Wednesday, July 23, 3-5 pm: Sculptors Alliance Meetup | Sam Moyer at Flag Art

Join Sculptors Alliance President Marco Palli [above] for this week’s Meetup at Hill Art Foundation in Chelsea. Bring your sketchbook and a friend to explore sculpture and mixed media works by Sam Moyers, then chill out over cold drinks and casual chat about the art. 

This is the fourth in a series of Meetups, running through the fall. Mark your calendar for upcoming events in the City and beyond, including William Kentridge, the new Rockefeller Wing at The Met, the Noguchi Museum & Garden, Storm King Art Center and much more. Schedule and info here

Meet tomorrow at Hill Art Foundation, 239 Tenth Avenue [between 24-25 Streets, FL3], New York, NY Info Photo above: Marco Palli with sculpture by Isabel Langtry at Berkeley Square, London

Thursday, July 24, 6-8 pm: The Legacy of Viola Frey | Panel Discussion at MAD

Born in 1933 and raised on a grape ranch in Central Valley, California, artist Viola Frey was first drawn to ceramics as a student at California College of Arts and Crafts because, she said, “it seemed more like the real world.” In time, Frey’s prolific career spanned over fifty years during which she straddled mediums and seamlessly transitioned between the intimate and the monumental. Known best for her large-scale figurative ceramic sculptures—many towering over 10 feet tall—Frey’s dedication to her art practice extended beyond her devotion to clay and encompassed painting, drawing, and varied mediums for sculpture.

To learn more, join the Museum of Arts and Design and the Artists’ Legacy Foundation for an evening conversation in celebration of the publication of Viola Frey: Artist’s Mind/Studio/World, the first monograph published about the legendary artist. Tickets

Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY Info

Thursday, July 24, 6-8 pm: Women Artists and the Human Figure in Nature at David Krut

David Krut Projects Artspace, New York presents The River Beneath the River: Women Artists and the Human Figure in Nature, an exhibition of prints created largely at David Krut Workshop, in Johannesburg, depicting human figures in harmony with the natural environments they inhabit. The works shown here locate spirituality in feminine connections with nature, a connection addressed in popular literature of the moment, from Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. Above: Inside the Workshop

In Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés discusses an inherently feminine connection to nature, one which allows us to connect with myths, fairy tales, and folklore of times gone by. This, says Estés , can be done by reaching a “locus betwixt the worlds,” also referred to as the “collective unconscious,” where “visitations, miracles, imaginations, inspirations, and healings of all natures occur”,

Artists such as Deborah Bell and Nthabiseng Kekana aim to act as conduits for these ideas, depicting a communion between humans and nature that goes beyond the visual. Diane Victor’s work often depicts interactions between human and animal figures, sometimes playfully and other times with a stunning gravity. Heidi Fourie’s gestural compositions illustrate spiritually compelling human interactions with nature, where figures often seem to dissolve into their surroundings.

David Krut Projects Artspace, 526 West 26^th Street, New York, NY Info

Last chance, Friday, July 25: Paul Resika | 1945 & 1925 at Bookstein Projects

Eighty years ago, In1945 Paul Resika was a precocious 17-year-old frequenting the New York galleries and museums in search of the latest trends in painting. Already on his way to becoming an accomplished painter, he was inspired by the current museum exhibition, including paintings by Roberto Matta at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, and an exhibition of New Acquisitions at the Museum of Modern Art. It was in this same year that he joined the Hans Hofmann School of Painting, then going on to live on the Giudecca in Venice where he immersed himself in the study of the Old Masters, copying the likes of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese.

Now in his 97th year, Paul Resika continues to make art daily, contending with those same tenets of painting: color, form and composition. The seven works from 2025 included in this show represent a renewed commitment to his mentor and teacher Hans Hofmann's "push-pull theory" of painting: how space, depth and movement can be achieved, on a flat canvas, by juxtaposing color and shape. 

Bookstein Projects, 39 East 78^th Street, New York, NY Info

Saturday, July 25, 2-7pm: 9^th Annual Kingsland Wildflower Festival 

Celebrate community, ecology, and creativity at the 2025 Kingsland Wildflowers Festival! Enjoy a full afternoon of rooftop exploration, live performances, arts, hands-on activities, and local food and drinks—all free and family-friendly. 

As a Kingsland Wildflowers partner, NOoSPHERE Arts is proud to present site-specific performances, immersive art installations, film, live music, dance, and workshops.

Kingsland Wildflowers, 520 Kingsland Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Info

Last chance, Saturday July 26: Fanny Sanin | Geometric Equasions at Americas

Geometric Equations is the first institutional survey of Fanny Sanín’s paintings in New York—where the artist has lived and worked for fifty-four years. Dedicated primarily to geometric abstraction, Sanín’s prolific career spans more than five decades. Born in Bogotá in 1938, Sanín studied fine art in Bogotá, and later, at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and the Chelsea School of Art, London before she moved permanently to Manhattan, in 1971.

By then, Sanín had already begun advancing her own mode of depicting complex hard-edged geometric forms with interweaving lines and complementary or contrasting colors. This panoramic show includes monumental acrylic paintings, smaller compositions, as well as studies for the large works. Twenty-one major paintings and two dozen smaller studies are installed in loosely chronological order to guide the visitor through the subtle changes in Sanín’s use of color and form to explore geometry’s possibilities.

Americas Soicety, xxx Park Avenue, New York, NY Info