Intersect Palm Springs 2023 was a phenomenal journey. Showcasing abstractions of both 2D and 3D materials and forms, Elijah Wheat brought works from four NY based artists that we’ve been working with over the years. Our booth looked tight and the response was very positive. We were so honored to carry these artists to the West Coast and hope that the engagement was impactful to the Palm Springs community. Artists and their bios are listed below.

Alex Yudzon (1977 Moscow, USSR), is a New York based visual artist whose work blurs the line between photography, painting, sculpture and performance. Creating autonomous photographs from site specific installations and studio based still lifes, Yudzon’s work draws attention to the way we construct personalspace within the context of the modern world. From 1997-1999 he earned a Bachelors of Arts in Painting: Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK after 1995-1997 study at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Yudzon’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally including Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, China International Photography Biennial and the Arles Photo Festival, & NADA Miami. Yudzon was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the fall of 2017. In 2018 he had a solo show with Slag Gallery in Brooklyn and a 2 person show with Rick Wester Fine Art in New York. In 2019 Yudzon was awarded a NYFA grant for photography and some of the work made from the grant was exhibited at Elijah Wheat Showroom in 2021 entitled, “The Road Home.” His work has also been included in Contemporary Performance, a museum wide exhibition at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts.

Márton Nemes (b. 1986, Székesfehérvár, Hungary) is a multimedia artist based in London, creating paintings, sculptures, installations and sounds. He received an M.F.A. from Chelsea College of Arts, London in 2018. Initially inspired by the architecture of Budapest, a city that he has spent the majority of his life residing in, Nemes’s practice is rooted in the colourful abstraction of buildings. Since this early work, and after moving to London, Nemes has been heavily influenced by techno subcultures, continuing to create abstracted colourful works whilst attempting to duplicate the atmosphere and experience of rave culture, creating a disintegration and rearrangement of the pictorial state. Made using a range of materials, Nemes’s artworks are eager to expand and bend, referencing the escapist counter cultures associated with rave scenes, creating multisensory, diverse experiences. He is currently short-listed to represent Hungary for the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Will Hutnick (b. 1985, Manhasset, NY) is an artist and curator based in Wassaic, NY. He creates topographical relics that record and reinvent his physical and sensory surroundings. With a nod to queer ecology, Hutnick’s paintings disrupt the perception of a binary worldview that eschews the inherent interconnection of sexuality, landscape and lived experience.

Hutnick received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and his B.A. from Providence College (Providence, RI). He is a 2021 NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellow in Painting, as well as a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and the Foundation for Contemporary Art in2015. Recent exhibitions include: Hollis Taggart (Southport, CT), Soft Times Gallery (San Francisco, CA), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Sugarlift (New York, NY), Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Soho Works (Brooklyn), Satellite Art Club (Brooklyn), Craven Contemporary (Kent, CT) and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Hutnick has curated exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Wassaic Project and Standard Space, among others. He has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency by Collar Works, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, DNA Artist Residency, Wassaic Project, Vermont Studio Center, and a curator-in-residence at Benaco Arte and Trestle Projects. From 2015-20, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.

Ben Godward refers to American material culture as a starting point for his formal and conceptual investigation into the notion of superabundance. His three Hex sculptures made of poured urethane resin demonstrate an artistic process that is complicit with excess. The works’ subtle and sensuous colors for example derive from the literal pouring out or “profusio” of resin and other industrial materials.

Godward’s work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, NY; Sean Scully Studio, NY; Rick Wester Fine Art, NY; Slag Gallery, NY; The Front, LA; Jonald Dudd, NY; Norte Maar, NY; Klemm Gallery, MI; Way Out, NY; Centotto Gallery, NY; Storefront Collection, Berlin; Franconia Sculpture Park, MN; Sardine, NY; Lesley Heller, NY; The Laundromat Gallery, NY; Pocket Utopia, NY; Famous Accountants, NY; Orgy Park, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY.

Ben Godward is based in Brooklyn, NY and Marseille, France. He received a BFA in sculpture from Alfred University in 2004 and an MFA in sculpture from the University at Albany in 2007.