ADAA Fair 2026

Willie Cole, Erin O’Keefe, Wendy Red Star

Booth B4

Park Avenue Armory

November 12 – 16, 2026

For the gallery’s debut at the ADAA Fair, Sargent’s Daughters is delighted to present a group booth titled Abstract Object. Rather than presenting abstraction as detached or purely formal, Abstract Object situates it as a method of transforming objects through visual language. The booth invites viewers to move slowly between recognition and uncertainty and presents a cohesive environment that emphasizes the relationships between objects in space. Through methods such as assemblage, repetition, distortion, and material experimentation, the works transform recognizable forms into ambiguous objects that oscillate between utility and memory.

Willie Cole’s sculptures are composed of found high-heel shoes and evoke the visual language of African masks, linking everyday materials to histories of Black identity. Erin O’Keefe manipulates perspective and color in her photographs of wooden blocks, transcending our perception of space within abstraction. Wendy Red Star’s Parfleche works on paper reinterpret traditional Apsáalooke objects through bold geometric depictions, foregrounding Indigenous histories while challenging ethnographic modes of display. Together the three artists span different media and perspectives, shifting our notion of objects and their relationship to abstraction.

Willie Cole (b. 1955, Somerville, NJ) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, painter, printmaker, and sculptor. He identifies himself as a “perceptual engineer.” His work transforms everyday objects into complex visual and cultural narratives. Cole has received numerous awards and fellowships. Among them are the Pollock-Krasner Award (2025) and the David C. Driskell Prize (High Museum of Art, 2006). Earlier honors include the Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship (2002), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (1996), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1995). In addition, he held fellowships at the University of Georgia (2005) and Stanford University (2007). Cole further participated in residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Rutgers University, among others. His induction into the National Academy of Design came in 2023.

Cole’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and internationally at prominent institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the British Museum. His art has also appeared at the Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Tampa Museum of Art. Other venues include the Montclair Art Museum, the Mint Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design. His work has also been shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Wyoming Art Museum, the College of Wooster Art Museum, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Museum Villa Rot, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. He lives and works in Mine Hill, New Jersey.

Erin O’Keefe is a photographer and architect based in New York City. Recent group exhibitions include Pour faire toute chose, il faut une fleur at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland (2026); Between Sight and Breath at Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2026); Take Two at DE LEÓN, Bath, UK (2026); Field Recordings at Bureau, New York (2026); and The Pit in Palm Springs (2025). Solo exhibitions and presentations include A Whole Thing at Seventeen, London (2025); I saw the man with a telescope at Sargent’s Daughters, New York (2024); Nonfiction at Seventeen, London (2023); Artists at Home at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London (2023); and a solo presentation commissioned by Deutsche Bank at Frieze New York (2022). O’Keefe’s work has been reviewed or featured in The New York Times, Musée Magazine, Collector Daily, The Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Frieze, The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, VICE Magazine, and Paper Journal. Her work is held in museum collections including the Mead Art Museum, Museum Voorlinden, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. O’Keefe received her BFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and her Master of Architecture from Columbia University in New York, NY. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography in 2019.

Wendy Red Star (b. 1981, Billings, Montana; lives and works in Portland, Oregon) is an Apsáalooke artist whose multidisciplinary practice draws on the histories, archives, and lived knowledge of the Apsáalooke Nation, exploring the relationships between inherited stories, memory, and intergenerational experience. She received her BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and MFA in Sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has received numerous honors, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2024) and the Infinity Award in Contemporary Photography and New Media (2024). Her first career survey, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, opened in 2019 at the Newark Museum before traveling to the San Antonio Museum of Art and Columbus Museum of Art. Her work has been exhibited at major institutions nationally and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, British Museum, and Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, and is held in more than eighty public collections. In 2027, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will present a major solo exhibition of her work.