Art Week in New York kicks off on Wednesday and the Independent has released a preview of some of the works that will be on display from 65 international galleries.

For their debut at Independent, Nicola Vassell will present the work of African artist Uman. We commissioned Barry Scwabsky to introduce the artist ahead of next week’s fair, “People who emigrate often feel that they have to cut out parts of their past in order to thrive in their new environment. In Uman’s paintings, new layers build continually upon the previous ones, but one never feels that anything’s been hidden, erased, or denied in the process; I wonder if she lives her passage through so many cultures with the same sense of wholeness.” Read it now.

Independent Features commissioned writer Elizabeth Karp-Evans for a new essay on Rachel Eulena Williams. Following her debut show at Canada in 2020, the artist’s practice takes a performative approach to sculpture based paintings, reframing the use and materials. “I like the idea of the material having historic value, holding violence, and using it casually. I like taking that power out of it,” says Williams. Read it now

Kasmin will present works by vanessa german, a new artist to the gallery’s program and a first time debut at Independent next week. The artist’s sculptural power works at the axis on which Black power, spirituality, mysticism, and feminism converge. Learn more.

William Downs, Jameson Green, and Michelle Segre

Derek Eller Gallery is presenting a group exhibition with William Downs, Jameson Green, and Michelle Segre. Downs had a solo exhibition, Pieces of a Man at the gallery in 2021. Green first debuted at independent last year and will return with new works from the studio. Segre has had multiple solo exhibitions at the gallery and has been collected by The Museum of Modern Art and The New Museum, both in New York, among other institutions. Learn more.