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Art Fair

Jessica Ann Peavy Gallery presents a focused three artist booth featuring works by Eddy Ochieng, Guy Stanley Philoche, and Augusto Fanjul. Across distinct approaches to figuration, the presentation considers the contemporary portrait as a site of presence, psychological complexity, and cultural assertion.

Ochieng’s hyperreal portraits slow the act of looking, rendering skin, light, and surface with extraordinary precision. His subjects emerge with quiet force, inviting an intimate encounter rooted in dignity, vulnerability, and sustained attention. Philoche’s figures, set against uninterrupted fields of color, occupy spaces of clarity and symbolic weight. His paintings resist narrative excess, allowing the figure to stand fully in its own authority while engaging broader questions of visibility, remembrance, and Black life. Fanjul extends this conversation through compressed spatial planes and charged figuration, often placing women in states of tension, protection, and resolve. His work examines the psychic architecture of identity and the ways bodies negotiate power, interiority, and environment.

Together, these artists offer a compelling dialogue around the figure as both image and witness. The booth reflects Jessica Ann Peavy Gallery’s commitment to artists whose practices are formally rigorous, emotionally resonant, and deeply engaged with the conditions of contemporary life.

Image: Half Known - Eddy Ochieng - 2026