Please join us at the 5th iteration of Future Fair, in NYC 7-10 of May, 2025. We will be presenting two female painters with an illustrious style. Julia Schmitt Healy and E.E. Kono.

FAIR HOURS

Wednesday Preview, May 7, 2025, 2 PM – 8 PM (invitation only, access hours listed on your invite) 

Thursday, May 8, 2025, 12 PM – 7 PM

Friday, May 9, 2025, 12 PM – 7 PM

Saturday, May 10, 2025, 12 PM – 6 PM

GETTING THERE

The fair is located at Chelsea Industrial, 535 W 28th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenue. It is a three-minute walk south from The Shed (Frieze New York).

For the closest public transit stations:

- 7 train to 34 St–Hudson Yards
- C, E trains to 23rd Street Station
- 1, 2 trains to 28th Street Station
- A, C, E, 1, 2, and 3 trains to 34 St–Penn Station 
- Amtrak, NJ Transit, LIRR - Penn Station.

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Julia Schmitt Healy was part of the Chicago Imagist scene in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Through her three- dimensional psychedelic cartoons of sorts, Schmitt Healy explores images and iconography from the news, religions, mass media, and her travels; tufted watercolor muslin pieces and drawings on handkerchiefs hold connections to real people, places and things. Symbolic surrealism is present throughout the work’s playful yet somewhat grotesque imagery of scattered zits, mingling bandages, slightly ominous masks, and wormlike hair. With narratives that sit at the intersection of art and absurdity, Schmitt Healy considers a range of themes such as ecological disaster, human relationships, symbols, feminism, consumerism, and the natural world.

Julia Schmitt Healy was born in Elmhurst, Illinois. She received a BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied with Ray Yoshida and Whitney Halsted, and kept company with other key artists such as Christina Ramberg and Roger Brown. While in school, she co-curated a Mail Art Show with artist Ray Johnson, called “Intercourse,” at the Wabash Transit Gallery. After graduating, Healy moved to Africa where she traveled and lived. She later toured Europe then moved to Nova Scotia, Canada, with her first husband. Her work was represented for many years by Phyllis Kind Gallery in New York and Chicago, as well as Susan Whitney Gallery in Canada. Schmitt Healy presently divides her time between a Manhattan apartment in the East Village and a house/studio in Port Jervis, New York.

E.E. Kono (b.1973 Oshkosh, WI) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Iowa and Los Angeles, USA. She is best known for her vibrant egg tempera paintings which blend elements of Northern Renaissance art with mythological, and religious imagery. Utilizing historically significant materials such as silverpoint and locally sourced earth pigments, her work explores the connection between place, culture, and storytelling.

Kono’s art is characterized by its meticulous technique and thoughtful incorporation of symbolic elements. Uncovering layered personal and geopolitical histories, her subject matter blends cultural imagery with influences that stem from travel to folklore and art history. Kono’s artistic practice explores the intersection between ancient traditions and contemporary issues within the context of global interconnectedness.

​A self-taught painter, Kono studied art history at the University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) and the University of Hull (Kingston Upon Hull, England). She learned traditional egg tempera techniques under the guidance of artist Koo Schadler. Kono’s work has been exhibited internationally and in notable venues, including solo exhibits at the Dubuque Museum of Art (Dubuque, IA), La Luz de Jesus (Los Angeles, CA), and Gallery 825 (Los Angeles) As well as group exhibits at Riverside Art Museum (Riverside, California), FORMah (NYC) Modern Eden (San Francisco, CA), Beinart Gallery, (Melbourne Australia).  Her paintings have been seen in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, American Art Collector, Arts to Hearts Magazine, and Juxtapoz magazine. Additionally, she is an award-winning author and illustrator with over a dozen books published by major trade houses. Her book illustrations are in the collection of the Mazza Museum (Findley, OH)​ ​ She will be participating in the Wassaic Project 2025 Winter Residency (Wassaic, NY).