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Jan 08 - Feb 14 2026 - 35 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce "Sun Fog Rain," an exhibition of new paintings by Sara MacCulloch. This will be her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception will be held on January 15 from 6-8pm. Sara MacCulloch is a landscape painter who paints in order to capture the transient experiences of nature. She paints seasonally, leaving her home in Toronto for the familiar vistas of Maine and Nova Scotia where she grew up. Summer days immersed in nature provide necessary relief from the challenges of today’s world. As Maculloch says, “Finding solace even in the bad weather, in the skies made opaque from fog or forest fire smoke, in the rain, or despite the drought, in the hot sun.” All the small changes in time of day, weather, plant growth, and shoreline variations interest her. With photos and sketches, she absorbs the subtleties and feelings of a specific landscape and a specific experience. In the fall, she returns to her studio to paint. She paints with deliberation, commits to each brushstroke strategically, and completes most paintings in one sitting. If, occasionally, a painting doesn’t work in a day or two, she scrapes it away and starts over. Intuitive, sensual brush strokes and a creamy palette create a sense of immediacy and clarity. The resulting paintings are a distillation of the experience and an invitation to enter these spaces and share a precise moment. Sara MacCulloch is based in Toronto and studied painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She exhibits extensively throughout Canada and work is represented in various public and private collections including TD Bank, Mayo Clinic, Bank of Montreal, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, University of Toronto, University of Iowa, Department of Foreign Affairs, Royal Bank of Canada, and Gotlands Kunstmuseum, SE. She has also received numerous grants and awards including the Canada council for the Arts and the Brucebo Scholarship in Gotland, Sweden.

Jan 08 - Feb 14 2026 - 35 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce "Secret Harmonies," an installation of new porcelain sculptures by Monica Banks. This will be her second solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception will be held on January 15th from 6-8pm. Banks’ porcelain botanical sculptures take over The Pocket Gallery in this room-sized installation. Modeling from life, she creates delicate, detailed portraits of flowers in various stages of life. Randomly hung, as if in motion, the artist thinks of them as, “though they had blown in from the garden.” They float on the wall as if weightless and their muted glazing adds a soft, almost wispyness to the solid ceramic forms. Banks sculpts to scale and will observe one subject multiple times, effectively creating snapshots of its brief lifespan as it buds, blossoms, wilts, and dies. The installation serves as a three dimensional chronograph, where one can trace a bloom’s journey from bud to decay. This process, “is an attempt to portray the logic and imperfections of blossoms.” She adds in non botanical elements from her previous tableware series such as forks, spoons, ladders, and buttons to incorporate subconscious associations into this subject matter. A touch of surrealism enters the work in some pieces as petals emerge from stemmed tableware as they swirl amidst the flowers. Banks’ inclusion of these also places her work firmly in still life tradition; a wild vanitas of sorts. Monica Banks is based in East Hampton, NY and has been exhibiting sculpture and creating site-specific installations since 1989. She has exhibited at the New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; The Heckscher Museum of Art, NY; The Carriage House at Islip Art Museum, NY; The Center for Architecture, NYC; The Arkell Museum, NY; The Church Sag Harbor, NY; among others. Her work is held in permanent collections of The Parrish Art Museum, NY; UMCA at the University of Massachusetts, The Islip Art Museum, NY; LongHouse Reserve, NY; The Leiber Collection, NY; Peter Marino Art Foundation, NY; The Masur Museum of Art, LA; and the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park, NY. She won an award from the NYC Public Design Commission for "Faces: Times Square,” a block-long sculpture which stood in Times Square from 1996-2009. Banks has created permanent public works in the Bronx, NY; Binghamton, NY; and Charlotte, NC.

Jan 15 - Feb 21 2026

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new drawings by Dana Piazza titled, Fall Lines. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery and an artist reception will be held on January 15th. Dana Piazza creates meticulous abstract drawings on paper that build upon one initial mark. The line based shapes are largely monochromatic and minimal. He does not plan the final composition, instead opting to follow a set of self-imposed rules in which each line is influenced by the one before. Piazza’s forms are voluminous and densely patterned. Striped repetition creates a rhythm within the curved bodies. The ink lines are semi transparent and deepen as they overlap. Though the marks themselves are quite dense, the shapes appear light as if floating. Discovery and an exploration of chance are at the heart of his practice. The artist's hand remains present in slight wavering of the lines and subtle imperfections. Though the drawings are largely improvisational, the final forms are structured and maintain the illusion of precision and order. Dana Piazza is an abstract artist based in Lenox, Massachusetts. He received a BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York. Piazza has held solo exhibitions at TURLEY, Hudson, NY; Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY; Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY; and Jennifer Terzian Gallery, Litchfield, CT. His work has also been included in shows at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Galerie Manqué, Brooklyn, NY; Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY; Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; and Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT.