Y el agua cae otra vez/And the Water Falls Again〈水再次落下〉, 2026
Ana Teresa Barboza
NUNU FINE ART
In this monthly roundup, we spotlight five stellar exhibitions at small and rising galleries.
“Afterglow: From the Residue of a Departed Sun”
Tabari, at No. 9 Frieze Cork Street, London
Through Nov. 21
Barzakh #11, 2025 -2026
Mohamed Monaiseer
Tabari
Will the Gods Belong?, 8, 2023
Maitha Abdalla
Tabari
“Afterglow” brings together the work of four artists—Maitha Abdalla, Omar Kholeif, Mohamed Monaiseer, and Randa Maddah—as they explore the porous border between life and death through painting, spoken word and poetry, installation, mixed media, and sculpture.
These works draw on diverse cosmologies, from Emirati folk narratives and the African trickster myth to Islamic metaphysics. Egyptian artist Monaiseer presents delicate, constellation-like paintings of botanical forms on cotton fabric, while Emirati artist Abdalla paints gestural mythic scenes that blend animal and human forms. Kholeif, who is best known as a curator and author, paints reverie-like abstractions that hover at the edge of legibility, hinting at landscapes or figuration. Kholeif was born in Cairo to Egyptian and Sudanese parents, and raised between Glasgow and Los Angeles, among other places. His works are shaped by these diasporic experiences. Syrian Maddah, who was born in the occupied Golan Heights in 1983, paints mythic, mysterious paintings of women beings who merge into birds and trees. Maddah, who also creates puppets, films, and other media, imagines figures shaped by weighty psychological burdens.
Presented at Dubai gallery Tabari’s London space, the exhibition brings together an evocative range of creative voices from across the Middle East looking at mysteries of life, death, and the hereafter.
Tony Huynh
“Heaven or Las Vegas”
Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne
Nov. 6–Dec. 18
As Days Go By, 2026
Tony Huynh
Galerie Christian Lethert
American painter Tony Huynh makes his European solo debut with “Heaven or Las Vegas,” his first show with Galerie Christian Lethert. His small-format oil paintings on wood draw from centuries of art history, particularly outsider art, as well as techniques from Japanese printmaking. Working in a restrained palette, Huynh portrays playful, almost childlike visions—a woman in a blue dress reading, a cow in a bucolic landscape, or a small child with a toboggan—that carry an air of solitude and loneliness. In one painting, As Days Go By (2026), a woman is shown from above resting fully clothed on a bed. Her face is blank and featureless, and her bed appears almost book-like in its form. The painting echoes the pithy and poetic works of Milton Avery.
Huynh was born in 1986 in San Francisco and lives and works in Sacramento. He earned his BFA at the California College of the Arts. His previous solo exhibitions include “Magical Thinking” (2025) at PABLO´S BIRTHDAY in New York, “A Summer’s Dream” (2024) at Scroll NYC Gallery in New York, and “Bay Vistas” (2023) at Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, California.
Ana Teresa Barboza
“A Message From Water”NUNU Fine Art, New York
Nov. 6–Jan. 9
Camino a la montaña/Path to the Mountain〈通往山的路〉, 2026
Ana Teresa Barboza
NUNU FINE ART
Entre las hojas/Between the Leaves〈在葉子之間), 2026
Ana Teresa Barboza
NUNU FINE ART
Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza draws from the landscape of her homeland in her fourth exhibition with NUNU FINE ART—her second in New York. Her mixed-media textile works render botanical forms from alpaca wool, Peruvian cotton, agave fiber, bronze, and photography.
Barboza has structured this exhibition as a visual diary, tracing an eastward journey across Peru, from the forests of the Utcubamba Valley to Gocta Waterfall in the Amazonas region. She has extensively studied traditional methods of producing plant-based fibers and natural dyes from local communities. Her dyes come from native plants that she pulverizes and boils, tying the works back to the ecosystem they came from. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Y el agua cae otra vez/And the Water Falls Again (2026), a massive, vividly colored textile work with a cascading form that evokes a waterfall moving through the cloud forest.
Barboza was born in 1981 in Lima. She studied at the Faculty of Art of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has completed residencies in Melbourne, Geneva, Paris, and Taipei. She won first prize in the Central Reserve Bank of Peru’s Second National Painting Competition in 2010 and the MAC National Art and Innovation Award in 2019.
Peter Mohall
“När blommorna blommar”
QB Gallery, Oslo
Through Nov. 29
Blomsterstilleben på en odde, 2026
Peter Mohall
QB Gallery
Untitled (brushstrokes painting), 2026
Peter Mohall
QB Gallery
Norwegian Swedish artist Peter Mohall juxtaposes landscapes and still life in uncanny compositions. Here, vases of flowers sit directly on rocks in the terrain or in front of windows that offer a panoramic view of nature.
These landscape paintings, made with acrylic composite and painted in egg-oil tempera are purposely artificial, with their exaggerated and oversaturated hues. On the edge of several paintings is a control strip–like bands of color to each of the works, as if they were printed, underscoring their constructed nature. In two untitled works, the artist paints these test strip–like squiggles of color on otherwise bare linen canvases, heightening this photographic effect, reading like two blank negatives.
Mohall was born in 1979 in Löddeköpinge, Sweden, and lives and works in Nesoddtangen, outside Oslo. He graduated from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Arts and received a 2015 grant from the Ellen Trotzig Foundation at the Malmö Art Museum. He has had solo exhibitions with Luce Gallery in Turin, Koki Arts in Tokyo, Pablo’s Birthday in New York, and QB Gallery, and his work is in the collections of Fondazione 107 in Turin, the Central Bank of Norway, and the JP Morgan Chase Collection.
Quim Bové
“Levitation”
Bonner David Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
Nov. 5–Dec. 19
"The Horizon is Not Too Far II", 2026
Quim Bové
Bonner David Galleries
"Levitation XII", 2026
Quim Bové
Bonner David Galleries
Quim Bové creates bold compositions in pigment, acrylic, and resin, often pairing target-like patterns with gestural splashes of color. Bové has said that he hopes these paintings invite an emotional response rather than a fixed interpretation. “When you feel, you don’t think,” he said in a gallery statement.
Bové has been working for more than three decades and his works pull from philosophy, metaphysics, science, music, and drawing. His interests in classical music, jazz, and improvisation are foundational to his intuitive approach in which gesture becomes a way of thinking. Now living in the American Southwest, Bové also takes inspiration from the terrain’s vastness, intense light, and silence.
Born in Catalonia, Bové taught himself to paint. He has had more than 30 solo exhibitions, and his work has been shown across the United States and Europe, including his recent series “Architecture of the Universe.” In 1995, he founded the conceptual art group Andorran Currency.
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