Friday Arts is an artist-run gallery. Through exhibitions, films and stories, we bring you closer to contemporary art.
Body / Body / Body offers an intimate counterpoint to an age of control: works that reclaim the body as a site of autonomy, performance, pleasure, and lived experience. With an unconventional use of materials, artists Jamie Isenstein, Fabienne Lasserre, and Sophy Naess reflect upon bodies through the lenses of feminism, humor, and imagination.
Sophy Naess's botanical paintings, prints, and weavings capture the restless vitality of fleeting subjects, balancing spontaneity with formal precision. Moving fluidly across mediums, Naess explores the tension between immediacy and structure, celebrating the ephemeral beauty of life as it unfolds and fades.
Grace DeGennaro explores the sacred geometric forms believed by Plato to be the fundamental building blocks of the universe. The series contemplates timelessness, universal forms of order, and the luminous possibilities of color.
Joseph Minek's unconventional, camera-less practice upends traditional photochemical processes, creating vibrant compositions that provoke a conversation about the very nature of photography.
With luminous sculptures, intricate prints, and intimate drawings, Stephen Hendee explores virtual and physical spaces and mines technology's dark potential.
For her exhibition The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa), Sophy Naess presents a monumental mural on silk that re-imagines the classical bather motif in a contemporary spa setting. Merging art history with everyday ritual, the work immerses viewers in a vivid, feminist tableau where leisure, labor, and art history intersect.
The first presentation of Fabienne Lasserre's category-defying Pitchables series blends painting and sculpture to explore feminism, humor, touch, and the body.
Grace Hager's exhibition Encounters meditates on nature to explore beauty, awe, and expressive color through vibrant paintings and ceramic sculptures.
Grace DeGennaro's abstract paintings draw from ancient traditions and natural mathematical sequences to examine the essence of time. Through harmonious compositions and a slow, intentional process, DeGennaro invites viewers into stillness and contemplation.
Artist in Focus
Joseph Minek crafts abstract photographs without a camera, pushing the boundaries of the medium. Manipulating photographic paper and chemistry, he produces arresting compositions of colliding color and form.
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Friday Arts Editions
From Dürer’s woodcuts to Warhol’s silkscreens, printmaking has democratized art for centuries.
Friday Arts celebrates this tradition, partnering with artists to create limited edition works on paper that offer collectors exceptional, accessible work.
We champion artists working in a variety of media. Presenting curated exhibitions, intimate studio visits, and cinematic films, Friday Arts offers a deeper, more personal way to experience and collect contemporary art.
Fabienne Lasserre
Fabienne Lasserre makes boundary-blurring art, where painting meets sculpture and abstraction invites physical engagement. In her intimate Pitchables series, Lasserre celebrates materials, scale, and feminist themes.
Stephen Hendee
Stephen Hendee explores virtual and physical architectures with a distinctive and luminous material vocabulary. Alluding to early internet aesthetics, climate change, and dystopian futures, Hendee offers a prescient meditation on our accelerating digital embrace.