Liz and Lina are partners in life and the biz. We're a team of artists, curators and educators hoping to encourage, inspire and make a difference in the art world. Liz creates radical camera-less photograms and light paintings in the analog color darkroom (www.liznielsen.com) and Carolina assists her in the studio, directs the gallery by curating/configuring all types of on and off-site installations and writes voraciously. Lina and Liz always enjoy discovering emerging, underrepresented artists that support the gallery's mission. We’ve helped jump start the careers of dozens of artists, often hosting their first solo show in NYC. We have many layers of responsibilities in our biography, as our dynamic and passionate stance on art becomes us. (Oh, and our daughter Acacia Simone is one heck of an illustrator, pianist and vocalist! She also adores slapstick comedy and horror flicks)

Professional BIOs

Wheat (b.1974, Detroit, MI) received her BFA in textiles from University of Michigan Stamps School and MFAW from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has written extensively about art, politics and culture, and has curated numerous socially conscientious large-scale exhibitions and events in Detroit, Berlin, London, Chicago, and New York. 

Wheat is co-founder and director of Elijah Wheat Showroom (est. 2015) and is one of the founding members of the Nasty Women Exhibition movement. Her curatorial work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker, Vulture, Hyperallergic, Fast Company, MAAKE Mag, The Brooklyn Rail, The Guardian, and China Daily, among others.

Wheat has assisted The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, liaising with institutions on reproduction of Garbage Wall, 1970. As Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Parsons (NYC and Paris), SAIC, University of Michigan, Oregon College of Arts and Craft, Cornish, etc., Wheat focused on strategic enrollment management, portfolio development, art-writing and professional practices. As radio producer and activist for Low-Power FM, Wheat collaborated with WCBN, FreeRadioSAIC, Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP), and the online platform Artfare where she broadcast 80+ weekly artist interviews.

Liz Nielsen (b. 1975) is an experimental photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her photographs are most often made without a camera and can also be described as light paintings. She works in the analog color darkroom exposing light sensitive paper and processing it through traditional photographic chemicals. Each image is unique and ranges in size from 100" x 100" to 4" x 5". Nielsen received an MFA from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 2004, her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, and her BA in Philosophy and Spanish from Seattle University in 1997. Liz has exhibited her work extensively including recent solo exhibitions in New York, London, and Paris. Her photograms have been featured at international art fairs such as Paris Photo, Photo London, and Unseen Amsterdam. Nielsen has been reviewed in Art Forum, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, London Financial Times, LensCulture, Vogue UK, and FOAM magazine among others.