Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Contemporary art gallery in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood with an outpost in Bridgehampton. Specializing in contemporary painting and works on paper.

Our   is: Susan English, "Dwell," 2024, tinted polymer on Dibond panel, 59 x 48 in.Susan English pioneered a technique o...
01/21/2025

Our is: Susan English, "Dwell," 2024, tinted polymer on Dibond panel, 59 x 48 in.

Susan English pioneered a technique of pouring and manipulating tinted polymer that allows her to produce a wide variety of textures, shades, opacities and finishes. The fluid application of polymer creates opportunities for spontaneous marks as she balances between control and appreciating the unexpected.

Thank you to all who joined us in celebrating our first exhibitions of 2025! We had a blast - more photos to come soon! ...
01/18/2025

Thank you to all who joined us in celebrating our first exhibitions of 2025! We had a blast - more photos to come soon! 🍾

ON VIEW: Samantha Haring and Tess MichalikHaring and Michalik met while studying at Northern Illinois University and hav...
01/16/2025

ON VIEW: Samantha Haring and Tess Michalik

Haring and Michalik met while studying at Northern Illinois University and have maintained a friendship ever since. Though their respective techniques diverge, they find common ground in their romantic treatment of domestic subjects.

Haring’s oeuvre commemorates the quotidian trappings of the artist’s life. Bubblewrap, cardboard boxes, and glass jars are portrayed with the masterful sensitivity of a Dutch still-life. Of her work, the artist states, “I make quiet paintings in a noisy world.” Indeed, in subdued shades of chalk pastel and oil paint, Haring crafts an immersive scene, offering a serene reprieve from the excess of consumer culture.

Inspired by vintage wallpaper designs, Michalik renders delicate floral subjects in voluptuous layers of impasto. Languid brushstrokes animate each petal and leaf recalling the sensuous ornamentation of Rococo. On her practice, Michalik writes, “painting is a celebration of joy, anxiety, simple pleasures, decoration, ornamentation, and the material nature of paint.”

See these works by .haring and in “Reprieve,” now on view in the 20th Street gallery through 2/15.

🥂 Reception is TONIGHT - join us from 6-8!
🔗Learn more at the link in our bio.

It’s always a treat having our artists in the gallery! Join  Susan English tomorrow from 6-8 for the opening of her solo...
01/15/2025

It’s always a treat having our artists in the gallery! Join Susan English tomorrow from 6-8 for the opening of her solo show, “Still Light.”

ON VIEW: Laura BidwaLaura Bidwa’s recent paintings are composed of layers of oil, latex, and spray paints on panels that...
01/10/2025

ON VIEW: Laura Bidwa

Laura Bidwa’s recent paintings are composed of layers of oil, latex, and spray paints on panels that the artist applies with a confident and exuberant brush. Planes of color are disrupted by bold brushwork, building organic forms carefully laid down, which create distinct, painterly shapes. The simplicity of the background creates the clarity necessary to highlight the eccentric use of color.

The paintings are packed with contradictions, as they are both energetic and quiet, textured and smooth. Surfaces are matte or gloss, thin and thick. In the artist’s own words, “If it works, I can draw a viewer into looking at a painting very carefully, noticing the gesture of a brushstroke or a shape, how the paint’s edges change, how the surface of the oil paint is matte or slightly less matte or shiny, how the colors shift as the paint is thicker or thinner. I hope the viewer is able to be lost in looking, seeing one thing after another even in this simple object.”

See these works by Laura Bidwa in “Each,” now on view in the 10th Avenue pocket gallery through 2/15.

🥂 Join us for a reception next Thursday, 1/16.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/ywc4w4ss

ON VIEW: Susan EnglishEthereal and minimal, Susan English’s paintings play with light and space. She employs transparent...
01/09/2025

ON VIEW: Susan English

Ethereal and minimal, Susan English’s paintings play with light and space. She employs transparent pigments and layering to manipulate light and illuminate her color fields. Soft variations and subtle textures appear across the gauzy surfaces soothing and disrupting the meditative environment. Describing the importance of light in her work, English writes, “Paintings, in a sense, are “still light”—light captured and distilled into permanence. My work is a response to my experience of light. Color is light and light is color. The color, which is made by pouring layers of tinted transparent polymer onto panels or paper, creates an event of still light. In this stillness, there is something both timeless and calming.”

English pioneered a technique of pouring and manipulating tinted polymer that allows her to produce a wide variety of textures, shades, opacities and finishes. The fluid application of polymer creates opportunities for spontaneous marks as English balances between control and appreciating the unexpected.

See these works by English in “Still Light,” now on view in the 10th Avenue gallery through 2/15.

🥂 Join us for a reception next Thursday, 1/16.

Installation in progress 🚧🔨🖼️Opening tomorrow in the 10th Avenue gallery are two spectacular solo exhibitions: Susan Eng...
01/09/2025

Installation in progress 🚧🔨🖼️

Opening tomorrow in the 10th Avenue gallery are two spectacular solo exhibitions: Susan English in the main gallery and Laura Bidwa in the pocket gallery.

We’ll celebrate the openings next week, but until then, stop in for a first-look starting tomorrow, January 9.

