EFA Studios

We are excited to present “After the Rains”, a group exhibition featuring EFA Member artists in conversation with Yale MFA alumni. 🗓️ May 6 – July 24, 2026 🕑 Opening Reception: May 6, 6–8 PM 📍EFA Gallery, 323 West 39th St., 3rd Fl, New York, NY Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 PM Featuring: Selva Aparicio (@/selvaaparicio) Bianca Abdi-Boragi (@biancaabdiboragi ) Von Coffin (@coffin1001 ) Armando Guadalupe Cortés (@armandogcortes ) Abbey McBride (@abbey.mcb ) Virginia L. Montgomery (@virginia.l.montgomery ) Randi Renate (@randiirenate ) Raúl Romero (@rauoool ) Susan Silas (@susansilas ) Curated by: Michael Eckblad (@michaeleckblad ) and Deric Carner (@ithoughtiwasreal ) Through hybrid forms traversing sculpture, installation, sound, and video, the artists engage themes of transience, renewal, and the interconnectedness of all things. Moving between the organic and the manufactured, the works explore reflections on mortality, technology, and human-nature relations through materials such as adobe, bronze, dandelion seeds, and digital video. Special Programming: Join us on Thursday, May 14, at 6 PM for an evening of performances by Armando Guadalupe Cortés and Abbey McBride. Image info: Raúl Romero, "Gravitational Grit," 2023. A sculpture reimagining a bass drum as a living object, seeking sunlight. Courtesy of the Artist. #EFAGallery #AfterTheRains #ContemporaryArt #NYCGallery #Sculpture #InstallationArt #EFASociety #YaleMFA

We’re happy to share that EFA Studio member Heather Renée Russ (@heather_renee_russ ) is featured in "Because, now is the time of monsters," the 2026 Summer Exhibition opening May 16 at The Wassaic Project (@wassaicproject ). 🎉 Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 3–6 PM 🗓 May 16 – September 12, 2026 📍 Maxon Mills, 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY Taking its title from Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, the exhibition explores the "interregnum"—the transition between a dying world and one yet to be born. Across the floors of Maxon Mills, 39 artists respond to this metamorphic moment through works that shift between vision and fever dream. Curated by Eve Biddle, Bowie Zunino, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, and Will Hutnick. Be sure to visit this summer! Photo info: Image 1: "Because, now is the time of monsters" exhibition graphic. Courtesy of The Wassaic Project. Image 2: "Anodyne", 2025, UV Cured Ink on Honeycomb Aluminum, 41 x 57 x 2 inches. Artwork featured in the exhibition. Courtesy of the Artist. Made with fabrication support through Powerhouse Arts’ 2026 Artist Subsidy Program. #EFAStudios #HeatherReneeRuss #WassaicProject #MaxonMills #ContemporaryArt

Join us this THURSDAY for performance with Abbey McBride (@abbey.mcb ) and Armando Guadalupe Cortés (@armandogcortes ) in "After the Rains" exhibition. On May 14, at 7 PM, EFA Gallery will host an evening of performances featuring artist Armando Guadalupe Cortés and choreographer Abbey McBride. Each artist offers a distinct work reflective of their individual practice and their engagement with the themes of the exhibition. Armando Guadalupe Cortés will activate and transform a new series of adobe and limewash panels currently on view in the gallery. Abbey McBride will perform "Just Left From There" (2017–present), a playful and process-driven consideration of the relationships we have with ourselves, our possessions, and each other. 🗓️ Thursday, May 14 🕕 7 PM (doors a 6:30) 📍 EFA Gallery This event is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there! Image info: Abbey McBride, 2025. Photo by Rachel Keane. #AfterTheRains #EFAGallery #PerformanceArt #ArmandoGuadalupeCortes #AbbeyMcBride

As we head into the NYC art fair season, we are thrilled to see our studio member Kosuke Kawahara (@teppennisiri ) presenting new work at NADA New York 2026 @newartdealers ) Kawahara has been a part of the EFA Studio Program community since 2021, developing a practice that masterfully navigates the intersection of painting and photography. In this upcoming presentation with RAINRAIN (@rainraingallery ), he explores how contemporary perception is shaped by the constant circulation of visual information, from the flicker of screens to the fleeting impressions of digital feeds. We’re incredibly proud to support the growth of our members and to see their work reaching such dynamic platforms. View the work: 📍 Booth F9 (presented by RAINRAIN) 🏛️ NADA New York | 601 W 26th Street 📅 May 13–17, 2026 About the Artist: Kosuke Kawahara is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work often reconstructs the "alternative space around darkness," addressing themes of growth, decay, and mediated vision through a multi-layered, site-relevant approach. #EFAStudios #EFAStudioProgram #KosukeKawahara #NADANewYork #ArtistSpotlight

