GOCA by Garde is pleased to announce HIGH VISIBILITY, a group exhibition curated by the New York–based artist and curator Charlotte Hailstone Wu, on view at the gallery’s Chelsea space from July 30 through August 22, 2026. The exhibition brings together twenty artists and marks the first time GOCA has invited a New York–based curator to shape a program in its space.
HIGH VISIBILITY gathers artists whose work embraces color at its most vivid and immediate. Through bold form, saturated palettes, and strong compositions, the exhibition considers color as a tool for directing attention, shaping perception, and creating visual presence.
Spanning abstraction and representation, the twenty artists use color in different ways: as structure, as material, as atmosphere, and as subject. Optical effects, pattern, gesture, and form each offer a different approach, but every work shares an immediacy that demands to be looked at. Rather than advancing a single style, the exhibition sets twenty distinct decisions beside one another, each made with intention and conviction.
The title HIGH VISIBILITY borrows a term used for garments built to be seen before anything else is seen. Applied to painting, it names a shared ambition rather than a shared manner: work that establishes its presence the moment a viewer enters the room. Color, here, is the instrument of that presence.
The participating artists differ in origin, training, and material. What they hold in common is New York, a city in which each of them continues to work surrounded by an unrelenting surplus of other people’s color. The exhibition places the colors these artists have chosen to keep directly alongside one another, so that twenty separate choices can be measured in a single room.
Since opening in 2025, GOCA has introduced artists from Japan and across Asia to audiences in New York. HIGH VISIBILITY turns that exchange in the other direction: a curator from this city, working with artists who have built their practices here, presenting inside a program rooted in Japan and greater Asia. Together, the works demonstrate the many ways chromatic intensity can command attention and transform the experience of looking.
Participating Artists
Amy Yamamoto, Anna Danyang Song, Benny Or, Eri King, Hafsa Nouman Qureshi, HeroK (Youngwoong Kim), Jess Xiaoyi Han, Kiwha Lee (Kiwha Lee Blocman), Leah Huang, Mia Dunn, Minji Seo, Naomi Basu, Natsumi Goldfish, Phoebe Kalm Choi, Ray Hwang, Shangkai Kevin Yu, Sunny Moxin Chen, Taezoo Park, Takura Suzuki, and Theresia Zhang.
About the Curator
Charlotte Hailstone (b. 1994, Baltimore) is a New York-based artist and curator whose work engages the perceptual possibilities of color and surface. Trained in communication design at Parsons School of Design, her practice reflects a graphic sensibility grounded in composition, clarity, and calibrated color relationships. Her early work with resin and acrylic sculptural prototypes initiated an interest in how visual structures behave when they shift between dimensional states, informing the visual language she continues to develop in paint. Hailstone’s work draws connections to Color Field painting, Op Art, and the Light and Space movement, while incorporating contemporary references through palette and form. Her paintings and curations have been featured at The Hole, Marinaro Gallery, Ruby Dakota Gallery, Harper’s, 81 Leonard Gallery, Galerie Vallois, Ryan Hastings Gallery, and Salon 21, as well as at Future Fair in New York. In addition to her studio practice, she is a curator producing exhibitions that support emerging to mid-career artists.
About the Gallery
GOCA by Garde is a Chelsea gallery dedicated to connecting the sensibilities of the United States, Japan, and greater Asia, introducing artists from Japan and across Asia—from emerging to established—to an international audience. Founded in 2025, it occupies a 2,400-square-foot space in New York's Chelsea district and works across painting, sculpture, and ceramics. It is the latest project of GARDE, a Japan-based creative enterprise spanning architecture, design, and the visual arts.
