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Sep 24 - Nov 07 2026 - 6 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Rocío Rodríguez titled The Pulse In-Between. This is her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on September 24th from 6-8pm. Rodríguez’s abstract paintings reflect her sense of life’s transience. She writes, “Through opposing forces—heat and coolness, saturation and neutral grays, gestural mark and meditative pause—I make paintings where change isn't a single event but an ongoing condition.” Passages of color are disrupted, wiped away, struck through, dispersed, and repainted. Friction exists between temperature, density, openness, and within the act of physically marking the canvas. Rodríguez’s paintings unfold through deliberate decisions. In her own words, “Some paintings are built through layered, urgent mark-making, while others arrive at a hard-won stillness. Together, they reflect a central concern in my work: that opposites don't cancel each other out. Difference can become a source of discovery, allowing for various emotional states to be expressed.” Movement is constant, soft washes drip, frenzied marks vibrate and smudge, and flecks and splashes skitter across the canvas. These marks oscillate between soft, ethereal veils and frantic impasto. Swirls and tangles of brushstrokes intertwine to suggest sunsets, gardens, water, and sky. Rocío Rodríguez has exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; and the Huntsville Museum of Art, AL. Rodríguez is the recipient of various prestigious national and regional awards including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman 2018, Artadia Atlanta 2011, a Cintas Fellowship, and two Southern Arts Federation and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. In 2014 she was awarded an Artist Residency at Marfa Contemporary in Marfa, Texas. Rocío Rodríguez was born in Caibarién, Cuba. She earned her BFA and MFA from the University of Georgia and continues to live and work in Atlanta, Georgia

Nov 05 - Dec 12 2026

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Faceted, an exhibition of new paintings by Ky Anderson. This will be her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and an artist reception will be held November 12th from 6-8pm. Ky Anderson’s abstract paintings evolve through an improvisational, instinctive process. Working on several pieces at once, Anderson moves from one composition to the next, allowing colors and shapes to flow between them. This approach creates distinct series, and in her newest body of work, her shapes have become sharper and more pointed. Curves meet triangles and cutouts, linear forms and patterns stack and fan out, and bold, solid shapes contrast with delicate transparencies. Her palette moves between deep, earthy tones and warm, sunny hues. Of this newest series, she writes, “shapes have become sharp and triangular, like paper airplanes and unfolded origami. Color stands in for folds and reflections, doing the work of light, as if each flat plane were catching it at a different angle.” Anderson has also included three ceramic sculptures, a new medium in her practice. For these works she mixes her own clay and “treats glazes like paint: mixing, watering down, layering, and embracing the accidents.” The wall sculptures are earthy and more muted than her paintings, though their forms echo those in her painted compositions. Lines, stripes, cutouts and sharp points appear throughout. Ky Anderson received her BFA in Fiber and Sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work has been shown widely across the United States, Canada, and Europe in solo and group exhibitions as well as art fairs. She has been featured in public institutions including Moore College of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Northern Iowa, and the University of Dallas. Her work is held in public, private, and corporate collections worldwide, including The Nerman Museum, Louis Vuitton, NYU Langone, the University of Kansas Hospital, Mayo Clinic, and many more. Residencies include the Saltonstall Foundation and Vermont Studio Center.Anderson is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Art, NYC; Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; and Nick Ryan Gallery, Boulder, CO. After 24 years in New York, she returned to Kansas City where she lives and works today.

Nov 12 - Dec 19 2026

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Sydney Licht titled, Duly Noted. This is her ninth solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on November 12th from 6-8pm. The exhibition will continue in The Pocket Gallery at the gallery’s 179 10th Avenue space. Sydney Licht paints intimate still lifes in bright, jewel-like colors, carefully arranging everyday objects into balanced, almost architectural compositions. Flowers, boxes, bags, vases, matchbooks, and other familiar items are distilled into basic geometric forms and built into arrangements that rise above a tabletop reduced to a thin sliver of color. Working with a palette knife and generous amounts of paint, Licht emphasizes the materiality of the medium, creating richly textured surfaces where objects and backgrounds become equally important. In the newest group of paintings, Licht further simplifies her subjects, often to the point where they are barely recognizable. Her palette shifts between bright, citrusy colors and softer, pastel tones, while lush backgrounds of color and pattern surround and sometimes merge with objects themselves. Increasingly, her attention turns to the relationships between color, form, and the spaces around them. As she explains, “More than ever, I am interested in how the color of empty space can influence the humble items portrayed on a two-dimensional surface. As always, my goal is to push the limits of what a still life can be by questioning the boundaries between abstraction and figuration.” Sydney Licht has exhibited across the United States, including a 2022 solo exhibition at the Zillman Art Museum in Bangor, Maine. Group exhibitions include those at The Art Institute of Chicago, The Memorial Art Gallery Museum of the University of Rochester and as well as at numerous commercial galleries nationwide. She was a recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Grant, a Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, a Yaddo Residency Fellowship, and has been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome on three occasions, most recently in November 2023. Her work has been reviewed in The Chicago Tribune , The Chicago Sun-Times and by Jerry Saltz for New York Magazine. Sydney Licht lives and works in New York City and is represented by Kathryn Markel Fine Arts.