Undoubtedly, a gallery is defined by the artists it chooses to stand beside. At Carousel Fine Art, these decisions take great consideration; where the curators examine vision, craft, and the kind of work that continues to reveal something new long after the first viewing.
This season, we are excited to introduce five artists who collectively represent an extraordinary range of practice: each in a different way, from a different corner of the world, with a different set of tools. What unites them is harder to name than it sounds: a seriousness of intent beneath whatever surface they present. Kalish beneath the chrome. Brader-Frank beneath the bronze. Weaser beneath the light. Monsalve Duffo beneath the luxury. Nazzal beneath the colour. There is always something more underneath. New works are on view now across our Buckhead, Chicago, West Palm Beach, and Lenox Square locations.
Michael Kalish
Los Angeles | Sculpture | Works on view: Buckhead, Chicago
Michael Kalish makes you reconsider what a material is allowed to become.
He started with license plates. Not as a gimmick, as an obsession. He was driving, saw a South Dakota tag, and something in him responded. He began collecting them from across the country, and then he started cutting, shaping, and assembling them into work that bore no resemblance to their origin. The license plate, lowest of the low as cultural object, ended up in museum collections, embassy walls, and the hands of Ford Motor Company and Coca-Cola. He didn't elevate the material ironically. He meant it.
From there, his practice expanded into laser-cut aluminum, mirrored stainless steel, and salvaged automobile components from the 1950s and '60s. His roses, assembled from car parts, improbably voluptuous, have been shown in Stockholm, Geneva, and New York. His large-scale abstracts catch and fracture light in ways that change hour by hour. The Wall StreetJournal and The New York Times have both paid attention. The US Embassy in Moscow owns his work.
The through-line in all of it is transformation. Kalish takes materials that have spent their first life being useful, and gives them a second life being true.
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Still Life — Buckhead.
Kalish turns the oldest genre in painting into a three-dimensional proposition. The work is composed, controlled, and quietly unsettling — a still life that refuses to stay still.
Nude in Repose — Chicago.
A classical subject rendered in the language of contemporary sculpture. The figure emerges from industrial material with a kind of inevitability — as if it was always there, waiting to be found.
Evelyne Brader-Frank
Switzerland | Sculpture | Works on view: West Palm Beach, Chicago
Evelyne Brader-Frank has spent thirty years perfecting how to communicate with less.
Evelyne was born in Switzerland in 1970, surrounded by a grandfather who painted landscapes and a brother who painted surrealist canvases. She enrolled in her first sculpting class in 1990, and then, as she will tell it, never really stopped. She left Switzerland for Alberta, expanded her practice into bronze, concrete, and ice, and eventually returned to Europe, settling near Zurich.
The range of materials she has worked in is almost perverse in its breadth. What stayed consistent was the question she was asking: how much can you remove from the human figure before it stops being human? Her answer, refined across decades, is her signature language of reduced abstraction. She works primarily now in stainless steel and bronze, and her sculptures honour the female form without depicting it literally. The volumes are right. The weight is right. The suggestion of contour carries the emotional register of something fully rendered, even when the surface is spare. She titles each work after a figure from Greek or Roman mythology, not as decoration, but as a kind of address. These are characters who understood transformation. So does she.
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"Cadenza," "Arcana," and "Solvi" — West Palm Beach.
Three works that together read as a conversation. Each occupies space differently, moves light differently, asks a different question. Seen as a group, they reveal the full range of what Brader-Frank's sculpture can do.
The Kiss — Chicago.
Her most intimate work in our collection. Two forms in proximity, in the language of abstraction, charged with everything that language can carry. The piece rewards time.
Audra Weaser
Los Angeles | Painting | Work on view: Buckhead
Audra Weaser paints the moment before you can name what you're looking at.
She was raised in Southern California, earned her MFA from Claremont Graduate University, and has built a body of work that is deceptively quiet on first encounter. Large-scale abstractions. Luminous fields of colour. The particular quality of light when it hits water, or filters through trees, or reflects off a surface at the exact angle where the real and the reflected become difficult to separate.
Her collectors are in New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore. They have all looked at a Weaser long enough to understand that the calm is earned, not given.
Her process is the opposite of effortless. She builds up layers of mixed media until the canvas has accumulated significant density, then pulls a thin veil of white across the entire surface. Then she sands. The sanding reveals rather than removes — it finds what was always there underneath, coaxing the final composition up through the obscuring layer. It is a practice that requires patience and trust. The paintings that result feel inevitable. They don't look made. They look discovered.
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Wave Paths — Buckhead.
Weaser at full stretch. The painting traces light moving through and across water — not as representation, but as sensation. Stand close and the surface reveals its construction. Step back and it disappears into something that feels entirely natural.
Billy Monsalve Duffo
Miami | Painting | Work on view: West Palm Beach
Billy Monsalve Duffo knows exactly what he is painting. The question is what he is painting about.
Born in the United States in 1965 to Colombian parents, raised in Bogotá, and based in Miami since his late teens, Monsalve Duffo carries two cultural inheritances into every canvas. The formal discipline of European realism and the layered visual sensibility of Latin America sit in genuine tension in his work. He does not resolve that tension. He uses it.
