Uffner & Liu

Please join us on Saturday, October 25 at 1 pm for a conversation between artist Anne Buckwalter and Jaime DeSimone, Chief Curator of the Farnsworth Art Museum. The talk coincides with Anne's third solo exhibition at the gallery, "Lover's Knot", and comes on the heels of her solo exhibition at the Farnsworth, "Manors".

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Anne Buckwalter (b. 1987, Lancaster, PA) received her MFA from Maine College of Art, Portland, ME in 2012, and her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA in 2010. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Uffner & Liu, New York, NY (2025); Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME (2025); SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (2025); Rebecca Camacho, San Francisco, CA (2024); MASSIMODECARLO, Paris, FR (2024); and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY (2023). Her work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Sidecar, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin, Germany (2024); Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Micki Meng, San Francisco, CA (2024); Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY (2024); Alexander Berggruen, New York, NY (2023); ICA at MECA, Portland, ME (2023); and Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY (2022). Her work is in the collections of the Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; X Museum, Beijing, China; Art Museum of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV; the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and Zuzeum, Latvia. Buckwalter currently lives and works in Durham, ME.

Jaime DeSimone serves as the Chief Curator at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, since summer of 2022. Prior to this role, she held curatorial positions at several esteemed institutions, including the Portland Museum of Art in Maine (2018-2022), the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville (2014-2018), and the Addison Gallery of American Art (2005-2012). She has curated over 40 exhibitions, including Joan Jonas: An Island Departure with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson (2025, co-curated), Anne Buckwalter: Manors (2025), Ann Craven: Painted Time (2020-2024) (2025), Jeremy Frey: Woven (2024, co-curated), Emilie Stark-Menneg: Thread of Her Scent (2024), Pope.L: Small Cup (2023), Flying Woman: The Paintings of Katherine Bradford (2022), North Atlantic Triennial (2022), Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times (2020), and Ragnar Kjartansson: Scenes from Western Culture (2019–20), among others. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Curatorial Research Fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. DeSimone was a scholar in the Fulbright Arctic Initiative III (2021-2023) in partnership with the University of Tromsø, Norway. She holds degrees in art history, with a specialization in Contemporary Art, from American University (MA, 2005) and Bates College (BA, 2001).

CURRENT EXHIBITION — Uffner & Liu is pleased to present Upstairs Gallery: Nianxin Li, “Neon Haze”. The exhibition will be on view September 5 – November 1, 2025.

“Uffner & Liu is pleased to present Neon Haze, Nianxin Li’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. In this new body of work, transparency becomes both subject and material—a slippery conduit through which questions of privacy, estrangement, and perception are explored.

At first glance, Li’s paintings are dazzling: deep purples and radiant disco hues glow with a kind of synthetic vitality. Yet the more time the viewer spends with them, the more elusive they become. Translucent shell-like membranes twist and mirror themselves, suspended against a receding, infinite field of shadow. Biomorphic surfaces bulge, spiral, and stretch taut, reflecting light that scatters like an echo. Li’s compositions are somehow simultaneously soft and impenetrable, inviting yet withholding. They shimmer with presence but resist interpretation.”

For more information, check out our website.

https://uffnerliu.com/exhibitions/167-upstairs-gallery-nianxin-li-neon-haze/

Images: Installation view, Upstairs Gallery: Nianxin Li, “Neon Haze”, Uffner & Liu, New York, NY, September 5—November 1, 2025. Photography courtesy of Justin Craun.

CURRENT EXHIBITION — Uffner & Liu is pleased to present Anne Buckwalter, “Lover’s Knot”. The exhibition will be on view September 5 – November 1, 2025.

“Lover’s Knot is artist Anne Buckwalter’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, following Reins on a Rocking Horse (2023) and Clean Linens (2021). The show’s title refers to a traditional quilt pattern, echoing the way Buckwalter weaves together objects, spaces, and narratives. This body of work places a particular emphasis on rural domestic life, and on the objects and material histories that exemplify it.

