Keren Anavy: Floating in Three Acts

EFA Studio Member Keren Anavy is giving a walkthrough on April 8 for her landmark solo exhibition, Floating in Three Acts.

On view through April 30, 2026
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury
Route 107, Old Westbury, NY 11568

Wednesday, April 8, 2:40–4:20 pm
Exhibition Walkthrough with the artist and Gallery Director Hyewon Yi, PhD

Thursday, April 30, 2:40–4:10 pm
Live Intervention: Performance by students of artist Marcela Torres

Spanning 2,500 square feet across three interconnected gallery spaces, the exhibition unfolds as an immersive, site-specific environment integrating drawing, painting, printmaking, laser cutout, sculpture, video, and sound.

Rooted in Anavy’s transnational experience as an immigrant artist, the exhibition traces a deeply personal narrative shaped by memory, identity, and nature. Created in the shadow of profound personal loss, the work reflects on fragility, creation, and the shifting boundaries between a gaze inward and outer worlds. Structured in three acts: Garden, Ocean, and Water Channels, the exhibition uses water as a central metaphor for reflection, transformation, and ecological vulnerability, guiding viewers through states of cultivation, submergence, and drift.

Image: Work by Keren Anavy. Credit JSP Art Photography

Janet Loren Hill at Tephra ICA

EFA Studio Member Janet Loren Hill is part of a two-person exhibition with Andrew Casto at Tephra ICA.

March 14 – July 25, 2026
Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art
12001 Market St #103, Reston, VA 20190

The exhibition brings together Hill’s shaped paintings and Casto’s ceramic and mixed-media vessel forms in a dynamic dialogue between painting and sculpture, the absurd and the sublime. Hill’s work features surreal figures navigating layered environments that trace histories of labor, coercion, and rupture, while Casto’s materially driven vessels draw from geological processes to reflect on environmental change and disruptions to everyday life.

Image: Janet Loren Hill, Company Town: Where Truths Are Made Correct (Snailbrook, TX), 2025, Gouache on paper, 22 x 30 inches.

Nazli Efe: 2025 AIM Fellow at The Bronx Museum

EFA Studio Member Nazli Efe, named a 2025 AIM Fellow at The Bronx Museum!

Nazli’s interdisciplinary work explores Water, memory, and the unconscious, using alchemical processes like pouring molten wax into Water to create evocative, ever-changing forms. Her installations, sculptures, and performances transform materials into preserved fragments of personal history.

Image: Nazli Efe, 'Kanlica (My Grandfather’s House),' 2022, IV bags, IV pole, mulch, silicon tubing, Water, beeswax, oil sticks, acrylic, resin, photographs, found objects from nature, glass containers, aquarium pump, chains, metal wire, 79 x 87 x 63 in.

© Courtesy of Federico Savini

Cecile Chong: NYSCA Grant Recipient

EFA Studio Member Cecile Chong, together with Tao Leigh Goffe as part of their collaborative project Broken China, has received a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support their creative work.

Sponsored by The Old Stone House, this grant will help fund their upcoming exhibition, Splintered Family Frames: Diaspora Albums, which continues their exploration of memory, identity, and cultural heritage.

On top of that, Cecile Chong has received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2026.

Sally Egbert: Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond

EFA Studio Member Sally Egbert is featured in the upcoming exhibition Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond, opening February 12, 2026 at the Lower Jetté Gallery.

The exhibition brings together more than forty works by twenty-five artists who embrace collage as a medium or conceptual strategy. Featuring transformative gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation alongside works from the museum’s collection, the show spans cut paper collage, painting, textiles, sculpture, and assemblage, highlighting collage as both a site of serious artistic inquiry and an accessible form of creative expression.

The exhibition will be on view through May 31, 2026, and we encourage our community to visit and support our Studio Member!

Image: Sally Egbert, Perfumes, 2010. Mixed media (acrylic paint, paper, fabric, watercolor) on canvas, 70 x 60 1/8 in.

Vidal Mouet: C24 Gallery Representation

EFA Studio Member Vidal Mouet (b. Navojoa, México) is now represented by C24 Gallery in New York.

Mouet is an abstract painter whose work reconsiders the fundamental language of painting—canvas, oil, shaped stretchers, and space—to transform the way we see everyday moments. His compositions turn familiar objects—a leaning stack of coffee cups or the edge of an open magazine—into precise, quietly disorienting works that fully engage with space, considering front, back, and edge equally.

This representation follows his recent group exhibition, Traces, at C24 Gallery alongside Leda Tsoutreli and Elise Coker. We congratulate Vidal on this exciting milestone and encourage our community to follow his practice as it continues to grow.

Image: Vidal Mouet in his studio, Photo courtesy of C24 Gallery.