Miniatures//A Tiny Group Show
On view in The Nook from June 21 - August 2, 2025
Email info.thenookstl@gmail.com to make an appointment to see this project.
DOCUMENTATION COMING SOON
Heather den Uijl
Heather den Uijl is a contemporary artist who currently lives and works in Houston, Texas and received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Her practice is rooted in the act of worldbuilding, revolving around generating environments that explore intimate and transcendent moments emerging from interactions with nature. Working primarily in painting, drawing, and sculpture, she utilizes abstracted forms from both observation and imagined landscapes to create work that bridges the physical and the metaphysical.
https://heatherdenuijl.pb.studio/
@heatherden_uijl
Malik Fabien-Mahmud
Rooted in his Palestinian, Colombian, and Dominican heritage, Malik Fabian-Mahmud from St. Louis connects to his roots by archiving and restoring his family's old photographs. This act of preservation informs his photographic practice, where he transforms personal memories into surreal, evocative portraits that explore how heritage, identity, and the blending of cultural influences shape individual and collective stories and the impact of history on personal narratives.
@fabmud
Anne Geisz
Anne Geisz is an artist and art therapist currently living and working in St. Louis. Originally from Denver, she received her BFA in ceramics, with a concentration in psychology from Colorado State University. She went on to study at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where she received her MA in Counseling and Art Therapy. As a trauma-informed therapist, much of her clay work acts as a personal tool for processing and explores materials through the lens of art therapy. Her work often examines subjects related to life and violence within nations, communities, the environment, and our everyday choices.
@anne.geisz
Mayce Keeler
Mayce Keeler views humans as “image-making animals” who use myths to make sense of our time on Earth. Through painting, printmaking, and ceramics, they carry on this tradition of visual rumination, grappling with contemporary political and personal troubles to create non-linear, symbolic narratives.
Keeler has shown at Galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, La Jolla, and San Marcos, and has taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art. She graduated from USD with a Bachelors in Fine Art in 2018.
@supermundanebodies
Lan Li
Lan Li (b. 2002, China) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist. Her wood carvings play with the size and proportion of mundane objects as a ritual of cherishing and appreciation.
By seeking small but consistent growth of technical proficiency, she obtains life experiences adapting to work modes in different fields. The refreshing engagement with different types of craft and knowledge motivated her creative expressions, urging her to find precise language or motifs that are deliverable for the audiences. As more shapes, characters, phrases, and rhythm are brought to display in the object she created, the abundance of information is exponentially increasing; which, in the end, leads to a productive conversation between the creator and the audience.
hhttps://www.jasminidose.com/she
@lanli1960
Van Maltese
Van Maltese is an interdisciplinary artist whose work employs trickery, illusion, and associative play to investigate the mechanics of perception. Grounded in phenomenological inquiry, their practice explores how sensory information is processed—and sometimes misinterpreted—and how conflicts in what we see or hear can disrupt habitual ways of thinking. Maltese is particularly interested in the roles that pattern recognition and brain plasticity play in shaping our experience of the everyday.
Maltese received their BFA from OCAD University in 2010. They were awarded the national prize of the 2012 RBC Canadian Painting Competition and the Canadian prize of the 2018 Glenfiddich Artist-in Residence Program. Most recently, they held the 2023 International Randall Chair in Painting at Alfred University and are currently the 2025 Summer Artist & Mentor-in-Residence at OCAD University.
@vanmaltese
Fanni Somogyi
Fanni Somogyi (b. Budapest, Hungary) is an emerging artist working in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Her work has appeared in notable two person exhibitions Sticky Entanglements with Beth Yashnyk at Transformer DC in 2023, and in Nature’s Take Over with David Szauder presented at Art Market Budapest by Gallery Out of Home in 2024. Somogyi is an internationally exhibiting artist. Her work has also appeared in group shows including “The First Sweep” at the Broom Factory (Detroit, MI), “Cucharas” at Explora Salta (Salta, Argentina), “Hypothesis” at Target Gallery (Alexandria, VA), and “Wild/Mild” at Vox Populi (Philadelphia, PA) among others.
@fanni_somogyi
Zhizi Wu
Zhizi Wu (b. 2002, China) lives and works in Chicago, IL. As an oil painter, Zhizi uses colors, lines, abstracted shapes, and textures to achieve a visual montage or narrative. Zhizi Wu’s works are appreciated for their expression of intimacy and unique personal experience. Her first solo exhibition, A Silent Piece of Stomach, was featured in 2025 in Oh Art Foundation, Chicago, US.
https://www.jasminidose.com/painting
@jasminidose