Future Fair NYC 2023

Melhop Gallery º7077 is very excited to be partnering with Trotter&Sholer NYC to present works by

Stewart Francis Easton and Alex Stern at Future Fair this May.

Trotter&Sholer and Melhop are young galleries, with similar guiding philosophies. The directors of both galleries work cooperatively with artists and other partners. We feel that we are strongest when working in teams and strive to build close, dynamic relationships.

Participating in Future Fair feels like an extension of this ethos. The fair’s model allows us to build strong partnerships with other galleries which helps to generate new ideas and possibilities. Our presentation of Alex Stern and Stewart Francis Easton brings together two artists who value repetition, focus, and levity.

Find us at Booth F2 at Chelsea Industrial, 535 W 28th Street, New York, NY 10001.

Aura from the Lojong series, cotton embroidery on canvas, 24” x 20.8” 2018-2019, Stewart Francis Easton

STEWART FRANCIS EASTON

Stewart Francis Easton is a London, UK Based artist whose work emphasizes the need to create using the hand and focussed mind. His pieces are meditative hand stitched embroideries consisting of abstract shapes and colors, made through a process of removing narrative and deliberately slowing down. Easton’s work, though utterly meticulous, also has an air of lightheartedness at its core.

Harmonic Convergence, cotton embroidery on canvas, 27.57” x 32.68” framed, 2017, Stewart Francis Easton

Installation view

Stewart Francis Easton. The Holy Mountain, 2021. Quilt, cotton 59 x 79.5 in. (150 x 202 cm.)

Installation view Booth F2 Stewart Francis Easton and Alex Stern at Future Fair

ALEX STERN

Alex Stern is a LA based artist whose mixed media works interrogate corporeal experience. His works confront issues of social friction, and methods of maintaining control and bodily autonomy in the face of dependency. His works connect themes of excess and restraint to larger cultural practices of consumption and consumerism. Despite their serious concerns, many of Stern’s works deal in humor.