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.
Director Emerita, Vernita Nemec, Makes an Appearance in the Debut Novel “Activities of Daily Living” by Lisa Hsiao Chen
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.
A Solo Exhibition of Sabina Carlson's Whimsical Paintings at McLean Center
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 artwork is featured at Artworks Gallery!
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
THIS WEEKEND! NEW ART! Wally Gilbert in his Studio! Sat. & Sun. from 12–6 PM
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
"Dread and Splendor" Now Available at Barnes & Nobles and The Strand
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 presents "The Landscape" at Drew University
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
WHAT DREAMS MAY COM
What Dreams May Come
Sabine Carlson | Irene Christensen | Stephanie Lempres | Sarah Riley
Tuesday, January 6th - Saturday, January 24th, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 8th, 6–8pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, January 24th, 4–6pm
Have You Seen My Neighbor?, Sabine Carlson , Acrylic on gesso board, 12 x 16 x 1.5 in. (2025)
Viridian Artists is thrilled to announce WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, a group exhibition presenting the whimsical and fantastical realms inhabited by SABINE CARLSON, IRENE CHRISTENSEN, STEPHANIE LEMPRES, and SARAH RILEY. The exhibition will be on view from January 6–24, 2026. An Opening Reception will take place on Thursday, January 8, 2026, from 6–8 PM, followed by a Closing Reception on Saturday, January 24, from 4–6 PM.
Awareness, Irene Christensen , Oil on linen, 18 x 24 in. (2024)
WHAT DREAMS MAY COME unfolds through surreal imagery and recurring figures that move fluidly between the conscious and the unconscious. Sabine Carlson conjures scenes of water birds and humans entwined in acts of rescue, evoking tenderness, risk, and mutual reliance. Irene Christensen reveals fragments of unseen landscapes, intimate microcosms poised between growth and decay, where body and terrain blur into one another. Stephanie Lempres offers abstract, geometric, color field paintings that establish a quiet architecture, opening a temporal window for dreaming, stillness, and possibility. Sarah Riley’s mixed media works and sculptures draw from myth, literature, and personal history, transforming memory through acts of reinvention.
Bursting with creativity and defying traditional aesthetics, the artists use their visual languages to search for meaning, expand narrative possibilities, and reshape contemporary understandings of artistic expression.
View the virtual exhibition “WHAT DREAMS MAY COME”
Artist David Fitzgerald presents his new series of work at Oxford House Projects
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
Viridian Artist Rick Mullin presents a Series of Landscape Paintings at Drew University
Cranberry Bog in the Pine Barrens, Rick Mullin, Acrylic on canvas, 26 x 32 in.
This month, Viridian Artist Rick Mullin presents a series of landscape artworks at Drew University’s latest exhibition “The Landscape”. The exhibit runs from January 20th to March 6th, and can be viewed at Mead Hall in Drew University. A reception will be hosted February 9th, from 4-6PM.
Viridian Artist Marco Lando Featured in "White Noise" at Pictor Gallery
Viridian Artist Marco Lando’s artwork is currently on view at Pictor Gallery. “White Noise”, runs from January 6–24 0f 2026 at 547 27th St. #204.
HOLIDAY MADNESS
HOLIDAY MADNESS
December 16th, 2025 - January 3rd, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 18th, 6-8pm Closing Reception: Saturday, January 3rd, 6-8pm
Viridian Artists is pleased to present HOLIDAY MADNESS, Viridian’s 55th Holiday Invitational Exhibition. The exhibition will run from December 16, 2025, through January 3, 2026, with an Opening Reception on Thursday, December 18, from 6–8 pm, followed by the Closing Reception on Saturday, January 3, from 4–6 pm.
This festive group show features over 50 small-scale works, each priced at $500 or less, offering an ideal opportunity to collect meaningful and accessible art. With prices set to inspire both collecting and gift-giving, each piece makes it easy to share the joy of creativity with your loved ones.
HOLIDAY MADNESS at Viridian celebrates and honors the extraordinary artistic spirit of these participating artists. The works on display are more than objects to acquire; they are intended to enrich lives by creating a personal connection with the viewer, allowing each piece to make a lasting impression and turning the gift of a work into a heartfelt experience.
For many, 2025 has been a year of pivotal change, marked by beginnings, endings, and sudden shifts in fortune that required trust and faith that something wonderful could emerge. Amid the upheaval, mayhem, and “madness,” the one constant is our ability to draw upon creativity itself. The featured artists bring this truth to life through their work, providing an anchor between the seen and the unseen while offering visual narratives that connect with viewers today and point toward visions of tomorrow.
