Friday Arts founders Laura Kleger and Justin Schwarz discuss their vision for bringing art to more collectors through artist collaborations, and the craft behind each edition.
In this intimate conversation, Sophy Naess reflects on the quiet power of inherited craft, the politics of material, and how accidents at the loom became the start of something lasting.
Art in the Age of Climate Disruption
Vernal exhibition artists on reverence, reckoning, and the landscapes we're losing.
Films
Documentary shorts about artists and their creative process.
Stephen Hendee recounts decades of his architecturally ambitious installations that immerse a viewer in light, color, and darkness. Inspired by digital culture and dystopian futures past and present, Hendee explores the intersection of virtual and real-world experience.
Watch Fabienne Lasserre construct a bold Pitchable piece, blending painting, sculpture, and playful material experimentation. Known for large-scale work, these intimate pieces invite a re-imagining of how we perceive and interact with art.
Watch Sophy Naess bring a floral painting to life and discuss how weaving has transformed her improvisational approach to composition and form. In her studio, Naess navigates the tension between immediacy and structure, capturing the fleeting beauty of life as it unfolds and inevitably fades away.
Sophy Naess reflects on The Bathers at Palisades Park (King Spa), her sweeping mural on silk that incorporates art historical references into a rendition of a Korean spa. Reworking the bather motif through a feminist lens, she layers bold hues into a scene where leisure, labor, and art intersect.
Grace Hager reflects on beauty, awe, and expressive color in her vibrant paintings and ceramic sculptures, which explore her encounters with nature.
Fabienne Lasserre reflects on her decades-long exploration of the boundaries between painting and sculpture, body and space, color and form. Rooted in feminist ethics, her work invites viewers to question binaries and engage with abstraction as a language of inclusion, embodiment, and emotional depth.
Step into the darkroom with Joseph Minek and witness his experimental, camera-less process transform light-sensitive materials into abstract fields of electric color. His unconventional practice pushes the material limits of photography, inviting us to reconsider what defines the medium.
Step inside Grace DeGennaro's Maine studio and witness her slow art practice of marking time with universal geometric forms, complex beaded lattices, and luminous washes of color.
The Art of the Ephemeral
Watch Sophy Naess bring a floral painting to life and discuss how weaving has transformed her improvisational approach to composition and form.
In her studio, Naess balances immediacy and structure, capturing the beauty of life as it unfurls and inevitably dims.
Darkroom Magic
Joseph Minek's experimental, camera-less process transforms light-sensitive materials into abstract fields of electric color.
His unconventional practice pushes the material limits of photography, inviting us to reconsider what defines the medium.
Artworks
Artists
Grace DeGennaro
Grace DeGennaro's meditative paintings and works on paper feature luminous grounds, translucent forms, and meticulous geometric lattices. Transforming ancient symbols from Eastern and Western traditions into contemporary visual language, DeGennaro invites viewers to experience stillness.
Sophy Naess
Sophy Naess balances spontaneity and structure in her painting, weaving, and printmaking, exploring beauty, decay, and the fleeting nature of time.
Jamie Isenstein
Jamie Isenstein work spans sculpture, video, performance, painting, and photography, considering perception, subjectivity and the slippery nature of animate and inanimate existence. Juxtaposing humor and dread, phantasmagoria and banality, her work explores our collective bodily discomfort and the boundaries between object and subject.
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.
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.