The Kravets Wehby Gallery is thrilled to announce Substantive, a group exhibition of new large-format paintings by Alison Blickle, Wendell Gladstone, Dannielle Hodson, and Jade Thacker. Intention and exacting happenstance are essential to the disciplines of this painting quartet. Substantive emphasizes the significance of building a solid practice and refining a point of view. The work in Substantive delves into themes of upholding one’s image despite mounting pressures, self-doubt, and power structures within an industry. Dark humor embedded in striking imagery gather the shared anxieties of working as an artist in 2026.

Alison Blickle (b. 1976, Sacremento, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She holds an MFA from Hunter College in New York. Although Blickle’s practice is quite traditional, lately she’s been fascinated by the ironic use of AI in creative industries. Her landscapes, perfectly idyllic, are vast simulations of what nature once-was in a world where human activity has depleted the natural resources on the earth. Her figures, appearing flawless and rave-ready, long for connection in a society that is increasingly isolated by advancements in technology.

Dannielle Hodson (b. 1980, London, UK) lives and works in London. She received an MFA from the Royal College of Art in 2024. Hodson’s captivating battle scenes are familiar old masters gone awry. Starting with a specific palette, her intuition takes hold and slowly divulges the imagery both to the artist and viewer. Distortion and wit are informed by the hilarities of life itself and the unknowability of fate. Hodson’s kinetically charged renderings are difficult to decipher yet intrigue, nonetheless. Her work is in prominent private and public collections, most recently, the Femmes Artistes du Musée de Mougins, FR.

Wendell Gladstone (b. 1972, Boston, MA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Gladstone’s imagery is revealed through built up layers of acrylic and intertwining planes that are equalized on the surface. Woven into sculptural totems, his figures inhabit dense, dreamlike environments where logic and fantasy blur; bodies bend and move toward one another by both physical and metaphysical force. His work has recently been added to the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA.

Jade Thacker (b. 1991, Boston, MA) lives and works in NYC. She holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Often, Thacker’s paintings encapsulate the complex emotional nuances in relationships and self-preservation. Her work navigates the tension between control and dissolution, where figures and forms seem to emerge and recede simultaneously within layered, tactile surfaces. Thacker’s handling of paint is both deliberate and instinctive—thick passages collide with thinner veils, creating a sense of movement that feels unresolved yet precise. She has recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, NY.