Spinello Projects

🎊 Nereida Garcia-Ferraz awarded The Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant!
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The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (New York, NY) wishes to encourage artists who have dedicated their lives to developing their art, regardless of their level of commercial success.
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The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (New York, NY) announces the selection of 20 artists to receive its 49th annual Individual Support Grants. A panel of four independent jurors reviewed applications submitted to the Foundation by 850 artists from 45 countries. Each of the following visual artists was chosen to receive an award of $25,000.
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Image: Nereida Garcia-Ferraz, Learning to Dream, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 62 x 62 in.

🗞️[OBSERVER] NADA New York Opens with Plenty of Potential
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“Miami-based Spinello Projects presented a sentimental, hyperrealistic sequence of narrative-driven paintings by Puerto Rican artist Esai Alfredo, isolating delicate moments of human connection and emotional exchange against the infinity of the night horizon. Expanding on his ongoing exploration of memory, belonging and q***r identity, these atmospheric paintings were inspired in part by the closing scene of Wicked, in which two protagonists reflect on the lasting impact of their bond before parting. The series is also a poetic revisitation of the artist’s own experience of migration between Puerto Rico and the United States, which was shaped by the rhythms of connection and farewell, distance and displacement, as that of an entire generation that grew up within today’s global mobility. By the evening, the gallery had sold more than half the booth [...]”
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— written by Elisa Carollo
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Image I: A Hug Without End (detail), 2026, Oil on canvas, 24 x 40 in.
Image III: Just Look At The Night Sky and Find Our Constellation, 2026, Oil on canvas, 50 x 70 in.

💫 Opening Today — Te Llevo / I Carry You, a solo booth presentation at NADA New York by

NADA New York
Spinello Projects
Esaí Alfredo
Booth E13

📍The Starrett-Lehigh Building
601 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

🥂VIP Preview (by Invitation)
Wednesday, May 13, 10am–4pm

🗓️Open to the Public
Wednesday, May 13, 4–7pm
Thur-Sat, May 14-16, 11am–7pm
Sunday, May 17, 11am–5pm

Expanding on his ongoing exploration of memory, belonging, and q***r identity, Alfredo’s latest body of work unfolds as a sequence of intimate, narrative-driven paintings that trace the emotional contours of friendship, love, and departure. Inspired in part by the closing scene of Wicked, in which two protagonists reflect on the lasting impact of their bond before parting, the series draws from the artist’s own experience of migration between Puerto Rico and the United States, where distance and displacement shape the rhythms of connection and farewell. [...]

Installation Images Courtesy of Spinello Projects

📣UNREAL — An invitational survey exhibition presented by Secrist | Beach featuring Spinello Projects’ artists: Esaí Alfredo, Nereida Garcia-Ferraz, Jared McGriff, and Nina Surel
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📍Secrist | Beach
1801 West Hubbard Street
Chicago IL 60622
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🗓️Exhibition Hours
April 10 - June 13, 2026
Tuesday to Friday, 10am - 6pm
Saturday, 11am - 5pm
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UNREAL is an invitational survey exhibition featuring fourteen artists exploring these strange and anxious times through the guise of surrealism. One hundred years later, the core principles of surrealism still revolve around dreamlike narratives, symbolic iconography, distorted or abstract humor, illusionistic play of materials and mediums, and the stretching of rationality in pursuit of liberation. UNREAL takes a flexible, contemporaneous interpretation of these ideologies while keeping a wary eye on the complexities of the current socio-political, conceptual, and philosophical concerns taking place now.
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📷Installation view of UNREAL, courtesy Secrist | Beach.
Image II: NEREIDA GARCIA-FERRAZ, Su Piel (Your Skin), 2023, Oil on canvas, 63 x 63 in.
Image IV: NEREIDA GARCIA-FERRAZ, La Lección (The Lesson), 2022, Oil on canvas, 63 x 64.5 in.
Image VI: JARED MCGRIFF, Gathering Before Embarking, 2023, Oil on canvas, 54 x 68 in.
Image IX: NINA SUREL, The Queen Conch & Beauty Berry, 2024, Underglaze on stoneware over wood, 53.5 x 32.5 x 1 in.