Queens
Wallace Dibble, Olivia Hamilton, Michelle Im, Mo Kong, Ada Roth, Isabelle Schipper, Kalina Winters
organized by Lily Frances Pendery
July 10 - August 14, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, July 10, 5-8pm
60-40 56th Drive
Press Release
Mrs. is pleased to present Queens, a group exhibition featuring work by Wallace Dibble, Olivia Hamilton, Michelle Im, Mo Kong, Ada Roth, Isabelle Schipper, and Kalina Winters. Working across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, all seven artists’ lives and practices are entwined with the borough of Queens. While this doesn't produce a singular aesthetic, it's rather a shared condition and environment that links these artists.
In the past ten years Queens has emerged as a recognized site of experimentation, offering artists space, community, and a diverse social fabric. With economic realities already changing the landscape--the “Whole Foods Effect”--this exhibition aims to capture a small snapshot of art making in this particular moment.
Wallace Dibble’s figurative paintings pull from strangers’ archives of Flickr profiles. Narratives are created through painting one image next to another, decontextualizing the old photographs further while creating an artificial sense of intimacy and familiarity. Painting on mesh, some images appear as a distant memory while others are rendered boldly like printed snapshots, giving the viewer the feeling of fear that they missed out.
Olivia Hamilton’s recent practice is grounded in world-building. In series like A Council of One, Hamilton has predesigned the floral backdrops occupying the background of each work, as well as the figures which she sculpts herself. Intentionally lighting each still life to consider formal aspects of the composition, the artist’s works are contemplative, considering relationships between the feminine, nature, and myth.
The American Club is a recent work by Michelle Im created during her residency at Kohler Co. The sculpture’s title is after the hotel across from the Kohler factory dating to 1918, which used to house immigrants employed by the manufacturer. For Im, the napkins recall her time as a service worker, having to fold napkins repeatedly at the end of her shift. Repetitive and mundane, the task also created an intimacy between workers through shared gossip and working close with one another.
Mo Kong’s work investigates science, identity, and speculative futures, which is specifically informed by her experience as an immigrant. Compass I is from her Swift Island Chain series which explores the melancholia and communicative informational gaps experienced by Asian immigrants. The freestanding sculpture serves as a compass, using magnetic fluid and astrological maps carved into the glass dome, charting the past, present, and future which reveals and considers intrinsic migratory patterns.
Ada Roth paints surreal compositions, oscillating between total abstraction and recognizable forms. The works are grounded in an ethereal space where total stillness seems impossible; some delicate shapes continue to elongate and some recess to the back of the plane. A bird emerges, a leg, a torso. Roth’s own personal considerations and anxieties inform her work, often revealing their form before the artist can.
Works like Two Girls under Two Arches (Visitation) and Paper Doll Chain Painting 4 demonstrate artist Isabelle Schipper’s interest in femininity and interconnectedness. From a formal perspective, Schipper also investigates the possibilities that drawing and painting can offer. Her female figures are immediately recognizable, speaking to her use of symbolism and femininity. All clad uniformly, they hold hands creating a tessellating image that is both visually compelling but also seems to allude to something bigger - the female condition.
Interested in still lifes, Kalina Winters’ recent paintings have also taken on the specificity of the vanitas genre. Originally used to visually convey morality, the objects and materials used communicated life’s fleetingness. In Backlit Vase a red vase sits on a desk, illuminated. Low on a stem, lilies appear opened and pink while above, unopened buds are silhouetted in shadow. A new candle has been lit but has gone cold.
While these artists offer work that is both deeply personal and informed by their surroundings, this exhibition ultimately maps their diverse ambitions. In a city like New York where space and community is ever-fleeting, in this moment, Queens still offers possibility.
In her painting practice, Wallace Dibble (b.1999 New York, NY) looks to create narratives from the photographic archives of strangers. With humor and restraint, Dibble's paintings look to mystify the visual language of everyday life, arriving at an uncanny realism. In 2022, Dibble earned a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. Dibble's artwork has been exhibited in numerous galleries across the United States, notably at Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Stump Gallery, Sitting Room Gallery, and Thierry Goldberg, New York, NY; Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY; Subtitled NYC, Brooklyn, NY; and Sulk Gallery and Jargon Projects, Chicago, IL. Dibble is a 2026 Artist-in-Residence at Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY. She lives and works in Queens, NY.
