Bienvenu Steinberg & C is pleased to present Visions from Above, an installation of drawings by French-British artist Lou Doillon. Visions From Above are self-portraits of a woman one can identify with and believe in: strong, independent, non-fetishized, free. In a self-empowering and revealing gesture Lou Doillon deconstructs the stereotype of the woman as the inaccessible object of desire, historically represented from a male gaze. She draws herself from life, keeping the pose until it becomes untenable, from torso to feet, an angle familiar to our selfie culture, showing fragments of a sexualized body at times, or a body engaged in daily activities, smoking, dressed or undressed as she pleases. The drawings, made in 2016-2017, will be featured on a cherry wall paper designed by the artist.
"I don’t remember ‘starting’ the Visions From Above, they appear very soon in my diaries. A statement of a presence, a moment, an existence, running the same necessity of a diary, and the practicality of an available model at all times ;). The thrill of a point of view that we all see, and that is hidden to others. The proof we have of our own existence. Then there is the pleasure of the impossible, accepting the distortion and the physical limitation of my tiring eyes, the ever fleeting drawing hand, the problematic of the distance of the foot… vs the stillness of the paper glued to the table. Trusting that a line of ink will reveal where I begin and where I end. An attempt to daily testify, this is where I am.”- Lou Doillon, October 2025
Born in France in 1982, Lou Doillon lives and works in Paris. A singer songwriter, actress, and creative collaborator with fashion houses since 1998, she has developed a unique multidisciplinary career. Drawing has been a daily activity for Doillon since childhood. With a fountain pen on Moleskine notebooks, she has been keeping a drawn and written diary since the age of 12. In 2017, Doillon released Drawings, a book published by Astier de Villatte including 60 original drawings.
Bienvenu Steinberg & C is pleased to present an exhibition of drawings by Stephen Talasnik in the Viewing Room. Through “subtractive evolution”, Talasnik uses abandoned notations to build an image for the present - often otherworldly—each drawing in The Reincarnant encapsulates time travel without representation and explores the visual vocabulary of archeology, invention, architecture, engineering, and organic structure.
Talasnik unearthed several folios of unfinished drawings started during the pandemic. Rather than continue the path of these unresolved graphite and ink works, he used them as a foundation to rework and discover new images informed by an ongoing passion for architectural and botanical drawing.
The embedded “ghost” images of the past, served as a palimpsest from which to harness more immediate visual images that depict the infrastructure of the metropolis; an ongoing obsession triggered by his admiration for the architectural works of Piranesi, Hugh Ferriss, and Antonio St. Elia, as well as the botanical photographs of Karl Blossfelt, Henry Fox Talbot, and Anna Atkins.
Stephen Talasnik’s drawings are in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Albertina Museum (Vienna), the British Museum (London), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) to name a few. His large-scale ephemeral installations were featured at the Storm King Art Center, Tippet Rise Art Center, Russel Wright Design Center Manitoga, and the Denver Botanic Gardens among others. Originally from Philadelphia, he is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and Tyler School of Art, Rome. He spent 15 years commuting between NY and Japan, traveling throughout Thailand, The Philippines, China, and Korea.
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Please join us for a viewing room presentation of work by four artists reflecting colorful summer palettes—the gold of the sun, the blues of the sea and sky, the greens and browns of the earth. The exhibition will be on view until August 22.
Born in South Korea, Jane Yang-D'Haene draws upon her cultural heritage to create unexpected ceramic work. She moved to New York in 1984 and attended the Cooper Hewitt School of Architecture from 1988 to 1992. Since beginning her work in ceramics in 2016, D'Haene has experimented with form and function. She is currently working on furniture, lighting, tableware, and many varieties of vessels, all made in clay.
Max Gimblett, born in 1935, Auckland, New Zealand, works as a painter in both New York and New Zealand. Often working on shaped panels or canvases – tondos, ovals, and his signature four-lobed quatrefoil – he marries Abstract Expressionism, Modernism and Spiritual Abstraction with mysticism and traditions of Asian calligraphy.
Christina Hejtmanek utilizes photography, sculpture, painting and drawing to create abstracted images that address concepts of temporality, perception, and varying states of consciousness. Her paintings are executed with pigment-soaked twine and created with a snap line method. Highly active and automatic the images are compulsive, intuitive and meditative investigations of nature, space and geometry, real and interpreted.
Born 1972, New York, Emilio Perez lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. By layering memories and fleeting imagery, the artist evokes a visual experience that seduces the viewer via the dynamic forces of nature together with a desire to understand how the narrative unfolds and where it is destined to go. Influenced by the hues and compositions of classical Renaissance paintings, and surrealist unconscious automatism, Perez’s stylistic hybridity plays through in meticulous brushstrokes with elements of abstraction and figuration, recalling mystical landscapes and imaginary worlds.
Madeleine Hope Arthurs creates one-of-a-kind handmade books that reveal her internal landscapes and psyche-scapes. She takes inspiration from psychotherapy and uses it as a tool to bring visibility to neurodivergence. Arthurs’ practice expresses various emotions through drawings, painting, cutting, folding, and glueing that she describes as a “cathartic journey exploring my emotional mind.”
This exhibition showcases Arthurs’ innovative bookmaking including such innovative forms as scrolls, tunnel books, Turkish map fold books, carousel books and others. The illustrations that formed the content of each book display Arthurs’ mastery of watercolor, ink and pencil. Haunted dreamscapes, mental institutions, self-portraits and the animal kingdom, are among the subjects of the artist’s body of work.
Arthurs has a BA from Smith College (Massachusetts), a BFA and an MFA with honors from the School of Visual Arts (NYC). She also graduated from Teachers College (NYC) with a MA in Art and Art Education. Madeleine has exhibited her work in group shows at New York City venues such as Ronald Feldman Gallery, Exit Art, School of Visual Arts Galleries, Fountain House Gallery, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, El Barrio Art Space, and Culture Lab. Her artist books are included in permanent collections at such places as the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), Bowdoin College, and the Center for Book Arts (NYC).
Orange Li’s artistic practice involves an ongoing exploration of her memories and dreams. It reveals her experience of an intuitive connection between body and mind. Li’s drawings examine and express personal psychological moments that she describes as having “erupted from my volcanic body.”
This exhibition focuses on ink drawings on amate paper. According to the artist the paper was first chosen for its roughness of texture and the feeling of antiquity it projects. She later discovered that this kind of paper had direct ties to ritual and spiritual texts, a discovery that reawakened her memories of the traditions of her heritage. Li also notes that “the ink too carries a thread back to my grandfather who taught me calligraphy as a child.”
Born in Taiwan in 1988, Orange Li now lives and works in New York and Jersey City. She received her MFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in 2024. Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions including The Drawing Center Benefit Show, New York (2024); Taiwanese American Arts Council, Government Island (2023); Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (2021); Monira Foundation, Jersey City (2021). Scintilla of Nigredo is her first solo show.