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Mandy El-Sayegh (pronounced el-say-yegg) is a Malaysian-born London-based artist, who forges her layered paintings from pages of the Financial Times and mundane advertisements to Arabic calligraphy. Net-Grid (notice) (2020) belongs to El-Sayegh’s series of Net–Grid paintings, which recall raised-relief maps. The surfaces of the Net-Grid paintings ripple and buckle beneath the weight of their matter – layers of glue and paint, studio rags, newspapers, and printed images from Theresa May to victims of unknown disasters to mundane advertisements.

Paris-based artist Liam Everett’s abstract, mixed-media paintings and sculptures explore the process of art making as he builds, shapes and manipulates raw materials into work abundant with human traces. The construction of Untitled (witches butter) (2019) involved layering oil and acrylic on canvas and subsequently repeatedly stripping and sanding the surface of the work. Inspired by dance, theater, and philosophy, the smears and smudges in his works on panel and fabric reflect Everett’s elaborate, labor-intensive method.

In collaboration with the prominent American glass blower Dante Marioni, Fred Wilson began producing his first glass artworks in 2001—ambiguous black-colored forms that assert a multifaceted political undercurrent. His belief of “the color black represents African American people ” led to a distinctive work in which he delved into the visual qualities of blown glass, crafting darkened tears or raindrops. 

Wekua’s work frequently dwells on his childhood and subsequent exile from Sukhumi, the capital of the breakaway, post-Soviet Republic of Abkhazia, which was largely destroyed during the 1992-1993 civil war, and is located on the coast of the Black Sea. A powerful yet ambiguous metaphor, the body of water referenced by Wekua creates a more generalized atmosphere of depth and distance, longing and loss. This work Diving was created on an aluminum panel, and features intense paint and ink work. The layers of impasto and incisions suggest the coursing, abstract surface of the ocean.

Hugo McCloud, a self-taught artist with a background in industrial design, is hailed as one of today’s most inventive young artists. In addition to creating large-scale abstract paintings and sculptural objects, his recent series centers around up-cycled plastics, which he began during the pandemic while living in Mexico.

Hugo McCloud’s May 5th, 2022 belongs to a collection of collaged flower paintings made of single-use plastic bags, demonstrating his expertise in the manipulation of unexpected materials. He transforms these pieces of plastic into textured fields of color, offering a meditative viewing experience that contemplates the ephemerality of flowers and the relative permanence of non-biodegradable plastic.

Bolt Two, 2020 is from a series of paintings on paper where Frank Bowling expands the possibilities of paint beyond the boundaries of his canvas. Embracing pure abstraction, he describes it as a process of “unlearning” his early techniques. This work on paper shows Bowling’s continued alchemic explorations as he combines acrylic and metallic paint with other innovative material interventions.