The Salon X BLANCO
Welcome to The Salon's 3rd New York event. This Salon will be taking place in a private Brooklyn townhouse residence. Open bar courtesy of Barrel Smith & Aupale Vodka.
For returning Salon friends – welcome back!
For new friends – you are going to love it 😊
The Salon is a nod to the intimate Salon parties of early modern France, where art wasn’t just displayed, but celebrated, critiqued and supported by friends in a private home.
We’ve reimagined this concept for today, creating a space where contemporary art is experienced in a more tender and meaningful way – that’s often lost in traditional exhibitions.
Welcome to your Modern Day Salon.
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Agenda
7:00pm Arrival & Drinks
8:00pm Salon Kickoff Toast (*Very important to be there for this)
8:10 Artist Talk part 1
9:15 Artists Talk part 2 & Salón Toast to the Critique
9:45 Musical Collaboration Set
11:00pm Close & Head to Bar
Featuring 5 Salon Artists & Pop Star Performance
Helena Kozuchowicz (Brazilian, New York Based)
Solo Show Brazilian Consulate NYC 2024
MFA New York Academy of Art 2024
BA Architecture and Urbanism São Paolo
Justin Cole (American, Brooklyn Based)
Fool's Errand, Blumka Contemporary, New York City, 2023
Warmly Still, Shoreditch Modern, London, 2024
Fritto Misto Vol. 2, IRL Gallery, New York City, 2024
Tibo V Ducimetière (French, Paris Based)
Art Basel Miami Winter 2024 (upcoming)
Le Salón Spring Paris 2024
Leo Psaros (former Salon artist & Salon Vice President)
The Salon Spring NYC 2024
Detox Gallery Spring 2024
Art Groove Winter 2024
And exclusively: Kaelin Palcu (Canadian, New York Based)
Group exhibition with artist Julian Brink. Produced by ‘Blanco’. NYC — 2025 (Upcoming)
Thomas Van Dyke Gallery, NYC— 2025 (upcoming)
CONTINUUM, NYC— Blanco, 2024
MFA The New York Academy of Art, NYC 2024
Intermediate Classical Sculpture, The Barcelona Academy of Art, 2022, Barcelona, Spain
Intermediate Classical Sculpture, The Florence Academy of Art, 2020, Florence, Italy.
BFA in Sculpture & Installation, OCAD University, Toronto, CA
Full Artist Bios Below
Helena Kozuchowicz
Helena Kozuchowicz is a Brazilian visual artist known for her fluid lines and bold gestures, capturing everyday moments that reveal the subtleties of human interaction. Her portraits explore the nuanced ways figures engage with each other and their environments, transforming ordinary actions into compelling visual narratives.
With a background in architecture, Kozuchowicz brings a deep sensitivity to spatial relationships, suggesting architectural forms that allow her subjects to inhabit various domestic and public spaces without explicitly defining them. She highlights the quiet beauty of ordinary life, from subway cars to intimate dining rooms, focusing on how humans navigate and occupy space.
Since 2022, she has been based in New York City, working from her studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, after earning an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, continuing to explore the depth and meaning of everyday moments through her art.
Justin Cole
Justin Cole is an artist working in Brooklyn, N.Y. His work touches on the human condition, levels of consciousness, and death. He illustrates these themes through the combination of figurative realism and abstract expressionism. Cole utilizes a refined palette, compressed values, and organic subject matter to steer viewers toward a curated emotional experience while leaving ample room for personal interpretation.
Tibo V Ducimetière
Self taught painter developing a distinctive visual style using a mix of airbrush and oil painting techniques that gives his paintings their particular atmosphere. His work features dream-like scenes where subjects are illuminated against a dark background, exploring themes that straddle the line between familiarity and intrigue, always with a focus on aesthetic research.
Leo Psaros
A graphic designer and illustrator turned fine artist, Leo maintains his illustrative style in his paintings. His work simplifies life into its fundamental shapes, figures, and message, leaving it up to the viewer to make of what's left.
Kaelin Palcu
Kaelin is an acclaimed interdisciplinary artist born in Toronto in 1994. Her training spans a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from OCAD University, studies at the Florence Academy of Art and Barcelona Academy of Art, and an MFA in Drawing from the New York Academy of Art, where she received multiple honors including the Sculpture Scholar Award, David Schafer Artists of Excellence Scholarship, Service Scholar Award, Parton Scholarship, and LCU Scholarship. Palcu has exhibited internationally and earned an Honorable Mention in the 2023 ARC Salon competition. Her public commissions comprise the Waterton National Park Visitor Centre, Reconciliation Totem Pole at UBC, and Shaman's Dream at the University of Manitoba. Palcu spent her life in a state of transience as her father, a physicist, had a job that moved her family across the world. She developed an obsessive curiosity about people and intimacy through the lens of an observer. The isolation of frequent moves meant much of her time was spent alone, learning about her own experience through her hands - one of her few constants. Palcu's work investigates themes of contact, touch, isolation, anonymity, sensuality, relationships, pleasure and the body.