Derek Eller Gallery

Derek Eller Gallery Established in 1997, Derek Eller Gallery exhibits work by contemporary artists.

Zachary LeenerLachlan HinwoodJune 5 – July 10, 2026Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 6–8 pmDerek Eller Gallery is pleas...
06/02/2026

Zachary Leener
Lachlan Hinwood
June 5 – July 10, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, June 5, 6–8 pm

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring ceramic sculpture by Zachary Leener and paintings by Lachlan Hinwood.

Zachary Leener continues his ongoing search for new archetypal three-dimensional forms, presenting a suite of ceramics with diorama-like arrangements. The recurring typological shape — evoking bassinet, bed, sofa or coffin — becomes a central stage on which the drama unfolds and wherein individuated personalities emerge. It is within these prosceniums that a range of abstract elements are fused in, stuck on, cordoned off and otherwise embedded.

The shapes that populate the interior (and in some cases exterior) spaces of the sculptures are both found and newly formed, as Leener mines for his embellishments in an intuitively personal archaeology. Present in this arrangement are freshly glazed fragments of previously abandoned artworks, unaltered chunks fished from the clay recycle at the school where Leener teaches, pieces of street glass collected during walks through his neighborhood and the oddly detached hollow of a child’s metal spoon.

Lachlan Hinwood prefers the objectness of small paintings and the intimacy of holding while working. Evoking deep sea creatures, fossils, or spiritual beings, Hinwood extrapolates his imagined subjects from real experiences in nature, including a seashell collection he keeps at home; his paintings are both observational and ambiguous. Bathed in atmospheric areas of color, these organisms are in motion, swimming, or suspended, perfectly still. In one work, a combination mollusk/jellyfish/stingray emblazoned with pink and purple hues floats in a lavender haze.

Hinwood likens the making of paintings to happening upon an unusual rock at the beach or a beautiful leaf in the woods and contemplating the multiple lives these mysterious objects have lived. Like Charles Burchfield or Georgia O’Keefe, Hinwood is interested in developing a personal symbolic vernacular born out of emotional and sensory experiences with nature.



LAST CHANCE Alyson ShotzDeep FieldOn view through Saturday, May 30, 2026Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep F...
05/30/2026

LAST CHANCE

Alyson Shotz
Deep Field
On view through Saturday, May 30, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition by Alyson Shotz featuring new work using plated steel, glass, paper and wood. Shotz is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.” This notion of looking longer, slowing down to contemplate and thereby seeing more, is an apt metaphor for Shotz’s work. What seems solid and impenetrable when viewed in what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light”, can change in an instant when the planet rotates and the angle of the sun shifts.

The exhibition’s titular work, Deep Field #3, spanning 16 feet, is comprised of thousands of iridescent steel discs reminiscent of planets, moons or suns or even molecules, that shift in color from celestial blue to deep green to magenta depending upon light and vantage point. Depth perception is also continuously in flux, as is the illusion of weightlessness. It’s akin to a painting – it hangs on the wall, yet it is undeniably three-dimensional, a screen of endless pixelations, the cosmic background radiating afterglow from the Big Bang.

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Image:
Untitled, 2026
spray enamel on Masa paper
22 x 22 inches


T​he 2026 White Columns Benefit Auction​ will be held on Wednesday, May 27 at ​White Columns.(Cocktails at 6pm, and the ...
05/27/2026

T​he 2026 White Columns Benefit Auction​ will be held on Wednesday, May 27 at ​White Columns.
(Cocktails at 6pm, and the auction starts at 7pm.)

To purchase tickets and view artworks visit:

https://whitecolumns.org/benefit-auction/

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Images:

Clare Grill
Signet XVII, 2025
oil on paper
11 x 7.5 inches

EJ Hauser
original hive drawing, 2025
marker on paper
11 x 8.5 inches

LAST CHANCEAlyson ShotzDeep FieldOn view through Saturday, May 30, 2026Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Fi...
05/26/2026

LAST CHANCE

Alyson Shotz
Deep Field
On view through Saturday, May 30, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition by Alyson Shotz featuring new work using plated steel, glass, paper and wood. Shotz is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.” This notion of looking longer, slowing down to contemplate and thereby seeing more, is an apt metaphor for Shotz’s work. What seems solid and impenetrable when viewed in what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light”, can change in an instant when the planet rotates and the angle of the sun shifts.

The exhibition’s titular work, Deep Field #3, spanning 16 feet, is comprised of thousands of iridescent steel discs reminiscent of planets, moons or suns or even molecules, that shift in color from celestial blue to deep green to magenta depending upon light and vantage point. Depth perception is also continuously in flux, as is the illusion of weightlessness. It’s akin to a painting – it hangs on the wall, yet it is undeniably three-dimensional, a screen of endless pixelations, the cosmic background radiating afterglow from the Big Bang.

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Image:
Star Taker #4, 2026
surveillance glass, wood spacers, walnut frame
11 x 11 x 7.25 inches


NOW ON VIEWAlyson ShotzDeep FieldMay 1–30, 2026Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition b...
05/23/2026

NOW ON VIEW

Alyson Shotz
Deep Field
May 1–30, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition by Alyson Shotz featuring new work using plated steel, glass, paper and wood. Shotz is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.” This notion of looking longer, slowing down to contemplate and thereby seeing more, is an apt metaphor for Shotz’s work. What seems solid and impenetrable when viewed in what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light”, can change in an instant when the planet rotates and the angle of the sun shifts.