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present three new exhibitions:📍179 10th Avenue:"Still Light" by Susan English "Ea...
01/06/2025

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to present three new exhibitions:

📍179 10th Avenue:

"Still Light" by Susan English
"Each" by Laura Bidwa

January 9 - February 15, 2025

📍529 W 20th Street:

"Reprieve" by Samantha Haring & Tess Michalik
January 16 - February 22, 2025

🥂 Opening receptions Thursday, January 16, from 6-8pm

Learn more: tinyurl.com/mrynxw6t

Welcome, 2025! Cheers to a happy, healthy year and new beginnings 🥂Erin O’Brien, “Begin Again,” 2019, acrylic on linen, ...
01/02/2025

Welcome, 2025! Cheers to a happy, healthy year and new beginnings 🥂

Erin O’Brien, “Begin Again,” 2019, acrylic on linen, 25 x 20 inches

Reflecting on all of the wonderful exhibitions of 2024 as the year comes to a close 🥳Looking forward to another year of ...
12/31/2024

Reflecting on all of the wonderful exhibitions of 2024 as the year comes to a close 🥳

Looking forward to another year of sharing art in NYC and beyond 🥂

Wishing you a wonderful holiday and a healthy new year!The galleries will be closed through January 1. See you in 2025!F...
12/24/2024

Wishing you a wonderful holiday and a healthy new year!

The galleries will be closed through January 1. See you in 2025!

Featured artwork: "Multi Solids" by Joanne Freeman, gouache on handmade paper, 20 x 18 inches

❄️Happy winter solstice❄️Lisa Breslow’s painting, “Snowlight,” is a view from the artist’s balcony where she watches the...
12/21/2024

❄️Happy winter solstice❄️

Lisa Breslow’s painting, “Snowlight,” is a view from the artist’s balcony where she watches the street life below and see the seasons transition.

“I love the subtle color and tonal relationships when it snows- the beautiful greys and whites integrate the contrast between architecture and nature,” she shares. “I am drawn to places that are part of my everyday life and continue to explore them in different lighting and times of day.”

“Snowlight” is sold to a happy collector, but new works by Lisa Breslow are available on her artist page.

Welcome, winter! ☃️

Visit KMFA on 10th Avenue and you’ll be surprised to find our “Pocket Gallery” - an intimate alcove within the gallery t...
12/20/2024

Visit KMFA on 10th Avenue and you’ll be surprised to find our “Pocket Gallery” - an intimate alcove within the gallery that creates the perfect setting for small works.

Come experience the Pocket Gallery this weekend before the gallery closes for the holidays. We have works on view by Yolanda Sánchez, Erick Johnson, Laura Fayer, Sara MacCulloch, Rocío Rodriguez, Deborah Zlotsky and Gillian Theobald.

Our   is: Maeve D'Arcy, "Double Feature," 2024, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inchesMaeve D’Arcy's practice explores mark m...
12/17/2024

Our is: Maeve D'Arcy, "Double Feature," 2024, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches

Maeve D’Arcy's practice explores mark making as language. In a contemplative process, her random thoughts are turned into dashes, x’s, dots and every other sort of repetitive mark. Her mark making represents real time in seconds, minutes, and hours. This literal documentation of time, as well as the notion of time in the more ephemeral sense, take up equal space in the paintings.

Swaths of color, interrupted by vivid objects, are in dialogue with waves of dots and lines. This dynamic visual harmony is crafted through a careful process of addition, and every new element alters what D’Arcy refers to as the “tempo” of the painting. The dots, lines, and gestures offer a meditation on memories, flashbacks, daydreams, or nightmares. They represent parts of a whole, snippets of something larger, different moods, chapters, vignettes, and epic poems.

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12/14/2024

There’s never a bad time to gallery hop! Take a break from your holiday shopping and come enjoy some fabulous art in our Chelsea gallery. Open today 11am-6pm.

📍179 10th Avenue

Having downtime in between exhibitions is always a great opportunity to showcase work by a big group of gallery artists!...
12/12/2024

Having downtime in between exhibitions is always a great opportunity to showcase work by a big group of gallery artists!

Come on down to 10th Avenue and see works by Peter Stephens, Arielle Zamora, Yolanda Sanchez, Sara MacCulloch, Erick Johnson, Cynthia Rojas, Deborah Zlotsky, and more. We'll be open through Saturday, December 21, before we close for the holidays.

And don't forget - art makes for a wonderful gift!

Our   is: Mary Didoardo, "Blue Poem," 2024, oil on wood panel, 30 x 30 inchesMary Didoardo explores dynamic line and col...
12/10/2024

Our is: Mary Didoardo, "Blue Poem," 2024, oil on wood panel, 30 x 30 inches

Mary Didoardo explores dynamic line and color. She begins her paintings by adding layer upon layer of paint to wood panels, then covers the surface in tape, upon which she draws her signature expressive lines. In contrast to the freedom of this gesture, she then cuts along these markings with an exacto-knife, and applies yet another layer of paint to the revealed surface. Finally, she removes the remaining packaging tape, which causes flakes of paint to peel off and reveal hidden colors. This process of building and revealing is captured in layers of paint and looping, swirling compositions. The manic dance of line across the canvas is chaos made visible, reaching sudden resolution. In their gestural eloquence, the paintings are simultaneously serious and celebratory.

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All good things must come to an end, but we did enjoy watching the fascinating deinstallation process behind Lisa Hoke’s...
12/08/2024

All good things must come to an end, but we did enjoy watching the fascinating deinstallation process behind Lisa Hoke’s “Relative Uncertainty.” Can you guess how long it took to take down this massive installation?

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529 W 20th Street , Ste 6W
New York, NY
10011

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Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm

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