NEW YORK, NY.- On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, Nicola Vassell Gallery presents Follow Through, a group exhibition that reaffirms the gallery’s founding commitment to artistic practices grounded in inquiry, dialogue, and expanded historical awareness. Bringing together new and recent works by Alvaro Barrington, Julia Chiang, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Pam Glick, Alteronce Gumby, Na Kim, Che Lovelace, Eva Robarts, George Rouy, Elizabeth Schwaiger, Ming Smith, Uman and Alberta Whittle, the exhibition highlights artists who have helped shape—and will continue to define—the gallery’s evolving program.
Since its founding in 2021, Nicola Vassell Gallery has cultivated a program attentive to the ways artistic inquiry can reframe inherited narratives and imagine alternative futures. Central to this vision is an ongoing engagement with artists whose practices traverse material, conceptual, and geographic boundaries. Follow Through reflects this commitment through a constellation of distinct yet resonant works, each contributing to a broader conversation about process, transformation, and continuity.
The exhibition’s title speaks to persistence and the fertile potential of sustained conviction. It suggests, not the completion of a cycle, but the momentum that carries ideas forward—an energy that resonates throughout the practices on view. Whether through material transformation, iterative processes, or long-term engagements with history and form, the participating artists demonstrate a commitment to seeing ideas through, allowing them to evolve, deepen, and expand over time.
In this sense, Follow Through reflects the gallery’s own trajectory over the past five years: a sustained dedication to artists who foster dialogue, cultivate meaningful connections, and contribute to a singular and evolving ecosystem. Together, the artists in the exhibition articulate a shared investment in experimentation and rigor, even as their approaches remain distinct. Their works are presented not as isolated statements, but as part of an ongoing exchange—one that reflects the gallery’s commitment to nurturing an intergenerational and cross-disciplinary community of artists and thinkers.
This fifth anniversary marks both a moment of reflection and a renewed dedication to that ethos. Through the presentation of these new and recent works, Nicola Vassell Gallery continues to affirm its role as a space where artistic practices reveal themselves in relation to one another, where histories are continually revisited, and where new possibilities for the future take shape.
