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Art Basel Miami Beach
8 - 10 December 2023 Nicola Vassell is pleased to present The Blues, the gallery's first presentation in the Galleries sector at Art Basel Miami Beach . The group presentation focuses on blues as pigment,... Read more -
WNYC: Alvaro Barrington Paints 'Island Life'
November 29, 2023 There's new work from artist Alvaro Barrington on view at Nicola Vassell in Chelsea. Barrington was born in Caracas to parents from Grenada in Haiti. He was raised between Brooklyn... Read more -
Nicola Vassell Gallery enters a new partnership with Hauser & Wirth to co-represent Uman
November 28, 2023 Following a presentation of the artist’s work at Art Basel Miami Beach, the first jointly organized exhibition will open in January 2024 at Hauser & Wirth London New York –... Read more -
A brush with... Alvaro Barrington
August 16, 2023 An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Johannes Vermeer to Tupac Shakur, Alvaro Barrington talks to Ben Lukeabout his influences—from writers to musicians... Read more -
Frieze London
11 - 15 October 2023 Nicola Vassell is pleased to present Untitled Transmutations, a solo presentation of new paintings by the artist Deborah Anzinger , at Frieze London. This series is comprised of works on... Read more -
BBC: London church honours Ghanaian-born abolitionist Quobna Cugoano
September 20, 2023 Artist Che Lovelace was on his way to the coast on the Caribbean island of Trinidad to collect mud to use in carnival celebrations when he received a message that... Read more -
Painter George Rouy Flirts With Abstraction
September 8, 2023 After a busy summer in the studio, the British artist journeys to New York for last night's opening of “Endless Song” at Nicola Vassell Gallery. Since breaking into the art... Read more -
Whitewall: Endless Song, A must see at Nicola Vassell
September 7, 2023 The paintings of the U.K.-based artist George Rouy employ a unique blend of realistic figuration, gesture, movement, color, and abstraction that yields singular compositions with an unmissable signature—a product of... Read more -
George Rouy's paintings are about human essence
September 7, 2023 Not too long ago, George Rouy traded in London for a slower pace of life in the sleepy town of Faversham in Kent. He moved into a 19th-century evangelical church,... Read more -
George Rouy featured in Document Journal
September 7, 2023 ‘Endless Song,’ on view at Nicola Vassell, renders artwork imbued with life’s contradictory essence. George Rouy ’s figurative practice is an exercise in introspection—an attempt at mapping the turmoil of... Read more -
We Buy Gold: SEVEN. a walkthrough in ARTnews
August 1, 2023 Late in June, art dealer Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels opened the latest iteration of her roving art space , We Buy Gold , with an excellent show featuring both emerging artists like... Read more -
Curator Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels on We Buy Gold's epic exhibition
July 17, 2023 In the entrance at Nicola Vassell, a vibrant domed shaped painting activates the room, featuring fallen trees and two feet in pink shoes evoking Dorothy— or perhaps The Wicked Witch... Read more -
We Buy Gold, Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels featured in Financial Times
June 25, 2023 Roving alternative exhibition space We Buy Gold is back in physical form after a five-year break and this time will run across two neighbouring galleries, Jack Shainman and Nicola Vassell,... Read more -
Uman’s Studio in Upstate New York is a Portal to a Kaleidoscopic World
June 16, 2023 'Albany - Uman is a prolific painter whose kaleidoscopic artworks transcend space and time. Her technicolour, large-scale paintings draw from a rich vocabulary of symbols that have accumulated over her... Read more -
The New Yorker: "Limitless pleasures await", Andrea K. Scott on Uman
May 26, 2023 'The ecstatic new paintings by the self-schooled Uman have more colors than colors have names. Her star-making début at the Nicola Vassell gallery—“I Want Everything Now,” on view through June... Read more -
Uman: I Want Everything Now Featured in The New York Times 'What To See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May'
May 17, 2023 'In a way, though, Uman is a minimalist. Her gestures, like the schematic flowers that let her claim a toehold in figuration, are always distinctly efficient. Canvases may be covered... Read more -
Independent
11 - 14 May 2023 Nicola Vassell is pleased to present Elizabeth Schwaiger at Independent, New York. In this new body of work, Elizabeth Schwaiger reflects on her experience at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in... Read more -
Uman featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Interview with Chris Martin
May 1, 2023 On a sunny spring day I drove through the Catskill Mountains to visit my friend Uman at her South Pearl Street studio in downtown Albany. Her eight thousand square foot... Read more -
ARTFORUM: Portia Malatjie on Frida Orupabo
May 1, 2023 Norwegian Nigerian artist Frida Orupabo grounds the act of waiting as an unacknowledged by-product of systematic exclusion, inequality, and displacement. She highlights the correlation between waiting and the legacies of... Read more -
Frieze: Meet Me at Reception, Alvaro Barrington and Róisín Tapponi
April 21, 2023 In the latest episode of Meet Me at Reception , eminent painter Alvaro Barrington, and his partner the film curator Róisín Tapponi, meet Director of No.9 Cork Street, Selvi May... Read more -
Che Lovelace: Bathers featured in The New York Times 'What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April'
April 5, 2023 Want to see new art in the city? Check out Che Lovelace Read more -
'Every day a revolution': the first Black woman to open a Chelsea gallery shakes up the art world
April 5, 2023 New Yorker Nicola Vassell, who wants to share 'the idea of what the future could and should look like', on opening a business in the midst of a pandemic, the... Read more -
Nicola Vassell featured on WNYC's 'All of It' with Alison Stewart for Black Art History
February 28, 2023 Black Art History: Gallery Owner Nicola Vassell As we wrap up our Black Art History month series, we meet Nicola Vassell , one of the only black female gallery owners... Read more -
ArtReview: Ming Smith’s Radical Intuition
February 20, 2023 A new show of photographs at MoMA, New York walks the line between humour and restraint. Clouds roll across a sky besieged by bands of light and shadow in... Read more -
W Magazine: Julia Chiang and the Impossibility of What We Try to Contain
February 9, 2023 Julia Chiang ’s solo exhibition “Salt on Our Skin ” at Nicola Vassell , on view now in New York through February 25, 2023, is awash in color. Over three... Read more -
Ming Smith: Projects featured in W Magazine 'All the Must-See Art Shows of 2023 (So Far)'
January 12, 2023 One of the most hotly anticipated openings of the year is coming to New York City’s Museum of Modern Art on February 4. Projects: Ming Smith is a deep dive... Read more
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