8 Artists Having a Breakout Moment This Fall

Brazilian artist Ana Cláudia Almeida’s show “Over Again” is not only her first major solo exhibition in New York, but also her first time showing with Stephen Friedman Gallery since joining its roster. On view through October 18th, the show features new fabric works, large-scale paintings, and a site-specific installation, all of which engage different media, from plastic, to oil pastels, to video. Though this is her first time showing in New York, her work has been widely exhibited in Brazil and internationally.

Sometimes, her work features expansive brushstrokes of vivid color that fill the entirety of the canvas with thick layers of paint. Other times, she leaves vast portions bare save for a few strategic marks—Almeida’s pieces blend abstraction and materiality. The boundary between different media disintegrates as paintings on fabric and plastic are freed from their stretchers and contorted around the gallery’s columns or hung from the ceiling. By experimenting with form, Almeida signals the importance of breaking from tradition and from patterns that are no longer of use to us.

Earlier this year Almeida received her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University’s School of Art. She also holds a BA from Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.