Interviews by Brainard Carey

Loren Erdrich (b. 1978) lives and works in New York City. Her undergraduate degrees include a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA (2000) and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, IL (2005).

In 2007 she received her MFA from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Erdrich’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at SHRINE New York (2022, 2023, 2026); SHRINE Los Angeles (2024); and Bricks Gallery Copenhagen (2024, 2025).

She has also been featured in numerous group exhibitions including Harper’s (New York, NY); Massey Klein (New York, NY); Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); Wasserman Projects (Detroit, MI); Soho Revue (London, UK); Saint Cloche (Sydney, AUS); and Kotaro Nukaga (Tokyo, JP). Erdrich has been awarded residencies at Yaddo; The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts; Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency; Jentel Foundation; Santa Fe Art Institute; Sculpture Space; Vermont Studio Center; and Art Farm Nebraska. Her work has been written about in publications such as Cultured, DNA Mexico, FAD, ArtMaze, Maake, The Chicago Tribune and Il Giornale Dell’Arte. She frequently collaborates with the poet Sierra Nelson, co-authoring the award-winning I Take Back the Sponge Cake (published by Rose Metal Press, 2012) and Isolation (limited edition artist book, 2020). Erdrich is currently represented by SHRINE (New York, NY) and Bricks Gallery (Copenhagen, DK).

Loren Erdrich, Arc I, 2026 Water, acrylic, watercolor and dye on muslin 30 x 34 in. 76.20 x 86.36 cm
Loren Erdrich, Inverted World, 2026 Water, acrylic, watercolor and dye on muslin 48 x 36 in. 121.92 x 91.44 cm
Loren Erdrich, Archive, 2026 Glazed ceramic 23.5 x 10 x 6.75 in. 59.69 x 25.40 x 17.14 cm

Portrait of Jenna Gribbon by Shawna Ferreira
Jenna Gribbon is currently the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, a comprehensive survey of 25 years of painting. She was also the subject of a solo exhibition at Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2022–2023). Recent group exhibitions include She Said, She Said: Contemporary Women Artists, Akron Art Museum, OH (2025); From Dawn Til Dusk: The Shadow in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2025); Day for Night: New American Realism, Palazzo Barberini, organized by the Aïshti Foundation, Rome (2024); Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York (2023); Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, The Frick Collection, New York (2022); and Paint, also known as Blood: Women, Affect and Desire in Contemporary Painting, Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Poland (2019). Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions including Kunstmuseum The Hague, Netherlands; Brooklyn Museum; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Honolulu Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany; and Rubell Museum, Miami. Gribbon lives and works in New York.

Annie Hémond Hotte (b. 1980, Montreal, Canada; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) received her MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2009, where she was awarded the Warden Purchase Prize. In 2023, she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include Margot Samel, New York (2026); The Pit, Los Angeles (2025); Marvin Gardens, New York (2024); Centre Clark, Montreal (2017); and Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne, Germany (2009). Selected group exhibitions include Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York (2024); The Pit, Los Angeles (2024); Andrew Rafacz, Chicago (2024); Marvin Gardens, New York (2023); Dimin Gallery, New York (2023); The Low Museum, Atlanta (2015); Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (2014); and Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (2014).

Annie Hémond Hotte, Hourglass (the circles of Hell), 2026, Oil on canvas, 186.4 x 149.2 cm, photo © Matthew Sherman 2026
Annie Hémond Hotte, Limbo (Beatrice appearing to Virgil), 2026, Oil on canvas, 74.9 x 61 cm, photo © Matthew Sherman 2026
Annie Hémond Hotte, Lust (leopard in a shadowed wood), 2025-26, Oil on canvas, 90 x 110 cm, photo © Matthew Sherman 2026

Ana Segovia produces images through paintings that subvert the heteronormativity of popular imaginaries. The artist revisits mythical scenes and figures from industries like film and sports, reconfiguring their hegemonic role as idealized models of masculinity. An intimate connection to cinema constantly inspires and drives him to transgress norms. Segovia takes familiar images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre, intervening in their forms, altering their tonalities, and dislocating them. It’s in this disruption where he reveals the montage, artifice, and the performativity in constructing gender and national identities.

Segovia’s paintings confront viewers with undefined faces, strident color palettes, and scenes infused with humor that juxtaposes the serious. His work positions playfulness as a political tool, challenging and creating tensions in a dialogue between the norm and the unconventional. Segovia rewrites our visual models, inviting us to reconsider them, and offers the possibility of encountering the familiar from a perspective that questions and blurs its contours.

Ana Segovia received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), specializing in painting and drawing. In spring 2020, he participated in the Casa Wabi Residency, Puerto Escondido, Mexico.

Segovia lives and works in Mexico City.

Ana Segovia 1991 “apparently the iron doesn’t burn more than the surface III”, 2026 Oil on linen canvas 110 x 90 cm (43 1/4 x 35 3/8 in)
Ana Segovia 1991 Noche Americana I, 2023 Oil on canvas 140 x 200 cm (55.12 x 78.74 in.)
Ana Segovia 1991 (sin título aún), 2023 Oil on canvas 30 x 20 cm (11.81 x 7.87 in.)

credit Ryan Warner-2026
Erin Milez (b. 1994, Pittsburgh, PA) received a MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY and a BA from Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA. Her work has recently been exhibited at Studio E, Seattle; Seattle Pacific University, Seattle Pacific Art Center, Seattle; Cob Gallery, London; Kutlesa Gallery, Switzerland and Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.

Milez’s work is included in an upcoming group exhibition at Lazy Mike, Seoul in November 2026. The artist was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2021 and 2024. Milez lives and works in Seattle, WA and is represented by Monya Rowe Gallery, NY.

She was interviewed previously in 2023, that interview can be found here.

ERIN MILEZ Inside Flower, 2026 oil, acrylic and flashe on canvas 14 by 10 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY
ERIN MILEZ, A Giving Tree, 2026 oil, acrylic and flashe on canvas 20 by 16 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY
ERIN MILEZ Harvest, 2026 oil, acrylic and flashe on canvas 18 by 12 inches. Courtesy of Monya Rowe Gallery, NY