The exhibition’s titular work, Deep Field #3, spanning 16 feet, is comprised of thousands of iridescent steel discs reminiscent of planets, moons or suns or even molecules, that shift in color from celestial blue to deep green to magenta depending upon light and vantage point. Depth perception is also continuously in flux, as is the illusion of weightlessness. It’s akin to a painting – it hangs on the wall, yet it is undeniably three-dimensional, a screen of endless pixelations, the cosmic background radiating afterglow from the Big Bang.

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Image:
Untitled, 2026
spray enamel on Masa paper
20.75 x 22 inches


NOW ON VIEWAlyson ShotzDeep FieldMay 1–30, 2026Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition b...
05/21/2026

NOW ON VIEW

Alyson Shotz
Deep Field
May 1–30, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition by Alyson Shotz featuring new work using plated steel, glass, paper and wood. Shotz is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.” This notion of looking longer, slowing down to contemplate and thereby seeing more, is an apt metaphor for Shotz’s work. What seems solid and impenetrable when viewed in what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light”, can change in an instant when the planet rotates and the angle of the sun shifts.

The exhibition’s titular work, Deep Field #3, spanning 16 feet, is comprised of thousands of iridescent steel discs reminiscent of planets, moons or suns or even molecules, that shift in color from celestial blue to deep green to magenta depending upon light and vantage point. Depth perception is also continuously in flux, as is the illusion of weightlessness. It’s akin to a painting – it hangs on the wall, yet it is undeniably three-dimensional, a screen of endless pixelations, the cosmic background radiating afterglow from the Big Bang.

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Image:
Star Taker #5, 2026
surveillance glass, wood spacers, walnut frame
11 x 11 x 6.25 inches


NOW ON VIEWAlyson ShotzDeep FieldMay 1–30, 2026Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition b...
05/19/2026

NOW ON VIEW

Alyson Shotz
Deep Field
May 1–30, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition by Alyson Shotz featuring new work using plated steel, glass, paper and wood. Shotz is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.” This notion of looking longer, slowing down to contemplate and thereby seeing more, is an apt metaphor for Shotz’s work. What seems solid and impenetrable when viewed in what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light”, can change in an instant when the planet rotates and the angle of the sun shifts.

The exhibition’s titular work, Deep Field #3, spanning 16 feet, is comprised of thousands of iridescent steel discs reminiscent of planets, moons or suns or even molecules, that shift in color from celestial blue to deep green to magenta depending upon light and vantage point. Depth perception is also continuously in flux, as is the illusion of weightlessness. It’s akin to a painting – it hangs on the wall, yet it is undeniably three-dimensional, a screen of endless pixelations, the cosmic background radiating afterglow from the Big Bang.

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Tribeca Gallery NightMay 15, 6-8 pmCurrently on view:Alyson Shotz “Deep Field”
05/15/2026

Tribeca Gallery Night
May 15, 6-8 pm

Currently on view:
Alyson Shotz “Deep Field”

NOW ON VIEWAlyson ShotzDeep FieldMay 1–30, 2026Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition b...
05/14/2026

NOW ON VIEW

Alyson Shotz
Deep Field
May 1–30, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition by Alyson Shotz featuring new work using plated steel, glass, paper and wood. Shotz is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.” This notion of looking longer, slowing down to contemplate and thereby seeing more, is an apt metaphor for Shotz’s work. What seems solid and impenetrable when viewed in what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light”, can change in an instant when the planet rotates and the angle of the sun shifts.

The exhibition’s titular work, Deep Field #3, spanning 16 feet, is comprised of thousands of iridescent steel discs reminiscent of planets, moons or suns or even molecules, that shift in color from celestial blue to deep green to magenta depending upon light and vantage point. Depth perception is also continuously in flux, as is the illusion of weightlessness. It’s akin to a painting – it hangs on the wall, yet it is undeniably three-dimensional, a screen of endless pixelations, the cosmic background radiating afterglow from the Big Bang.

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Image:
Deep Field #3, 2026
laser cut and plated carbon steel
84 x 192 x 6 inches


NOW ON VIEWAlyson ShotzDeep FieldMay 1–30, 2026Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition b...
05/12/2026

NOW ON VIEW

Alyson Shotz
Deep Field
May 1–30, 2026

Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present Deep Field, a solo exhibition by Alyson Shotz featuring new work using plated steel, glass, paper and wood. Shotz is known for experiential, large-scale sculptures inspired by natural and scientific phenomena that subvert their physicality in order to explore the phenomenological experience of space, gravity and light.

The show’s title, Deep Field, references the epic composite Hubble Deep Field photograph. Over a period of 10 days in 1995, the Hubble Telescope recorded this seemingly black and empty patch of sky, a size the equivalent of holding a pinhead at arm’s length. The exposures revealed thousands of hitherto unknown galaxies, providing what NASA has termed a “Core Sample of the Universe.” This notion of looking longer, slowing down to contemplate and thereby seeing more, is an apt metaphor for Shotz’s work. What seems solid and impenetrable when viewed in what Emily Dickinson called “a certain slant of light”, can change in an instant when the planet rotates and the angle of the sun shifts.

The exhibition’s titular work, Deep Field #3, spanning 16 feet, is comprised of thousands of iridescent steel discs reminiscent of planets, moons or suns or even molecules, that shift in color from celestial blue to deep green to magenta depending upon light and vantage point. Depth perception is also continuously in flux, as is the illusion of weightlessness. It’s akin to a painting – it hangs on the wall, yet it is undeniably three-dimensional, a screen of endless pixelations, the cosmic background radiating afterglow from the Big Bang.

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Image:
Star Taker #7, 2026
surveillance glass, wood spacers, walnut frame
23.75 x 24 x 10.75 inches


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