Along this walk, you can read descriptions about each artist’s motivations, along with personal information about them. Thank you for taking the time to discover more about these featured artists, their processes, and their dedication to their craft.
Alexandra Kehayoglou
Argentine, b. 1981
Long Island Tapestries, Oyster Bay Aerial Study 2019
Wool, hand tufted 274 x 78 inches
My aim is to bring nature inside the building. Natural landscapes have a healing effect when experienced by both sight and immersion.
More about Alexandra Kehayoglou
Alexandra Kehayoglou lives and works in Buenos Aires. Her work combines textiles, sculpture, and installation with surplus materials from her family’s carpet factory, which has been in business for more than 60 years. Ms. Kehayoglou explores the relationship between people and nature, advocating for environmental awareness in her work. She brings together her memories of landscapes in Argentina and her desire to preserve them over time. Ms. Kehayoglou has received commissions from around the world, including from artist Olafur Eliasson, fashion designer Dries van Noten, the Onassis Foundation in New York City, and the cultural center Chiostro del Bramante in Rome.
Long Island Tapestries, Oyster Bay Aerial Study by Alexandra Kehayoglou. © Alexandra Kehayoglou, Photo Credit Alexandra Kehayoglou
Alexandra Kehayoglou
Argentine, b. 1981
Long Island Tapestries, Montauk Ocean Study 2019
Wool, hand tufted 292 x 78 inches
My aim is to bring nature inside the building. Natural landscapes have a healing effect when experienced by both sight and immersion.
More about Alexandra Kehayoglou
Alexandra Kehayoglou lives and works in Buenos Aires. Her work combines textiles, sculpture, and installation with surplus materials from her family’s carpet factory, which has been in business for more than 60 years. Ms. Kehayoglou explores the relationship between people and nature, advocating for environmental awareness in her work. She brings together her memories of landscapes in Argentina and her desire to preserve them over time. Ms. Kehayoglou has received commissions from around the world, including from artist Olafur Eliasson, fashion designer Dries van Noten, the Onassis Foundation in New York City, and the cultural center Chiostro del Bramante in Rome.
Long Island Tapestries, Montauk Ocean Study by Alexandra Kehayoglou. © Alexandra Kehayoglou, Photo Credit Alexandra Kehayoglou
Petra Rös-Nickel
German, b. 1963
Pattern Blue Green 2018
Oil on canvas 40 x 47 inches
I never know how an artwork will end up until I decide that it is completed. I am excited about the process and discovery of new forms every day.
More about Petra Rös-Nickel
Petra Rös-Nickel lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. Her abstract geometric textured artworks have been exhibited and collected worldwide, including in Germany, Belgium, the United States, Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Notable collectors include Chris Rock.
Pattern Blue Green by Petra Rös-Nickel. © Petra Rös-Nickel, Photo Credit Anonymous
Alexandra Kehayoglou
Argentine, b. 1981
Long Island Tapestries, Pastizal Beach 2019
Wool, hand tufted 271 x 78 inches
My aim is to bring nature inside the building. Natural landscapes have a healing effect when experienced by both sight and immersion.
More about Alexandra Kehayoglou
Alexandra Kehayoglou lives and works in Buenos Aires. Her work combines textiles, sculpture, and installation with surplus materials from her family’s carpet factory, which has been in business for more than 60 years. Ms. Kehayoglou explores the relationship between people and nature, advocating for environmental awareness in her work. She brings together her memories of landscapes in Argentina and her desire to preserve them over time. Ms. Kehayoglou has received commissions from around the world, including from artist Olafur Eliasson, fashion designer Dries van Noten, the Onassis Foundation in New York City, and the cultural center Chiostro del Bramante in Rome.
Long Island Tapestries, Pastizal Beach by Alexandra Kehayoglou. © Alexandra Kehayoglou, Photo Credit Alexandra Kehayoglou
Alexandra Kehayoglou
Argentine, b. 1981
Long Island Tapestries, Montauk Ocean Study with Dunes 2018
Wool, hand tufted 273.5 x 78 inches
My aim is to bring nature inside the building. Natural landscapes have a healing effect when experienced by both sight and immersion.
More about Alexandra Kehayoglou
Alexandra Kehayoglou lives and works in Buenos Aires. Her work combines textiles, sculpture, and installation with surplus materials from her family’s carpet factory, which has been in business for more than 60 years. Ms. Kehayoglou explores the relationship between people and nature, advocating for environmental awareness in her work. She brings together her memories of landscapes in Argentina and her desire to preserve them over time. Ms. Kehayoglou has received commissions from around the world, including from artist Olafur Eliasson, fashion designer Dries van Noten, the Onassis Foundation in New York City, and the cultural center Chiostro del Bramante in Rome.
Long Island Tapestries, Montauk Ocean Study with Dunes by Alexandra Kehayoglou. © Alexandra Kehayoglou, Photo Credit Alexandra Kehayoglou
Ana Maria Hernando
Argentine, b. 1959
El Corazón Inocente 2010
Color lithograph, 30 x 22 inches each, edition of 25
I always want to have room in my heart for innocence. It is a way to relate to flowers in the spring and new water trickling down the mountain. It is the beginning of courage.
