JANUARY 31st - MARCH 31st, 2026

JANUARY 2026 GROUP PRESS RELEASE

 

AMSTERDAM WHITNEY GALLERY, 210 Eleventh Avenue-Chelsea, New York City, is proud to showcase its prestigiously curated "CHELSEA CATALYST" JANUARY 31-MARCH 31, 2026 Valentine's Exhibition. Universally recognized as the penultimate International Art Center of the World, Chelsea in New York City, and Amsterdam Whitney Gallery shine the spotlight on the leading contemporary Master Artists of the International Chelsea Art World. These global Master's works explore the abstract, figurative, and natural realms and are an exuberant compendium of the perceptions of the heart, manifesting in a unique visual lexicon which unites global dynamic energy with aesthetic sensibilities.

 

Bubbling over like sparkling Champagne, this sweetheart of an exhibition paints the town red with a wealth of visual delights reflecting sublime artistic prowess. The exhibition is highlighted by its glamorous gala, "Valentine's" Champagne Soiree on Saturday, FEBRUARY 7, 2026, from 2:00-4:00 pm, which embraces unsurpassed contemporary master artworks, radiating supreme artist energy as it seductively romances our visual senses. Delivering a visual commentary on the art world of today and pulsating with mesmerizing HeART-felt synergy and luminescent artistic creativity, these Valentine treasures are infused with a romantic mystique and become landmark visual gems as they boldly re-imagine the contemporary quotidian. Sophisticated, eclectic and evanescent, this visual diary of art represents the universality of the world as they shine the spotlight on a global artistic language and presents various perspectives. Emotional engagement pairs up with acute observation and intelligent analysis to form compelling, thought-provoking art. Finely curated to appeal to our feelings, these works are like sparkling champagne, effervescent and bubbling, imparting an important visual message to our minds as it touches our hearts.

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CHELSEA CATALYST Exhibition 

 

MARIAN ADCOCK celebrates the chromatic complexity and profundity of nature in her ravishing, vividly colored nature compositions, which are orchestrated with an amalgam of floral themes that are juxtaposed with the delicacy of sensibility and radiate the joie de vivre of nature.  

 

NANCY BALMERT, "Ambassador to Nature," enlarges the visible natural world to bloom into a fusion of myriad mosaic, chromatic flowers,  visceral landscapes, Dutch-style still life oil paintings, and geometric-cubed paintings, which create a celebration of the natural terrain. Cajoling us to inhale the beautiful aspect of Mother Nature and exhale its joy, she brilliantly embraces a co-relationship with the terrestrial realm.  

 

DON BIEHN translates the juvenescence and glory of Mother Earth in his illuminated landscape compositions which radiate a spectral paradise on earth, channelling the terrain’s flowing imagery into his paintings as he provides a fresh visual syntax of the topography of the land,  

 

RIC CONN'S symbolic abstract expressionist narratives explore the complexities and interactions of the world, opening a window to the flow of feelings, memories, and emotions, giving tangible shape to profound emotions, imbuing emblematic imagery with emotional subtexts about humanity. 

  

RONI LYNN DOPPELT deconstructs reality with her gem-like abstract series which chromatically pays homage to her love of family, reflecting kaleidoscopic hues and a dazzling color wheel, offering an incandescent, parallax non-figurative phenomenal vision of an expressionistic inner world which spiritually treasures sensorial vibrations and organic rainbow-hued shapes. 

  

ANTHONY EMERTON channels reductive abstract imagery in his polychromatic, acrylic on paper paintings which deconstruct reality into organic, geometric shapes, resulting in a dynamic visual syntax of non-objective works which synthesize into incarnations of creativity as they resonate with a minimalistic view of the world. 

 

PAT FALLON'S "Movies on My Mind" series presents a psychological cinema, one that unfolds internally rather than on the screen, drawing on the visual language of cinema as she translates the experience of watching and remembering films which become re- contextualized into richly layered abstract compositions resonating with bold fields of color.

