Affordable Art Fair Fall 2025

Harsh Collective is pleased to announce Silhouette, a group presentation at the Affordable Art Fair New York Fall 2025 edition, featuring Jacky Boehm, Olivia Chigas, Katie Leimbach, and Mary Royall. The booth, which explores the play between figuration and abstraction, will be on view from September 17th to 21st at booth F1 at the Starrett-Lehigh Building. 

The featured artists in Silhouette depict varying degrees of abstraction through their treatment of form. There’s a transcendence that occurs as the works move further from naturalistic depiction which allows viewers to appreciate the narrative, Impressionistic, and geometric implementations of abstraction. 

Chigas’s female figures face away from the viewer, obscuring their identity and obfuscating the tone and context of the work. While in the realm of the representational, Chigas’s withholding of information functions as a form of abstraction in a border sense. Royall Wilgis’ colorful compositions portray shadows cast upon various surfaces, painting not light itself, but its absence and its reflection. More than objects, Boehm depicts their transformations. The majority of each composition exists in an imaginary in-between state, questioning the relationship between form, fact, and function. Leimbach breaks objects, sentiments, and situations into shapes. Through delicate linework and palettes, Leimbach seems to transcend the objective world and speak instead to a universal truth.