From Friday, October 10. 2025 to Wednesday, December 31. 2025
Opening Reception Friday 10.10.2025, 6:32pm to 9pm
Press Release 9.1.2025
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young
blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their
spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine,
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.
Shakespeare: Hamlet. 1601
With:
Ana Traversa
Anders Knutsson
Andrea Spiros
Anna Niedhart
Bill Nogosek
Cake Rambaud
Catharina Cosin
Frank Lambertz
Frank Seidel
Franz Landspersky
Gregor Wiest
Gwenael Kerlidou
Hagen Klennert
Jim Buonaccorsi
Jimmie James
Karni Dorell
Kerstin Grimm
Lawrence Terry
LeeAnn Mitchell
Martin Colden
Melanie Luna
Molly Blieden
Peter Hildebrand
Petra Flierl
Richard Mock
Richard Dennis
Risha Gorig
Scott Pfaffman
Stephen Ocone
Steve Fitch
Volker Henze
Description:
Knowingly unable to compete with reality the exhibition ‘Horror’ at the Wall Gallery Brooklyn
Nonetheless brings together contemporary images of the artists and executives of the gallery
As well as their artist friends.
Featuring 31 artists from New York City and Berlin the group show will take place at:
The Wall Gallery Brooklyn
Thewallgallerybrooklyn.net
41 Seabring Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
From:
Friday, October 10. 2025
Till:
Wednesday, December 31. 2025
The opening reception will be on:
Friday, October 10. 2025 from 6:32pm to 9pm
The gallery will be open as part of the Red Hook Open Studios 2025 on:
Saturday, October 11. and Sunday, October 12.2026 from 1pm to 6pm
Photo:
Steve Fitch, untitled, 1991, color photograph, 8″x 10″
The gallery is open every Sunday from 2pm to 6pm and by appointment:
Tel: 917 974 6933 and 718 781 8263
Exhibition View:
The Opening:
The Works:
Ana c. Traversa, untitled, 2025, gouache on wood and ceramic, 15inches x 31 inches
Ana C. Traversa is an independent artist, born in Patagonia, Argentina.
She has exhibited in the United States, as well as worldwide, in museums and private organizations
Including the New York Public Library, Lincoln Center, French National Academy, France, Historical Society, MOMA.
Anders Knutsson, Hulk’s Horrors, 1982 – 86, maga and wax on handmade paper, 32 inches x 35 inches
Anders Knutsson was born in Malmö, Sweden, where he studied art and engineering. In 1967 he came to the United States to work in the aerospace industry. In 1970 he started to paint full time. He has studied and developed his art throughout life. He has lived in Illinois, Ohio, California, Vermont and Toronto and since 1976 in New York City.
Anders work has been shown in Stockholm, London, New York, Copenhagen, Seoul, amongst others.
www.anders knutssen.com
Andrea Spiros, Sacrifice to Moloch, 2008, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 20 inches x 20 inches
Andrea Spiros is a Brooklyn-born artist living and working in
Clinton Hill Brooklyn for the past 3 decades. She studied at The
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, She has studied
painting and drawing at Brooklyn College, and design at The
School of Visual Arts
She has shown her work at The Whitney Museum. the Queens
Museum of Art, Soho 20, The Hillwood Art Museum, and The
Foundation for Hellenic Culture in NYC. Internationally, she as
exhibited at The Contemporary Museum of Art in Thassaloniki
Greece, at Holland Tunnel in Paros, Greece, and at Sans Quoi
Gallery, Okayama, Japan
ANDREA SPIROS Artist Statement 2025
In my recent work I have had a strong feeling of getting down loads of inspiration from above or from
the unified field. My work often is about the things unseen. They are cosmic and microcosmic.
I create disparate hybrid images and find a ways of making them work together as one thing, in the
way duality functions in the 3rd dimension.
I chose the paintings for Horror Show because of the unsettling imagery of the Pied Piper and how it
relates to the internet in general and also to the Epstein conspiracy in this specific moment. And the
military helmeted baby heads floating up to heaven are just overkill on the whole MOLOCH worship
that our society has horrifically embraced since capitalism reached its death rattle. As psychopathic
CEOs choose profits over environment, nutrition, health care, creativity, the female gender, and the
future of humanity in general.