He works in oil. His subjects gravitate toward objects of luxury and cultural currency: brands, surfaces, things that have been carefully designed to communicate status and desire. He paints them with the technical precision of a master, which is its own kind of statement. Realism, at this level of commitment, is never neutral. To paint a thing with that much fidelity is to make a claim about it. Monsalve Duffo's claim is complicated, and deliberately so. He is interested in what these objects actually mean, beneath the surface they were designed to project.
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Slip Stream — West Palm Beach.
The title suggests movement; the execution is utterly still. It is the tension between those two things, velocity implied in a frozen moment, that makes the painting work.
Stefania Nazzal
Dubai | Mixed Media | Works on view: Lenox Square
Stefania Nazzal had her turning point in a Sotheby's painting department. It was 1998. She was interning in Geneva, surrounded by works being assessed, catalogued, moved through the commerce of the art world. Something in that immersion clarified what she wanted. Not to handle the work of others. To make her own.
She trained at the Cyprus Academy of Art and at Central Saint Martins in London. She is now based in Dubai, where she has become one of the more singular presences on the international fair circuit: Art Miami in December, Art Palm Beach in January, and a solo show at Tribe Gallery in Geneva this May. Her medium of choice is PVC: not because it is unexpected, but because of what it actually does. PVC holds colour with a pigment intensity that paint rarely achieves. It has sculptural properties. And it is a material that would otherwise be environmentally harmful, Nazzal repurposes it, which is both a practical and philosophical position.
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Her subject is light. Specifically, the w ay light refracts, disperses, and constructs colour when conditions are right. The rainbow appears throughout her work not as decoration but as symbol, of hope, of transience, of what becomes visible only when light passes through the right medium at the right angle. Her compositions are dreamlike without being vague. There is rigour in how she builds her colourscapes. The meticulous process sits just beneath the surface of something that looks, on first encounter, like pure feeling.
"Sky Is The Limit" (1), (2), (3), and (4) — Lenox Square.
A four-part series that must be experienced together. Each work in the sequence stands independently, its own chromatic argument, its own quality of light, but the full meaning of the series emerges when you move through all four. Nazzal builds a progression: colour deepening, the sky expanding, the sense of possibility accumulating across each canvas until the final work resolves it into something you did not expect to feel.
See the Work
• Buckhead — Michael Kalish, "Still Life" | Audra Weaser, "Wave Paths"
• Chicago — Michael Kalish, "Nude in Repose" | Evelyne Brader-Frank, "The Kiss"
• West Palm Beach — Evelyne Brader-Frank, "Cadenza," "Arcana," "Solvi" | Billy
Monsalve Duffo, "Slip Stream"
• Lenox Square — Stefania Nazzal, "Sky Is The Limit" (1)–(4)
Private viewings are available at all locations. Contact your nearest Carousel Fine Art gallery or reach out through our website, our advisors are here to help you spend the right amount of time in front of the right work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are the newest artists at Carousel Fine Art?
Carousel Fine Art has welcomed five new artists this season: Michael Kalish (Los Angeles), Evelyne Brader-Frank (Switzerland), Audra Weaser (Los Angeles), Billy Monsalve Duffo(Miami), and Stefania Nazzal (Dubai). Their work spans sculpture, abstract painting, realist oil painting, and mixed-media installation — and is on view now across four gallery locations.
Where can I see Michael Kalish's sculpture at Carousel Fine Art?
"Still Life" is on view at our Buckhead location. "Nude in Repose" is on view in Chicago. Kalish works in laser-cut aluminum, mirrored stainless steel, and salvaged car parts — his sculptures are in the collections of Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola, and the US Embassy in Moscow.
What is Evelyne Brader-Frank's sculpture style?
Evelyne Brader-Frank is a Swiss-Canadian sculptor known for her reduced-abstraction approach to the female form. She works primarily in bronze and stainless steel, titling each work after a figure from classical mythology. Three works — "Cadenza," "Arcana," and "Solvi" — are on view in West Palm Beach. "The Kiss" is on view in Chicago.
What kind of paintings does Audra Weaser make?
Audra Weaser creates large-scale abstract paintings that explore light moving through the natural world — water, forests, reflective surfaces. Her layered mixed-media process involves building up density and sanding back to reveal the final composition. "Wave Paths" is on view at our Buckhead location.
What materials does Stefania Nazzal work with?
Nazzal works primarily with PVC — chosen for its sculptural quality, intense colour pigment, and sustainability potential. She repurposes PVC materials that would otherwise be environmentally harmful, using them to construct chromatic compositions centred on light and its dispersal. Her four-part series "Sky Is The Limit" is on view at Lenox Square.
What does Billy Monsalve Duffo paint?
Billy Monsalve Duffo is a realist oil painter working at the intersection of European technical tradition and Latin American cultural sensibility. His subjects often carry luxury or cultural weight, objects chosen for what they reveal when painted with this level of precision. "Slip Stream" is currently on view at our West Palm Beach location.
Can I arrange a private viewing of these works?
Yes. Private viewings are available at all Carousel Fine Art locations. Contact the gallery directly or reach out through our website to connect with an advisor who can arrange access, provide additional information, and assist with any collector inquiries.
About Carousel Fine Art
With locations in Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, and Palm Beach, Carousel Fine Art is one of the fastest-growing gallery groups in the United States. We operate as more than a gallery, taking a full-service approach to collecting and building lasting relationships where every collector becomes part of the Carousel family. These five artists represent what that commitment looks like in practice: work chosen not for the moment, but for the long view. Art that reveals more the longer you live with it.