Dallas Art Fair 2026: Aglaé Bassens, Hope Buzzelli, Kirsten Deirup, Annie Duncan, Lizzie Gill, Elizabeth Hazan, Lior Modan, Jonathan Ryan, Sarah Schlesinger, and Xiao Wang

HESSE FLATOW is pleased to participate in the 2026 Dallas Art Fair, with a presentation of works by Aglaé Bassens, Hope Buzzelli, Kirsten Deirup, Annie Duncan, Lizzie Gill, Elizabeth Hazan, Lior Modan, Jonathan Ryan, Sarah Schlesinger, and Xiao Wang. We look forward to seeing you at Booth B2!

Aglaé Bassens' (b. 1986, Belgium) paintings call attention to the overlooked and the everyday, each work begins with a photograph, either her own or found. Bassens siphons her personal memories, loading each image with feeling.  At the same time, she edits and omits from each image, allowing it to be broad enough for anyone to identify with. Through her signature asymmetrical cropping and atmospheric treatment, she invites viewers to recognize something of their own in each painting.

Hope Buzzelli (b. 2001, New York, NY) has fully immersed herself in the aesthetic of scientific and medical illustration after her study of anatomy and exposure to Drexel College of Medicine’s Human Gross Anatomy Lab. She developed her hatch mark language to describe large scale “pseudo-medical illustration” drawings based on traditional art practices from the 18th century. Utilizing familiar materials from her childhood, the most sought-after supplies in Hope’s practice are colored graphite, ink, markers, raw canvas, and wood.

Kirsten Deirup's (b. 1980, Berkeley, CA) compositions centralize gem-encrusted flowers improbably sprouting from the ground or vessels and spray bottles materializing in unlikely locations. Proxying as totems, items are deliberately placed despite appearing nonsensical. There is an encroaching sense of the uncanny within Deirup’s futuristic dreamscapes. Peculiar arrangements of objects beyond the scope of their typical domain suggest a human presence despite the absence of the figure. A gloved hand masks the robot underneath, while the plastic materiality of spray bottles has been anthropomorphized. 

Annie Duncan (b. 1997, San Francisco, CA) is a ceramic sculptor and painter whose larger-than-life work explores femininity, material symbolism, and art historical references. In her work, oversized flowers, beauty products, and personal objects are juxtaposed to create narratives that are both poignant and playful, mirroring the conflicting emotions found in everyday life. Her colorful ceramics draw from the illusionism of trompe-l’oeil painting, the visual language of cartoons, and the aesthetics of digital consumer culture.

Lizzie Gill (b. 1989, New York, NY) explores themes of domesticity through elegant tablescapes which feature a menagerie of porcelain animals and antique ceramic wares. For Gill, these conversation pieces are the anchor point for a larger discourse about the continuity of history, generational knowledge, and allegorical symbolisms. Formally, Gill’s paintings are textured—using cake piping techniques to render the surface—exuberant and densely packed with symbolism.

Elizabeth Hazan (b. 1965, New York, NY) creates aerial landscape paintings that mix gestural topography with elements of modernist abstraction. The work depicts a heightened version of nature off-kilter, evoking a charged atmosphere, familiar to the viewer yet verging on the surreal.

Lior Modan (b. 1983, Tel Aviv, Israel) creates low-relief, velvet encased paintings that reimagine household objects into uncanny still lifes. He  approaches image-making through a sculptural lens, foregrounding its material and tactile qualities. Building his surfaces out of traditional materials such as foam, plaster, cardboard, and wood, his forms undergo a compression once enshrouded in velvet, before precipitating back into view through embossed detailing and highlights. This slippage between figuration and abstraction, combined with the textile’s light reflecting and absorbing properties, creates a sense of movement that can be best described as holographic, ever-elusive and shifting relative to the viewer’s position around the work.

Jonathan Ryan (b. 1989, Buffalo, NY) began as an observational painter, depicting confounding architecture and landscapes, and then gradually shifted toward imagined forms. His background in observational painting provides him with the foundation to use light and shadow in ways that give depth to his geometric, abstract forms. Ryan’s current work continues to be influenced by industrial structures and archaic architecture. He has an ongoing investment in color, materiality, and Modernist form in painting. 

Sarah Schlesinger (b. 1988, Wynnewood, PA) paints obstructed landscapes on an intimate scale, using bushes, hedgerows, and other barriers to create scenes filled with metaphor and mystery. Employing a monochromatic palette and rigorous perspectival structure, her works investigate the psychology of looking, positioning viewers at the threshold between revelation and concealment. Shadows, false symmetries, and dissolving forms heighten her exploration of perception, prompting sustained attention and reflection on what may lie just beyond view.

Xiao Wang (b. 1990, Beijing, China) paints hyper-realistic tableaus of social gatherings, sumptuous still lifes, and joyful immersive dream-like scenes. Featuring lush foliage, overflowing fruit plates and carefully rendered personal objects, Wang extends an intimate, if a bit voyeuristic, access into the artist’s private universe. The historical format of the vanitas painting also serves as a key reference point for Wang, who is keenly aware of the still life’s ability to communicate wealth and abundance and their impermanence.

Preview BENEFIT

Thursday, April 16, 5:00 - 9:00 PM

The Dallas Art Fair Foundation invites you to celebrate the opening evening of Dallas Art Fair and be among the first to view artworks presented by over ninety participating galleries.

Ticket proceeds benefit the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, and Dallas Contemporary.

General Admission

Friday, April 17, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday, April 18, 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday, April 19, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

A General Admission ticket gives you access to the Art Fair April 17th - April 19th 2026.