Emily Ferguson / Tomas Harker / Sol Kordich brings together three painters who approach the medium as a flexible space where image, gesture, and atmosphere remain fluid rather than fixed.
Emily Ferguson’s paintings move between portraiture and apparition. Drawing on the visual language of fashion and contemporary femininity, her figures emerge through layered surfaces where the image feels both fragile and constructed. In Vita Violenta, fragments of imagery and painterly intervention create a charged tension between intimacy, performance, and projection.
Tomas Harker’s work unfolds through carefully staged compositions that feel at once cinematic and ambiguous. Drawing on the pull of nostalgia and the dream logic of film, his paintings explore how images shape perception within a culture saturated by competing narratives. In works such as Endless Romance, inspired by David Lynch’s Lost Highway, drifting symbols and atmospheric light create scenes that resist straightforward storytelling. Other works, including Spell Book, introduce charged motifs—burning books, illustrated pages, and flickering flames—where illumination becomes both an invitation and a warning.
Sol Kordich approaches painting through abstraction, emphasizing movement, color, and the physical act of making. Her canvas Night Sea Journey builds through layered gesture and shifting forms, creating a surface that feels immersive and alive with motion.
Across these distinct approaches, painting becomes a place where interior states and external images continually blur our encounters with perception.
Emily Ferguson (b. 1998, San Rafael) is a painter based in Los Angeles. Ferguson began her art education at Mira CostaCollege, where she studied Creative and Applied Arts. In 2019, she left school to pursue a more formal artistic practice, working from her studio in Los Angeles and assisting other painters as she developed her first body of work. Ferguson’s painting style is poised and elusive, dancing between the aesthetics of learned femininity and the nuances of emotional life. Exhibitions include Emily Ferguson, Tomas Harker, Sol Kordich, Nicodim, New York (2026, forthcoming); Emily Ferguson, Half Gallery, New York (2026, solo); It Girl., Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles, (2024, solo); Transfigurations of Reality, Opa Projects, Miami (2025); The Figure Abstracted, Prince and Wooster Gallery, New York (2025); If you want, I’ll be your star, Half Gallery, Los Angeles (2024, solo); LA Woman, Phillips, Los Angeles (2023); Horizons, Sow and Tailor, Hong Kong (2023); and Willows Weep, Prince & Wooster, New York (2023).
Tomas Harker (b. 1990, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. His works addresses the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Harker’s practice often draws from a variety of image production and distribution systems in an attempt to make sense of a cosmic order becoming increasingly disordered. His paintings reflect the increasing murkiness and confusion of contemporary life, whilst remaining mindful of the dynamics of power benefiting from uncertainty. Exhibitions include Emily Ferguson, Tomas Harker, Sol Kordich, Nicodim, New York (2026, forthcoming); Sherwood Forest, The Sunday Painter, London (2025, solo); Painting, Photography, Painting, Olney Gleason, New York (2026); Remain in Light: Tomas Harker, Laurent Proux, Robert Yarber, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2025); The Lightness of Being, Nicodim Annex, Los Angeles (2024, solo); Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter, London (2023, solo); New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London (2023); The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London (2022); Apotrope, CobGallery, London (2022); I haven’t been Sleeping, Screw Gallery, Leeds (2021, solo); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (2021); Third Nature, Copeland Gallery, London (2021, solo); A Sea in Suspense, Bo.lee Gallery, London (2019, solo); There’s something about Painting, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (2019); Cite, Bo.lee gallery, London (2018); and Syzygy, Leeds Arts University, Leeds (2018).
Sol Kordich (b. 1995, Buenos Aires) approaches painting as an inquiry into the unknown, using layered colors and cadenced strokes to reveal a new reality. Her abstractions emerge from a physical, performative process, allowing each painting to build itself through fluid gestures and the gradual accumulation of layered surfaces. With a background in architecture, Kordich transforms the canvas into a spatial construct where color, gesture, and transparency accumulate to create oniric territories. Exhibitions include Emily Ferguson, Tomas Harker, Sol Kordich, Nicodim, New York (2026, forthcoming); After Image, curated by Tommy May, Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles (2026); Spectrum, Hemmerle Contemporary and MINTGallery, Munich (2025); Coming back to the one, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago (2024, solo); In The know, Show, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2024); El umbral de lo invisible, Casa Santa Ana Foundation, Panama City (2023, solo); Come and play with me, El Castillete, Madrid (2023); La Llama Doble, El Castillete, Madrid (2023, solo); Jardín Cósmico, Grolman Gallery, Berlin (2023, solo); Somewhere in Time, TUBE Cultural Hall, Milan (2022); and E-Shin: Volver al Espíritu, Amuleto Gallery, Buenos Aires (2021, solo).
