"Surface Streets" Group Exhibition Curated by Russell Ferguson @ Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles

Surface Streets

Curated by Russell Ferguson

Marian Goodman Gallery, Los Angeles

6 September – 18 October 2025

Wilhelm Sasnal 

Berkeley Street, 2024 

Oil on canvas

© Wilhelm Sasnal, courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery presents Surface Streets, curated by Russell Ferguson, a group exhibition of recent paintings made in Los Angeles. The title of the exhibition, a term that contextually denotes Los Angeles streets (but not freeways), is intended to evoke both the specificity of the local environment and the tactility that is integral to painting. The intergenerational group of artists chosen by Ferguson for this exhibition traces a variety of aesthetics, strategies, and traditions, yet at the same time pays close attention to the physicality of the painted surface which unites them. While many works in Surface Streets depict familiar scenes of everyday urban life, others reach beyond, to a movie set, to an ancient fossil, or even into spaces of fiction and fantasy. 

Surface Streets includes works by Hye-Shin Chun, Kirsten Everberg, Owen Fu, Anna Glantz, Robert Gunderman, James Iveson, Becky Kolsrud, Tidawhitney Lek, Manuel López, Nihura Montiel, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Paul Sietsema, Wilhelm Sasnal, Henry Taylor, and Tristan Unrau.

Hye-Shin Chun (b. 1983, Libreville, Gabon) graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2015). Her work has been exhibited at numerous group shows, including Elsewhere, Ivory Gate Gallery, Shanghai, China (2025); Now You Don’t, Five Churches, Los Angeles (2025); 12 Hour Day - 12 Hour, Helen J Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); and Smoke The Moon Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (2023, 2024). 

Kirsten Everberg (b. 1965, Los Angeles) received an MFA from UCLA in 2004. That same year, Everberg held her first solo exhibition at 1301PE and was included in Russell Ferguson's group exhibition, The Undiscovered Country at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She has exhibited widely, including at the Scottsdale Museum of Art (2011); Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2013); and FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2009); amongst others.

Owen Fu (b. 1988, Guilin, China) received a bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in 2018, completed his MFA at the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Recent solo exhibitions include Balice Hertling, Paris (2021, 2023); and Mine Project, Hong Kong (2020). His work has also been featured in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Beijing Biennale, China (2022); Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China (2022); and Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles (2021).

Anna Glantz (b. 1989, Concord, MA) has exhibited her work in solo shows internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include Knowing what you know, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2025); Lichens, The Approach, London (2023); Cement Answers, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); and Baby Grand, The Approach, London (2020). Group exhibitions include Untitled (for Jenni), Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY (2025); Trespass sweetly urged, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2024); A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); Therein / Thereof /Thereto, Standard (OSLO), Oslo, Norway (2021); and A Love Letter to a Nightmare, Petzel Gallery, New York, NY (2020).

Robert Gunderman (b. 1963, Los Angeles) attended the Otis Parsons School of Art Los Angeles (1989). Recent solo exhibitions include Place Like You, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); The Quiet Beliefs, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); and Never Let Us Go, Desert Center, Los Angeles (2019). Group exhibitions include Ripe, Harper’s, Los Angeles (2023); LA ON FIREcurated by Michael Slenske, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); and Between Worlds, Edward Cella, Los Angeles (2021).

James Iveson (b. 1983, England) holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2016) and a BA from Goldsmiths University of London (2006). Selected solo exhibitions have taken place at South Willard, Los Angeles (2022); Norwich Outpost, Norwich, UK (2012); and Dicksmith Gallery, London (2010). Selected group exhibitions include Taking Care, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2025); 4 X 4, Karma, New York, NY (2024); South Willard, Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY (2023); 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles (2014); The Tetley, Leeds, UK (2014); and Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (2013).

Becky Kolsrud (b. 1984, Los Angeles) received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2012) and a BA from New York University (2006). Important solo exhibitions include Elegies, JTT, New York, NY (2021); As Above, So Below, Make Room, Los Angeles (2020); and Yackety Yack Girls, Karma, New York, NY (2011). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon (2022); Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (2020); Magenta Plains, New York, NY (2018); Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); and Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (2019). Kolsrud’s work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Tidawhitney Lek (b. 1992, Long Beach) completed her BFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2017. Solo exhibitions include Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (2023); Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles (2022); and Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2021). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (2024); Cantor Arts Center Stanford University, Stanford, CA (2024); ICA Miami, Miami, FL (2022); Anat Ebgi, New York, NY (2024); and Ben and Brown Fine Arts, London (2022). Institutional collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; and Pérez Art Museum, Miami.

Manuel López (b.1983, East Los Angeles) attended East Los Angeles College and transferred to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) where he earned his BFA in painting and drawing in 2010. He has exhibited in institutions, galleries, and museums internationally and nationwide including Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA (2022); Baik Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2023); Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA (2018); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, 2022); and Self-Help Graphics, Boyle Heights, CA (2017); among others.

