MAMA DEE, 2025
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
Zidoun-Bossuyt
CNALB 2, 2026
Ramon Enrich
Cadogan Gallery
In this monthly roundup, we spotlight five stellar exhibitions at small and rising galleries.
Ramón Enrich
“Dos Verds | Un Blau”
Cadogan Gallery, London
Through Apr. 25th
VILLA GRAN , 2026
Ramon Enrich
Cadogan Gallery
Doorways puncture flattened, geometric landscapes in Ramón Enrich’s paintings. The apertures are set into blank walls and empty courtyards, imbuing these surreal structures with a sense of mystery. A selection of these architecture-obsessed works is on view in “Dos Verds | Un Blau” at London’s Cadogan Gallery.
Enrich’s paintings are rendered in muted, sunstruck palettes, with late-day shadows falling across the canvas. Some works focus on a single building. PORTA 3 (2026), for example, features an entryway jutting out from a large building. The artist adds scale with a sharp, oval tree sprouting from the ground. Meanwhile, CNALB 2 (2026) zooms out into a much larger, labyrinthine structure. These dreamlike settings channel the artist’s love for urban design. “My true passion is architecture,” he said in an interview. “I’ve found a more frivolous outlet for it in painting, where I can create landscapes illuminated by two or three suns.”
Born near Barcelona in 1968, Enrich first studied at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona before graduating in graphic arts at Gremi d’Arts Grafiques de Catalunya in 1990. In the 1990s, the Spanish artist moved to New York, where he worked as Julian Schnabel’s assistant. He has recently had solo exhibitions at Cadogan’s Milan location in 2025 and at Singapore’s Richard Koh Fine Art in 2024.
Sumit Mehndiratta
“Nailed-It”
Galerie P6 Berlin, online
Through May 2nd
Nailed It series no. 172, 2025
Sumit Mehndiratta
Galerie P6 Berlin
One word best defines Sumit Mehndiratta’s wide-ranging art practice: experimentation. The Indian artist taught himself how to make art by trying out a range of media, from abstract oil paintings to irregularly shaped plastic sculptures. “My art is more about the playfulness and excitement of how beautiful visual patterns and color can emerge during improvisation,” he said on his website. That ethos carries through Galerie P6 Berlin’s online exhibition of Mehndiratta’s mesmerizing geometric textile wall sculptures.
“Nailed-It” features a selection of Mehndiratta’s series by the same name, in which he meticulously places nails on teak wood panels and weaves in multicolored textiles to create hypnotic patterns. Nailed It series no. 160 (2021) is constructed around three “V”-shaped peaks, across which neon yellow, pink, green, and orange are layered together in a waveform-like pattern. Another work from the series, Nailed It series no. 180 (2025) uses grayscale fibers to create a shape that resembles contorted, battered metal sculptures.
Mehndiratta first pursued a career in fashion, graduating with a master’s in fashion marketing from Manchester Metropolitan University. The artist held a solo show at Paris’s galerie bruno massa in 2023.
Janny Baek
“Life Forms”
Joy Machine, Chicago
Through May 9th
Prismatic Walking Cloud, 2023
Janny Baek
Joy Machine
Flower Power, 2024
Janny Baek
Joy Machine
All of Janny Baek’s candy-colored ceramics look as if they were plucked from a radioactive coral reef. The sculpture Flower Power (2024), for instance, is a bulbous form that evokes some hybrid organism with an undulating blue surface. Decorated with a protruding eye and a red heart, this playful—and disturbing—form suggests organic mutations. This work is part of Baek’s debut solo show at Joy Machine in Chicago.
Baek handcrafts these ceramic forms using a Japanese pottery technique known as nerikomi, in which a sculpture is layered with multicolored designs to create a striated final product. Color gradients, for Baek, are a way of thinking about “natural processes.” So in Prismatic Walking Cloud (2023), a swelling, cumulus form is marked by shifting colors. In an interview with designboom, she described color gradients as symbolic to the “continuous nature of change,” understanding the “multitude of colors as potential, abundance, and vitality, and patterns as signals and communications.”
Born in Seoul and raised in New York, Baek currently lives in downtown Manhattan. After graduating with a BFA in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design, she pursued her master’s in architecture at Harvard. She founded her firm, McMahon-Baek Architecture, in 2014, and briefly paused her ceramics practice before resuming in 2019.
“Postcards”
Mama Projects, New York
Through Apr. 23rd
Late Afternoon, July, 2026
Kayla Risko
Mama Projects
Postcards suggest morsels of experiences. We send them to mark where we’ve been, even if we don’t say that much on them. In “Postcards” at New York’s Mama Projects, a group of five artists works at this same miniature scale, presenting fleeting, self-contained images.
Chicago-based artist Kayla Risko focuses on the fleeting moments of the day in her paintings, where figures appear lost in thought. Late Afternoon, July (2026), for instance, shows a girl in a yellow dress staring out into the ocean. Likewise, Brazilian artist Adriel Visoto treats painting as a way to archive his life, documenting overlooked moments from the day-to-day. One work in the show, Little nap II (from the series: Sunday blues) (2023), features a sleeping dog rendered in soft blue tones. Meanwhile, Mexican artist Sebastián Hidalgo explores dreamy, uncanny ideas in works like Gatos y fotones (Cats and Photons) (2026), which features two floating cats suspended among balls of energy.
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
“Buried Roots Up in the Air Part 1” and “Buried Roots Up in the Air Part 2”
Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxembourg City and Paris
Through Apr. 25th and May 2nd, respectively
The story of Space and time, 2025
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
Zidoun-Bossuyt
Home is a memory for Eniwaye Oluwaseyi, who immigrated from Nigeria to Amsterdam in 2023. He paints intimate yet distanced paintings of family and friends, inhabiting domestic space, inspired largely by his personal archive of photographs. These works combine the formality of mid-century studio portraiture with expressive color and layered surfaces. Oluwaseyi presents a series of new works in parallel solo exhibitions with Zidoun-Bossuyt in Luxembourg and Paris: “Buried Roots Up in the Air Part 1” and “Buried Roots Up in the Air Part 2,” respectively.
These dual exhibitions explore how memory is inherited through place and lived experience. The story of Space and time (2025) is a portrait featuring a family of four seated on the couch with a solemn, sculptural stillness that gives the sense of a staged photograph. Rather than a personal experience, it seems like an artifact, preserved for an archive. One standout portrait, MAMA DEE (2025), features a poised woman in an intricately patterned dress, her steady gaze fixed on the viewer. These paintings echo the work of other contemporary Black portrait painters, like Kerry James Marshall, in their quiet assertion of Black presence.
Oluwaseyi studied agricultural and biosystems engineering at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria and is a self-taught artist. His work has been acquired by the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) and Xiao Museum in Rizhao, China, among others.