By gifting a work from HOLIDAY MADNESS, you are not only supporting artists in continuing to share their talents with the world but also opening a doorway to experience itself. As musician Brian Eno famously stated, “Stop thinking about artworks as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”
View the Virtual Exhibition on Kunst Matrix
View HOLIDAY MADNESS on Artsy
Viridian Affiliate Nancy Macina's Artwork Featured in Theater For The New City Art Gallery
Viridian Affiliate Nancy Macina’s artwork will be featured in an upcoming group show at Theater For The New City Art Gallery. “Places & Spaces” opens January 6, and runs through February 7, 2026. An opening reception will be held on January 14, from 5:30 – 8:30 PM. If you are in the area join us in supporting Nancy’s wonderful artwork!
Viridian Artist Rick Mullin wins Casa Dell' Angelo Residency
Last week, Viridian Artist Rick Mullin won a seat in next year's Casa Dell' Angelo residency in Northern Italy. Run by a family of five out of the village of Lubiara, the residency focuses on mental well-being and the rich natural landscape of Verona, while emphasizing a contribution to the surrounding community. Rick Mullin's artwork focuses on representational and figure paintings in oil and acrylic. Congratulations Rick!
In Autumn Light
Vassilina Dikidjieva, Arlene Finger, Nancy Macina, Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Christopher T. Terry
October 14th - November 11th
Woman From Harar II, Vassilina Dikijieva, Oil on Linen, 20” x 16”, 2022
West Village , Nancy Macina, Oil on Canvas , 18” x 24”, 2022
Planter, Arlene Finger, Charcoal Pencil, White Chalk, 29.75” x 40.5”, 2018
Et Lux Perpetua, Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Polaroid Dye Transfer on Canvas Oval , 10” x 8”, 2001
Botanical Geometry, Christopher T. Terry, Oil on Panel, 12” x 12”, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 14th 6 – 8pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 1st 4 – 6pm
Chelsea, New York: The Viridian Artists gallery is happy to present In Autumn Light an exhibition of five Viridian Artist Gallery Affiliate Members. The show opens Tuesday, October 14th and runs through Saturday, November 1st with an opening reception Thursday, October 16th from 6 to 8pm. A closing reception will be held at the gallery Saturday, November 1st between the hours of 4 and 6pm
Metropolitan XIII - Queen of Sheba, Vassilina Dikijieva, Oil on Linen , 24” x 18”, 2024
Vassilina Dikidjieva lived and worked for thirteen years in Ethiopia where she traveled throughout much of the country seeing monuments, ancient sites and big market places full of colors, arts, crafts and people. It was these people Vassilina never grew tired of seeing, people from different walks of life that this body of work came to represent in five portraits of women and one composition in six parts that she sees as a song, or a love poem to this part of the world.
Go Fish #9, Arlene Finger, Pastel, Ink, White Chalk, 18” x 24”, 2025
Arlene Finger’s compositions reflect a representational mixed media with juxtaposed themes often in combinations of still life and landscape where line and color have great meaning. Many times linked to what is simply outside the window or in a small room interior with the artist, Finger generates a primal feeling through an artist’s perspective from what is at hand that most would pass by. It is a dynamic quality of, at times, simple shapes with a flowering aesthetic that touches the eye through a combination of charcoal pencil, ink, pastel and white chalk to create simple yet complex drawings.
Eternal City, Nancy Macina, Oil on Canvas, 18” x 24”, 2019
Staten Island, Nancy Macina, Oil on Canvas, 18” x 24”, 2024
Nancy Macina sees the world’s great cities in an ineffable beauty that humankind has created in the search for many of its truths. Through this she tries to capture the genius-loci of a place by strolling the streets and seeing what in combination with what brings the essence, the unseen soul or spirit, so that more of these truths so sought after may surface. Macina feels now, more than ever, we need to preserve the history of these places with ecological consciousness to further progress, as she evokes connection from image to viewer to another viewer through with what has been experienced by them in similar places.
O Lost, and By the Wind Grieved, Ghost Come Back Again (Thomas Wolfe), Kristen Struebing-Beazley, Pinhole camera study of St. Louis Cemetery #3 Set in Moire Taffeta Surrounded with Embroidered Ribbon Quote, 24” x 20”, 2000
Kristen Struebing-Beazley’s Memento Mori, a blackened wall ensemble, exhibits the melancholic atmosphere of daily incremental loss of light in the autumn of our northern hemisphere. The days (and years) dwindle down to a precious few . . . Assembled with a combination of masks, photos, and plaques this stunning work leaves an impression of untold mystery on the viewer, who, without being able to grasp it with an actual hand, feels the ghost of what is so beautiful in what eludes, in what drifts away, in what is possible.
