From Watermill to Pace: Asher Liftin's Season Runs From the South Fork to New York

Asher Liftin's year has followed a path our readers will know well. It began with a residency over the summer months at The Watermill Center on the East End, and it continues this autumn in Manhattan, where "Recent Work" has opened at 125 Newbury, the Pace Gallery space. That is two of the most closely watched addresses in American art, taken one after the other in a single year. For a title that keeps track of what the market notices, the order is worth recording: a season spent making work in the Hamptons, then a showing in New York with one of the best-known names in the gallery business behind it. The same stretch also brings an appearance in Pedro Almodóvar's 2026 film. Neither the gallery nor the residency is a private sale, and no price has been made public, so none is given here. What we can report is the line of the year: a summer in Water Mill followed by an autumn opening in the city. A collector who has walked both rooms will know how far that road goes.

With reporting from Surface.