NEW YORK, NY.- The Spotlight series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating focused and thoughtful conversations between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, scholars, and beyond. In this iteration, the Spotlight features Ellen Altfest’s Borrowed View, 2022-23. A text by curator Julien Domercq accompanies the presentation.

Ellen Altfest (b. 1970, New York, NY) is an artist living and working in New York, NY, and Rising Fawn, GA. Altfest received a degree English and Painting at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1993, and later received an MFA in Painting from Yale University, New Haven, CT, in 1997. In 2002, Altfest studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. Recent solo exhibitions include Nature, White Cube (Online) (2021); Green Spot, White Cube, Hong Kong, China (2019); Ellen Altfest, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom (2015); Head and Plant, New Museum, New York, NY (2012); and The Bent Leg, White Cube, London, United Kingdom (2011). Recent group exhibitions include Close, GRIMM Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2023); Listen to the sound of the Earth Turning: Our Wellbeing Since the Pandemic, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, (2022); Eye to Eye, Peter Freeman, New York, NY (2021); Rear Window, White Cube (Online) (2020); and Sympathetic Magic, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Alfest’s work is in the collections of the Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX; the Olbricht Collection, Berlin, Germany; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom. She received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award in 2006, and an award from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in 2004. Altfest’s forthcoming solo exhibition Forever will be on view at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN, May 31–September 1, 2025.

Julien Domercq (b. 1987, Paris, France) is an art historian and curator living and working in London, United Kingdom. Domercq assumed the role of Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom, in early 2024. There he recently co-curated Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504 (2024), and is curating Kiefer/Van Gogh (2025), opening in late June. Previously, he was Associate Curator of Post-1800 Paintings (2021-24) at the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom, where he co-curated After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art (2023) and worked on the exhibition Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers (2024). He has remained as guest curator of the Gallery’s main Fall exhibition, Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists (2025), opening in September. Domercq was the inaugural Allen and Kelli Questrom Curator of Works on Paper and the Lillian and James H. Clark Assistant Curator of European Art (2019-2020) at the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, where he curated exhibitions on Caravaggio and Frans Hals. Before his move to Texas, Domercq began his career at the National Gallery, London (2016-2018), where he curated the exhibition Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell (2017) and assisted in organizing the show Painters’ Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck (2016). He received a BA, History of Art, in 2010, and an MPhil, History of Art, in 2011, both from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Kiefer/Van Gogh, will be on view at the Royal Academy of Arts, June 28‒October 26, 2025, and Radical Harmony: Helene Kröller-Müller’s Neo-Impressionists, at the National Gallery, September 13, 2025‒February 8, 2026.