Katy Diamond Hamer
Katy Diamond Hamer is a New York based arts writer with a focus on contemporary art and culture and has been actively engaged in the arts community on a global level for over ten years. Beyond writing she lectures at universities including NYU and Sotheby's Institute and has been a panelist on several occasions both as a participant and moderator at the New York Academy of Art and Art Basel Miami amongst others. A graduate of New York University, Hamer has written for magazines including Cultured Mag, Galerie Magazine, Flash Art International, New York Magazine, The Creative Independent, BOMB, and many others, including the Brooklyn Rail. Interview subjects of note include Robert Storr, Courtney Love, Helmut Lang, Cecilia Alemani, and Takashi Murakami.
Melissa Brown’s Window Shopping, her fifth solo exhibition at Derek Eller, explores the reflective portals of storefronts across New York City.
For his first solo exhibition Jameson Magrogan, a 2021 MFA graduate of Hunter College, presents During an Eternity. The exhibition consists of six large-scale paintings in which Magrogan employs color—both opaque and transparent—to explore his relationship with the surface he is working on, as well as the history of abstraction writ large.
