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“Artists on Our Radar” is a month-to-month sequence centered on 5 artists who’ve our consideration. Using our artwork experience and Artsy information, we’ve decided which artists made an impression this previous month via new gallery illustration, exhibitions, auctions, artwork festivals, or recent works on Artsy.
B. 1991, Seoul. Lives and works in New York.
Figures emerge and dissolve inside churning storms of crimson pink, forest inexperienced, and electrical blue in Julia Jo’s work. The Korean artist’s visible language feels concurrently intimate and uncontainable, with whispers of flesh rendered in unruly, colourful brushstrokes. In Down on One Knee (2025)—featured in Jo’s solo presentation with Charles Moffett at New York artwork honest Independent earlier this month—fragments of torsos, faces, and limbs hover in a unstable state, their contours partially seen amongst flashes of lavender, umber, and acid yellow.
Jo’s frenetic brushwork is how she interprets emotional depth into her work. “I’m all the time interested by social relationships and the problem of placing sure feelings into phrases,” she instructed Galerie. These work evoke feelings starting from contemplative unhappiness, as seen in Down on One Knee, to all-consuming love in Catching Fire (2025), the place two faces kiss inside a tangle of ochre and inexperienced foliage.
Primarily based in Brooklyn, Jo obtained her MFA from Parsons Faculty of Design in 2019. Her latest solo reveals embrace “Torrent” at Charles Moffett in 2024, “Swoon” at Jessica Silverman in 2023, and “Point of No Return” at James Fuentes in 2023. Her work is held within the collections of ICA Miami and the Morgan Stanley Assortment in New York.
—Maxwell Rabb
B. 1976, Torrance, California. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Postcards are a standard sight at artwork festivals: Exhibitors typically reproduce works from their cubicles as 4-by-6-inch mementos. By far essentially the most covetable postcards at New York Artwork Week, although, weren’t bits of paper ephemera, however as an alternative ceramic wall works by the Taiwanese American artist Raina Lee. At each NADA and Future Fair, Lee introduced pocket-sized, glazed stoneware work impressed by her travels. L.A. gallery Stroll Backyard’s choice at NADA captured scenes from a visit to Paris, like Lee’s accomplice snapping a photograph of a Monet portray. In the meantime, her presentation with LaiSun Keane at Future Truthful documented her time in Spain.
The reminiscences that Lee turns into ceramic keepsakes replicate her deep fascination with relics of cultural historical past. These embrace the Islamic pottery she noticed on the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, and sculptures from the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. This curiosity is mirrored throughout Lee’s broader ceramic follow in works that reimagine Korean moon jars, Japanese raku pottery, and different conventional varieties with gloopy, textural glazes and sudden shade palettes.
A former journalist, Lee holds an MA in media and movie research from the New Faculty. Whereas residing in New York, she picked up ceramics at a studio close to her residence. Now based mostly in Los Angeles, Lee has had solo exhibitions at native galleries Stroll Backyard and Area of interest Gallery.
—Olivia Horn
B. 1995, Henan, China. Lives and works in London.
Yaya Yajie Liang’s oil work come alive with fluid, gestural brushstrokes that ripple throughout her canvases. Her work is deeply involved with bodily sensations and the interconnectedness of life varieties, and attracts on philosophical sources. Amongst these are Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, during which the protagonist is reworked into an insect, and the speculation of agential realism, which proposes that nothing exists independently; reasonably, issues come into being by way of their relationships and interactions.
This month, Liang introduced a brand new sequence of works with Cob at NADA New York, together with watercolors on Indian cotton paper alongside large- and small-scale oil work. In a single such work, Falling Falling (2025), swirling biomorphic varieties are rendered in earth tones and tender lilacs, taking inspiration from objects, like seaweed and shells, discovered on the artist’s coastal walks. Hovering between abstraction and figuration, Liang’s compositions recommend the instability of the pure world—a resonant theme in a time of environmental disaster. She accomplished the honest sales space at NADA with a site-specific mural that underscored her work’ ecological visible motifs.
Liang earned a BA in high-quality artwork from China Central Academy of Tremendous Arts and an MA in portray from the Royal Faculty of Artwork, the place she is at the moment pursuing a PhD. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Galerie Kandlhofer in Vienna, Lyles & King in New York, and Cob in London. Liang’s work has additionally been exhibited in group reveals at London galleries together with Thaddaeus Ropac, Gillian Jason Gallery, and others.
—Adeola Homosexual
B. 1994, Delhi. Lives and works in Noida, India.
The on a regular basis encounters and ambiguities of life in Delhi are on the coronary heart of Ritika Sharma’s portray follow. The artist each observes and questions her residence metropolis as she experiences it.
Sharma’s small, oil-on-panel work—featured in “Confluences,” a present exploring the intersections of portray and pictures mounted by Delhi gallery VHC | Vida Heydari Contemporary earlier this 12 months—recommend scenes lifted from CCTV footage. In a monochromatic palette, she paints enigmatic encounters between loosely rendered, faceless figures, leaving the viewer to wonder if they’re witnessing moments of intimacy or battle. The title of the works on this sequence, “Near Determine,” references delayed identification of suspects in legal issues. Thus, Sharma nods to the uncertainty of every scene and the false sense of safety fostered by the surveillance state—including a political layer to her quotidian scenes.
Sharma earned a BFA and an MFA in portray on the Faculty of Artwork, Delhi. She has participated in group reveals throughout India at galleries together with Bikaner Home and Nippon Artwork Gallery. Prior to now 12 months, the artist has obtained the Space118 Tremendous Artwork Grant and the Inlaks Tremendous Artwork Award.
—Arun Kakar
B. 1990, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Early in her profession, multidisciplinary artist Marilyn Sonneveld created figurative work exploring the physique as a web site of each intimacy and politicization. In newer works—such because the work on view via Might thirty first in her solo show at EDJI Gallery in Brussels—Sonneveld considers intimacy via an evocative however extra abstracted language, centering private reminiscence and distance.
At first look, Royal Hug (2025) is an atmospheric summary canvas rendered in vibrant jewel tones. Hold wanting, and two figures materialize in tender focus. Although the work invitations nearer inspection, the embracing figures stay hazy, refusing to solidify—like an elusive phrase on the tip of the tongue.
In distinction, Sonneveld’s hanging, blown-glass sculptures, like Soap III (2022), have clear bounds. Their dripping, twisting varieties evoke motion and fluidity, like ephemeral cleaning soap bubbles floating above a sink. Collectively, the work and sculptures construct pressure—between absence and presence, and movement and stillness.
Sonneveld graduated from the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions on the Kunsthal Rotterdam, No Man’s Artwork Gallery in Amsterdam, Badr El Jundi Gallery in Madrid, and elsewhere.
—Isabelle Sakelaris