Anna Niedhart, Salon Panik, 2025, pigments and oil stick on paper, 79 inches x 50 inches
Berlin-based artist Anna Niedhard’s multidisciplinary practice interrogates the psychological complexities inherent in our digital age through painting, drawing and object making.
Her work, distilled from acute personal observations, manifests as hybrid forms that challenge the boundaries between human and animal.
These chimeric beings serve as potent metaphors for the fractured sense of self and the adaptive strategies required in our rapidly evolving world.
Bill Nogosek, Definitely Maybe, 2016, multimedia on paper, 12 inches x 10 inches
Bill arrived in Brooklyn from San Francisco in 1978, via the Cleveland Institute of Art and landed in the right bank cauldron of early Brooklyn pioneers called Dumbo.
His loft became a legendary deposit of any manner of data: a laboratory and a library.
Goerge Maciunas was an early associate and Bill’s embrace of Fluxus subtleties his instincts for collection and analysis.
Cake Rambaud, untitled, 2025, acrylic on canvas, diptych each 59 inches x 39 inches
Cake Rambaud is a self- taught painter based in Los Angeles claiming her works as “not painting but actual pieces of magic – withched in moonlight and rainwater.” She is the subject of an upcoming film directed by HBO Max produced filmmaker Pedro Correa.
Catharina Cosin, Quo Vadis, Humanitas!, undated, watercolor on cotton, diptych each 96 inches x 40 inches
Catharina Cosin is an internationally active artist who studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Visual Arts in West-Berlin.
Eventually she focused on painting and received several national and international art awards and work stays. Among them were: Altos de Chavon, Domenican Republic, City of La Romana, Florence, Villa Romana and Villa Massimo, Rome, PS1 New York City.
After having found an appropriate loft in Downtown New Your City, she stayed until today.
Today Catharina Cosin is saying: “I am creating nothing taller than myself, and nothing that weighs more than me – unless I assemble – hence the Diptych!”
Frank Lambertz, untitled, undated, mixed media on paper, 9 inches x 13 inches
Frank Lambertz
1961 – 2018
Born in Duisburg
1990 – 1997 Study of painting at the University of Arts Berlin
1997 MFA and MFA award at the University of Arts Berlin
Teacher at the University of Graphics Leipzig
Lived and worked on Berlin
Frank Seidel, Kopf 1, 2023, oil on canvas, 19 inches x 15 inches
Frank Seidel
1959 born in Berlin
1980–1982 Evening course in fine art at Art Academy Berlin (Weißensee)
since 1984 Freelance work as an artist
since 1985 National and international exhibitions
1990 Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau „Gegenwart Ewigkeit“ (GE)
1990 Venedig, XLIV. Biennale Venedig / „Ambiente Berlin“ (GE)
1991 Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie Solo Exhibition
1992 Oslo, Museum für Gegenwartskunst „Echtzeit“ (GE)
1993 Working grant of the city of Wittenberg
1994 Scholarship from Berlin’s senate for culture
1994 Scholarship from the Kulturfond trust
1996 Art Prize of Grundkreditbank
1998 Residency in London, Great Britain
1998 Art Award for painting der Association Europe – Côte d‘Azur des arts et de la culture, Cannes
2001 1. Art Prize of Salon de Printemps of LAC (Prize of the ministry of culture, Luxemburg)
2001 Residency in Olevano, Italy
2004 Scholarship from the ministry of culture of the state of Brandenburg
2014 Art Karlsruhe, one artist show (SE)
2016 Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau „Voices of Dissent“ (GE)
2018 Burgk, Museum Schloß Burgk „Stunde der Dämonen“ (Solo Exhib. with K. Grimm and L. Seidel)
2019 Leipzig, Museum d. bildenden Künste: „Point of no return“ (GE)
2021 Cottbus, Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum f. mod. Kunst: „Rausch der Bilder“ (GE)
2022 Berlin, Stadtmuseum Berlin, Ephraimpalais: „Aufbrüche. Abbrüche. Umbrüche“ (GE)
