Emotional Intelligence

February 22 - April 23, 2022

  • Shannon Cartier Lucy
    Brice Guilbert
    Loie Hollowell
    Tamo Jugeli
    Jo Messer
    Hanae Moreno-Niimi
    Justine Neuberger
    Alison Peery
    Carrie Rudd
    Markeidric Walker


    Polina Berlin Gallery is pleased to announce Emotional Intelligence, a group exhibition opening February 22, 2022, marking the gallery’s inaugural exhibition at 165 East 64th Street.


    The term “emotional intelligence” entered the collective consciousness in 1995 to describe the capacity to perceive and understand emotions and use them to steer thinking and behavior. Forgoing the systems-based, data harvesting approach to deciphering meaning,

    Emotional Intelligence

    brings together ten artists mining new tropes at the intersection of abstraction and figuration. Ebullient, poignant, and at times confounding, the works included represent a plodding forth, a pushing, and a ripening. Through the process of examining, obscuring, and revealing, heightened emotional states are leveraged to extract fresh modes of representation and probe understanding.

  • Tamo Jugeli (b. 1994, Tbilisi, Georgia) lives and works in New York and Tbilisi. Jugeli’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Hill Art Foundation (New York), Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi), TBC Concept (Tbilisi) and Svaneti Museum of History and Ethnography (Mestia, Georgia), among others.

    Carrie Rudd (b. 1994, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York) lives and works in New York. She completed her MFA at Hunter College in 2021. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Chapter NY (New York), 12:26 (Dallas, Texas), Hunter College (New York), Hauser & Wirth (New York) and the Wellin Museum of Art (Clinton, New York).

    Markeidric Walker (b. 1993, Pine Bluff, Arkansas) lives and works in Atlanta, GA. He holds an BFA in Painting from Savannah College of Arts and Design (2012 - 2015). Walker has worked as a commercial artist and participated in a number of projects in the music and fashion industries. Most notably, