NADA Miami 2025

Mariko Makino
Seth Cameron

December 2 – 6, 2025
Ice Palace Studios, Los Angeles

Mariko Makino is a sculptor that lives and works between Lower Manhattan's Chinatown and Freehold, NY working primarily in neon and wood. Her sinuously shaped, ikebana-influenced forms emit a prismatic glow and create immersive atmospheric environments. Born in New York and raised in Tokyo, Makino returned to the States to attend college and brought with her the aesthetic sensibilities she garnered from her childhood in Japan. Makino originally trained professionally as a chef, finding similarities in the experiential notions of crafting both food and sculpture. Her love of communal meals persists, privileging shared experiences around light, color, and form. Makino bends the neon, and carves the wood in her sculptures herself. Unlike traditional neon signage, which can be jarring visually, Makino's intention is that her work can be comfortably lived with and shared within a home environment.

Seth Cameron is a painter, writer, and filmmaker based in New York, NY, and Lakeville, CT. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union before co-founding The Bruce High Quality Foundation, an artist-collective-cum-mythology active from 2004 to 2017.

Since his days with The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Cameron's work has turned on montage and intertextuality. Through juxtaposition and citation he draws meaning from fragments and emotion from repetition and rupture. In his painting, shifts in medium, surface and scale test how narratives and iconologies form and falter, while the diaristic and the art historical live parallel lives. Cameron has presented solo exhibitions at Nina Johnson (The Tourist, 2024; The Fair Mountain, 2020), Seven Sisters (Storyteller, 2024), and Nathalie Karg Gallery (Sunless, 2019).

Cameron’s work has also been presented in institutional exhibitions through The Bruce High Quality Foundation at MoMA PS1, New York, NY (Greater New York); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Whitney Biennial); the Sundance Film Festival; and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY (2013 retrospective). Beyond his studio practice, Cameron has had a wide-ranging influence on experimental arts education, teaching at The Cooper Union, serving as Critic-in- Residence at MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting, directing the Children’s Museum of the Arts for young creators, and leading BHQFU for emerging artists. Seth Cameron’s solo exhibition at Entrance opens in January 2026.

Fitzhugh Karol is a sculptor based in Brooklyn, New York working in wood, ceramic, steel, and paper. Karol is inspired by profiles found in nature, landscapes both observed and imagined, as well as by the inherent characteristics of the materials he uses.

Karol works in large scale steel for public and private outdoor installations usually consisting of two bisecting planes, creating a conversation between contrasting profiles. These steel works have portals and nooks inviting physical interaction from the viewer.Large wood works create immersive experiences and ceramic wall reliefs are a form of storytelling.

His work has been exhibited at Art on Paper, SCOPE Miami, the Tang Teaching Museum, LongHouse Reserve, VOLTA and the Long Island Museum.His large steel sculptures have been installed publicly in Prospect Park, Tappen Park, Socrates Sculpture Park, DUMBO Brooklyn, Amagansett Square, Australia's Sculpture by the Sea, and at the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge's Rockland Landing. His work is included in private collections in Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, South Carolina and Virginia. In November, 2025 Fitzhugh Karol’s exhibition Truckin’ opened at Entrance / Red Hook.

Noel de Lesseps is a painter and multimedia artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Self-taught, de Lesseps has maintained a dedicated studio practice since 2017. Working intuitively with improvisation, he explores the liminal space between abstraction and figuration, creating works that record a meeting of matter and mind. His practice reflects ongoing interests in philosophical, emotional, and metaphysical experience, treating the canvas as a site where the physical act of painting intersects with broader questions of consciousness and being.

De Lesseps has presented solo exhibitions at Picture Theory, New York, NY (2023), The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY (2023), The Ranch, Montauk, NY (2022), and Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY (2022). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Stone/Age. The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2025), Harpers, New York, NY (2024), Katia David Rosenthal Gallery, Miami, FL (2024), Kaleidoscope, Brooklyn, NY (2024), and Alexander DiJulio, New York, NY (2023), among others. He has participated in fair presentations with Entrance at Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA (2025) and NY4LA (2025), as well as SPRINGBREAK Art Fair, New York, NY (2020). In Fall 2025, his work was included in Stone/Age.The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. De Lesseps will present a solo exhibition at Entrance in early 2026.