We are thrilled to celebrate EFA Studio Member Cecile Chong (@cecilechong ) and the opening of Albums of Inclusion: Jamaica, Ecuador, China at the Old Stone House & Washington Park (@oldstonehousebklyn ). Cecile is showing as part of the duo BROKEN CHINA (@brokenchinabrokenchina ) alongside Tao Leigh Goffe. Together, they explore the material history of blue-and-white porcelain and the complex intergenerational memories of the Chinese diaspora in Ecuador and Jamaica. Using a layered visual language of collage and ceramic traditions, the work challenges orientalist narratives and imagines new futures of liberation. Exhibition Opening: 🗓️ Friday, May 8 🕑 6 PM – 8 PM 📍 Old Stone House & Washington Park, Brooklyn Image info: Exhibition Poster. Courtesy of exhibitors. #EFAStudios #CecileChong #BrokenChina #OldStoneHouse #BrooklynArt #ContemporaryArt #StudioMemberHighlight #EFAArtists

We’re excited to share that EFA Studio member Laura Anderson Barbata (@mx_lab ) is featured in "Wayamou: Common Tongues" exhibition on view through May 10 at Museo Tamayo (@eneltamayo ) in Mexico City. 🗓 Exhibition Dates: February 6 – May 10, 2026 📍 Museo Tamayo, Paseo de la Reforma 51, Mexico City ✨ Special Program: Intervención: Wayamou (Raphael Red) 🎉 Saturday, May 9 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM 📍 Explanada del Museo Tamayo Don't miss this powerful public intervention on the museum's esplanade. A culmination of Barbata’s long-standing Transcommunality project, this performance brings together the Brooklyn Jumbies, the Zancudos de Zaachila (Oaxaca), and Danza de Diablas Afrocosecha. The work centers on the color red—specifically referencing grana cochinilla (cochineal), an ancient Mexican natural dye once more valuable than silver. Through textiles and ritual movement featuring characters like "The Queen" and "The Guardian," the intervention explores red as a symbol of power, life, resistance, and transformation. It is a vibrant fusion of stilt dancing, music, and social activism that invites the public to participate in a collective act of memory. The exhibition "Wayamou: Common Tongues" features over 100 works created in collaboration with Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, emphasizing reciprocity and intercultural dialogue. Photo info: Performance view of Laura Anderson Barbata’s "Transcommunality." Photo by Stefan Falke. #EFAStudios #LauraAndersonBarbata #MuseoTamayo #Wayamou #Transcommunality #RaphaelRed #BrooklynJumbies #ZancudosDeZaachila #ContemporaryArt #MexicoCityArt #PerformanceArt #SocialPractice

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for the opening reception of "After the Rains"! A huge thank you to our exhibiting artists and our curators for bringing this vision of renewal and interconnectedness to life: Featuring: Selva Aparicio (selvaaparicio) Bianca Abdi-Boragi (@biancaabdiboragi ) Von Coffin (@coffin1001 ) Armando Guadalupe Cortés (@armandogcortes ) Abbey McBride (@abbey.mcb ) Virginia L. Montgomery (@virginia.l.montgomery ) Randi Renate (@randiirenate ) Raúl Romero (@rauoool ) Susan Silas (@susansilas ) Curated by: Michael Eckblad (@michaeleckblad ) Deric Carner (@ithoughtiwasreal ) The show runs through July 24, 2026. Mark your calendars: Join us next Thursday, May 14, at 6 PM for a special evening of performances by Armando Guadalupe Cortés and Abbey McBride! 🕑 6 PM 📍EFA Gallery #AfterTheRains #EFAGallery #ContemporaryArt #NYCArts #ElizabethFoundationForTheArts #OpeningReception #StudioLife

