2024-2025 virtual Cohort
Fall 2024 | Winter 2025 | Spring 2025
Tuesdays via Zoom
With Canopy Mentor
Yevgeniya Baras
Artist
Based in New York
Cohort Artists
The artists featured below were accepted to the 2024-2025 year of The Canopy Program. Together, with the guidance of their Faculty Mentor, Yevgeniya Baras, 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).
Guest Speakers + Visiting Critics
Each semester, Yevgeniya Baras' Cohort recieved Artist Talks, Lectures, Workshops
and Visiting Critiques from an esteemed roster of Guest Artists + Speakers.
Hilary Harnischfeger
Guest Artist
Holly Coulis
Guest Artist
Kris Rac
Art History Speaker
Eric Hibit
Color Theory Lecture
Dasha Shishkin
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Melissa Brown
Artist Lecture + Visiting Critic
Amanda Nedham
Guest Writing Editor
Elizabeth Denny
Guest Curator
Seth Curcio
Guest Curator
Will Hutnick
Professional Practices Speaker
Adrienne Elise Tarver
Professional Practices Speaker
Canopy Mentor Yevgeniya Baras
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist working in New York. She has exhibited her work at galleries including White Columns, NY; The Landing, LA; Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit; Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY; Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Mother Gallery, NY; Inman Gallery, Houston; Sperone Westwater Gallery, NY; Thomas Erben Gallery, NY; the Pit, LA; Soco, NC as well as internationally including NBB Gallery, Berlin; Julien Cadet Gallery, Paris; Station Gallery, Sydney.
She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters in NY and LA.
Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Yevgeniya was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Yevgeniya was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America.
Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY (2010-2018).
Yevgeniya holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
She is represented by Sargent’s Daughters in NY and LA.
Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Yevgeniya was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Yevgeniya was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America.
Yevgeniya co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery on the Lower East Side of NY (2010-2018).
Yevgeniya holds a BA in Psychology and Fine Arts and an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Cohort Exhibition
Each Canopy Cohort presents a culminating pop-up group exhibition.
Even In June
Canopy Studio, 508 W. 26th St. #6E
June 5-7, 2025
Even in June is a pop-up Group Exhibition celebrating the work of 9 artists who worked together for one year with their Canopy Mentor, Yevgeniya Baras, as part of the 2024-2025 Canopy Program. Featuring Works by: Maggie Cardelús, john taylor wagner, Brittany Gilbert, Karine Guyon Sarah Hull, Maria Lindenfeldar, Mai Alremeithi, Jennifer Arzt, Myra Clark.
Even in June’s warmth – when the world leans toward fullness, balance, and bloom – the works in this exhibition remind us that vitality often arises through instability and tender chaos. Even in June is born not of prescription, but of process. The artworks stand independently, yet resonate with traces of the time shared: experimentation, vulnerability, and transformation through ongoing conversation. Like fields of bobbing red poppies and the subtle syncopation of jazz rhythms, surprises emerge quietly or disruptively, sparking new languages of making and thinking from the friction of feedback.
Rather than offering resolution or harmony, the works in this exhibition channel June’s contradictions–its heat and haze, its ripening and restlessness–as fertile ground for complexity and invention. They evoke marks agitating in ether, refracted still-lives, and chiseled painted grids; misty April riverbanks, minimal maps, and Antarctic landscapes; flower inscapes, unhinged cross-country road trips, and fossilized gestures of feeling and connection. They invite viewers to linger, to lurk within their spaces, and to listen closely to the layered stories and rhythms beneath the surface.
This exhibition is an archaeology of relationships between artists, materials, ideas, and instances in time. It marks a moment both ending and beginning, where meaning unfolds in layers–not to be solved, but to be sensed. Even in June.
Even in June’s warmth – when the world leans toward fullness, balance, and bloom – the works in this exhibition remind us that vitality often arises through instability and tender chaos. Even in June is born not of prescription, but of process. The artworks stand independently, yet resonate with traces of the time shared: experimentation, vulnerability, and transformation through ongoing conversation. Like fields of bobbing red poppies and the subtle syncopation of jazz rhythms, surprises emerge quietly or disruptively, sparking new languages of making and thinking from the friction of feedback.
Rather than offering resolution or harmony, the works in this exhibition channel June’s contradictions–its heat and haze, its ripening and restlessness–as fertile ground for complexity and invention. They evoke marks agitating in ether, refracted still-lives, and chiseled painted grids; misty April riverbanks, minimal maps, and Antarctic landscapes; flower inscapes, unhinged cross-country road trips, and fossilized gestures of feeling and connection. They invite viewers to linger, to lurk within their spaces, and to listen closely to the layered stories and rhythms beneath the surface.
This exhibition is an archaeology of relationships between artists, materials, ideas, and instances in time. It marks a moment both ending and beginning, where meaning unfolds in layers–not to be solved, but to be sensed. Even in June.
