Soft Opening,

Joanne Burke’s solo presentation A Boat Fish continues with us at Frieze New York this weekend. Find us in the Focus section at stand F02 at The Shed. Existing in this uncanny space between unfamiliarity and the literal representation of an object, Burke’s sculptures locate between past and future, becoming relics at once placeless and timeless. These works offer the artist a way to express the interconnectedness of all things: not only people and nature, but similarly fullness and emptiness, the visible and invisible, light and darkness. Joanne Burke Festival 8, 2026 Bronze 17 × 25 × 20 cm Joanne Burke Gift of Girls, 2026 Bronze 9 × 18 × 15 cm To request more information or a preview, contact [email protected]

Joanne Burke’s sculpture Festival 7 (2025) will be joining the permanent collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, with thanks to The Sherman Family Foundation Acquisition Fund. Joanne Burke Festival 7, 2025 Bronze 22 x 17 x 9 cm

We are pleased to announce the launch of Wonderland, a new book published on the occasion of Dean Sameshima’s current solo exhibition at Soft Opening, designed by Robert Milne. To celebrate, join us for a conversation between Dean Sameshima and writer Amelia Abraham who recently released her latest publication Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife with Mack Publishing. Both books will be available to purchase at the event. Sameshima’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, Wonderland, continues until Saturday, 23 May.

Our solo presentation, A Boat Fish, with new works from Joanne Burke opens today in the Focus section at Frieze New York, Stand F02. We are delighted to have received an Honourable Mention for the Focus Stand Prize. Burke’s complex process begins with a dispersal of molten wax into water, allowing unpredictable shapes and textures to form and be formed by their liquid surroundings. These casts become the genesis for metallic sculptures cast in bronze and aluminium, glinting inside glass-topped vitrines. Referencing museological or anthropological display, the presentation gestures to practices of preservation and historicisation and self-consciously resurrects undervalued or forgotten practices. Moulding her intricate wax forms using these techniques prior to casting, Burke excavates processes from the past including model-making, carpentry, costuming, weaving and basketry for their simple logic. Gift of Winter, 2026 Bronze and aluminium 17 × 5 × 7 cm Eve’s Compass, 2026 Bronze and aluminium 5 × 18 × 8 cm Chirp of the Canary, 2026 Bronze 22 × 8 × 7 cm

Opening tomorrow, Soft Opening presents new work from Joanne Burke in the Focus section at Frieze New York, Stand F02. Collaging elements together intuitively into surreal compositions, in these new works, Burke seeks to abstract any recognisable forms: a boat suddenly resembles a garden pond, a human organ transforms into a blossoming flower, an oyster becomes a shining Brancusi head and a fallen branch across a riverbank, twists into a delicate stem. For the artist, forms in the world around us constantly relate, conflate and converge in a perpetual state of movement and flux. Burke’s decision to resist, undo and abstract recognisability within her forms, renders them intangible and untameable, much like the water they were first imagined within. Joanne Burke Fear Infinity, 2026 Aluminium 31.5 × 67.5 × 5 cm To request more information or a preview, contact [email protected]

Our solo presentation for Frieze New York with new work from Joanne Burke opens next week in the Focus section, Stand F02. In her metallic sculptures and wall-based works, Burke is primarily concerned with hydrofeminism, a posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands the body as essentially linked to the natural world. Burke interprets water as an infinite, nonphysical essence that resists representation or definition. Joanne Burke Divers Arms, 2026 Bronze 13 × 6 × 4 cm To request more information or a preview, contact [email protected]

Rhea Dillon is currently included in Weather Stress Index, a group exhibition curated by Truth Murray-Cole at the Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, until 24 May. A new commission by Dillon brings an artwork coated in anti-climb paint—a non-drying substance often used on architecture to deter movement—into a museum context. Rhea Dillon IV: Severance From The Spliced Womb 2026 Anti-climb paint on metal 46 × 4 × 61 cm (18 × 1.5 × 24 inches) Courtesy of the artist Commissioned for Weather Stress Index, April 4 – May 24, 2026, Graduate thesis project curated by Truth Murray-Cole, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Photo: Alon Koppel 2026

Thank you to everyone who came by our presentation of works from Joanne Burke, Olivia Erlanger, Gina Fischli, Sam Lipp, Dean Sameshima and Ebun Sodipo at Miart, Milan. Olivia Erlanger eros (0° S, or naught), 2026 Bronze 56 × 3 × 3 cm Joanne Burke Hung as a Globe, 2025 Aluminium 42.5 x 41.5 x3.5 cm

Nevine Mahmoud’s solo exhibition Second Nature is now open at Asia Society Texas. The exhibition runs until 4 October, 2026. Mahmoud unearths uncanny worlds from stone: jumbo-sized fruits drip with glass, a contorted marble faun arcs like an acrobat, and children’s toys are immortalized in white alabaster. Though her subjects range from the luscious to the surreal to the playful, Mahmoud’s sculptures manipulate our understanding of nature. For Second Nature, Mahmoud’s works, including a new commission, are placed throughout Asia Society Texas’ public spaces. Nevine Mahmoud My Adolescent Pony, 2026  White Italian alabaster 61 × 40.6 × 39.4 cm

Our group presentation with works from Joanne Burke, Olivia Erlanger, Gina Fischli, Sam Lipp, Dean Sameshima and Ebun Sodipo continues today for the final day of Miart. Find us in the Established section at booth D03. Ebun Sodipo Self Portrait / I am my ancestors’ tongue, 2026 Mylar, digital prints, resin 240 × 120 cm Sam Lipp Flood, 2025 Oil on steel, spray paint, screws 33 × 43 cm

Our group presentation of work from Joanne Burke, Olivia Erlanger, Gina Fischli, Sam Lipp, Dean Sameshima and Ebun Sodipo opens today at Miart, Milan. Find us in the Established Section at Stand D03.

Dean Sameshima’s Anonymous Portraits will be included in our group presentation next week at Miart in Milan. Find us at Stand D03 in the Established section of the fair. The artist’s current solo exhibition at the gallery in London continues until Saturday 23 May. Anonymous After Dark, 2026 Silkscreen and acrylic on canvas 30 × 40 cm To request more information or a preview, contact [email protected]