ARDEN + WHITE GALLERY is pleased to participate in the 11th edition of NADA New York, the annual art fair celebrating innovative voices in contemporary art. This year’s fair will be held from Wednesday, May 7 through Sunday, May 11 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building.
For its presentation, the gallery will debut a dreamlike installation shaped by material, memory, and gesture, featuring sculptural works by Lane Walkup alongside a single, evocative painting by Sarah Giannobile. Together, these two artists form a poetic dialogue—Walkup through steel lines bent into lyrical gestures, and Giannobile through dreamlike mark-making that blurs memory, symbol, and abstraction.
Walkup’s work begins with the simplicity of a line drawing—transformed through metal into dimensional, anthropomorphic forms that animate the booth like characters in a fable. Her freestanding floral sculptures reach heights of up to five and a half feet, accompanied by smaller wall-mounted works she refers to as “charms”—metal symbols that feel at once ancient and futuristic, like hieroglyphs from a forgotten, feminine mythology. These totemic forms evoke a language of intuition and sensation, grounding the space in gesture and play.
Set against a soft sky blue painted booth, the installation exudes a sense of whimsy and quiet strength, inviting viewers into a suspended world where fantasy and form meet. Walkup’s aesthetic teeters on the edge of reality and imagination: her delicate, steel flowers sway like figures mid-dance, their shapes hinting at human emotion, fleeting beauty, and the elegant awkwardness of growth.
At the back of the booth, underscoring the presentation of sculptures, will hang a single painting by Sarah Giannobile. Mirroring the symbolic language of Walkup’s sculptural charms, Giannobile’s work radiates a similarly coded intimacy. Her painting hovers between the literal and abstract, unfolding like a remembered dream—fragments of symbols, botanical gestures, and delicate textures coalescing into a surreal, emotive landscape. Through a personal yet universal language of marks, she captures the essence of memory itself: elusive, layered, and often blurred by feeling.
The pairing of Walkup and Giannobile highlights the gallery’s continued interest in work that is materially distinct yet conceptually aligned. The presentation becomes a conversation between object and image, between sculpture and painting, between groundedness and the ethereal. Both artists build visual languages that stretch the limits of their materials into realms of nostalgia, imagination, and transformation.
Walkup’s sculptures may at first appear whimsical, but closer inspection reveals an elegant restraint—a mastery of balance between fragility and resilience. In much the same way, Giannobile’s painting reveals itself gradually, like memory surfacing in layers. Together, their works ask viewers to pause, reflect, and engage with the ineffable: the personal made poetic, the symbolic made spatial.
In this shared space, the booth becomes not just a presentation but a room unto itself—a soft, surreal environment shaped by material, emotion, and memory.
Worshipping at the Alter of the Willow (Where I Stopped and Smoked a Cigarette and Thought About This Mortal Coil), 2025 Lane Walkup
Blue Star, 2025, Sarah Giannobile
LOCATION
ARDEN + WHITE GALLERY
BOOTH C212
The Starrett-Lehigh Building
601 W 26th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
HOURS
VIP Preview (by invitation only):
Wednesday, May 7, 10am–4pm
Open to the Public:
Wednesday, May 7, 4–7pm
Thursday, May 8, 11am–7pm
Friday, May 9, 11am–7pm
Saturday, May 10, 11am–7pm
Sunday, May 11, 11am–5pm