No hay sol en el Verano, 2026
Almo Talud
Eric Firestone Gallery
Summer Bloom, 2026
Alex Maceda
Half Gallery
“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.
Alex Maceda
B. 1989, San Francisco Bay Area. Lives and works in New York City.
Downward Dog, 2026
Alex Maceda
Half Gallery
Artist Alex Maceda draws from her Filipina heritage and devout Catholic upbringing in her small-scale biomorphic paintings. The artist has likened these works to domestic shrines or altars, intended for meditative purposes. Now in “Sun Salutations,” the artist’s first solo exhibition with Half Gallery, on view through August 13th, Maceda takes inspiration from transcendental women artists such as Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton who pursued spiritual dimensions through artmaking.
Maceda lived and worked for a time in California’s Joshua Tree, finding, like many other artists before her, serenity in the solitude of the desert. In “Sun Salutations” the sunburnt colors of that landscape are on full display in 10 joyful paintings rendered in the dawn-like hues of yellows, pinks, and reds. The show’s title refers to the yoga sequence of poses traditionally performed at sunrise, synchronizing the breath with movements to awaken the body and build internal heat. She seeks a similar rhythmic alignment through her artworks.
Maceda holds an MFA in painting from the New York Studio School (2026), an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business (2018), and a BA in classical studies from Dartmouth College (2011). She has had solo exhibitions at Herron House (2024); Dorado 806 Projects (2024); Upper Market Gallery (2024); and 29 Palms Art Gallery (2023). This year, her works have been featured in the group show “Austin Friends Fair” at Half Gallery and “Disappearing Boundaries” at Harper’s.
Almo Talud
B. 1985, Miami. Lives and works in Medellin, Colombia.
Viaje al Guamo, 2026
Almo Talud
Eric Firestone Gallery
Artist Almo Talud paints folkloric scenes that consider Latino identity through a queer lens, offering masculinity, memory, and fantasy. The artist was born in Miami, but grew up in the small city of Manizales, Colombia. His paintings depict men in celebratory moments, dressed in colorful attire and surrounded by horses. The images draw from his childhood memories, but challenge dominant patriarchal culture that surrounded him through his use of soft hues and thin lyrical marks of acrylic paint and pastel.
“I approach memory as a living material, imprecise, mutable, and charged with affection,” the artist has said. “Within this process, error, distortion, and formal synthesis become essential tools for revealing deeper layers of identity.”
Talud completed his secondary education in Bogotá, and then moved to New York, where he studied at the Art Students League of New York for four years. His works are inspired by self-taught artists, such as the Colombian artist Noé Léon. Talud’s work was recently on view in the group exhibition “General Assembly” at Eric Firestone Gallery and was also presented by the gallery in a two-artist installation with ceramics by Torben Gammelgaard at NOMAD Hamptons 2026.
Tony Dongfang Zhao
B. 2002, Beijing, China. Lives and works in New York.
Tower, 2026
Tony Dongfang Zhao
C24 Gallery
Drive My Car, 2025
Tony Dongfang Zhao
C24 Gallery
New York–based artist Tony Zhao paints vignettes of daily life, cropped to focus on minute details—empty seats on a train, a bracelet around a wrist, a light fixture. These seemingly mundane scenes take on a filmic quality in his oil on canvas compositions, thanks to his considered framing and his constrained, brooding color palette. Currently, his work is on view in the two-artist exhibition “Contact Points” at New York’s C24 Gallery through September 4th.
Born and raised in Beijing, Zhao received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2024. Before that, he worked as an independent curator and educator at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, where a group exhibition of his own work was held in 2020. He also had a solo exhibition, “Lake House,” at A/W Space in London in 2024, and has been included in group shows at Union Street Gallery in Chicago and Gelman Gallery in Providence.
Heidi Howard
B. 1986, New York City. Lives and works in New York City.
Self- Rauschenberg Pink Periwinkle, 2026
Heidi Howard
David B. Smith Gallery
Bonnard Redon Bouquet, 2026
Heidi Howard
David B. Smith Gallery
New York artist Heidi Howard grew up surrounded by creativity as the daughter of avant-garde composer Earl Howard and installation artist Liz Phillips, shaping the way she approaches artmaking. Known for her still lifes, en plein air landscapes, and particularly her portraits, Howard sees art as inextricably tied to daily life. Before painting a portrait, Howard typically gets to know her model for months or even years, developing an understanding of their personality and aesthetics. She most often paints these portraits in person, in her home, even cooking meals for her models after the session is finished. Her paintings are characterized by their Dayglo palette, dancelike brush strokes, and embrace of irresolution.
In recent years, Howard’s practice has expanded beyond the confines of the canvas to include site-specific wall paintings, indoor and outdoor sculpture. Her work is currently on view in “Pistil Forms,” a duo exhibition with Esteban Cabeza de Baca at David B. Smith Gallery, the pair’s second collaboration at the gallery, following 2024’s “Night & Day Dreams.” Howard has also exhibited at Wave Hill Garden and Cultural Center, the Queens Museum, the Hunterdon Museum of Art, James Cohan Gallery, and Gaa Gallery, and has held residencies including the Terra Summer Residency, the Rauschenberg Residency, Carrizozo AIR, and Palazzo Monti. Her first monograph, Colors make us do vibrant deeds!, launched in 2024.
Michael Bühler-Rose
B. 1980, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Lives and works between New York City and Mysore, India.
Lichtenstein Brushtroke (Flowers), 2025
Michael Bühler-Rose
New Discretions
USM, Summer '26 (01), 2026
Michael Bühler-Rose
Halsey McKay Gallery
Artist Michael Bühler-Rose brings the Renaissance technique of wood intarsia and inlay to contemporary art, using the intricate medium to create deeply personal works that memorialize individual collections such as stacks of books, ritual paraphernalia, and print boxes.
Since his teenage years, Bühler-Rose practiced Vaishnavism, a branch of Hinduism devoted to the god Vishnu, and has devoted himself to the study of Sanskrit. Simultaneously, he was involved in the punk and hardcore music scenes in the Northeast. At 17, Bühler-Rose first traveled to India, becoming a Hare Krishna, renouncing his earthly possessions. Now, 25 years later, living as a layperson, the artist’s works reflect upon the value of objects in our lives and their role in ritual, image worship, religious practice and as art objects.
As he told Another Magazine, his work draws “parallels between the artist as priest, art object as a deity, the gallery as a post-Enlightenment temple, and the installation of the artwork as a ritual.”
Right now, Bühler-Rose’s work is currently on view in “Halo in a Haystack,” at Halsey McKay Gallery in Easthampton, his first solo exhibition with the gallery. These works are inspired by the Studiolo of the Ducal Palace in Gubbio (1478-82), a wooden study, intended for meditation and study, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The studio is filled with illusionistic books, instruments, armor, and curiosities rendered through the art of the inlay technique intarsia. In the show, the artist focuses on one of his long-ago forfeited possessions: a copy of Halo in a Haystack, the debut LP by the New England hardcore band Converge, which has now become a sought-after collectors item.
Bühler-Rose’s work has been gaining new attention of late. Earlier this year, he presented a solo booth with Brussels’s Stems Gallery at Independent Art Fair. In 2024, he opened the solo exhibition “I Want Your Skull,” with New Discretions. His works have also been featured at NADA Miami 2025, NADA Miami 2023, NADA Miami 2022, and Future Fair 2022 with that gallery.
