2025 virtual Cohort

Spring 2025 | Summer 2025 | Fall 2025

Tuesdays via Zoom

With Canopy Mentor

Erika Ranee

Artist

Based in New York

Cohort Artists

The artists featured below were accepted to the 2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Erika Ranee, the artists will develop their studio practice through critiques, Artist Talks + Q&As, seminars, and workshops. The Canopy Program is a year-long commitment, this Cohort will meet via Zoom for three consecutive semesters. Their experience will culminate with a pop-up Group Show in Chelsea (NYC).

Wendy Fulenwider Liszt

JBH Scholarship Recipient

Cohort Exhibition

Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.

Craquelure

Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E

January 15-17, 2026

Opening

Thursday, January 15, 6-8 pm

Closing

Saturday July 17, Noon

Craquelure is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 10 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Erika Ranee, as part of the 2025 Canopy Program.

Traditionally, painting aspired to a flawless, unified surface. When time or materials caused a network of cracks to form, this “craquelure” was often read as a flaw—a failure of technique or preservation. The idea of a surface breaking open carries a deeper resonance: it signals impermanence, transformation, and the artwork as something alive and in flux.

The artists in this exhibition do not use craquelure outright; instead, they embrace the sensibility it represents. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, they share an experimental approach to materials and a willingness to let tension and disruption guide their processes. Their works resist the authority of smoothness and polish, embracing fracture—conceptual, visual, or structural—as a source of strength, curiosity, and a little bit of delight.

With work by Ben Cohen, Breck Baig, Suzie Jellinek, Natalie Lanese, Grace McCoy, Karin Petersen, Julie Rall, Scott Sherman, Leah Tacha, and Wendy Fulenwider Liszt and curated by Erika Ranee.

Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics

Each semester, Erika Ranee's Cohort received Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.

Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic

Clintel Steed

Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic

Director of Exhibitions, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center

Jonathan Gardenhire

Visiting Critic

Associate Director, Hauser & Wirth

Amir H. Fallah

Professional Practices Speaker

Adrienne Elise Tarver

Professional Practices Speaker

Canopy Mentor Erika Ranee

Erika Ranee received her MFA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a double recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Painting/1996 and 2021, and received an AIM Fellowship from the Bronx Museum. She was a resident artist at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was awarded a studio grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation in 2011. Her work has been featured throughout the New York/NYC region in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, at BRIC/Project Room and at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery. In 2019 she exhibited in her first international show at Wild Palms in Dusseldorf, Germany. An encore international group show took place in Paris at the Brigitte Mulholland Galerie, summer 2024. Other selected group shows include: The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Hollis Taggart Gallery in Southport, CT; the Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof Foundation, NYC and recently at Venus Over Manhattan, NYC. In summer 2024 her work was featured in two solo ventures at the Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, VA and at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in East Hampton, NY. She has been selected by guest co-‐curator, artist Jeffrey Gibson to participate in the 200th anniversary exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, Fall/2024. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Artforum. She is represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and works in New York.