Nihura Montiel (b. 1988, Tijuana, Mexico) received her BFA from Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California in Los Angeles (2023). Selected solo exhibitions include A Dog Named Masterpiece, Sebastian Gladstone Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); and The Object of My Object, In Lieu, Los Angeles (2022). She has exhibited at Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY (2022); Carlye Packer, Los Angeles (2023); Ochi Projects, Dallas, TX (2023); Château du Marais, Le Marais, France (2021); and Amor Services, Los Angeles (2020). 

Paige Jiyoung Moon (b. 1984, Seoul, South Korea) received a BFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 2012 and graduated from the Seoul National University of Technology in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2024, 2020, 2019), and Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston (2017). Select group exhibitions include Kiaf Seoul, Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2024); Made in L.A. 2023:Acts of Living, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); and Ogdoad, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles (2018).

Paul Sietsema (b. 1968, Los Angeles) graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (1999) and the University of California, Berkeley (1992). Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO (2014); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2013); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2012); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2009); the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2009); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2009); and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2003). Sietsema’s work has been exhibited extensively in biennials including Carnegie International (2008), Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Germany (2008), and Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (2019).

Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972, Tarnów, Poland) studied architecture at the Kraków University of Technology (1992–1994) and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (1994– 1999). His works have been featured in major exhibitions worldwide, including solo presentations at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2024); and Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China (2023). Institutional collections include The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, among others.

Henry Taylor (b. 1958, Ventura) graduated with a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (1995). A major survey exhibition dedicated to the artist, Henry Taylor: B Side, his largest to date, was exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and was then on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2024). Other select solo exhibitions include Henry Taylor. no title, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (2024); Jill Mulleady & Henry Taylor: You Me, Berlin (2024); and Here and There, Tokyo, Japan (2018). In 2018, Taylor was the recipient of The Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize in 2018 for his outstanding achievements in painting. Taylor’s work was presented at the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2017 and the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.

Tristan Unrau (b. 1989, Brampton, Canada) holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles (2023); 56 Henry, New York, NY (2022); Unit 17, Vancouver, Canada (2021, 2018); and Towards, Toronto, Canada (2020), among others. Recent group exhibitions include 50 Paintings, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (2023); Drawings, Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2018); and Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2017), among others. 

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Russell Ferguson has lived and worked in Los Angeles for many years. He joined the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1991, and later became the Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs, and Chief Curator of the Hammer Museum from 2001-2007. Ferguson also served as a professor of the Department of Art at the University of California Los Angeles from 2007-2013. An established scholar and critic of contemporary art, his numerous writings have been published internationally.

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Contemporary Canadian Painting @ Kasmin Gallery, NYC - North by Northeast - Sara Anstis, Jane Corrigan, Holly Coulis, Wanda Koop, Manuel Mathieu, Stephanie Temma Hier, Corri-Lynn Tetz, Tristan Unrau, Janet Werner, Anna Weyant, Chloe Wise, Matthew Wong

North by Northeast:

Contemporary Canadian Painting 

Sara Anstis, Jane Corrigan, Holly Coulis, Wanda Koop, Manuel Mathieu, Stephanie Temma Hier, Corri-Lynn Tetz, Tristan Unrau, Janet Werner, Anna Weyant, Chloe Wise, Matthew Wong

Kasmin Gallery, New York

June 30 - August 13, 2021

Kasmin presents a group exhibition of contemporary painters, all of whom hail from Canada or have spent significant periods of their art education or artmaking career there. Presenting work by Sara Anstis, Jane Corrigan, Holly Coulis, Wanda Koop, Manuel Mathieu, Stephanie Temma Hier, Corri-Lynn Tetz, Tristan Unrau, Janet Werner, Anna Weyant, Chloe Wise, and Matthew Wong, North by Northeast draws a through-line charting the distinctive ways in which artists from the region complicate traditional genres of portraiture and landscape painting. 

The title of the exhibition riffs on the central premise of mistaken identity in the plot of Hitchcock’s 1959 film, North by Northwest, and the show queries what comparisons might be observable in these artists’ formal language. Depicting subjects in fantastical or dreamlike settings, many of the works displayed boast a keen sense of the tragicomic — bodies present as dislocated or incomplete yet assertive of their own desire. Similarly, the natural world is rendered as surreal, occasionally a prop, and at other times, a constructed mise-en-scene. Akin to the landscape painters of the “Group of Seven” before them, these artists share the formative experiences of Canada’s natural landscapes. The artists included have each carved rigorously conceptual practices, playing with the country’s canonical investment in representational traditions. Furthermore, the presentation speaks to a long history of cross-pollination between the US, where many of these artists now reside, and the major art centers of Canada.

