JAKUPSIL

Jakupsil is delighted to present a five-artist presentation featuring Anikoon, Adam Handler, Raymond Ishii, Paul Choate, and Adam Umbach at Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2026, Booth 125. Bringing together artists working across painting and technology-driven practices, the booth presents how images accumulate meaning through memory, material process, perception, and technological transformation, while engaging the visual vocabulary of its coastal context—landscape, seascape, domestic architecture, floral imagery, and a diffuse sense of nostalgia—where contemporary and remembered worlds subtly overlap.

Anikoon (b.1980, Korea) develops his paintings through repeated layering and sandblasting, gradually revealing strata of pigment that produce a weathered, metallic patina. Rooted in material environments shaped by post-industrial visual culture, his surfaces accumulate familiar yet displaced imagery, where commercial icons and fragmentary figures surface through dense painterly excavation. From these layers emerge robotic visages that shift between mechanical and human registers, reflecting identity as something continuously constructed through repetition and residue.

Adam Handler (b.1986, USA) constructs his canvases through careful, gesture-driven application of acrylic, oil stick, and dense pigment, leaving thick accumulations of color that register the body's movement. His spectral cast—ghosts, wide-eyed girls, cats, figures dissolving into ground—is rendered with a deliberately imprecise mark: the bulk of the oil stick resists fine control, and Handler treats this as method rather than limitation. Through layering, density, and tactile mark-making, Handler investigates the rhythms of perception and presence, using the behavior of paint itself as a conduit for expression.

Raymond Ishii (b.1993, Japan) works through discrete color zones of acrylic mineral fillers, binders, and pigment on wood panels, each section remaining materially distinct. These structured fields form layered topographies that recall fragmented views of landscape and light seen through thresholds such as windows or shifting exterior views. Coexistence is articulated through separation rather than fusion, where difference remains intact within a unified pictorial field. 

Paul Choate (b.1984, USA) explores the transition from manual craft to technological automation through collaborations with custom robotic systems and AI-driven processes. His works operate as constructed still-lifes in which objects and marks are produced through negotiated human–machine decision-making. Glitch, compression, and chromatic distortion register not as effects but as structural outcomes of this exchange, embedding technological mediation directly into pictorial construction. 

Adam Umbach (b.1980, USA) transforms familiar objects into repositories of memory and emotional resonance. Combining precise observation with expressive interventions, his paintings occupy a space between photorealism and abstraction, structure and spontaneity. Influenced by both modernist painting and the visual culture of everyday life, Umbach constructs images in which butterflies, toys, and domestic objects become carriers of personal mythology and collective nostalgia. Through luminous color and layered surfaces, his work explores how memory is preserved, altered, and reactivated over time.

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Jakupsil is a transdisciplinary collective with a nomadic gallery program based in New York and Seoul. The Korean term jakupsil refers to a studio, atelier, or laboratory—a space of making through which the collective activates vacant urban sites with exhibitions and artist-led interventions that intersect art, architecture, and cultural production, expanding the scope of architectural and curatorial practice.