Press Release

Mrs. is pleased to announce our participation in NADA Miami 2024 with works by Sarah Bedford, Meghan Brady, Nickola Pottinger, Nevena Prijic and Robert Zehnder; on view at Ice Palace Studios, Miami, Florida, Tuesday, December 3 through Saturday, December 7. Despite their differences in mediums and techniques, a unifying theme emerges from their works: a deep and profound connection to nature and energy.

Sarah Bedford's intimate floral paintings evoke an overgrown terrarium on a sunny windowsill, reflecting botanical hybrids that cast cosmic shadows. Combining floral landscapes and semi-abstract still lives the artist offers a portal into and-out-of a seemingly rarified plant ecosystem of her own design.  Similar to dance, Bedford’s flowers appear to move - twisting, turning lines with drooping floral heads bobbing within a clustered composition. 

Meghan Brady's paintings exude a generous spirit; her work often resembles a patchwork quilt, woven with motifs and symbols including flora and fauna, evolving in form and playful arrangement.  Brady celebrates her organic forms and textures in earthly tones and vivid hues, embodying the vitality and energy inherent in natural ecosystems.

Nickola Pottinger's sculptural practice bridges the gap between art and environmental/personal reflection, using upcycled paper pulp and collected objects to create compelling forms that celebrate her family and their Jamaican heritage. Her works often address themes of sustainability and the delicate balance between human intervention and the resilience of nature, resonating with a profound energy rooted in ecological consciousness.

Like the “magic eye” images of the 90s, Nevena Prijic’s paintings, rife for projection, detail the specificity of the unknown. In a tangle of lines and planes, Prijic outlines the daily contraction and expansion that we are experiencing in time. Her biomorphic forms, painted in vivid colors, flow toward the future at a rhythmic pace of their own. These energetic forms are in constant states of twisting and becoming, evolution refusing a moment’s rest.

Robert Zehnder's landscapes emerge from feelings of isolation, uncertainty and obsession with art history. Re-envisioning the landscape tradition, the artist engages multi-perspectives in his compositions, approaching his artworks cartographically. Zehnder utilizes a reductive visual vocabulary, void of objects or inhabitants, to illustrate surreal geographies. The resulting paintings give the appearance of fictitious maps, guiding the viewer through meandering paths of environments succumbed to the effects of industrial civilization.

Regardless of the varied mediums and approaches, Bedford, Brady, Pottinger, Prijic, and Zehnder collectively demonstrate a sensitivity to the rhythms, textures, and energies of nature. Whether through direct representation, abstract interpretation, or thematic exploration, these artists invite us to reconnect with the natural world and consider our place within it. Their works serve as a reminder of the profound influence of nature on human creativity and existence, urging us to appreciate and preserve the vitality and spirit that surround us.

Born and raised in Roundup, Montana, Sarah Bedford received her BFA from the Cooper Union and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  Bedford has been a recipient of the National Academy of Design Painting Award, as well as a Lower East Side Printshop Artist Fellowship and is a recipient of the 2024-25 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program Residency. Bedford has shown with Bellwether Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Charles Moffett and Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY; Mrs., Maspeth, NY; and Foyer and Trophy Room, Los Angeles, CA, among others.  In 2022 she co-curated Flower Craft at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Bedford’s most recent solo exhibition with Mrs. was held in winter of 2023 and she has been represented by the gallery since 2020. She currently has a solo exhibition at Vitrine Bermondsey in London, UK.  In October 2024, she will be included in the Brooklyn Museum’s Brooklyn Artists Exhibition. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Meghan Brady received her BA from Smith College and her MFA from Boston University.  She was the 2017 recipient of the Ellis Beauregard Foundation Grant, a 2018 Hewnoaks Summer Fellow, as well as a MacDowell Fellow in 2019.  Recent group exhibitions include The University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK; Steel House Projects, Rockland, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, Foreland, Catskill, Mrs., Maspeth, and a residency/exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include NADA House, Governors Island; Independent, NY, and Mrs., Maspeth, NY, which was reviewed by the New York Times.  Her work resides in the Fidelity Investments Art Collection, Boston, MA, SoHo House Art Collection, Brooklyn, Collection Francis J. Greenburger, New York and New York Presbyterian Hospital Collection, New York, NY. Brady lives and works in Camden, ME.

Nickola Pottinger is an artist and curator born in Jamaica, West Indies. Raised in Brooklyn, she went on to earn her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2008. Recent group exhibitions include Nicola Vassell, Chapter NY, Sergeant’s Daughters, New Museum, New York, NY; Ortega y Gasset Projects and Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY; Rebecca Camacho, San Francisco, CA; Cooper Cole, Toronto, CN; Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, FR; and the Galveston Artist Residency, TX. Previous solo exhibitions include Parker Gallery, Los Angeles; Deanna Evans Projects, New York and The Armory Show, New York, NY. She had her first solo exhibition with Mrs. in January 2024 (reviewed by the New York Times) which was preceded by a solo presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach, 2023. Pottinger will also be the subject of a solo exhibition at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, forthcoming June 2025.  The artist continues to live and work in Brooklyn, NY. 

Nevena Prijic earned her BFA and MFA in Painting from The University of Novi Sad, Academy of Fine Arts, Serbia. Prijic immigrated to the United States in 2017. Her work has recently been exhibited at Hesse Flatow, New York City; Bozomag and M+B, Los Angeles, and The Hole, New York and Los Angeles and OCHI, Ketchum, ID. She had her first solo exhibition with Mrs. in September, 2023. Prijic lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Robert Zehnder earned a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Zehnder’s work has been included in exhibitions at Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA; Mrs., Maspeth, NY; DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL; Spider Gallery, Wichita, KS and the Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI, among others.  The artist’s first solo exhibition with Mrs. was held September 2022 followed by a solo presentation of the artist’s work at Independent in May of 2023.  His first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, CA was held in Spring of 2023 with C L E A R I N G. Zehnder’s work has been placed in the permanent collection of the ICA Miami, Miami, FL, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; the Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon; as well as the Warehouse, Dallas, TX.  The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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