Chapter NY will present new works by Erin Jane Nelson, Antonia Kuo, Alix Vernet, and Mary Stephenson at Frieze New York. The presentation brings together four artists whose practices engage material experimentation and image-making through speculative, process-driven approaches. New York–based artists Antonia Kuo and Alix Vernet will debut works made specifically for the fair, alongside works by Erin Jane Nelson from the same series included in this year’s Whitney Biennial, as well as new works by Mary Stephenson from the series currently on view in her exhibition at the gallery.

Kuo’s photochemical works collapse photography, drawing, and painting through layered processes that record light, time, and material transformation, while her sculptures serve as partial records of obscured forms.Nelson draws from a personal archive of found and original photographs to explore climate anxiety, spirituality, and regional histories through feminist speculative world-building; the works at the fair will be ceramic, including cameras she constructs herself. Stephenson’s paintings construct psychological and spatial environments drawn from memory, where architectural motifs and shifting perspectives activate a sense of interiority and lived experience. Vernet approaches sculpture through fragmentation, repetition, and referential layering, using the urban landscape as source material to capture the city’s instability and reflect on time, encounter, and the accumulation of history.