Watson Mere: The Forces

March 18, 2026 – April 1, 2026
Opening Reception: March 18, 6–8 pm

Curated by Jesse Bandler Firestone

EFA Gallery is pleased to present The Forces, a solo presentation of new work by EFA Studio Member Watson Mere. The exhibition brings together a recent body of paintings devoted to the artist’s spiritual awakening in the context of Haitian Vodou and Americana. The paintings are built on highly textured surfaces composed of acrylic paint mixed with sugar, forming a thick, stucco-like ground that Mere manipulates into dimensional patterns reminiscent of flames, scorched earth, and rising heat.

Close to the Ground

March 18, 2026 – April 24, 2026
Opening Reception: March 28, 6–8 pm

Fanny Allié
Dana Bell
Chakaia Booker
Molly Crabapple
Devraj Dakoji
Michael Eade
Beth Ganz
Patricia Leighton
Nazanin Noroozi
Kenny Rivero
Xin Song
Jia Sung
Michael Kelly Williams

EFA Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works printed at EFA Studios and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Through woodcut, photogravure, lithography, chine collé, intaglio and blind embossing, the artists in the exhibition engage with printmaking as both a formal discipline and a way of thinking through the concerns that animate their broader practices. Across diverse approaches, the works explore how the printed mark can carry memory, myth, figuration, and humor in equal measure, and how the material conditions of the medium open spaces for shared meaning.