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JUDY FILIPICH'S abstract compositions encourage her audience to engage in the beauty and complexity of the natural world as she emphasizes to us to treasure our environment through a prismatic code that reverberates with balance and a dynamic interaction of polychromatic shapes. 

            

CHRIS FOWLER'S cityscape photography dramatically reframes the modern city, distilling the metropolis into moments of striking clarity and contemplation, as his intuitive aesthetic vision shines the spotlight on carefully composed images of urban skylines, streets, and architectural details.  

 

ANN GORES' "Wildflower" plein-air series is guided by her nostalgic love of nature, lyrically resonating with a visual rhapsody of the floral kingdom, as she transforms simple California wildflowers into luminous reflections of nature's beauty and warmth, inviting viewers to rejoice and treasure our natural terrain. 

 

MICHAEL GOULDING eschews the blatancy of color with his black and white female movement photography which strips away excess to focus on female movement, conveying tension between vulnerability and strength, his images resist spectacle, favoring a sustained attention to the body and its relationship to space. 

 

Joe De Haan blends creativity with earthly forms as he recycles fragments of nature, breathing new life into repurposed natural objects, transforming discarded remnants of the natural world, morphing them into powerful abstract forms of art, As he enshrines reformatted debris to become a message for environmental awareness 

 

HUA HUANG'S "Third Eye" translates his personal vision of the world into photography that becomes the optical language of emotion, a dance of colors, shapes, textures, freed from the constraints of realism, inviting us to interpret what is not seen, employing his lens to accentuate the spectrum of life. 

 

NERYS LEVY'S environmentally themed art  is ever-green and ever-fabulous as she gracefully responds to the gift of nature by illustrating the beauty of our environment which visually inspires us to treasure our ecosystem and to respectfully preserve its infinite intricacies, while recognizing the wonders that are hidden in the terrain. 

 

QINGZHU LIN'S female figurative series, "Portraits of a Lady," presents an intimate meditation on femininity, rendered through a restrained psychological expressive visual language, focusing on classically-adorned female portraits in quiet repose, suggesting a private, still moment, where perception, memory, and emotional presence converge. 

 

SARA McKENZIE'S illuminated abstract dreamscapes translate the juvenescence and glory of nature, creating a spectral paradise on earth, showcasing luminescent metaphors which symbolize the bounty of the terrestrial kingdom and encapsulate the lyrical essence of feeling at peace with the land.  

 

SADY PINEDA'S illuminated multi-colored and heavily impasto abstracted flora and fauna oil paintings are prismatic portals that metamorphose into an artistic dialogue on the spiritual and emotional awareness of the divinity of nature, as their abstracted, chromatic beauty shines the spotlight on the fantasy and splendor of the floral kingdom.   

 

MARTHA SANDERS' transluminous abstract paintings sublimely transcend the natural world, conveying spectral optical projections that are anchored by illuminated lighting as her glimmering artistic vision accentuates dazzling color and light to become metaphorical huetopian portals to nature. 

    

MICHAEL SCHAFFER'S "Deep Sea Life" kaleidoscopic, abstract series plunges beneath the surface to explore the mystery, pressure, and poetry of the ocean’s hidden world, through layered  mixed media underwater paintings, which illustrate submerged ecosystems where form drifts between recognition and abstraction. 

 

KATHY STANLEY'S female-centric oeuvre champions women as she explores women’s relationship to nature, celebrating "she-roes" on earth who radiate power, strength, and divinity, adroitly illustrating the feminine form as strong, resilient, and spiritual, while radiating the power of the organic universe.  

 

RUI ZHAO'S magical landscape reverie tableau resonates with organic topographical themes of evanescent beauty, pathways to light, peace, and enlightenment, reaching a pinnacle of spirituality and love, while reflecting the lyrical joy of the natural universe and conveying a worldly vision of peace and harmony.