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10/15/2026

It is the last few days to see

Mary DeVincentis “Like a Star at Dawn”
in the gallery’s main space

On view through Oct 17

Visit us until 6 pm today or Friday and Saturday, 11 - 6 pm

Image: Mary DeVincentis
From Here to Eternity, 2026
Oil on canvas
9 x 12 in

08/04/2026

Artist Spotlight : Meghan Brady

These works are on view in “True Colors” until August 22
39 Lispenard St., NY, NY
Join us for the artist talk moderated by Saul Ostrow on August 8, 6:00-7:30pm

Meghan Brady received her BA from Smith College and her MFA from Boston University. She was the 2017 recipient of the Ellis Beauregard Foundation Grant, a 2018 Hewnoaks Summer Fellow, as well as a MacDowell Fellow in 2019. Recent group exhibitions include The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Steel House Projects, Rockland, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, Foreland, Catskill, Mrs., Maspeth, and a residency/exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include The Pit, Los Angeles; Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME; NADA House, Governors Island; Independent, NY, and Mrs., Maspeth, NY, which was reviewed by the New York Times. Her work resides in the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME, the U.S. Department of State, Arlington, VA, the Fidelity Investments Art Collection, Boston, MA, SoHo House Art Collection, Brooklyn, Collection Francis J. Greenburger, New York and New York Presbyterian Hospital Collection, New York, NY. Brady lives and works in Camden, ME.

The Renters, 2025
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
21 x 20 inches

Everything Is, 2025
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
22 x 23 inches

Just Hatching, 2025
Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
12 x 9 inches

07/29/2026

Thank you to The Brooklyn Rail The Brooklyn Rail and writer Ekin Erkan Ekin Erkan for the considerate review of “True Colors”! We truly appreciate your observations and selection of our show to share with the wider public in ArtSeen. Link in bio to read the full review.

“True Colors” features work by Meghan Brady, Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, and Paul Sevigny

“FREIGHT+VOLUME’s True Colors summer group show includes the work of eight artists: Meghan Brady, Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, and Paul Sevigny. Although some of the artists have exhibited with the gallery fairly regularly, they do not share any immediately perceptible pictorial-aesthetic approach. Under closer scrutiny, one can espy a broader thematic tendency—one consistent with so-called post-minimal “casualism” or “provisional painting,” a description Raphael Rubinstein applied in 2009 to “works that [intentionally] look casual, dashed-off, tentative, unfinished or self-cancelling.” According to Rubinstein, artists working in this manner “deliberately turn away from ‘strong’ painting for something that seems to constantly risk inconsequence or collapse.”

This self-conscious teetering on the borders of inconsequence plays out in various ways, ranging from deliberate unfinishedness (e.g., unpainted or bare expanses of the canvas) to inchoate forms (e.g., indefinite figurative elements or undefined geometric cantons).”

07/28/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Paul Sevigny

Paul’s abstract work is on view in the exhibition “True Colors” until August 29

39 Lispenard Street
Gallery hours Tuesday-Sat 11:00-6:00

With a name synonymous with New York nightlife, Paul Sevigny doesn’t require much of an introduction. He began his foray into the world of entertainment as a DJ spinning at exclusive parties in New York and around the world. Before long, he was opening and operating equally exclusive venues of his own with his most recent venture being Paul’s Cocktail Lounge at Tribeca Grand Hotel. With fluorescent, floral artwork created by Josh Smith, and a well-heeled crowd that embodies the full scope of downtown style and culture, the space is essentially the antithesis of New York’s contemporary nightlife scene. Which is exactly what Mr. Sevigny had in mind. Paul Sevigny received his BA in Studio Arts from College of Charleston in 1994. He started to show his paintings in 2017 with two consecutive shows curated by Bill Powers in NYC and Miami that were followed by a string of group shows, among them an exhibition held by Christie’s in New York.

Untitled 2, 2024
Oil on Canvas
36h x 48w in
91.44h x 121.92w cm

Untitled 10, 2024
Oil on Canvas
60h x 72w in
152.40h x 182.88w cm

07/15/2026

Join us tonight from 6:00-8:00 pm for the ADAA Tribeca Gallery Walk

Installation views of “True Colors,” on view through August 29

With work by Meghan Brady, Mary DeVincentis, Jai Hart, Riad Miah, Ilse Sørensen Murdock, Julia Rooney, Cordy Ryman, Paul Sevigny

Across these artists, color does not consolidate into a single mode but persists as a distributed condition of material, image, and affect, linking otherwise divergent practices through a shared investment in color as substance under contemporary conditions. This diversity of approach marks this exhibition: each artist develops a distinct material and formal engagement with color, from salvaged wood to stained fabric, from screen-scaled paint to cut paper. Taken together, the artists suggest that the Romantic pursuit persists across abstract, narrative, and figurative modes alike, even as that pursuit now arrives mediated and performed through contemporary image culture. What binds them further is the way each artist uses color to re-enter the figural—to renegotiate how form, surface, space, and relation are assembled, sensed, and sustained.

What emerges from True Colors is not a unified position but a shifting set of models through which color structures attention, feeling, perception, and experience. The works do not resolve the tension between painting as image, object, surface, or event; rather, they hold those conditions in suspension. In this sense, color functions simultaneously as material presence and unstable sign—something seen, sensed, staged, performed, and continually reconfigured.

- Saul Ostrow

📸 Morgan Waltz

07/14/2026

Continuing our ARTIST SPOTLIGHT series of the artists currently showing in “True Colors”, on view through the end of the Summer at 39 Lispenard St.

