About the Artist
Liz Fiedorek
BIOGRAPHY
Photography has been a continuing pursuit throughout Liz's adult life, as she simultaneously developed a career as an art dealer/gallerist.
Her career in the art world, as a NYC art dealer, began at Kouros Gallery, which at that time represented such artists as Grace Hartigan, Theodore Stamos and Biala. She then moved to ACA Galleries, a historically significant American painting gallery. There she worked with, among others, the estates of Joseph Cornell and Romare Bearden and the artist, then living, Richard Pousette-Dart.
Subsequently, Liz moved to the well-known Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, where she worked with estates of such major artists as Stuart Davis, John Constable and Gaston Lachaise. This gallery was also deeply involved with the Bay Area Figurative Artists, American Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Color Field painting and a few emerging contemporary artists.
In 1998, Liz established her own eponymous private art dealing firm, Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, which she subsequently amalgamated into a New York City based gallery, Winston Wachter Mayer, with two partners. As a gallery owner, Liz worked with a stable of partner-selected emerging artists. She also curated exhibitions which included major artists in the field, both contemporary and historic. She also sold prominent artist's works on the secondary market.
Liz was then recruited to Pace Gallery, one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries. Based in Pace's Chelsea gallery, Liz had the honor of working with and selling such iconic artists as Alex Katz, Robert Ryman (now an estate), Kiki Smith, Chuck Close (now an estate), Robert Rauschenberg (now an estate), James Turrell and the estates of Alexander Calder , Sol LeWitt, Jean Dubuffet , Adolph Gottlieb and Donald Judd. It was an exciting time in the evolving Chelsea, NY art world, which allowed Liz to expand her knowledge of art as well as to develop her collector base to include major international and national collectors and museums.
In recent years, Liz has moved from art dealing to devoting all of her artistic energy towards her long held goal of being a photographer and art collector, with her husband, Bruce. Much of Liz's inspiration is drawn from a lifetime of art study, from working with and seeing the work of multifarious artists as an art dealer, from living surrounded by nature in Bedford, NY and Little Compton, RI , from her beloved NYC and from her various travels, much of it art focused.
Artist Statement
I have been blessed to be in New York, the center of the US art world, for all of my working life. I was an art dealer working in galleries and with artists on weekdays (through Saturday), and most weekends were spent photographing the rich and diverse world of NYC and all of its contrasts. I initially developed photographs in rented downtown darkrooms. I began by exploring street photography, with subjects as varied as the city itself: the tapestry of New Yorkers and New York places. Coney Island, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, the Cloisters, the Village, the great buildings and architecture, the parks, bridges and monuments, and on and on.
As my knowledge of artists and art grew, my work evolved to more close-up, soft-edge images moving towards abstraction. The creative power of abstraction has been particularly important in my intellectual approach to my work as I strive for the most unique, thoughtful, and compelling reflection of what I see around me. I continue to explore abstraction in nature, and also find stimulating images in cities. In cold weather, I turn to still life work in the studio. My goal is to develop further into portraiture as well.
The influence of the numerous artists I have studied and those with whom I have had the privilege of working over the years has been profound. These experiences are reflected in my photographs in manifold ways. The most important artist influences span a range of history and include such diverse artists as Edward Steichen, Odilon Redon, Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin and, more contemporaneously, Joan Mitchell.
All of my work explores form, color, light and contrasts. It strives to capture the essential element of a moment in time. In the words of my first photography instructor, Harold Feinstein, " just say yes". I have edited that thought, and after many iterations, when the photograph has arrived at a unique and meaningful expression, I say "yes."
Spotlight: Kelsey Miller
Kelsey Miller in the desert, 2025
About the Artist
Kelsey Miller is a multi-disciplinary artist who was born and raised in Antigua, West Indies, and now lives in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Her work presents aspects of landscape and place, largely stemming from her profound interest in and connection to the environment. She conducts site-responsive research, collecting rubbings, drawings, and tracings of earth, sea, and chunks of glacial ice—an iterative practice of recording, altering and accumulating that manifests in prints, drawings, cyantopyes and large-scale installations. In recent years, Miller has participated in artist residencies with the Montello Foundation in Montello, Nevada, the Arctic Circle Residency in the International Territory of Svalbard and Proyecto ‘Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work has been exhibited in venues in Italy, Argentina, and throughout the United States in solo, juried, and small group shows. Miller is a 2019 recipient of the MacColl Johnson Fellowship from the Rhode Island Foundation.
iHappy Artists
Arne Asaumi is an artist from Honolulu, Hawai'i, they are currently based in Los Angeles. Arne's prolific work in tattoo, drawing and digital painting tell stories of despondent mascots at the helm of a forceful, cruel and absurd integration. The subjects beckon to the viewer.
Joshua Boulos is a multidisciplinary Hawaiian artist from the island of O'ahu. He is the co-founder and director of Apartment 13, a Providence apartment gallery (2019-present) and a member of the art collective Wainstop Enterprises and Sufer Girl (2024-present) as "loveismydojo". He is based in Providence, RI.
Baijun Chen is an artist and designer from Guangzhou, China. She is based in Providence, RI. Baijun works across sculpture, painting/drawing, curation, design and publishing. She is the co-founder/director of Apartment 13 (2020-present) and Sufer Girl (2024-present).
