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Cycle II Featured Entries

A selection of compelling practices from the second cycle of the Meridian Award.

This selection brings together artists working across abstraction, figuration, and material-driven approaches, exploring memory, perception, place, atmosphere, and the expressive possibilities of contemporary art. Through distinct visual languages, from layered and gestural painting to dreamlike imagery, geometric abstraction, and conceptual assemblage, these works reflect the breadth and range of practices represented in Cycle II.

Featured artists:

Lok Yan (Cat) Chau (@chaulokcat)
Kate Burling (@kateburling)
Xingzi Gu (@__sing.zi)
Kelcie Mack (@kelcmack)
Evan Peltzman (@evan.peltzman)

#MeridianAward #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryPainting #EmergingArtist #ArtAward Large-scale abstract painting dominated by layered pink, rose, cream, and pale yellow tones. Sweeping, translucent brushstrokes and overlapping linear marks create a fluid, densely worked surface with forms that appear to emerge and dissolve throughout the composition.

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Thank you Laura Sallade and @sensusphilly for including Kelly-McKenna Gallery and paintings by @kelcmack in “Elsewhere Art Fair Defies Neutrality”, reflecting on the experience of encountering art throughout @elsewhere.fair at @helloyowie.

Writing about Kelcie Mack’s Still Life with Rocking Chair #3, Sallade describes Mack’s paintings as “an index of color and form,” and considers the intimate relationship between the work, its surroundings, and the viewer.

Kelcie Mack is a contemporary painter whose work centers on abstracted depictions of furniture, exploring the familiar relationships we form with objects and their makers. Through color, structure, negative space, and form, her paintings draw attention to craftsmanship while reconsidering the everyday objects that quietly shape our domestic lives.

We’re grateful to have been part of Elsewhere Art Fair’s inaugural Philadelphia edition and to see Kelcie’s work highlighted among the fair’s presentations.

#kelciemack #elsewhereartfair #sensusphilly

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THE BEST!

STOCKED UP
@terraearthandsurf

#candlesofinstagram #terraeathandsurf
#springlake nj

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Open this holiday weekend for Ever New Waters.

Holiday Hours:

Friday | 11 AM–5 PM
Saturday | 11 AM–3 PM
Sunday | 11 AM–5 PM

Ever New Waters is Kelly-McKenna Gallery’s first-ever all-female exhibition, on view June 25 through August 2, 2026.

Ever New Waters
June 25 – August 2, 2026

Kelly-McKenna Gallery
1308 Third Avenue
Spring Lake, NJ 07762

For inquiries, please DM or email:
info@kellymckennagallery.com

📸: @alexandralfisher

#KellyMcKennaGallery #EverNewWaters #springlakenj

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What you see first is only the beginning: Kelly-McKenna Gallery is pleased to present Ever New Waters, our first-ever all-female exhibition, on view June 25 through August 2, 2026.

Bringing together eleven artists working across painting, sculpture, collage, and mixed media, Ever New Waters considers the ways works of art reveal themselves gradually. A surface that first appears simple becomes complex; a moment of beauty opens into something stranger and less easily resolved.

The exhibition takes its title from the idea that one cannot step into the same river twice. In that spirit, Ever New Waters treats perception not as fixed, but as something shaped by time, proximity, perspective, memory, and imagination.

Featured: Emily Gilman Beezley, Brigid Kennedy, Jacqueline Cedar, Loren Eiferman, Christine Falk, Alexis Herman, and Samantha Keely Smith.

Ever New Waters
June 25 – August 2, 2026

Holiday Hours
Friday 11-5 PM | Saturday 11-3 PM | Sunday 11-5 PM

Kelly-McKenna Gallery
1308 Third Avenue
Spring Lake, NJ 07762

For inquiries, please DM or email: info@kellymckennagallery.com

#KellyMcKennaGallery #EverNewWaters #WomenArtists #SpringLakeNJ #springlake

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I’m so excited to have contributed an essay to the June issue of @whitehotmagazine examining the inaugural edition of @elsewhere.fair at @helloyowie in Philadelphia.

My piece considers what happens when contemporary art is presented outside the familiar fair format and how a hotel setting can reshape the relationship between artwork, viewer, dealer, and space.

The essay features conversations with @blahblahgallery and as well as participating galleries including @pointblank.chi @stowaway_la @fleisherollman and @kellymckennagallery

It also highlights presentations by artists @kelcmack @resurrectstudio @alesssandra.lol @indianahoover @mollyemetz

Many thanks to @whitehotmagazine for the opportunity to reflect on a project that brought together so many thoughtful galleries, artists, and conversations under one roof.

Link in bio.

#ElsewhereFair #WhitehotMagazine #ContemporaryArt #PhiladelphiaArt #KellyMcKennaGallery YOWIEHotel

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Thank you to @elsewhere_fair and @yowiehotel for having us as part of Elsewhere’s inaugural edition this past weekend.

It was a pleasure to present work by Kelcie Mack and Resurrect Studio and to be part of a fair that felt thoughtful, energetic, and refreshingly personal.

Thank you to Megan Galardi and the Elsewhere team for bringing together such a strong group of galleries, artists, collectors, curators, and visitors in Philadelphia. We were grateful to be included in the first edition, and even more grateful for the conversations, visits, and support throughout the weekend.

@kelciemack
@resurrect.studio
@blahblahgallery
@elsewhere_fair
@yowiehotel

#ElsewhereFair #YOWIEHotel #PhiladelphiaArt #ContemporaryArt #kellymckennagallery

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Free naps! Just kidding. Come visit us at @elsewhere.fair at @helloyowie in Philadelphia! Join us in Room 204 for a selection of work from @kellymckennagallery by @kelciemack and @resurrectstudio

RSVP required → link in bio.

Elsewhere Art Fair
YOWIE Hotel
Room 204
226 South Street
Philadelphia, PA

For inquiries, please DM or email info@kellymckennagallery.com

#KellyMcKennaGallery #ElsewhereFair #kelciemack #ResurrectStudio #YOWIEhotel

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Thank you @traditionalhome for featuring paintings by @kelcmack in this beautiful Spring Lake, NJ residence.

Kelcie Mack is a contemporary painter whose work centers on abstracted depictions of furniture, exploring the intimate and familiar relationships we form with objects and their makers. Her paintings examine negative space, structure, and form while drawing attention to craftsmanship and the histories embedded in everyday things.

More paintings by Kelcie Mack will be on view this summer during @elsewhere.fair at @helloyowie from June 4–6

@traditionalhome

Photography:
@andrewfraszphoto
@johneeebee

Production:
@krissa_rossbund

#traditionalhome #springlakenj #kelciemack

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locally handcrafted jewelry @terraearthandsurf
by artist @colleenmauerdesigns

based in Asbury Park NJ , with a production studio in Upstate NY. each piece is cut, shaped and soldered by hand. integrity and craftsmenship over fleeting trends.
i love her style. clean geometries and minimilist aesthetics.

I have to say my personal favorites are her stacking rings @terraearthandsurf
come spoil yourself xo

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LOVE STORIES...

oh man. we all have them.

storm is coming Sunday.
time for some slow living.
and some loving.

love potion by @brooklyncandlestudio
@terraearthandsurf

#love
#jerseyshore
#terraeathandsurf
#springlakenj

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A little cutie is on the way!🍊🧡

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