More about Ana Maria Hernando
Ana Hernando studied at the Profesorado S. Ch. de Eccleston and the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires, at the Museum School in Boston, and at the California College of the Arts in Oakland. Her solo shows include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver; the Tweed Museum of Art in Duluth, Minnesota; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri; and Marfa Contemporary in Texas. Ms. Hernando has completed temporary public art installations and made several prints with master printmaker Bud Shark, of Shark’s Ink in Lyons, Colorado. Recent accolades include the Prix de La Napoule 2020, for which she will mount a major solo show at the foundation’s gardens in France.
El Corazón Inocente by Ana Maria Hernando. © Ana Maria Hernando, Photo Credit Shark’s Ink
Jessica Brilli
American, b. 1977
Black Camaro, Split Level, Camaro, Impala 2018
Inkjet print, Black Camaro 20 x 24 inches, Split Level 24 x 24 inches, Impala 30 x 30 inches, Camaro 20 x 24 inches, edition of 10
I have been drawing and painting since childhood. Working in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th-century graphic design aesthetics, I reveal the beauty in everyday scenes and objects in my paintings.
More about Jessica Brilli
Jessica Brilli earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston and received a certificate in graphic design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Ms. Brilli’s work has been recognized by numerous publications and respected internet venues domestically and abroad. Her paintings have been featured in solo and group shows throughout New England, as well as in South Korea, where her work was featured on the cover of Heren in celebration of the magazine’s 10th anniversary exhibition.
Black Camaro, Split Level, Camaro, Impala by Jessica Brilli. © Jessica Brilli, Photo Credit Jessica Brilli
Irving Hayes
American, 1927-2005
Untitled, Abstract 1983
Oil on paper, 22 x 30 inches
That this synthetic visual world we call a painting is able to express and convey powerful emotions and thoughts remains a source of wonder to me, for which I shall be forever grateful.
More about Irving Hayes
Irving Haynes graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence in 1951 with a degree in painting and architecture. He went on to establish his own architectural firm, Haynes/De Boer Associates, in 1968, and had a full career as both an architect and artist for decades. He taught at RISD from 1973 to 2005. In 1982, he was elected as a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. In 2009, there was a retrospective of his work at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island.
Untitled, Abstract by Irving Hayes. © Irving Hayes, Photo Credit Irving Hayes
Nick Hollibaugh
American, b. 1976
Sorbet Skyline 2016
Acrylic on ash wood 28 x 34 x 4 inches
I am most inspired by the common objects around me. A roofline, a water tower, or an old door are things that come to mind. These objects give me a subject to explore. I then go to work deconstructing in the hope of creating sculpture that honors these ideas.
More about Nick Hollibaugh
Nick Hollibaugh received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the Herron School of Art at Indiana University in Indianapolis in 2001 and a master of fine arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 2003.
Sorbet Skyline by Nick Hollibaugh. © Nick Hollibaugh, Photo Credit Scott Lapham
Marina Dunbar
American, b. 1992
Horizon Study 4, Light Year, Horizon Study 5 2018
Pigmented resin on panel, Horizon Study 4 18 inches in diameter, Light Year 35 inches diameter, Horizon Study 5 18 inches in diameter
I work with resin, paint, and heat. Resin lends itself to the buildup of layers, capturing traces of time, passage, and movement. My Horizon paintings are nature-based abstractions, influenced by the notions and aesthetics of 19th-century sublime landscapes and the coastal horizon.
More about Marina Dunbar
Marina Dunbar holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Columbus State University in Georgia. She has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and her work is held in public collections, including at the Columbus Museum in Georgia.
Horizon Study 4, Light Year, Horizon Study 5 by Marina Dunbar. © Marina Dunbar, Photo Credit Marina Dunbar
Jiha Moon
Korean, b. 1973
Myo II Night, Letter Shin 4 2018
Inkjet print and collage, 15 x 15 inches each
I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.
More about Jiha Moon
Jiha Moon received a master of fine arts degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by the Asia Society in New York City; the High Museum of Art in Atlanta; the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, in Washington, D.C.; the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta; the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virgina; the Mint Museum; the Cheekwood Estate and Gardens in Nashville; the Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College in Memphis; and the James Gallery at the City University of New York in New York City. She was the recipient of a prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation painters and sculptors grant in 2011. A midcareer survey exhibition — organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina, and the Taubman Museum of Art — toured more than ten museums around the United States.
Myo II Night, Letter Shin 4 by Jiha Moon. © Jiha Moon, Photo Credit Jiha Moon
Ana Guerra
American, b. Cuba 1952
Rain at Sea 2017
Oil on board 26 x 36 inches
I began as a landscape painter, overwhelmed and seduced by nature. Eventually, I understood that my subject was experience, a space where perception, intuition, feeling, ideas, and memory come together to make the internal landscape of being alive.
More about Ana Guerra
Ana Guerra graduated with honors and a degree in painting and printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence in 1974. Prior to RISD, she trained at the Corcoran Gallery School of Art in Washington, D.C.
Rain at Sea by Ana Guerra. © Ana Guerra, Photo Credit Scott Lapham
Infusion Room Art
Images of calm waters, serene landscapes, and abstracted forms provide a welcome point of focus for the infusion rooms. A wide variety of work is represented, all chosen for its color and contemplative qualities. A sampling of the pieces is shown below (clockwise from top right): Karen Rand Anderson, Marc Mazzarelli, Penny Ashford, Lois Harada, Anne Polashenski, and Allison Bianco.
Collage featuring artwork found in Infusion rooms at MSK Nassau.