by connection. Focusing on food and memories shared around a table, Sullivan attempts to capture communal, core memories. While a shared meal is a human experience that transcends time, place and culture, it is also a deeply personal ritual, delving into our roots, relationships, and memories. Sullivan’s work bridges the gap between the artist and the viewer creating a shared experience of sitting around a meal. Her work attempts to remind us, that despite our differences, we are all connected through unique human experiences.

Sullivan studied Art History and Fine Art at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and received her master’s in education at SUNY Cortland. Before pursuing her art career full-time, she worked as a curator and elementary school teacher. Most recently, Sullivan won the Bronze medal for her piece Italian Lunch in the show "Eat!”. She also was selected to show in Barcelona, Spain at FIABCN in November 2023.

 

Jing (Ellen) Xu
Jing (Ellen) Xu is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China, and currently based in Queens, New York. Her practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, and large-scale installations, delving deeply into the intersections of time, memory, history, and environmental relationships. Ellen earned her BA in Sculpture and Law from Xiamen University, China, and completed her MFA in Photomedia at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2016. Ellen’s work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and internationally. Solo and two-person exhibitions include the Governors Island Art Fair, KID Museum in Bethesda, MD, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture NY office, and Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, DC. Her art has also been featured in prominent group exhibitions, such as Skyline 3 at Villa Venino in Milan, Italy, and The Patriot at O’Flaherty’s Gallery in New York City. Ellen has participated in several prestigious artist residencies, including the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the Wassaic Artist Residency, and the Newport Art Museum Residency. Her contributions to the arts have earned her numerous accolades, including the Queens Arts Fund Grant (2024), the Asian American Arts Alliance Micro Grant (2022), the Hamiltonian Artist Fellowship (2017–2019), and the BRIC Media Arts Fellowship (2017).

Kosuke Yuki
"When I started photography and came to this country, I had a chance to see an American photographer, Paul Strand's (1890–1976) exhibition at National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C, 1990. I was very inspired and emphasized how he saw the world and photographed it. I have started to take an interest in photographing abstract images since then. His photographs not only changed my photographic vision, but also made me to consider what to accomplish in my life as a photographer. This is my newest project, "Alley" which is not only an abstract perspective of street images but also shows how much I have been influenced by and admire Paul Strand's photographs. 'Alley' is also infused with Japanese traditional aesthetics of transience and imperfection, 'WABI-SABI.'"