The inaugural U-Haul Art Fair launched in Chelsea with a bold reimagining of what an art fair could be. Co-founded by Jack Chase and James Sundquist, the fair transformed U-Haul trucks into exhibition spaces—bringing flexibility, accessibility, and fresh perspectives to New York’s gallery district.
Hexton Gallery was proud to present works by Jolie Ngo, Terri Loewenthal, and Rebecca Sharp, three contemporary artists who expanded the language of perception, memory, and landscape. From Ngo’s kaleidoscopic ceramic sculptures to Loewenthal’s visionary photographs and Sharp’s surrealist canvases, their practices invited viewers into layered, subjective terrains where culture, imagination, and the natural world converged.
In her series Creature Comforts, featured at the U-Haul Art Fair, Terri Loewenthal extended her reimagining of landscape photography through the intimacy of instant film. Each work was a one-of-a-kind composition, made in-camera with custom optics, that overlaid multiple perspectives and heightened color to destabilize the notion of a single, objective view.
These unique pieces highlighted the complexity of our connection to the land, where memory, emotion, and imagination shaped the way we encountered and interpreted the natural world.
Hexton Gallery was proud to present the work of Jolie Ngo (b. 1996). Using 3D printing to push the boundaries of ceramics, Ngo fused tradition with technology to create kaleidoscopic sculptures that shimmered between digital memory, cultural heritage, and contemporary design.
Faceted like silk lanterns and layered like rice paddies, her luminous forms expanded beyond tabletop objects into lighting and furniture, reshaping how we experienced ceramics at the time.
Featured in T Magazine, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, and Galerie Magazine, Ngo’s work was held in the collections of the Museum of Arts and Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Everson Museum of Art, among others. She was the recipient of the Maxwell/Hanrahan Award in Craft (2025) and lived and worked in Santa Barbara, California.
Rebecca Sharp’s surrealist canvases opened portals into unseen worlds, where the mundane transformed into the metaphysical. Sharp’s small-scale works drew from her spiritual practices, rooted in both Brazilian rituals as well as Eastern traditions. Her paintings developed a language coded with symbolism and a certain cosmic resonance.
Described by The New York Times’ Roberta Smith as works that ‘quietly update Surrealism’, Sharp’s paintings embodied a mystic quality that invited one to pause for deeper contemplation.