The New York Studio School is pleased to present Grey Point, an exhibition of paintings and works by Tristan Ajayi, Gal Amit, Gregory Beson, Isa Gabriel, Astrid Garcia, Keya Kuruvilla, Jo Mari, Nifemi Ogunro, and Eve Wilbraham curated by Keya Kuruvilla. The show will be on view from October 2 through October 15, 2026. An opening reception will be held Friday October 2, from 6–8 PM.

The title is taken from a lecture series on painting by Gilles Deleuze in which he interprets Paul Klee’s writing on the notion of grey point. An artist contends with chaos, logic, and sensation to organize these forces. A grey point is the point from which from a matrix of generative potential, an order emerges. 

Uncertainty is a universal condition. What can be built from the networks we already have, the people we know, and the work we encounter? How do we decide what belongs together, what matters, and what deserves attention?

Deleuze’s lecture on Paul Klee offers a way to think through these questions. In Klee’s grey point, grey is not simply a color but a cosmogenesis: a non-dimensional place from which forms, directions, colors, and relationships can emerge. It is neither fixed nor resolved. The point is established and then, as Klee puts it, jumps beyond itself. The encounter itself generates new relations.

Tristan Ajayi (b. 2016 New York City, NY) is a Nigerian and Black American boy and lives, works and plays in New York City. He is a middle schooler at the United Nations International School and plays basketball with the Riverside Hawks, the best team in Harlem. He is inspired by rap, basketball, football, and all things Black culture. Tristan is also involved with musical theater and improv. 

Gal Miriam Amit (b.1997) is a New York-based artist and current CFA student at the New York Studio School. Her work in clay, plaster, wood, concrete and found objects is motivated to explore objects’ ability to embody visceral experience through formal inquiry and material presence. Gal has participated in exhibitions and residencies such as the OUT and Doors residency out of Düsseldorf, Germany in 2021, and most recently in a bas-relief group show at Wagner College Gallery in 2026. 

Gregory Beson American born designer and sculptor Gregory Beson launched his studio practice in 2018 in New York City, focusing on material culture: furniture, artifacts and lighting. At his New York City atelier Beson designs new pieces and collections, crafting or prototyping all pieces by hand for private clients, brands, galleries and institutions. His work has been shown globally and is currently represented by galleries in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles & Lisbon Portugal. He has released capsule collaborative furniture collections with Pierre Frey & Mingardo.

Isa Gabriel (b.1996 New Haven, Connecticut) lives and works in Queens, New York, studying at the Grand Central Atelier from 2019 til 2023. Her work is born out of  observation of the natural world and her imagination. Isa’s work offers a portal into the life and community of a trans woman navigating life in the city, from plein air paintings, portraits of other trans and queer artists, to the twisting of flesh and pressure from her mind. 

Astrid Garcia (b. 1995 California) is a Queens-based artist whose work examines the anxieties of relationality and their recollection in the body. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in New York and California, and was a resident at The Macedonia Institute. Her work has been featured in CultBytes and Vogue Netherlands. Astrid is currently studying at Minerva’s Drawing Studio and the New York Studio School’s masters program. She was recently awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant. 

Keya Kuruvilla (b. 1990 Washington) grew up in Alabama and is a Ridgewood based artist who is interested in the collective, the self and New York City. She has participated in shows at the Museum of the City of New York and Salma Sarriedine Gallery. She is involved with the Ridgewood Tenants Union, the Laundromat Project and currently studies at the New York Studio School. 

Jo Mari is a Filipino-American artist and National Democratic activist from Houston, Texas. Based in Jersey City, they are a member of Migrante New Jersey, a mass organization fighting for the rights of Filipino migrant workers. They are engaged in an artistic practice of writing, drawing, and music, inspired by the cultural workers who have given their lives to advance the people’s war for national sovereignty of the Philippines. Prayer was their first language and Tagalog is their third.

Nifemi Ogunro is a designer, sculptor and visual artist. In Ogunro’s design practices, they use the body as a reference point to create objects. In their sculptural practice, they use bodies as an extension of objects. While wood is the material they build in, Ogunro draws inspiration from their life, their surroundings, and the mundane.

Eve Wilbraham (b. 2001, London) is a British painter currently completing an MFA at the New York Studio School. She attended the Royal Drawing School in London before graduating with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art. She has exhibited in group shows across the UK, most recently in London as part of Thresholds, with Izena Studio.