Maxime Belykh is an artist, designer and skateboarder from Providence, RI currently based in Philadelphia. He has worked prolifically in design/fashion, video/music and fine art. He has exhibited at Apartment 13 and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (Fall River, MA).
Garrett Davis is a prolific animator/designer, artist and musician from Pennsylvania based in Westerly, RI. His college film, “Story From North America" became a cult hit and has amassed millions of views online since its release in 2009. He has since worked extensively in the animation industry while maintaining a prolific personal art practice.
Dan Talbot is an artist and musician from Little Compton, RI. He is known locally and in the art world for his daring and skillful surreal paintings. Wordplay and semantic gags superimposed, recognizable figures mutating/characters, still lifes; Dan's work, initially appearing terrifying/confusing at first glance, offer incredible depth and relatability.
Brittni Ann Harvey is an artist, educator, and curator based in Fall River, MA. She is the co-founder/director of Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MoCA), A non-collecting museum nonprofit based in Fall River. Her work spans sculpture, metalsmithing and textiles.
Harry Gould Harvey IV is an artist, educator, and curator based in Fall River, MA. He is the co-founder/director of FR MoCA, he has exhibited extensively and is represented by PPOW. His practice includes drawing, sculpture, woodworking/metalsmithing, music/performance and photography.
Fiona Walther is an artist from San Francisco, CA, currently studying painting at RISD. Her paintings are characterized by a tacit rupture through the boring moments of sustained contact. She refers to German TV/pop media and folklore.
Lindsay Weitzman is an artist and is an interdisciplinary artist based in Providence, RI. She received her BFA from Boston University in 2012 in Graphic Design and Printmaking. She has participated in residencies at The Steel Yard (2022), Vermont Studio Center (2016, 2017) and the Arquetopia Foundation (2017, 2020). Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and in Japan, most recently at the Steel Yard Resident Artist Exhibition in Pawtucket, RI. She has taught both adult and youth printmaking and ceramics workshops at AS220 Industries and The Steel Yard with Project Open Door.
02/22/2026 | Curator, Joshua Keonaona Yamauchi Boulos writes:
“Our job in the faith of all of this is to be the best possible practitioners of absolute life living as possible. iHappy is a step in stratifying our immense beauty and reality into the minds and hearts of so many others who have to push themselves harder and harder to live. This is a show about comfort, through the weight of it all. I thought a lot about World's Fair's home-y charm/programming… People go into World's Fair for insight and tools for charm life living. Baijun Chen and I do that same thing, in a youthful and often confrontational way, curating lifestyle experiences. What may appear darkly to some may be warm to the heart of another. The pan-psychic realm, where understanding/misunderstanding EXISTS to create dynamic balance for the general whole (audience). The degree to which we find ourselves understanding or having no clue about something, art uses conceptual resource to lead us back to our own heuristic register. I love all the artists in this show, there is an extreme degree of truth and innocence in each person's practice, they all happen to make incredible home/lifestyle/fashion furnishings, all equipped with their respective home-yness. What I mean by this is that each artist in this show articulates the dust and dawn of their lives in a really beautiful way. Most of us make our work at home, some of us made our homes into art themselves or galleries/venues etc. I feel this show will see your heart, I smile writing this. Thank you for spending your time to be here.”
HUMANPHORIA: pAOLO pORELLI
PAOLO PORELLI
Paolo Porelli, Rome Italy (1966). After graduating in painting (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Italy), Porelli began a period of experimentation in ceramics in which he identified an anthropomorphic figure as his preferred expressive form. Clay remains his principal medium, although he often integrates ‘ready-mades’ in his sculptures as well as casts of found objects. Life-size to small-scale figures stand alone or in installations. In recent work, Porelli uses 3-D images and 3-D printing to create prototypes for a series of figures, individualized through modifications, additions, and subtractions.
Porelli is the co-founder of CRETA Rome (2012), an international centre for ceramics and fine arts. In 2021, Paolo was elected a member of the International Academy of Ceramics.
The artist has exhibited widely in Europe, the US and Asia. His works have been presented in 20 solo shows and more than 90 group exhibitions, including international biennials. The subject of feature-length articles in the US, Asia and Europe, Porelli has participated in symposia and residencies at RISD, The International Ceramic Studio in Keskemet, The Bray, The Clay Studio of Philadelphia, European Ceramic Work Centre, Jingdezhen International Studio and more.
In 2026, Paolo will have museum shows in Germany, Italy and the USA. At the Stadtmuseum in Siegburg, Germany, the double solo exhibition "Zeitgenössische Keramik aus Italien" will contain a retrospective of his past and more recent installations. During Argillà 2026, at the Museo Zauli in Faenza, he will present “A Party for Betty”, created during a residency at Betty Woodman’s studio in Italy, alongside a selection of Betty Woodman’s pieces. His itinerant exhibition, Figure Out. Catastrophe or Regeneration, will be shown in two American venues, first at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum in 2026, followed by its presentation at the Fuller Craft Museum in 2027.
At Alfred, a new large-scale series printed in 3D, made during a residency at RISD, will be presented for the first time. At the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery of Keene State University in New Hampshire, the "Green Regeneration" installation will be shown alongside works on paper.
World’s Fair Gallery is proud to present Humanphoria, a rare oppurtunity to see Paolo’s 2D works paired with his sculpture. Join us on January 22nd at 6 PM to celebrate the occasion. The show runs through February 22nd, 2026.