2025 Schloß Altdöbern, „30. ROHKUNSTBAU“ (GE)
Lives and works as a painter and sculptor in Berlin
Franz Landspersky, untitled, 2025, acrylic and inc on plywood, 37 inches x 36 inches
Franz Landspersky
Born: 1967 in Stuttgart
1991 – 1995: Drawing school, Kontrapunkt Berlin, class of Martin Colden
1995 – 2001 University of Art Berlin, MFA 2001, class of K.H.Hoedicke
2003: New York Studio School, Drawing Marathon, class of Graham Nixon
1995: Co-founder of the artist group and gallery Bluetenweiss, Berlin
2021: Co-founder of the Wall Gallery Brooklyn
Gregor Wiest, Patron Saint, 2025, recycled plastic, 14 inches x 7 inches x 7 inches
Gregor Wiest
Born: 1970, South of Germany
1994 -1997 Study of sculpture in Spain and Portugal
1997 – 2001 Study of sculpture at the University of Arts Berlin
Participant of several symposiums in Germany and abroad
Lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg
Gwenael Kerlidou, Oops, 2024, spray paint on canvas, 18 inches x 17 inches
Gwenael Kerlidou is a French painter living and working in Brooklyn.
His work is included in “The Shape of Painting,…” curated by Saul Ostrow, a group show currently on view at The Resnick and Passlof Foundation.
Hagen Klennert, Landscape, 2022, oil on board, 8 inches x 6 inches
Hagen Klennert, untitled, 2022, oil on board, 5 inches x 8 inches
Hagen Klennert
1962 born in Erfurt
1978 Apprenticeship and work as a stage painter
1985 Escape from the GDR to West Germany
1985 – 91 Freelance work as artist in Hamburg
Book illustrator, solo exhibitions and collaborations with composer Helmut Oehring.
Lives and works in Berlin
Jim Buonaccorsi, Cancer 715, 2025, pencil and ink on paper, 28 inches x 20 inches
Jim Buonaccorsi
Born 1957, Providence, Rhode Island
B.A. Rhode Island College, 1982
M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1984
Associate Professor – Sculpture – The Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 1993 – 2015
Professor Emeritus – Sculpture – The Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
www.metaletal.com
Jimmie James, Horror, 2025, mixed media on cardboard, 16 inches x 12 inches
Jimmie James
I was born in Brooklyn in 1955.
I studied architecture at Pratt Institute but then I realized that painting afforded me more in the way of expression…
Karni Dorell, No-one lives here anymore, 2023, digital print on paper, 13 inches x 19 inches
Karni Dorell
MFA, painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1990
Fine Arts Institute, HaMidrasha, Ramat Hasharon, Israel 1985
BA, Government, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 1982
Dunie Weizman Conservatory of Music, Haifa, Israel 1969 –1976
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, CA 1967
Kerstin Grimm, Himmel und Erde, 2023, mixed media on paper, 9 inches x 4 inches
Kerstin Grimm, Himmel und Erde, 2023, mixed media on paper, 9 inches x 4 inches
Kerstin Grimm
1956 born in Oranienburg
1974–1980 German language studies at Humboldt-University, Berlin
1980–1982 Evening course in fine art at Art Academy Berlin (Weißensee)
1977 Birth of the son Leo
1984 Marriage with the sculptur and painter Frank Seidel
1993 Scholarship from Berlin’s senate for culture
1994 Scholarship from the Kulturfond trust
1995 Scholarship from the ministry of culture of the state of Brandenburg
1998 Residence and work in London with a scholarship from Kulturfond trust
2000 Commendation at the 6th Biennale for small sculpture in Hilden
2001 Casa Baldi scholarship, Olevano, Italy
2010 Lectureship for drawing at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences HAW
2011 Residency at CCA Andratx – Art Foundation Mallorca, Spain
2011 Lectureship for sculpture at the Art Academy Berlin (Weißensee)
2022 Art Price Marianne Werefkin of VdBK, Berlin
Lives and works as a graphic artist and sculptor in Berlin www.kerstingrimm.de
Lawrence Terry, untitled, undated, mixed media on paper, 26 inches x 19 inches
Lawrence Terry
I’m a Harlem / Brooklyn based artist.
