Arriving on August 23, "A New Model" is an exhibition of contemporary art by 12 NYC artists, as curated by Mona Matsuoka and Finlay Mangan. Read on to meet the creators of the work that will be on display to the public at 53 Scott through August 26.

Cypress Hayunga

Cypress Hayunga is a New Mexico born painter, sculptor, and tattoo artist. Coming from a family of creatives and the notoriously artistic community of Santa Fe, his creative explorations involve a study of feelings through the beauty of both living and inanimate organisms. His art and his current body of work challenges you to view life and yourself from different perspectives and alterations of reality.

Daria Denisenko

Centered on intricately hand-cut paper installations, Daria Denisenko’s practice synthesizes photography, painting, woodworking, and metalwork into a singular, immersive form. Her work investigates the layered conditions of intimacy, identity, displacement, and belonging. Rooted in a deliberate rejection of fabrication, her labor-intensive process privileges slowness, material sensitivity, and formal precision—positioning technique as both inquiry and experience

DJ Brown

A self-taught leather artisan and sculptor, Deejay Brown aims to push mediums by creating unique sculptural concepts while blending the masculine and feminine, man-made and nature.

Isabella Lalonde

Isabella Lalonde is an artist and designer based in Paris, France. She enjoys long walks on the beach, hunting for tadpoles and speaking with her imaginary friends. She founded the jewelry brand, Beepy Bella, in 2019.

Juno Shen

Juno Shen is a Brooklyn based artist who primarily explores the interplay of light, memory, and space through neon. She uses both traditional and experimental neon bending techniques to create sculptural installations that transform environments and evoke emotional resonance. Inspired by calligraphy, ancient symbols and Taoist philosophy, her pieces bridge the gap between language and atmosphere, inviting viewers into immersive experiences shaped by light.

Jessica Lee

Jessica Lee is a mixed media artist from San Francisco California. Through their eclectic artwork, she endeavors to explore the intersections of tradition and modernity, nature and urban life, and personal identity and societal expectations. By combining various materials and techniques, Jessica seeks to create pieces that challenge viewers to contemplate the complexities of the world around them. With a focus on depth, introspection, and narrative, their art invites audiences to engage with both the visible and the hidden layers within each composition.

Kian McHugh

Kian is a multi-disciplinary artist who gravitates towards abstract text to engage with the viewer. As a creative, abstracting a physical or digital space to the left of center is where Kian’s work shines brightest. In his set builds, creative direction for artists, and multi-media work, a sense of humor and comfort shine through.

LIVIDO

LIVIDO is a dynamic art figure working at the intersection of fashion and fine art, exploring the emotional imprints left on the body and mind. Each work is meticulously handcrafted through a meditative process, resulting in sculptural art pieces that embody both vulnerability and resilience. Rooted in a deep engagement with form, LIVIDO transforms material into vessels for emotional resilience, reflection, and self-expression — quietly offering moments that may trigger an encounter with a new self.

Ryu Aguilar

At thirteen, Ryu stepped across an invisible threshold—into a world where death was no longer an ending, but a mirror. He carries the understanding that everything ends, and yet nothing ever truly disappears. Working with what remains—bone, hide, fur, fabric—he creates vessels that hold memory, spirit, and the presence of what once lived. Each piece is a quiet monument to the sacred tension between life and death, to forces that devour, protect, and endure. For Ryu, God is not distant; God is what remains.

Sam Klase

Sam Klase is an artist originally from Nebraska and Colorado. His work is inspired by the nature and nature photography that his father introduced to him as a young child, as well as the worlds of illustration, comics, tattooing and graffiti. To this day, the imagery he loved as a child maintains his work's focus, often exploring the motifs of dragons and dinosaurs, nature and demons.

Saul Shukman

Saul Shukman is a New York based painter driven to create worlds where time, memory, and meaning converge. His work draws on spirituality, mythology, and lived experience to examine the tensions between opposing forces — stillness and motion, permanence and decay, the sacred and the absurd, innocence and violence. Rooted in visual storytelling, his practice reflects a background in archaeology, a love for the fantastical and surreal, and an upbringing split between the academic city of Oxford, England, and the folk-art capital of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Raised by a Zen teacher and an artist, Saul’s work is shaped by the spiritual perspective imparted by his father and the love of art instilled by his mother.

Thea Blaney

Thea Blaney is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Blaney’s journey with knitting and crochet began at the age of five, guided by the women in her family who have long practiced the craft. Blaney challenges the traditional framework of knitting, creating pieces that recontextualize the discipline. Blaney remains in New York, continually evolving her practice through embracing new materials and techniques to redefine the medium.

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