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Excited to announce the details of the next show. Opens November 12th @ccjasper

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Thanks for coming out to SPLIT LEVEL 2026 @rimadesio_newyork

Many thanks to our exhibitors, artists, performers, collaborators, and hosts 💛💛💛💛

Please save the date for Vol. 3 in Los Angeles
this January 2027 ☀️

More soon 🙌

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Bravo to @split_level_fair for their second edition, bringing together emerging artists and young galleries in a cool design space!

Artists shown in video:
@arielposh
@broakes
@ann_dree_uhs
@claire_harnenz
@mmerde___
@brentowens
@fermi.nyc

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For @split_level_fair, I curated the work of two artists together in a residential-feeling space to suggest a layered, personal collection that has grown over time. I love how objects bring out new meanings and qualities when seen together. There’s something so joyful about discovering new ways of seeing familiar pieces as new works enter a home.

Thank you @brentowens and @mmerde___ for the opportunity to share just how engaging it can be to live with uplifting, conceptual, and whimsical objects.

#SplitLevelFair #ArtCuration #ArtAdvisory ArtAndDesign ContemporaryArt @rimadesio_newyork

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You can count on New York City for art, inspiration, and fulfillment ~

There’s something especially fulfilling about being able to experience art beyond the gallery walls—meeting artists, visiting their studios, engaging in conversation, and diving deeper into the nature and intention behind their work.

These experiences remind me how important it is to step outside of my mind, and immerse myself in the work of others, and remain curious.

There’s always something new to discover, question, and carry back with me. ✨

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Join us at the 2026 edition of @split_level_fair ✨

We love art fairs, particularly ones that break from the white cube. That’s why we’re so excited to be part of SPLIT LEVEL this year, with our Managing Partner @maruymann on the host committee.

The fair spotlights emerging galleries, independent dealers, and experimental project spaces, with a focus on intermedia work shown the way it lives in real spaces. Hosted at the design showroom @rimadesio, it brings together 17 galleries around shared values of collaboration and community.

Where: Rimadesio, 102 Madison Ave, NYC
When: 10/1–10/3

And don’t forget to join @maruymann and a fabulous group of colleagues for a panel on collecting on Fri 10/2 @ 11 am 🦋

Check out the link in our bio to get your ticket, and come say hi!

(Swipe for a few things we are excited to see IRL 📲)

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Looking forward to @split_level_fair Oct 1-3, next Thurs-Sat! I’ll be participating in a 2-person presentation with @mmerde___ curated by @designhunger Check out details and pick up tickets through @split_level_fair .
See you there!

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🍍Thrilled to be curating a two‑person presentation for @split_level_fair this October featuring sculptures by Brent Owens & paintings by Meredith Sellers in dialogue. @brentowens @mmerde___

OCT 1–3 / 2026
RIMADESIO New York, 102 Madison Ave

New York–based art consultant ALEX STOLLER brings together works by BRENT OWENS and MEREDITH SELLERS as examples of artists exploring humanism in an age of automation. Through material intervention, purposeful visual omissions, and process‑driven composition, their works invite deeper exploration when experienced side by side.

As automated systems streamline how images move through visual culture and flatten complexity, Sellers and Owens reaffirm the essential role of human‑made art in protecting ambiguity and individual interpretation.

BRENT OWENS
Owens’s carved forms embrace deliberate clunkiness and intuitive mark‑making. He pushes back against streamlined, machine production, creating objects that provoke visceral reactions and introduce sly humor. His practice explores Anthropocene Blues — confronting humanity’s awkward relationship to the natural world and the role we inevitably play in shaping it.

MEREDITH SELLERS
Sellers’ paintings ask us to look through compositions that combine architectural and digital windows, revealing how screens crop, flatten, and shape perception while still offering glimpses into other worlds. With striking photorealism, she draws from familiar images in art history and contemporary media, reframing them around themes of time, mortality, and consumption.

TICKETING — link in bio 🔗👆
www.splitlevelfair.com/visit2026

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@split_level_fair
OCT 1 - 3 / 2026
RIMADESIO New York

New York–based art consultant ALEX STOLLER brings together works by BRENT OWENS and MEREDITH SELLERS as examples of artists exploring humanism in an age of automation.Through material intervention, purposeful visual omissions, and process‑driven composition, their works invite deeper exploration when experienced side by side.

Owens’s carved forms embrace deliberate clunkiness and intuitive mark-making. Owens pushes back against streamlined, machine production, creating
objects that provoke visceral reactions and introduce a sly humor.He frames his practice as an exploration of Anthropocene Blues, confronting humanity’s
awkward relationship to the natural world and the role we inevitably play in shaping it.

Sellers’ paintings compel us to look through compositions that combine architectural and digital windows, revealing how screens crop, flatten, and shape perception while still offering glimpses into other worlds. With striking photorealism, her paintings draw from familiar images in art history and contemporary media, reframing them around themes of time, mortality, and consumption.

As automated systems streamline how images move through visual culture and flatten the complexity of meaning, Sellers and Owens reaffirm the essential role of human‑made art in protecting ambiguity and individual interpretation.

TICKETING link in bio 🔗👆
www.splitlevelfair.com/visit2026

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Thank you to all of the artists, galleries, museums, universities and publications who took time to show their work to the world with the help of Constance Mensh Photography.
It’s been an incredible year of creation ✨

@haddad_drugan @icaphiladelphia @penngazette @uofpenn @arthurrossgallery @hcexhibits @fabricworkshop @arsnovaworkshop @muttermuseum @mmerde___ @tiltinstitute @asianartsphilly @adamsandollman @rayisaplace @ulisesbooks @assocpublicart @rowanuartgallery @locksgallery

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