Still Life on a Black Console, Christopher T. Terry, Oil on Canvas , 24” x 32”, 2025
Christopher T. Terry presents six paintings that reflect his continuing interest in representation based on memory and invention as well as conventional direct observation. In some of the work there leans an image very much taken from life but still contains aspects and information only imagined. At other times a painting is almost completely based on remembered details of an interior space worked on several years before the painting was started. The gaps in his memory, or invented details that do not completely mesh with reality help contribute a meditative dream-like quality to the work where the images fulfill a haunting beauty of light and warmth.
“Now and Then: From the Studio of Kathleen Shanahan”
September 6, 2025-January 11, 2026 in the Kurdian Gallery, Wichita Art Museum, 1400 Museum Blvd. in Wichita
Please click the image above to find out more about Kathleen Shanahan’s showing at the Wichita Art Museum
Sabine Carlson Exhibits in "Palimpsest" at the German-American Heritage Museum of the USA
Palimpsest
The German-American Heritage Museum of the USA
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 15th, 2025
Viridian Artist Sabine Carlson will be featured in a new exhibition titled Palimpsest at the German-American Heritage Museum of the USA. There will be an opening reception the night of Wednesday, October 15, 2025. The exhibition will also feature artists Tinam Valk, and Jenny Kanzler.
More information about the museum exhibition can be found by clicking this link: Palimpsest at the German-American Heritage Museum of the USA or on the image below
Sabine Carlson “Watershed”, acrylic on gesso board, 16” x 20” x 1.5”, 2025
Wally Gilbert "Transformations"
September 23rd - October 11th
Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 25th 6-8pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, October 30th 4-6pm
Chelsea, New York: The Viridian Artists gallery is happy to present “Transformations” an exhibition of new works by artist Wally Gilbert. The show opens Tuesday, September 23rd and runs through Saturday, October 11th with an opening reception Thursday, September 25th from 6 to 8pm. A closing reception will be held at the gallery Saturday, October 11th between the hours of 4 and 6pm.
Nobel laureate Wally Gilbert brings a new voice to the images in his solo show “Transformations”. Color is the center point of Gilbert’s artwork, Once again he uses vibrant and, at times, electric tones to transform the commonly viewed into a new wild region of inventive portrayals, pursuing his signature style. The lines and textures of the images combine with the shapes to reveal another world, brought to the forefront for the aesthetic marvel of the unordinary.
The work shown in this show flows with different content through the theme of transformation starting with Gilbert’s initial catch of the image and then his manipulation to bring it to a final effective result. In the piece “Three Differences”, the tops of houses and the sky are presented only slightly changed so that they retain some of their fundamental reality. However, in “Difference #1”, suddenly a variation appears where the shapes of the clouds with enhanced colors bleed over to wash out any depiction of the houses whatsoever, creating a startling modification living as its own unique self. These images then are in contrast with a piece like “Crossing”, an abstraction that starts with the formality of sharp lines and shapes but is given over to the altering brightness of color that carries the viewer to new opportunities of warm reds and black lines operating simultaneously with blue cools in diamonds. So many of the works follow this thread of expertise in craft, illustrated through change, to create a startling, overwhelming, beauty.
In this, his eighth solo show at Viridian, Gilbert brings fresh light to his photographs and his artistic mission. The combinations of digitally sculpted works of realistic objects and landscapes with images of pure abstraction in luminescent color raise this body of work to artistic heights embodying Wally’s masterful techniques in image manipulation with an eye that, in its first layer of the image, can see the possibility of a richness and depth that defies simple notions of what can be mined from what is understood.
Hiromi Aoki "Blossoms" to be featured in "Special Exhibition for the Noto Peninsula Earthquake Reconstruction"
“Blossoms” will be on display in “Special Exhibition for the Noto Peninsula Earthquake Reconstruction” The show will run from October 29th to November 24th. It will be in three different venues in Kiyomizu-dera (Kyoto), Yakushi-ji (Nara), Zojo-ji (Tokyo)
Hiromi Aoki is newly represented by Viridian Artists Gallery. A wonderful new edition to the gallery, her serene and dynamic artwork has been on view in Japan and the United States and can be seen here Aoki Hirmoi Artwork.
Viridian Artist Kathleen King's work featured in August House Chicago Exhibition
“Hero’s Sanctuary”, “Discoverer’s Sanctuary”, and “Guardian’s Sanctuary”, 4” x 6” x 5.5”, prefab wooden birdhouses, dried plant detritus, plastic “gems”, foil , acrylic paint, acrylic medium, costume jewelry fragments, tiny led string lights with AA battery packs with muslin cover bags, digital prints, glitter, metal loops/attachments and rope twine.
Viridian Artist Kathleen King’s work will be featured in “Avian All Stars”, a group show hosted by August House Chicago. The group show is August House’s first exhibition after a five year Hiatus and will feature artwork from the Chicago area and beyond.
The Exhibition opens Friday September 12th and runs through October 18th at August House Chicago
2113 W. Roscoe St. Chicago, 60618