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JUDY WALLER “My Heart’s on Fire (In the City of Angels)” - triptych, 2025. Oil on wood, wood, and clay.
Congratulations to Judy Waller on being featured in Collect Art’s 101 Contemporary Artists and More, Volume 111: 3D Art, a special edition dedicated to the expanding world of contemporary three-dimensional art.
View the DIGITAL issue.
For more information on the issue, visit CollectArtwork.org
Viridian Artist Alan Gaynor is this month’s featured artist in ITSLIQUID, a communication platform for contemporary art, architecture, design, and fashion. Visit ITSLIQUID’s website below to learn more about Alan’s practice and view his beautiful photographs of the New York Subway and skyline.
Listen to Viridian Artists member Beatriz Ledesma’s recent lecture for The Morbid Anatomy Online Journal.
In this lecture, Ledesma shares her personal healing journey through the creation and journaling of mandalas. She proposes that drawing can become a contemplative practice that opens the way to inner peace, reflection, and self-transformation.
In this lecture, Ledesma shares her own healing journey through the creation and journaling of mandalas. She proposes that drawing can become a contemplative practice—one through which we access inner peace and self-transformation. You can also purchase her book, Mandalas: A Personal Journey In Mandala Journaling
Viridian artists Arlene Finger and David Fitzgerald are currently featured in Between Two Waterfronts: A Brooklyn Landscape, a members exhibition at Brooklyn Waterfront Arts. This marks BWAC’s first group exhibition since the organization lost their long-time arts space in a tragic fire during September of 2025. To support BWAC and learn more about the exhibition please visit the organization’s website.
Daphne, Hand glazed ceramic sculpture, 17 x 12 in
A selection of sculpture works by Viridian Affiliate Sarah Riley are currently featured in Keyes Art Gallery’s latest exhibition The Open Road: Harold Anchel, Kevin Teare, Nathan Slate Joseph & Sarah Riley. The exhibition runs from June 6th to July 2nd of 2026. More information is available on Keyes Art Gallery’s website.
Written by Emma Burnett and featuring cover artwork by Viridian Artist Ellen Burnett, Ex Partum, released in June 2026, is a near-future, mama-centered sci-fi novella about navigating new realizations within a world of misogyny and corporate control.
“Ex Partum is a brilliant and characterful examination of parenting in dystopia.” —Miles Cameron, author of Artifact Space.
For more information on the author, visit EmmaBurnett.uk
Cover design by EllenBurnett.com
Purchase your copy HERE
Viridian Affiliate Vassilina Dikidjieva will be featured in the upcoming, “Members Exhibition, 2026” showcase at Noho M55 Gallery. The exhibition will run from June 23rd to July 11th of 2026. An opening reception will be hosted on July 2nd, from 6-8 PM. For more information, please visit Noho M55 Gallery’s website using the link below.
Viridian Artist Alan Gaynor and Viridian Affiliate Susan Rollins were featured in volume fifty four of Studio Visit Magazine. Juried by Sarah Harper, the Terry and Eva Herndon Assistant Curator at the Fitchburg Art Museum in Fitchburg, MA. To access the entire volume please visit Studio Visit Magazine’s website using the link below.
One in Eight: The Teacup Project is a catalog of 38 art assemblages based on the teacup in support of breast cancer awareness.
Viridian Artist Beatriz Ledesma was recently featured in Chicago Sculpture International’s Project Windows, citywide celebration of art presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition runs from June 5- July 31 of 2026, coinciding with the museum’s summer exhibition, Willem de Kooning: Drawing and Abstract Art, featuring art-inspired window displays across the city. An opening reception will be hosted on June 5th, fron 6-9 PM at CSI Project Space Gallery.
Viridian Affiliate Robert Rogers's artwork was selected for the 2026 Anima Mundi Venice Exhibition. Anima Mundi will run throughout June and July at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello and other historic sites during the 61st Venice Biennale. For more information please visit ITSLIQUID Group’s website below:
Viridian Affiliate, Vassilina Dikidjieva, will exhibit artwork including Metropolican XXIII, at Society of Japanese and American Creators 2026. The exhibition, hosted by Gallery Max New York, will take place from June 2–13, with an opening reception on Saturday, June 6 from 4–7 PM.