SARA ANSTIS (b. 1991, Stockholm, Sweden) lives and works in London, United Kingdom. She holds a BFA in studio art and sociology from Concordia University in Montréal and received an MFA in 2016 from Valand Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden. She has exhibited in several group shows in the United Kingdom and Europe, including at Palazzo Monti, Bresica, Italy, and The Royal Drawing School, London. Anstis has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Fabian Lang Gallery, Zürich. This will be her fourth presentation in New York City.

JANE CORRIGAN (b. 1980, Quebec, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Corrigan received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2003 and completed her MFA in 2009 at SUNY Purchase. Exhibitions include those at White Columns, New York, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, Carbon 12, Dubai, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, Wilkinson Gallery, London, Karma, New York, Retrospective, Hudson, New York, Feuer/Mesler, New York, and Oakville Galleries, Canada. She was a recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2013.

HOLLY COULIS (b.1968, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Athens, Georgia. She received her BFA from Ontario College of Art and Design and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. This summer, her exhibition Orbit will open at Philip Martin Gallery in Los Angeles. Other recent shows include Cooper Cole, Toronto, Simon Lee’s Viewing Room, London, and Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York City. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, Artforum, the Los Angeles Times, and the Brooklyn Rail. She is represented by Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles and by Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York City.

WANDA KOOP (b. 1951, Vancouver, Canada) lives and works in Winnipeg, Canada. She received an honorary Doctor of Law from University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in 2009. She has exhibited internationally for over four decades, with shows at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Xi’an Art Museum in China. Koop has work in numerous public collections, including at Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and Shanghai Museum of Art, China.

STEPHANIE TEMMA HIER (b. 1992, Toronto, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She holds a BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, and studied at the Academy of Art Canada in Toronto. Recent solo exhibitions include Bradley Ertaskiran, Montréal, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, Downs and Ross, New York, and Neochrome Gallery, Turin. Hier was a finalist for the Royal Bank of Canada’s Painting competition in 2016 and 2018. She is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and has participated in residencies at Hospitalfield, Scotland, and Shandaken: Storm King, New York.

MANUEL MATHIEU (b. 1986, Port Au Prince, Haiti) lives and works in Montréal. A graduate of Goldsmith’s College in London, Mathieu has exhibited in Belgium, Canada, China, England, France, Martinique, Morocco, Spain, and the United States. His work is in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. His recent work has been included in The Other Side of Now at Perez Art Museum in Miami. In 2020, Mathieu was the subject of solo exhibitions at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts and Power Plant, Toronto. Recent group exhibitions include Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, PHI Foundation, Montréal, Song Museum, Beijing, and Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart.

CORRI-LYNN TETZ (b. Calgary, Canada) lives and works in Montréal. She graduated from the MFA program at Concordia University in 2015. Tetz has received project support from Conseil des Art et des Lettres du Quebec, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, and was awarded the Brucebo Fellowship in 2016. She has exhibited across Canada, Sweden, and the United States, with acquisitions made by Senvest Collection and Equity Bank.

TRISTAN UNRAU (b. 1989, Canada) lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. He was a resident at the Banff Centre in 2013 and a finalist for the Royal Bank of Canada Painting Competition in 2015, 2017, and 2018. In 2016, Unrau participated in the survey group exhibition Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He has held recent solo shows Unit 17, Vancouver, and Towards, Toronto. Unrau's paintings are currently on view as part of a two-person exhibition at Stanley's, Los Angeles.

JANET WERNER (b. 1959, Canada) received her MFA from Yale University in 1987. Solo exhibitions include the Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, Galerie Julia Garnatz, Cologne, and Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal. Werner’s solo survey exhibition, Another Perfect Day, organized by the Kenderdine Art Gallery, toured to five locations in Canada from 2013–2015. Werner's work is in the public collections of the Musée du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, and the Canadian Embassy in Berlin. An upcoming solo show at Arsenal Contemporary, New York, will take place Fall 2021.

ANNA WEYANT (b. 1995, Calgary, Canada) received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Weyant’s work was the subject of the solo exhibitions Loose Screw at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles in 2021 and Welcome to the Dollhouse at 56 Henry, New York in 2019. Her work has been featured in group shows at C L E A R I N G, New York, Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, Recharge Foundation, Singapore, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami, and Local Projects, Long Island City.

CHLOE WISE (b. 1990, Montréal, Canada) lives and works in New York. She holds a BFA from Concordia University, Montréal. Recent exhibitions include solo presentations at Almine Rech in New York and London, as well as the HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark. Wise has exhibited work in numerous group shows internationally, and is currently on view in The Artist is Online, König Galerie, Berlin and in Fantasy America at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Julia Stoschek, the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

MATTHEW WONG (b. 1984, Toronto; d. 2019, Edmonton, Canada). Matthew Wong’s work is in numerous public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Estés Lauder Collection, New York, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut. Matthew Wong will be the subject of a survey exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in August 2021.

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