Nir Hod’s new exhibition at Michael Kohn Gallery, Dorian’s Garden (on view through January 2026), is stunning – in the main gallery room are several large shimmering canvases – flowers appear on the surface of what immediately calls to mind Monet’s paintings of water lilies.

Sharon Ellis’s luminous interpretations of the natural world function simultaneously as cautionary tales and alluring invitations. Her compositions, marked by fluid lines and vivid, saturated hues, bear witness to a meticulous and meditative creative process.

“The only relationship I have with the work is here, while I’m making it. That’s when I’m learning from it,” says artist Heidi Hahn, to whom markmaking is an individual, intimate form of protest.