WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum, Splunk C.E.O. Gary Steele, and Jack Shear, Ellsworth Kelly’s widower, all mingled on November 2 at Nino Mier Gallery, in SoHo, for “Error Signals,” Asher Liftin’s first solo show in New York. It sold out before it opened. With the show, the art world’s newest talent is no longer a secret kept by the big-name collectors who have purchased his work, including David Geffen.
At just 24, Liftin also has work on view with paintings by established artists—from Dana Schutz and George Condo to Kara Walker—in a group exhibition at Venus Over Manhattan, in NoHo. “Retinal Hysteria,” up through January 13, was organized by Robert Storr, the former dean of the Yale University School of Art and Liftin’s freshman year professor.
