Galleries

• White Cube added Tokyo-based painter Minoru Nomata to its talent pool; Nomata’s debut solo show with the gallery will be held in Hong Kong in September.

• Lehmann Maupin‘s roster in Asia now includes whimsical sculptor Tom Friedman (who continues to work with Luhring Augustine in New York and Stephen Friedman in London).

• Buzzy Surrealist painter Jamian Juliano-Villani will launch her own East Village gallery, called O’Flaherty’s, on September 8, with plans to operate for one year only. The venture’s first show will be a solo number by Los Angeles mainstay Kim Dingle.

• Hollis Taggart added the estate of female modernist Dusti Bongé, whose work will feature in the gallery’s Armory Show booth next month.

• New York’s Fridman Gallery now reps figurative painter Sahana Ramakrishnan, whose solo bow at the space will take place in November 2022.

• Denny Dimin now represents multidisciplinary artist Pamela Council.

• Staying in Tribeca, Postmasters gallery will hire Danielle Polovets, a marketing and business-development exec at Phillips, to be its next director.