We are thrilled to share that Viridian Artists’ Director Emerita, Vernita Nemec, is mentioned in the 2022 novel Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen.
This acclaimed debut novel follows a Taiwanese immigrant living in New York who becomes the caretaker for her stepfather while researching the influential performance artist Tehching Hsieh. The book explores themes of art, caregiving, identity, and the passage of time.
Activities of Daily Living was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, recognized as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and named one of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year.
Pick up a copy today and discover Vernita Nemec through the unique lens of Lisa Hsiao Chen’s writing.
Currently on view at the McLean Community Center is a solo exhibition of Sabine Carlson’s idiosyncratic, cheerful paintings of waterbirds and humans bound together in acts of rescue, evoking tenderness, risk, and mutual reliance. The exhibition runs through June 13, 2026. If you are in the area, we encourage you to stop by and view Carlson’s work. For more information, visit: McLean Community Center
McLean Community Center: 1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, VA 22101
Affiliate artist IRENE CHRISTENSEN’s two accordion books will be featured in the upcoming group show WOW: WILD ORNERY WOMEN / WISDOM OF WOMEN at Artworks Gallery in Ware, MA. The exhibition opens on May 16th and runs through June 20th, 2026. An opening reception will be held on May 16th, from 2–4 PM. If you are in the area, stop by and experience Christensen’s magical artwork!
Visit ARTWORKS GALLERY: 69 Main St. Ware, MA 01082
WALLY GILBERT Yellow Path, Digital print on rag paper, 19 x 13 in. on 24 x 18 in paper
As part of Somerville Open Studios in Somerville, MA, WALLY GILBERT will be showcasing his art at Studio C319 on Saturday May 2nd and Sunday, May 3rd from 12 to 6 PM.
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Visit Somerville Open Studios: One Fitchburg St. Somerville, MA 20143
Front and Back Cover, “Dread and Splendor” by Eileen P. Kennedy and Irene Christensen
“Dread and Splendor” a book of poems featuring artwork by Viridian Affiliate Irene Christensen, is now available at Barnes & Nobles and The Strand bookstore in New York City. The book is also available in Great Britain, Taiwan, India, Italy, Romania, Latvia, China, Turkey, and more!
Rick Mullin “Cranberry Bog in the Pine Barrens,” 2025
Rick Mullin’s The Landscape exhibition features 14 works created with thick oil and acrylic paint on canvas and panel, with an emphasis on the landscape. Many of the works were painted directly on site, or from studies and drawings made from observation. The settings for the paintings are specific locations that Mullin returns to again and again, and with which he feels a visceral connection.
Though representational to each location, the paintings veer toward the abstract and romantic, luxuriating in bold mark-making and rich color. Impasto surfaces draw us in to the earthly qualities that have been witnessed in these places, while transporting us to higher, emotional states. The paintings suggest a process that is responsive and intuitive. Mullin states, “My approach is difficult to describe, but I find that George Inness’s observation that knowledge must bow to spirit is essential to landscape painting. It has become something of a mantra to me as I work.”
The Landscape, organized by Jason Karolak, associate teaching professor or art, is on view through March 6, 2026 in Mead Hall, open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. An artist talk and reception will take place February 9 from 4-6 p.m. in Mead Hall.
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Visit Drew University gallery at 36 Madison Ave., Madison, New Jersey 07940
Have You Seen My Neighbor?, Sabine Carlson , Acrylic on gesso board, 12 x 16 x 1.5 in. (2025)
Awareness, Irene Christensen , Oil on linen, 18 x 24 in. (2024)
SELFIED: Mirrored Studies presents recent mixed-media works by New York–based artist David Fitzgerald, examining selfies taken in mirrors and shared online, where reflection becomes both image and metaphor within a visual language shaped by technology and digital platforms. To RSVP, click HERE
