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New Apostle Gallery | Context Art Miami 2025
From text to texture, New Apostle Gallery unites three global artists reimagining how art speaks to humanity and change.
David Hollier, Darren Evans, and Zabel Artiste — whose works examine how words, place, and emotion shape our shared humanity.
Key Artists & Themes
David Hollier (UK/US)
Hollier’s acclaimed Image Verbosa series reconstructs portraits of global icons using the very words that define them — a fusion of art, language, and social consciousness. His subjects span human rights figures, cultural visionaries, and political leaders, exploring how language shapes legacy. Hollier’s process bridges analogue and digital practice, echoing the tension between communication and technology in a hyper-connected world.
Themes: power of language, digital age identity, humanitarian narratives.
Darren Evans (UK)
Evans’s large-scale watercolours capture the fragile beauty of urban life — atmospheric cityscapes where light dissolves architecture into memory. His ethereal technique evokes impermanence and renewal, resonating with environmental and emotional themes. His current series draws inspiration from New York as the archetypal urban representation of humanity, reflecting on our imprint on the landscape.
Themes: transience, climate and urban change, human connection to place.
Zabel Artiste (Canada)
Zabel’s luminous mixed-media works unite texture, luxury, and emotion — exploring themes of identity, sensuality, and transformation. Her practice embraces diverse influences and materials, blending gold leaf, acrylic, and collage. Exhibited across North America and Europe, her paintings are recognized for their optimism, inclusivity, and sensory immediacy.
Themes: diversity, feminine perspective, emotional resilience.
Curatorial Focus
New Apostle’s presentation unites these artists under a shared lens: how contemporary art can translate language, structure, and feeling into reflections on identity, environment, and human connection.
Gallery & Participation Narrative
Gallery Vision & Positioning
New Apostle is a curated platform: it highlights artists whose practices merge conceptual narrative, place, and emotional resonance. Its selection for Context / Art Miami underscores the gallery’s ambition to spotlight artists who traverse between public discourse, personal geography, and poetic abstraction.Booth as “conversational ecosystem”
The exhibition will be more than a display of individual pieces — the presentation is conceived as a dialogue among the artists’ voices, emphasizing the interrelation — with Hollier’s text-based portraiture intersecting with Evans’s architectural memory and Zabel’s emotional abstraction.
SAMPLE Artwork on display
PREVIOUS SHOWS
David Hollier at
We are excited to announce New Apostle Gallery's participation in the Context Art Fair during Miami Art Week. Hollier's collection of brand new paintings features various recognizable faces of moviestars and musicians, including Jerry Garcia, Rihanna, and Carrie Fisher. Hollier’s acrylic works are accompanied by his unique typewriter pieces that include the Chanel No. 5 bottle and The Grateful Dead’s Dancing Bear. Along with his word pieces, Hollier has teamed with computer science and mechanical engineering students to create an innovative golden clock that displays the time on Mars.
Come visit us at Booth C30.
December 5 - 10, 2023
Interstellar Time PIece: Miami and Mars
We are very pleased to announce the worlds premier of the ‘Hollier-DG1’, interstellar timepiece, a clock that tells solar Martian time. It is paired with an Earth clock, the Hollier-DG-Bob, which in this case tells Eastern Standard Time. You may notice that Martian time moves slightly slower than Earth’s; this is the result of Mars’ planetary rotation taking longer. A single day on Mars, dubbed a “sol” by astronomers, lasts 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 35.244 seconds. Scaled to a 24-hour time scheme, each second, minute, and hour on Mars is about 2.75 percent longer than that of Earth.
To represent Martian time accurately, artist David Hollier has collaborated with two Oregon State University students, computer science major Matthew Dowling and mechanical engineering major Sebastian Gaddis, to create a clock whose hands move at the speed of Martian seconds. The Hollier-DG-1 tells the time on Mars from the point at which the Mars Curiosity Rover landed, at a longitude of 137.4 Eo. This pair of clocks is the first in a limited edition of six interstellar timepiece displays.
Context Art Fair, Miami 2023. Booth C30. Collection by artist David Hollier
‘SHOCK OF THE OLD’
A new collection of original artworks and full collection of limited edition lithographs
by David Hollier
Opening reception: Saturday, 11th June, 2022
The New Apostle Gallery opened its doors at a new location in downtown Mount Vernon, New York on June 11th, 2022. The gallery kicked off a list of exciting events and exhibitions with a solo show by the gallery's owner and artist David Hollier. This new show, named 'Shock of the Old', is the latest collection from Hollier's 'Imago Verbosa' series of artworks. The phrase 'Imago Verbosa' is Latin for ‘a picture made of words’.
“We are beyond excited to announce that the gallery is about to open its first ever official storefront home. Located in the heart of Mount Vernon, Westchester,” Hollier said.
‘Shock of the Old’
The past 200 years have witnessed a sharp curve of technological advancement which has drastically changed people’s livelihoods in every decade. The 1910s were a pivotal decade for these advancements where inventions ranging from the telephone to the elevator to the automobile became more prevalent people’s lives. Artists of the era decided to reflect these “shocking” technological changes in their work, developing into more non-conformist, non-objective, futuristic work. These 100 years of art have been cleverly coined as “The Shock of the New” in Robert Hughes book and documentary of the same name. Hughes’ book takes us step by step through the art movements of the 20th century from art nouveau, art deco, cubism, pop, modern & post-modern.
However, with these art movements and changes also came backlash and resistance. In 1915, Ukrainian painter Kazimir Malevich debuted his “Black Square” painting that introduced non-objective styles of art by painting a white canvas black. It was essentially a piece of art for art’s sake, rather than decorative art or art used for social status. Malevich claimed his work was the first attempt at this, although there were others previous. There was outrage over the painting over its non-objectivity and “four-year-old” levels of skill put into the work.
Russian composer Igor Stravinsky received similar backlash two years prior for composing The Rite of Spring, a “non-conformist” ballet piece with choreography that was considered avant-garde, and the performance’s opening night reaction is said have incited a riot or near-riot. These are two key examples of artists whose work was unconventional and unorthodox and was met with shock, controversy, and uproar. It is worth noting, however, that these incidents could have been nothing more than publicity stunts or staged reactions to “advertise” the artwork.
For us in the present day, the real “shock” may be that the general populace back then had been this shocked to such a degree by these seemingly trivial instances. This reaction is coined “the Shock of the Old” in David Hollier’s new gallery opening to contrast Robert Hughes’ writings. This also begs the question of whether in the present day we can be shocked by anything anymore, as technology has advanced far beyond what it was in the 1910s and is continuing to change at a rapid pace.
(Text by Donovan Levine. Images courtesy of Val Daughtrey)
