DECEMBER 2 – 6, 2025
Booth B205 | Ice Palace Studios

SOCO Gallery is pleased to announce a presentation of new paintings by artist Halsey Hathaway and new ceramic works by artist Grace Stott at NADA Miami (Booth B205), running from December 2nd  to 6th at Ice Palace Studios.

Hathaway and Scott are connected by a strong instinct for form, color, and texture. Hathaway’s use of recurring line and overlapping form construct armatures for unique color spaces in his paintings. Stott creates hand built vessels and sculptures that incorporate painting and her own distinct iconography – animals, cherubs, fruit, and the female body. 

Hathaway engages with the viewer's fundamental perceptual experiences — more specifically how abstract color and shape can impact our emotions and subconscious, and reversely how our subconscious can inform our interactions with the work. Through a drawing process of evolving and repeating lines, the artist constructs armatures which suspend color. Early acrylic layers are stained directly into the canvas ground, while later layers are painted to sit on the surface. Hathaway’s most recent series boldly integrates a new color structure, a simple progression of colors at nearly equal values and saturations. These paintings reject the didactic and encourage the viewer to ask the questions of content, relationship, structure, and permanence. 

North Carolina-based Stott creates undulating puzzle-like pieces conceptualized through free association. She blends a variety of subjects into her creative process, producing ceramic works that are strikingly imaginative. Her sculptures create movement with pattern and repetition, often making everyday objects take on monumental significance. She is drawn to the unpredictability of clay as a medium, relating it to her fluctuating role as a mother and caregiver. Stott often abstracts or distorts the body to find moments of beauty, humor, and personal acceptance. Featured in the booth are sculptural vessels and small figurines that build a world of relics filled with reverence and absurdity, ruled by wild, feral women. 

Akin to Hathaway’s use of stained canvas and acrylic paint, Stott is enticed by contrasts in the treatment of her surfaces, employing flocking beside raw clay or glossy gold layered glaze with bright and shiny color. In this presentation, Stott incorporates stained glass for the first time. The pairing of Hathaway and Stott’s work will entice viewers by unique color, form, and texture combinations that blur the line between representation and abstraction. 

Halsey Hathaway (American, b. 1980)

Halsey Hathaway has been making this body of work for over a decade, and has exhibited throughout North and Central America. He received his BFA from the Pratt Institute of Art & Design (2002) and his MFA from Hunter College (2006). Hathaway’s most recent exhibitions were at Xxijra Hii, London, UK, Kristen Lorello, New York, NY and SOCO Gallery, New York, NY and Charlotte, NC. He was recently included in a group exhibition at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY (2023) and Gazebo Gallery (2022). Notably, he was also featured in the exhibition Painters NYC at Paramo Galleria, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (2016) which then traveled to Museo de los Pintores Oaxaquenos, Oaxaca, Mexico as well as Site/Displace at Kristen Lorello, New York, NY (2014); Drawings, Denny Gallery, New York, NY (2013); New Paintings, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (2012) and Line and Plane,  McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY (2012) as well as three solo exhibitions at Rawson Projects, New York, NY. Hathaway has been awarded the Tony Smith Award from Hunter College and was a fellow in painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Hathaway lives and works in New York City.

Grace Stott (American, b. 1990)

Grace Stott is a graduate of Tufts University and SMFA with additional educational experience at CalArts. She has shown in numerous galleries and art spaces around the United States, including Dinner Gallery, New York, NY (2022); Mrs. New York, NY (2024); The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC (2021); Chefas Projects, Portland, OR (2023);  and Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2020). Grace was a 2017 artist-in-residence at Bunker Projects in Pittsburgh, PA, and is an active member of the Goodyear Arts Collective, an artist-led non-profit residency. She has organized curatorial and community projects in conjunction with her studio practice. You can also see her work in various public art installations around Charlotte, NC.