For Summer 2026 The Hole presents New Traditionalists, our first-ever exhibition where art and design meet. Borrowing its title from the 1981 album by Devo, the exhibition reflects a generation of artists whose works simultaneously embrace and destabilize traditions surrounding craft, design, sculpture, and functional objects. Following previous thematic exhibitions like “Thread Count” (2025) on fiber arts, “Clay Today” (2018) a sprawling ceramic show, “Not A Photo” (2015), or our recent “Glass Class” (2026) of artists using glass, this expansive group exhibition brings together artists whose practices blur the boundaries between fine art, design, and craft through deeply material-driven approaches to sculpture and object making.

Spanning ceramics, furniture, textile, glass, painting, collage and functional forms, the exhibition highlights artists who embrace material experimentation, incorporate elements of popular culture, and challenge distinctions between utility and sculpture. Across the exhibition, objects oscillate between artwork and design, emphasizing tactility, process, and the increasingly fluid relationship between disciplines within contemporary art.

The exhibition concept and participating artist list were developed in consultation with Adam D. Miller from The Pit in LA, whose work as a gallerist, curator, artist, and represented designer through The Future Perfect and Mindy Solomon Gallery has long championed practices that exist between contemporary art, craft, and collectible design.

Artists: MJ Kim, Serban Ionescu, Jorge Pardo, Jane Yang D’heane, Karin Gulbran, Autumn Casey, Rafi AJl, Darren Romanelli, Adam D. Miller, Chris Wolston, Terumi Saito, Jenny Krypell, Audrey Large, Pablo Tomek, Max Simon, Daniel Barragan, Shaina Tabak, Isabel Rower, Andy Dixon, Jim Drain, Chris Johanson, Alex Kerr, Holton Rower, Nick Lenker, Misha Kahn, Barbora Zilinskaite, Jessy Nite, Beverly Fishman, Warren Isensee and more