Elise Coker, Alexandra Collins, Eric Diehl, Claire HarnEnz, Jarvis Hua, Xinzi Luo, Nikki Mehle, and Song Watkins Park
August 14 – September 13, 2025
Thresholds gathered eight painters working across figuration and abstraction, presenting portraiture, pattern, and mass media through intimate, intensely worked canvases and panels.
VillageOneArt presented a survey show of contemporary painters with works by Elise Coker, Alexandra Collins, Eric Diehl, Claire HarnEnz, Jarvis Hua, Nikki Mehle, Song Watkins Park, and Xinzi Luo, on view from August 14 through September 13, 2025, with an opening reception on Thursday, August 14, from 6 to 8 PM. Presenting a wide range of stylistic approaches to painting in the present moment, figuration and abstraction complemented each other in this captivating exhibition of painters working in the contemporary vanguard. Artists on view have shown at various venues including the prestigious SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Visitors to the exhibition were treated to a compelling look at portraiture, pattern, and mass media in these intimate and detailed paintings. From the lush and vivid subjects proffered by Song Watkins Park to the powerful, mesmerizing tableaux of Eric Diehl’s “Exploding Car” series, scenes on view offered entry points into parallel worlds that felt strangely surreal, even cinematic.
Nikki Mehle’s beguiling compositions staggered figuration with pattern and potency: birds darted from dizzying trees and figures warped and wove into and out of the landscape. Elise Coker’s photorealist depictions of vessels and aircraft reflected on the ways in which advanced technology and machines shape our everyday experience in ways often overlooked. Color and repetition fueled the fantasy apparent in paintings by Alexandra Collins and Claire HarnEnz, while Jarvis Hua’s scenes evoked the vivid gesticulations present in visions found in Flemish Old Master paintings.
Innovating painting as a genre, each artist on view offered a new perspective on the world we live in today and how the lens of everyday experience is heightened one brushstroke at a time.
Works in the Exhibition
Thresholds was on view at VillageOneArt, 150 West 25th Street, Suite 403, New York, from August 14 to September 13, 2025. For inquiries regarding available works by Elise Coker, Alexandra Collins, Eric Diehl, Claire HarnEnz, Jarvis Hua, Xinzi Luo, Nikki Mehle, and Song Watkins Park, please contact info@villageoneart.com.