Jai Hart

Jai Hart is an American artist. Jai holds a M.F.A. from School of Visual Arts, New York, a B.F.A. from Kansas City Art Institute, KC, MO., and studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2025 Jai participated in several exhibitions, included was a solo exhibition “Loose Ends” was the inaugural exhibition and the grand opening of The Burlington Micro Gallery, Burlington, MA.. and a couple of two-person shows: “How to Let Go of the World: A Duet with Kelly Worman” at Freight and Volume Gallery in Tribeca, NY., as well as “Chalky Wrinkle Shape and Shine”, with Timothy Kadish, at The Essex Art Center, MA. Hart’s 2025 group exhibitions include “SUBWAY RIDERS” at Spring Projects, Dumbo, NY., “So It Goes” at The Wassaic Project’s Summer Exhibition, NY., “Immortal Threads” at The Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury, VT. and “Pastoral: Refuge and Redemption” at ReadyMade Gallery, Orleans, (Cape Cod) MA. Other recent exhibits include “In Nature’s Grasp” at The Brattleboro Art Museum, VT., “Stuffed” at Boston University Stone Art Gallery, MA. and “Slant Rhyme” at Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery, MA. Hart and was a nominee for the Rema Hort Mann Grant and has received artist grants, fellowships, and stipends from art organizations, including the The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Oregon Arts Commission, The New York Foundation for the Arts, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, The Vermont Studio Center, and The St. Botolph Club Foundations, MA. Jai’s work can be found in private and corporate collections within the US, and abroad, Jai currently lives and works in Concord, MA.

Image:
Hairpin Turns in Red, Green, Blue and Yellow, 2026
Acrylic on canvas, poly-fil stuffed canvas tube frame
72 x 42 inches

Landscape with /// and :::::”s, 2026
Acrylic on canvas, poly-fil stuffed canvas tube frame
51 x 40 inches

Rain beams +clouds, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, poly-fil stuffed canvas tube frame
11 x 9 inches

Riding the Shinkansen (high speed train) from Tokyo to Kyoto, 2025

07/07/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Cordy Ryman
currently showing “Breakout 23” in “True Colors”

True Colors
39 Lispenard St.
Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 11-6

Cordy Ryman is an abstract artist who fuses painting and sculpture using humble materials, most often acrylic paint and wood. He’s known for large-scale, site-specific installations that can be broken down into smaller components and stand-alone pieces. Ryman’s works are often responsive, reacting to their environments, their own layered histories and to one another. He maintains a prolific resourceful playfulness in his practice, with an evolving vocabulary of form and color that informs the freshness of his work. Playful and unpretentious, he mines the rawness of his materials, elevating the imperfect with an approach that is physical, elegant and mysterious.

Ryman’s work is held in collections worldwide, including Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Microsoft Art Collection; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS; Raussmüller Collection, Basel, Switzerland; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; and The Speyer Family Collection. Ryman received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in New York, NY.

Cordy Ryman
“Breakout 23,” 2026
Acrylic and enamel on wood
1 x 1.25 x 469 inches
This work is part of the “Clackers” series

Detail view of “Breakout 23,” 2026
Acrylic and enamel on wood
1 x 1.25 x 469 inches
This work is part of the “Clackers” series

07/01/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Riad Miah

Riad Miah is currently showing three works in the exhibition “True Colors”, on view through July 18.
39 Lispenard St., NY, NY

Artist biography
Riad Miah (b. Trinidad) currently lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited at the Equity Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Sperone Westwater, Wave Hill, White Box Gallery, Rooster Contemporary Art, Simon Gallery, and Lesley Heller Workshop. He has received fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts and Germination Europe. He has been nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, the Rema Hort-Mann Award, and the Basil H. Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting. Riad’s works are included in private collections, university, and corporate collections, including Novartis and the Children’s Hospital in Cincinnati.

Image:
Towards the Daylight, 2025
Oil on canvas over panel construction
44 x 54 inches

Study in Blue Anxiety, 2025
Oil on canvas over gatorboard, acrylic on Dura-lar, and wall drawing
60 x 67 inches

Dust Bowl, 2023
Oil on canvas over panel construction
44 x 54 inches

06/24/2026

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: Ilse Sørensen Murdock

Works are currently on view in “True Colors” through July 18!

Ilse Sørensen Murdock holds a Certificate from the New York Studio School, a BFA from Parsons School of Design, 2000, and a MFA from Rutgers University at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2009. Murdock has been a resident of The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Skowhegan, Vermont Studio Center and a returning resident to DNA Provincetown Residency. Her work has been exhibited extensively in the United States, including with Alice Gauvin Gallery, ME and Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY. In 2019 Murdock received the Cultural Award Grant from the American Scandinavian Society, concluding in an exhibition at the Trygve Lie Gallery, New York, 2020. She was also included in a survey of painting: Here and Now at the Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, New Jersey, 2020, and most recently exhibited in a two person show at Platform Project Space, Dumbo, NY. Murdock produces work out of her studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Ilse Sørensen Murdock
Sure, 2021
Oil on wood, plastic caps, wire
13 x 17 inches

Ilse Sørensen Murdock
Salve, 2023
Oil on wood, plastic caps, wire
11 x 13.5 inches

Ilse Sørensen Murdock
Soften, 2023
Oil on wood, plastic caps, wire
14 x 17 inches

06/18/2026

Thank you everyone who joined us for the opening of “True Colors” last Saturday! The exhibition is now on view through July 18.

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