I came to New York in 1978 where I attended SVA.
My work is abstract, mixed media and assemblage on paper.
I also have introduced the element of fire as surface media.
LeeAnn Mitchell, Vehicular Senninbari, 2025, mixed media on paper, 30 inches x 22 inches
LeeAnn Mithchell
Born 1961, Memphis, Tennessee
B.A. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville 1983
M.F.A. The University of Colorado, Boulder 1986
Sculptor, arts administrator, curator, consultant, juror
Artist Statement:
Charles Baudelaire:
“Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will…”
www.metaletal.com
Martin Colden, untitled, 2025, inc on canvas, 58 inches x 5 inches
Martin Colden
1955 Born in Rostock
1976 – 1981 Study at the University of Arts Berlin Weissensee
1983 MFA University of Art Berlin Weissensee
1994 Scholarship of the Senate of Berlin
1997 Art Award of the Academy of Art Berlin
1999 Graphics Award of the Art Fair Dresden
2002 Scholarship for Photography of the State of Brandenburg
Lives and works in Berlin
Melanie Luna, Ivory Scull, 2024, mixed media on wood panel, 8 inches x 8 inches
Melanie Luna, born 1997 in Santiago, Republica Dominicana, Dominican by birth,
Luna has lived the majority of her young adult life in the Bronx, NY.
She currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY, focusing on creating images that bear witness to the plight of the human existence which has rapidly amplified over the course of the artist’s existence.
Molly Blieden, untitled, 2000, digital print on plexiglass, 22 inches x 15 inches
Molly Bliden is an artist and office worker based in New York.
Her Transparent Image Design Studio project includes installations, performances and photographs
Exploring the culture of the workplace.
Her work has been exhibited widely, including the New Museeun for Contemporary Art (NY),
Miami Dade County Collage (MIAMI) and Southern Exposure (SF).
Blieden received her MFA from MGSA, Rutgers University and participarted in the Whitney Independent Studio Program.
Peter Hildebrand, Rasputin, 2015, mixed media on wood, 18 inches x 14 inches
Peter Hildebrand
1987 University of Washington, Seattle, BFA in Graphic Design
1990 San Francisco Art Institute, CA, non-degree enrollment in painting
1992 The Slade School, London, Sholarship exchange program in painting
1993 Hunter College, NY, MFA in painting
1991 Luetz/Riedel Endowment Fund
1995 Aljira National Award
1998 Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fund
2007 Pollock/Krasner Foundation Fund
2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fund
Petra Flierl, Waiting, 2023, digital print on paper, 26 inches x 16 inches
Petra Flierl
1954 born in Berlin
1973 – 1974 Work at the Volksbuehne Berlin
1974 – 1981 Study at the University of Arts Berlin Weissensee, MFA 1981
2002 Scholarship of the State of Brandenburg
2007 Scholarship of the Dr. Robert and Lina Thyll – Duerr Foundation
2014 Art price of the Uckermark
Lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg
Richard Dennis, Rose and Phil, 2025, mixed media on plywood, 30 inches x 24 inches
Richard Dennis
Sculptor of the picture plane, a colorist who glazes a chemically rich surface, a draughtsman whose sublime instincts may surprise even the artist himself and a storyteller of compelling narratives whose multiple meanings seduce the viewer like a Venus fly trap.
Richard Mock, untitled, 1990, lino cut on paper, 30 inches x 22 inches
Richard Mock
1944 – 2006 was a printmaker, painter, sculptor and editorial cartoonist.
Mock was best known for his linocut illustrations that appeared in the OP-ED page of the New York Times from 1980 through 1996.
Born 1944 in Long Beach, CA, Mock earned his bachelor degree, studying lithography and block printing at the University of Michigan.
He settled and stayed in New York City in 1968.
