Chapter NY

Currently on view in New York: Frieze New York through May 17. Find us at Booth C6 With works by Mary Stephenson, Erin Jane Nelson, Antonia Kuo and Alix Vernet. Mary Stephenson More And More And More And More And More (5, Purple), 2026 Oil on linen 23 5/8 x 27 1/2 in (60 x 70 cm) Mary also had a solo show at the gallery, through May 30th.

Huge Congratulations to Rene Matić (@rene.matic ) on winning the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026! The exhibition will continue to be on view at The Photographer’s Gallery in London (@thephotographersgallery ) until the 7th of June 2026. Featuring newly produced photographs, installations and sound pieces, Matić was nominated for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, at CCA Berlin. Matić’s diaristic, snapshot-like photography captures everyday moments with poetic intimacy. The images, combined with collected objects, film and sound, form a vivid and layered portrait of contemporary life. Through the layered materials, symbols, and storytelling, the installation considers how intimate connections—often fragile or elusive—can become acts of resistance and form new meaning. It is a great honour to work together with Matić as they continue to contribute to the discourse and reflect on the fractured realities we inhabit through their work. Rene Matić was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026 alongside Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gęsicka, and Amak Mahmoodian. Pictured: Detail, Feelings Wheel, 2024-2025 Installation of glass framed photo series and sound piece, Dimensions variable. ©️Rene Matić. @dboersephotographyfoundation @ccaberlin @jbnnmnn @fabianschoeneich #renematic #renematić

Currently on view in New York: Frieze New York through May 17. Booth C6 Alix Vernet Window to the City, St Marks, 2023-26 Glazed stoneware 68 x 43 1/2 x 7 in (172.7 x 110.5 x 17.8 cm) Alix Vernet Altar, 2026 Copper, aluminum AC condenser 10 x 12 1/4 in (25.4 x 31.1) Alix Vernet Baby, 2026 Copper, aluminum AC condenser 10 x 13 3/4 in (25.4 x 34.9 cm)

Opening this week in New York: Frieze New York May 13 –17, 2026 We will be presenting new works by Antonia Kuo, Erin Jane Nelson, Mary Stephenson and Alix Vernet. Come find us at Booth C06 Antonia Kuo Twin Optics, 2026 Unique photochemical paintings on light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, silver gelatin prints, acrylic, enamel, rubber gaskets, brass hardware in aluminum frame 36 x 90 3/4 in (91.4 x 230.5 cm) (framed) For more information please contact [email protected]

On view in New York: Erin Jane Nelson included in the Whitney Biennial 2026. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, on view through August 23, 2026 We will be presenting new works by Erin at Frieze New York - opening May 13. Erin Jane Nelson Mesa Cam, 2025 Pigment prints and found materials on glazed porcelain 6 1/2 x 12 1/4 x 8 1/2 in (16.5 x 31.1 x 21.6 cm) Erin Jane Nelson Orchard, 2025 Pigment print, resin, and epoxy clay on glazed stoneware 13 x 14 3/4 in (33 x 37.5 cm)

On view in New York Mary Stephenson New House (Pink), 2026 Oil on linen 63 x 82 5/8 in (160 x 210 cm) Come visit!

Currently in New York: Nnena Kalu (#nnenakalu) INDEX Arcadia Missa hosted by Chapter NY, New York, US 25 April - 30 May 2026 Nnena Kalu’s first solo exhibition in the US, INDEX, is now open at Chapter NY, New York (@chapterny ) until the 30th of May 2026. Much like the gesture-driven paintings typically attributed to Abstract Expressionists, Kalu values embodied mark-making rather than depiction. Her repeated lines accumulate into terrains that can feel rhythmic and sustained, behaving like an indexical script without semantic obligation. The weight near the top of the works, such as Vortex Drawing 50 and Vortex Drawing 51, translates the pressure of Kalu’s arm before it yields to gravity. This shift from pressure to lightness makes the body’s movements legible. Pictured: Installation view, INDEX, Arcadia Missa hosted by Chapter NY, New York, US (2026). Photography: Charles Benton. @actionspace