Opening TOMORROW “After the Rains”exhibition at EFA Gallery ⏰Opening reception: May 6, 6–8 PM 🗓️On view through July 24. 📍EFA Gallery, 3rd Floor, 323 W 39th St, New York, NY 10018 A group exhibition bringing together EFA member artists and Yale MFA alumni through sculpture, installation, sound, and video. Featuring: Selva Aparicio (@/selvaaparicio) Bianca Abdi-Boragi (@biancaabdiboragi ) Von Coffin (@coffin1001 ) Armando Guadalupe Cortés (@armandogcortes ) Abbey McBride (@abbey.mcb ) Virginia L. Montgomery (@virginia.l.montgomery ) Randi Renate (@randiirenate ) Raúl Romero (@rauoool ) Susan Silas (@susansilas ) Curated by: Michael Eckblad (@michaeleckblad ) and Deric Carner (@ithoughtiwasreal ) #AfterTheRains #EFAGallery #EFAStudios #YaleMFA

Looking back at “Close to the Ground” exhibition at EFA Gallery, with Deric Carner (@ithoughtiwasreal ), curator and Director of Exhibitions & Programming at EFA, walking us through the exhibition. Featuring works printed at EFA Studios and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Close to the Ground brought together artists working across woodcut, photogravure, lithography, chine collé, intaglio, blind embossing, and more. Across diverse approaches, the exhibition explored how printmaking can carry memory, myth, figuration, abstraction, land, history, and the body. Rooted in touch, pressure, surface, and accumulation, Close to the Ground reflected the intimacy of printmaking itself: one surface meeting another, carrying traces of process, place, and time. Featuring: Fanny Allié @fannyallie Dana Bell @dana_bell Chakaia Booker @chakaiabooker Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple Devraj Dakoji @devrajdakoji Michael Eade @eggtempera Beth Ganz @bethganz2 Patricia Leighton @leighton.patricia Nazanin Noroozi @nazanin_noroozi Kenny Rivero @champaint_papi Xin Song @xinsongart Jia Sung @jiazilla Michael Kelly Williams Joshua Woods @joshuawoods Documentation by Adeliia Ishmuratova @liiiiiiiash #EFAGallery #EFAStudios #RobertBlackburnPrintmakingWorkshop #RBPMW #CloseToTheGround

We’re excited to share that EFA Studio members Whitney Oldenburg (@whitneyaoldenburg ), Hayoon Jay Lee (@hayoonjaylee ), Liselot van der Heijden (@liselot_studio ), Yu-Wen Wu (@yuwenwuart ) and curated by Cheryl Molnar (@cherylmolnarart ) are featured in "", opening April 25 at Mixed Media Space (@mixedmediaspace ) in North Adams, MA. 🎉 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 25, 6–8 PM 🗓 April 25 - May 23, 2026 📍 Mixed Media Space, 1 Canal Street, North Adams, MA Bringing together artists engaged in material exploration, the exhibition considers cycles of transformation, memory, and our relationship to the natural world. Through processes of reuse and reinvention, the works reflect on interconnected environmental and cultural systems. The exhibition will be on view through May 23. Be sure to check it out if you’re in the area! Photo info: "Material transformations" card featuring showcasing artists. Courtesy of Mixed Media Space. #EFAStudios #ChristinaMassey #WhitneyOldenburg #HayoonJayLee #LiselotvanderHeijden #YuWenWu #MaterialTransformations #ContemporaryArt #CherylMolnar #Exhibition

We are so thrilled to welcome our Artist in Residence from April through mid May @susangrahamart Graham attended Ohio State University and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been shown at galleries and museums including Photology Gallery in Milan, Neuberger Museum of Art, Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Musee International des Arts Modestes, Sete, France, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Lux Art Institute in southern California, and MUDAC Museum in Lausanne. Her work was commissioned (Nancy Rosen Inc./Allan Kolkowitz/Bloomberg Philanthropies project) for a public piece in the elevator lobby of the Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Sheikh Zayed Tower in Baltimore, Maryland. Graham has been the recipient of several fellowships and grants from organizations such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Sustainable Arts Foundation, SIP at the Blackburn Printshop in the Elizabeth Foundation, Smack Mellon Artist Residency in Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Ruth Chenven Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Welcome Susan. We are so happy to have you @thepotatofarmproject

Behind the scenes at EFA Studio with Allen Ball (@allenthomasball ) as he delves deeper into “Forest Lane”, reflecting on the themes that shape the exhibition and the ideas driving the work. In this section, Allen shares how the show considers landscape, memory, erasure, and material presence, offering a closer look at the exhibition’s thinking. 🖼️ Forest Lane is on view until 24 April 2026 📍EFA Gallery, 323 West 39th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018 Video documentation by Adeliia Ishmuratova @liiiiiiiash #AllenBall #contemporaryart #EFAStudios #studio #ArtistInterview