Risha Gorig, untitled, undated, black and white photograph, 15 inches x 12 inches
Risha Gorig
I am a multimedia artist working in sculpture, painting, music, film and dance.
I am interested in metaphors of time and death and combining the forces of nature like wind, rain, water and sun in my pieces propelling them to another time and place.
My sculptures and paintings have been shown in NYC, Munich, Berlin and London.
Scott Pfaffman, Fist, 2025, sheet metal, 140 inches x 40 inches
Scott Pfaffman
Born 1954
Lives and works in Brooklyn NY
Education
B.F.A. Auburn University 1976
M.A. Hunter College 1979
Exhibitions
1980 The Times Square Show NYC
1980 Empire Fulton Ferry State Park
1982 C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center NYC
1984 Artpark, Lewiston NY
1985 P.S. 1, Queens, NY
1986 Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
1990 Kentler International Drawing Space
1991 Kunsthaus, Monchengladbach, Germany
1992 Gallerie Seghaier, Vienna, Austria
2002 Consen, NYC
2012 Go Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum
2016 Alley Culture, Detroit MI
2021 Peninsula Gallery Brooklyn NY
2023 Galerie Parterre, Berlin Germany
Projects
1982-Established the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in the
Empire Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn NY.
1986-Assisted in the formation of Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY
1984-1987 Participant in the New York City Artist Housing Program
1989-1991 Co-founded the Kentler International Drawing Space
1996-2001 Opened Scott Pfaffman Gallery in NYC LES
2021-Current Co-founded The Wall Gallery in Brooklyn, NY
Awards
1984 Athena Foundation Artist in Residence, Queens, NY
1985 PS 1 International Studio Program
1985 American Academy of Arts and Letters Annual Award
1988 NYFA Project grant
1992 Pollack Krasner Foundation
Stephen Ocone, 11 hour clock for 2029, 2025, recycled material, 18 inches x 16 inches
Stephen Ocone
Is an artist based Queens, NY,
“The eleven hour clock for 2029 can be explained simply as a promise to the American worker to remove an hour from the workday.
The horror of an 11 hour clock and a 22 hour workday should be fairly apparent.”
Steve Fitch, untitled, 1991, color photograph, 8 inches x 10 inches
STEVE FITCH
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Education:
Master of Arts in Photography, University of New Mexico, 1978
Masters program in photography, San Francisco Art Institute, Fall, 1977
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, 1971
Awards:
Eliot Porter Fellowship, New Mexico Council for Photography, 1999
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship: “Marks and Measures” survey grant,
1981
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, 1975
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, 1973
Purchase Award, “Southwest ’85”, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 1985
Purchase Award, “Current Works 1984”, Society for Contemporary Photography exhibit
at the Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 1984
Purchase Award, “Arts 84”, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO, 1984
Purchase Award, “1975 Invitational”, Andromeda Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1975
Purchase Award, “Emulsion ’73”, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 1973
Teaching:
Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Professor, Photography Department,
Santa Fe, NM, 1990 to present
Princeton University, Lecturer, Visual Arts Program, Princeton, NJ, 1986 to 1990
University of Texas at San Antonio, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
Art, San Antonio, TX, Fall, 1985
University of Colorado, Boulder, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
Fine Arts, Boulder, CO, 1979 to 1985
University of New Mexico, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Art Department, Albu-
querque, NM, 1978 to 1979
ASUC Studio, University of California, Berkeley, Darkroom Supervisor, 1971 to
1977
Volker Henze, unfinished – waiting for better days, 2025, installation and delivery box, 41 inches x 55 inches
Volker Henze
Born 1950 in Halle an der Saale
1972 – 1977 Study of painting at the Hochschule of fine Art, Dresden, Diplom
1981 moves to Berlin
2001 – 2004 Tenure ship for painting at the University of Art Weissensee, Berlin
2004 – 2006 Proxy of the tenure ship for painting at the Institute for Art and Material Culture of the University Dortmund
Since 2015 Member of the Lehniner Institute of Art and Culture
2017 moves the studio to Hohenfinow, Struwenberg, Brandenburg
Lives in Berlin and Brandenburg