Projects| Collaborative Artworks & Group Exhibitions
Sharing current exhibitions, group presentations, and collaborative projects. Presented beyond the studio, these works engage with space, light, and audience, offering new contexts for her landscape paintings and drawings.
Philadelphia, PA - July 14, 2026.
Bridgette Mayer Gallery is pleased to present New Talent: Six Rising Painters Exploring Landscape & Abstraction, which brings together six emerging artists from Philadelphia and across the United States whose work reimagines contemporary painting through abstraction, landscape, color, and process. Featuring paintings by Kirby Fredendall, Michele Kishita, Erin McIntosh, Ellen Soffer, Angela Warren, and Mary Zeran, the exhibition highlights a dynamic range of visual languages while revealing a shared interest in perception, memory, emotion, and material experimentation.
Working across oil, acrylic, collage, and fluid media, these artists push beyond traditional approaches to landscape and abstraction, creating immersive works that invite contemplation and emotional connection. Through layered surfaces, intuitive mark-making, luminous color palettes, and explorations of movement and space, New Talent introduces six compelling voices shaping the future of contemporary painting.
Bridgette Mayer Gallery Presents:
New Talent: Six Rising Painters Exploring Landscape & Abstraction
September 1 – December 19, 2026
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This collaboration between artist Kirby Fredendall and musician Will Fredendall (flute), along with his free jazz trio (Jonathan Paik, Piano and Alex Yoo, drums), explores the intersection of visual art and music in an innovative and dynamic form. The artwork, created on acid-washed tin, serves as a canvas for expression— both as a standalone piece and as a catalyst for the sonic interpretation that follows.
Observation is central to this project. Each viewer brings a unique perspective, interpreting the mood, colors, and forms differently. Likewise, the trio responds to these paintings in real time, translating the visual experience into music. Will Fredendall and his musicians engage with the artwork through free jazz, a genre known for its improvisational nature and emotional depth, forging a direct dialogue between sound and sight. They approach the paintings as living, breathing entities—capturing shifts in mood, rhythm, and feeling, and transforming them into sonic expression.