Good friend zone II, 2026
Marin Majić
NINO MIER GALLERY
“Artists on Our Radar” is a month-to-month collection targeted on 5 artists who’ve our consideration. Using our artwork experience and Artsy knowledge, we’ve decided which artists made an influence this previous month via new gallery illustration, exhibitions, auctions, artwork gala’s, or recent works on Artsy.
Maya Seas
B. 1991. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Late Might, 2026
Maya Seas
Rajiv Menon Up to date
Artist Maya Seas creates dreamy worlds the place ladies bathe, relaxation, and converse, misplaced in serene reveries. These scenes are impressed, partly, by Indian miniatures. Seas works throughout an unlikely mash-up of supplies, together with oil stick, acrylic, charcoal, pure gold, and even molding paste, giving the surfaces of her work textural depth.
“The principle emotion I’m at all times on the lookout for is the sensation of security,” the artist mentioned in an interview about her work. “If I make one thing and I really feel prefer it’s not giving me that feeling, or if any of the figures really feel like they don’t really feel secure, then I destroy it. I gained’t let it exist.”
The Los Angeles–primarily based artist’s works had been just lately included in “Imagining Elsewhere” at Rajiv Menon Contemporary in Los Angeles, a bunch present that introduced collectively artists exploring landscapes via experiences of fantasy, reminiscence, and want. Her works had been additionally just lately on view in a bunch present at Half Gallery in New York. In 2023, Seas had a breakthrough debut solo present, “Currents,” at Anna Zorina Gallery in Los Angeles.
Marin Majić
B. 1979, Frankfurt, Germany. Lives and works in New York Metropolis.
Damaging consideration, 2026
Marin Majić
NINO MIER GALLERY
Brooklyn-based artist Marin Majić creates small, atmospheric work with iridescent surfaces. The Frankfurt-born Croatian artist layers coloured pencil, wax, oil paint, and marble mud to construct these luminous fields. Marble mud is employed virtually sculpturally, giving the looks of the standard metalwork and enamel strategy of cloisonné.
The artist’s solo exhibition, “discodisco” is now on view at Nino Mier Gallery in New York via June thirteenth, marking his third solo exhibition with the gallery. In these works, Majić delves into imagery from the ’70s. Disco balls, lounges, and dancers within the ecstatic launch seem via hazy veils of sunshine. In Shifting me shifting you (2026), for example, the strobing lights and gyrating our bodies on a dance flooring are pictured from the angle of a DJ sales space.
Different work seize a fantastical pure world. In Damaging Consideration (2026), a spider net, seemingly manufactured from crystals, glitters in a clearing between tropical-looking vegetation, in opposition to a colourful daybreak sky. These elegant visions of nature are paying homage to the good Nineteenth-century Romantic artists comparable to Frederic Edwin Church and John Martin, whom Majić admires, and who sought transcendent divinity on this planet round them.
Majić’s intimately scaled work can really feel like portals between worlds, with motifs in a single reappearing in others. In these new work, a recumbent nude determine, a pair of fingers, a pigeon, and a string of pearls reemerge, making a hypnotic sense of rhythm.
Elif Saydam
B. 1985, Calgary, Canada. Lives and works in Berlin.
Dagger, 2026
Elif Saydam
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Defend (Are you secure), 2026
Elif Saydam
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Artist Elif Saydam makes the mundane mystical. Within the Berlin-based artist’s work, on a regular basis objects (like wrenches or a candleholder) are rendered in gold leaf and silver leaf, or ornamented with chiffon or nylon, remodeling them into valuable objects. Saydam’s approaches draw from miniature portray and illuminated manuscript traditions.
Typically, their works embrace snippets of textual content or comedian e book parts, and Saydam additionally experiments with nontraditional supplies and bases, together with vintage lavatory stall doorways, anti-shoplifting mirrors, and kitchen sponges. Of their present present, “Glory,” on view at Munich’s Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle via July thirty first, the artist presents miniature works alongside a brand new collection of bigger works in oil, collage, and silver leaf. These new works have a meditative high quality, with round kinds performing like little mandalas at their facilities.
Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕
B. 1991, Hualien, Taiwan. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Mountain Quakes and Crumbles in Inexperienced and Blue (Danda Mountain, Hualien), 2026
Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕
Albion Jeune
The Delivery of a New Coloration (Mount St. Helens, Washington State), 2026
Su Yu-Xin 苏予昕
Albion Jeune
Los Angeles artist Su Yu-Xin believes portray is a witness to historical past, formed by its wars, migrations, invasions, and commerce routes. Her works particularly delve into the evolution of pigment from pure materials to business product. The Taiwan-born artist collects, research, and processes natural substances—together with oyster shells, clam shells, lapis lazuli, and inexperienced soil—into pigments which she paints onto flax stretched over frames usually shaped to uncommon shapes.
Her present exhibition, “Afterstone,” a pop-up in Venice in the course of the Biennale hosted by Albion Jeune, options 19 new work. In a single new work, The Birth of a New Color (Mount St. Helens, Washington State) (2026), the artist works with a pigment constituted of Helenite, a synthetic glass, first made by chance when rock mud from the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was superheated by salvage staff' torches. Helenite gems are actually bought as souvenirs within the space and have a greenish hue.
Her supplies change into an virtually geological layering of minerals, natural and artificial, whereas her imagery evokes swirling, abstracted seascapes and horizons.
Jane Yang D’Haene
B. 1970, South Korea. Lives and works in New York Metropolis.
Untitled, 2026
Jane Yang D’Haene
Bienvenu Steinberg & C
Untitled, 2026
Jane Yang D’Haene
Bienvenu Steinberg & C
Brooklyn-based Korean artist Jane Yang D’Haene creates stoneware vessels that draw from Korean pottery kinds, such because the dal hangari, or Korean moon jar. D’Haene melds these conventional kinds with vibrant inflections of coloration and surprising textures. Her most up-to-date exhibition, “Love Letter,” her second at Bienvenu Steinberg & C included new porcelain wall works and vessels. In a poem accompanying the present, the artist wrote of her follow, “I don’t know if I selected clay, or if clay selected me. However we nonetheless write one another love letters.”
The artist’s fusion of custom and invention has made her an influential power within the ceramics world. Lately, her works have been acquired by Harvard Artwork Museums, the Brooklyn Museum, and Sarmaya Arts Basis, Mumbai. In February 2026, D’Haene was introduced as a finalist for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize.
