Artists in Residence, April 2025

Blair Saxon-Hill
Blair Saxon-Hill lives and works in Los Angeles, California. While adept in many art mediums including collage, assemblage, and sculpture, Saxon-Hill is primarily an oil painter at this time. Her works are vibrant and playful; they are filled with an overarching sense of empathy and love for the world and people around her. She often moves from using larger gestural marks to more fine detailed expressions in a single canvas; rewarding the viewer in different ways at all distances from the work.
Blair also has an observational still life practice. After gathering flowers from the market, she returns to the studio to compose bouquets and paint them from life. Collectively the works harken to the line work of masters like Matisse and Picasso, while looking forward with her new and distinct voice that can serve as an emotional balm.

Daniel Um
Daniel Um (b. 2001 Seoul, South Korea)is based in New York City. In 2024, he earned a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in New York. Solo exhibitions include : 2025 Fox in the Vineyard, The Cabin, Los Angeles, CA; 2024 Apple of My Eye, The Hole, New York, NY; 2024 Trails Left by the Moonlight, Linseed Projects, Shanghai, CN; 2024 Lullaby, Turn Gallery, New York, NY.
Primarily working in oil paints, Um’s subject matter focuses on fragments of his life that reside in themes of desolation and states of refuge. This autobiographical activity speaks to this quality in addition to being areflection of his thoughts, fascinations, and impulse. The resulting compositions are ultimately collaborations between chance and intentions; creating ample room for the viewer to fill in the gaps of meaning.

Lucy Stein
Born in Oxford,Lucy Steinlives and works in Cornwall and London. She studied painting at The Glasgow School of Art (BA, 2001–4) and De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2004–6). Her first solo exhibition was at Gimpel Fils, London (2005) and she has exhibited internationally with selected solo exhibitions at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2006); Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich and Milan (2011,2013,2018, 2020, 2024) Palette Terre, Paris (2018); and Spike Island, Bristol (2021) Casa Rusca Locarno (2024). She has been included in group shows at Kunsthaus Zurich (2022) Tate St Ives (2018).

Nils Dunkel
NilsDunkel(b. 1990 in Linz, Austria) is a conceptual artist based in Berlin and Dusseldorf. He graduated at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf in 2024 as a master student of Rita McBride. His works have been purchased by international museums (Tiroler Landesmuseum, AT) and renowned collections (Miettinen Collection, DE). Participation in numerous international group exhibitions and art fairs.
Solo exhibitions include: 2025 Light Life Memories, flatmarkus, Zurich, CH / 2024 Sailing on Sand, CFA Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, DE / 2023 to float even more, [tart vienna] Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT / 2021 ich dich gesehen habe, Birkenstrasse 20, Dusseldorf, DE / 2019 Fragments, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, DE.