On view in New York: Mary Stephenson’s solo exhibition “Big Dance” is currently on view The centerpiece of Mary Stephenson’s exhibition Big Dance is a painting of the same name: commanding in scale, yet more enveloping than confrontational. Characterized by diffuse, glowing fields in washy, sage-green paint, the image depicts a vacant labyrinthine corridor. Here, doorways open to nowhere and a choreography of rectangles that tilt and hover at unstable angles, like floorboards of thought in formation. As such, the painting is both a structural and pictorial passageway into the exhibition, where Stephenson builds images from an understanding of perception as inherently cerebral and somatic. For the artist, what is seen and what is unseen—but materially felt—forms the scaffolding for memory and meaning. What emerges is less a depiction than a condition of an image, and a sense of “being” in the world, recalling filmic projection as much as painterly surface.

On view in New York: Congratulations to Sofia Sinibaldi in her inclusion in Greater New York 2026 at MoMA PS. Organized by, Organized by the MoMA PS1 curatorial team: Jody Graf, Elena Ketelsen González, Kari Rittenbach, Sheldon Gooch andd Andrea Sánchez, Curatorial coordinator; led by Connie Butler and Ruba Katrib. L-R: Alarm Split, 2026 Pigment-based inkjet on tissue paper, acrylic medium, backboard, aluminum frame, and acrylic glass. 61 1/2 × 41 1/2 in (156.2 × 105.4 cm) (framed) Dead Search, 2026 Pigment-based inkjet on tissue paper, acrylic medium, backboard, aluminum frame, and acrylic glass. 61 1/2 × 41 1/2 in (156.2 × 105.4 cm) (framed) Behind The Curtain, 2026 Pigment-based inkjet on tissue paper, acrylic medium, backboard, aluminum frame, and acrylic glass. 61 1/2 × 41 1/2 in (156.2 × 105.4 cm) (framed) Zero, 2026 Pigment-based inkjet on tissue paper, acrylic medium, backboard, aluminum frame, and acrylic glass. 61 1/2 × 41 1/2 in (156.2 × 105.4 cm) (framed)

Opening tonight, Friday, April 24 Mary Stephenson’s solo exhibition “Big Dance” & Arcadia Missa presents “INDEX” Nnena Kalu’s first New York solo exhibition. Nnena Kalu Vortex Drawing 51, 2018 Chalk pastel, chalk pen, pencil and pen on paper 49 3/8 x 40 in (125.5 x 101.5 cm) Mary Stephenson New House (Pink), 2026 Oil on linen 63 x 82 5/8 in (160 x 210 cm)

Jesse Darling, 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 opens Thursday, April 23, 2026 @oudekerkamsterdam . For his first institutional solo exhibition in the Netherlands, Jesse Darling transforms the church space of the Oude Kerk, covering large sections of the floor with rubble from construction waste. From this landscape, playful sculptures emerge, assembled by Darling from discarded furniture, scrap metal, and broken appliances. By using everyday waste and debris, Darling highlights the often messy reality of human existence and questions the social and political forces that determine what—and who—is considered valuable. Curated by Marianna van der Zwaag, the exhibition will be on view through September 27, 2026. Image: Jesse Darling: Godsworth, 2026, Oude Kerk Amsterdam. Photo by Aad Hoogendoorn.

Chapter NY is thrilled to present “Big Dance” Mary Stephenson’s second exhibition with the gallery. Opening Friday, April 24! Though no human figure is present, Stephenson’s canvases are decidedly bodily, operating as a skin or membrane. This entry point is less abstract than it first appears. Treated with a rabbit-skin glaze, her surfaces are designed to allow oil paint to seep and pool. Paint stains the ground rather than resting on it; color and light absorb at different paces; edges soften or harden; forms advance and recede. The result is an uneven monochrome where the image appears to be submerged or rising from within. While her paintings might initially read as photographic, the process is distinctly filmic. As she paints, Stephenson imagines a large film light positioned just over her shoulder, directing the painting’s flow of luminescence. to produce not the optical illusion of movement, but its sensation: images pausing, replaying, zooming, and moving in rhythm with the passage of time. Mary Stephenson More And More And More And More (Red), 2026 Oil on linen 17 3/4 x 19 3/4 in (45 x 50 cm) (MS 83)