In Lover’s Knot, Buckwalter shifts the lens from a wider view of rooms in a fictional house to a deliberate zooming-in, drawing viewers deep into each interior. Every object, texture, and spatial arrangement is rendered with meticulous care, while the warmth and tactility of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art traditions flow through her distinctive narrative approach. Each scene invites sustained looking, revealing stories that unfold detail by detail.”

For more information, check out our website.

https://uffnerliu.com/exhibitions/166-anne-buckwalter-lover-s-knot/

Images: Installation views, Anne Buckwalter, “Lover’s Knot”, Uffner & Liu, New York, NY, September 5—November 1, 2025. Photography courtesy of Justin Craun.

❣️Sending love from the gallery to two of our artists for their birthdays, Anne Buckwalter and Hilary Pecis! We love you both and wish you an amazing year. Keep up the great work and we can’t wait for what your futures hold. ❣️

We are more than pleased to announce installation images for Erica Mao’s ‘Shelter’ which is exhibiting in this year’s NADA House on Governors Island! Mao, who works in a variety of media from drawing, to painting, to sculpture, is presenting new freestanding and wall hanging ceramic sculptures. Spanning the front porch and the entryway, the ceramic works reflect on the regional mythologies that inhabit Governors Island and reimagine the land and our relationship to it.

For the press release and more information, head to our website which is linked in our bio. 

Images: Installation view of Erica Mao, Shelter, at NADA House 2022. Image courtesy of NADA, photographed by Cary Whittier.

Friends in Bulgaria! Our very own Pam Lins has some artwork in the 25th Gabrovo Biennial of Humor and Satire in Art. This year’s theme is ‘Economy of Means’ and is dedicated to environmental and economic issues, such as “dwindling natural resources and the rapidly shrinking margin of error in which we find ourselves operating as a civilization facing a social and environmental catastrophe.” The exhibition will be on view until September 30, 2022.

Image: Pam Lins, Crying Eyes (stage), 2022, acrylic on printed canvas, ceramic, 60 x 84 in. (152.4 x 213.36 cm)

We are pleased to announce that our show “Extra Terrestrial” with Amy Bravo, Lauren Clark, Sofia del Mar Collins, Sacha Ingber, Tyler Lafreniere, Andrea McGinty, Mira Putnam, Shani Strand, and Zenobia opens on June 25. The opening reception will be held that Saturday, June 25 from 6-8pm at the gallery.

Though diverse in their respective processes and points of view, the exhibition highlights mutual interests in our inhabited earth and the conditions of our material existence. The included artists focus on representations of architecture, proximal nature, and domestic spaces, and utilize earthly materials like clay, textiles, or found personal and household objects.

Continue reading the press release on our website. Link is in our bio.

We look forward to seeing you!

Image: Shani Strand, Duppy (ran through as a parallel for exploitation), 2022, lightweight concrete and fabric, 20 x 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 in (50.8 x 34.3 x 48.9 cm) Image courtesy of the artist.

We are more than pleased to announce that “Serenade” featuring Joshua Petker opens on June 25! The opening reception will be held that Saturday, June 25 from 6-8pm at the gallery.

The artist incorporates elements from a range of visual references —  including scenes from historical European paintings and cartoonish figures from mid-century children’s books of fairy tales —  to create layered, ghostly paintings that appear to contain several overlapping images at once or, possibly, multiple planes of perception. This strategy produces a rich visual dissonance that is mysteriously alluring: the figures themselves are reminiscent of Renaissance archetypes such as troubadours and courtesans, while the fractured method of their representation draws significantly on the influence of Cubism and the works of French painter Francis Picabia in particular.

Continue reading the press release on our website. Link is in our bio. 

Get ready for the show—we are all getting excited!

Image: Joshua Petker, Pink Promenade, 2022, oil and acrylic on linen, 69 x 61 in. (175.26 x 154.94 cm)