“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.
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown
B. 1996. Lives and works in London.
Anther and Stigma, 2025
Pippa El-Kadhi Brown
Tabari Artspace
London-based artist Pippa El-Kadhi Brown’s oil paintings are driven by a sense of wanderlust. While her earlier works focus on the intimacy of domestic interiors, El-Kadhi Brown’s latest paintings venture outdoors, drawing inspiration from Tuscany’s vibrant landscapes. This transition was informed by her time at La Serena Residency last summer with Tabari Artspace, the artist’s representing gallery. El-Kadhi Brown’s work is currently featured in the group show “The Hug,” at SARAHCROWN New York, and in a presentation with Tabari Artspace as part of Women-Led Galleries Now.
Among the works on view is Anther and Stigma (2025), a diptych painted with soft, natural hues. Through whimsical brushwork and intuitive paint application, El-Kadhi Brown translates the light and textures of her surroundings into dreamscapes that capture fleeting moments in time. Hazy yet full of energy, her canvases explore internal worlds and the human psyche.
El-Kadhi Brown holds a BFA from the University of Brighton and an MFA from the Royal College of Art. She has mounted solo exhibitions at Creekside Projects, Ashurst, CBU Gallery, Lychee One, LAMB, Ed Cross Fine Art, and Holden Gallery.
—Adeola Gay
Michelle Paterok
B. 1994, Edmonton, Canada. Lives and works in Montreal.
January Kitchen, 2026
Michelle Paterok
Duran Contemporain
Sunbeam, 2026
Michelle Paterok
Duran Contemporain
Michelle Paterok’s oil paintings depict the underlying dramas of everyday life. Her atmospheric compositions reshape familiar interiors and landscapes into dreamlike scenes.
The artist often sets her scenes beneath the blue haze of dusk, the hush of snowfall, or the charged stillness of nighttime. They feel suspended in liminal space, where the familiar slips toward the uncanny. In “Towards Silence,” her solo exhibition currently on view at Montreal’s Duran Contemporain, for instance, Paterok turns to transitional moments. She renders her intimate interiors—kitchens, studios, tabletops—in muted tones.
Paterok received her MFA in visual arts from Western University in London, Canada. She has mounted several solo exhibitions at galleries in the U.S. and Canada, including at New York’s Shine (2025) and Montreal’s Duran Contemporain.
—Arun Kakar
Astrid Specht Seeberg
B. 1999, Copenhagen. Lives and works in Copenhagen.
Hairy Bronze Sponge, 2026
Astrid Specht Seeberg
Hans Alf Gallery
The Death and Life of a Whale, 2026
Astrid Specht Seeberg
Hans Alf Gallery
The vast, endangered oceans inspire “Hope,” Astrid Specht Seeberg’s latest solo show at Hans Alf Gallery in Copenhagen. Her glazed stone vessels and wall-mounted works incorporate the fantastical textures, shapes, and hues of marine life. Seeberg abstracts the bumps and grooves of various sea sponges, along with a bifurcated whale tail, as she considers humans’ role in depleting the very oceans that keep us alive. She embraces slippages between earth and sea, form and formlessness throughout her fluid sculptures, which privilege organic forms over sharply delineated lines and edges. The artist further blurs aesthetic and scientific boundaries via frequent collaborations with marine biologists, architects, and performance artists.
Seeberg won the prestigious Carl Nielsen og Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Foundation’s Talent Award in 2022. She has been awarded residencies by Asger Jorn’s foundation and by the Sculpture Centre in Albisola, Italy, and also took part in juried exhibitions at Den Frie Kunsthal and INTUITION REVOLUTION.
—Alina Cohen
Joanna van Son
B. 2000, Oman. Lives and works in London.
Studio portrait iiii , 2025
Joanna van Son
Saatchi Yates
Joanna van Son is a contemporary master of impasto. She applies thick daubs of oil paint in sumptuous, visceral layers. Her lush surfaces—which often depict herself and her partner Lilah—vibrate with emotional weight. Her palette moves between the fleshy and the raw: creams, pinks, and ochers deepen into purples, greens, and reds. Bodies seem to emerge from and dissolve back into the paint; at times the artist leaves her underdrawings exposed, an echo of her training as an architect.
In her current solo show at Saatchi Yates in London—a precursor to a presentation at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts later this year—the canvases teem with figures. The artist and Lilah appear again and again: entangled, tumbling, in repose, suspended between reverence and yearning.
In 2025, van Son was artist-in-residence at the Rubell Museum in Miami, where she presented a new suite of works during Miami Art Week. She studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and has also exhibited at General Assembly, Gillian Jason Gallery, and Blanco Art NYC.
—Casey Lesser
Alexandria Tarver
B. 1989, Houston. Lives and works in New York.
nights, 98/Mexico City, 2026
Alexandria Tarver
NINO MIER GALLERY
Alexandria Tarver began painting flowers in 2013, when her father received a terminal cancer diagnosis. Her compositions became a ritual to contend with her grief. Tarver’s expressive, ethereal blooms often float against a dark void, allowing their soft coral tones to glow with a heightened intensity.
A selection of Tarver’s latest flower paintings are currently on view at Nino Mier Gallery in New York as part of her solo show, “Dedicated to the low in heart,” her first with the gallery. Though the artist once based her paintings on store-bought blooms, she now looks to flowers that spring from the concrete in different cities, which she denotes in her titles. These works position the flowers as markers of resilience and growth. nights, 98/Mexico City (2026), for instance, features a cluster of ocher flowers and looping reddish stems floating against a dark, velvety background. Tarver isolates the bouquet, appreciating their endurance in the inhospitable city.
Tarver completed her BFA at New York University in 2011 and remains based in New York. The artist has presented solo shows at Cooler Gallery and at Deli Gallery, which represented her until its closing in 2024. Mier announced their representation of the artist last month.
—Maxwell Rabb