Olivia Sage Hamilton (b. 1995, Boston, MA) is a painter living and working in Queens, New York. She received her BFA with a double degree in Painting and Sculpture from Boston University's School of Fine Arts in 2018. Olivia has received fellowships for Vermont Studio Center and Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and attended Farm Studio Residency in Rajasthan, India, and Tongue River Artist Residency in Dayton, Wyoming. Her work has been presented at Dimin, Visionary Projects, Field Projects, What Mary Kept, The Greenpoint Gallery, and Artists Living Room in New York City, as well as various spaces across the US, UK, and India.
Michelle Im (b. 1984, Atlanta, GA) is a Korean-American ceramic artist based in Queens, NY. Her work was included in the Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 2024, which was reviewed by The New York Times. She was a 2024 Artist Fellow at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York, and her awards include the Center for Craft Teaching Artist Cohort (2023), American Craft Council Emerging Artist Cohort (2022), and Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist (2022). Im has held residencies at John Michael Kohler Arts Center & Kohler Co. (Arts/Industry Pottery, 2026), Township10 (2024), Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (Guest Artist, 2023), Penland School of Craft (Distinguished Fellow, 2023), and Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (Visiting Artist, 2022). Her work has been exhibited at NADA New York in 2025 as well as DIMIN, New York, NY; The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA; and Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, ARTnews, Hyperallergic, Impulse!, and Ceramics Now. She holds a BA in Biological Sciences & Art from the State University of New York at Buffalo and is a faculty member at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. Im is represented by DIMIN Gallery in New York, NY.
Mo Kong has presented solo exhibitions at the Queens Museum, Queens, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; CUE Art Foundation, Cuchifritos Gallery, and Chashama, New York, NY; Artericambi Gallery, Verona, IT; and Gertrude Gallery, Melbourne, AU. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Jerome Hill Foundation, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, NYSCA, MacDowell Colony, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Triangle Arts Association, The Drawing Center, City Artist Corps Grant, MASS MoCA Studios, Vermont Studio Center, Lighthouse Works, and Artists Alliance LES Studio Program, among others. Her work has been featured in a range of publications including Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, Cultured Magazine, Artnet, BOMB Magazine, ArtPapers, The Brooklyn Rail, Wall Street International, and SFMOMA Public Knowledge. She lives and works in Queens, NY.
Ada Roth (b. 1994, Milanville, PA) graduated from the New York Studio School in 2021. She developed a unique visual language that explores themes of emergence and transformation. The works are an invitation to witness the artist’s continual journey into her own emotional and spiritual depths. In 2025, Roth presented a solo exhibition at DIMIN, New York, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Utopia, Kingston, NY; Slip House, New York, NY; and Nicodim, Los Angeles, CA. She participated in the Dallas Art Fair with DIMIN in 2025. Her work has been featured in At Maze Magazine. Roth lives and works in New York, NY.
Isabelle Schipper (b. 1995) received her MFA in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2019, her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2017, and studied at the Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy in 2016. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows at White Columns, Anna Zorina Gallery, New Collectors Gallery, Studio 9D, and Print Center, New York, NY; AUTOMAT Gallery, Anne Bryan Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, FMC Tower, Philadelphia, PA; Mantle Art Space, San Antonio, TX; St. Charles Projects and Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. In 2018, she collaborated with Small Editions to print and publish the risograph zine Bikini Girls. Originally exhibited at the New York Art Book Fair (MoMA PS1), this work is now held in the collections of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ohio University, SUNY Purchase, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, University of Michigan, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She lives and works in Queens, NY.
Kalina Winters (b. 1995, Newburgh, NY) received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at Fordham University Lincoln Center, New York, NY; Bob’s Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and The Side Project Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. Recent group exhibitions include Harkawik, Hesse Flatow, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Klaus Von Nitchssagend Gallery, Andrew Edlin Gallery, O’Flaherty’s, and Crush Curatorial, New York, NY; Underdonk and Field of Play Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY; The Side Project Gallery, Great Barrington, NY; TW Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL; Hexum Gallery, Montpelier, VT; Museum of Museums, Seattle, WA; and Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA. Winters is a 2026 Artist-in-Resident at Byrdcliffe Artist Residency, Woodstock, NY and was a 2020 Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO. She received the Maharam Fellowship and the Florence Leif Award in 2018. She lives and works in New York, NY.
Queens will be on view at 60-40 56th Drive through August 14, 2026. For press inquiries or more information, please contact hello@mrsgallery.com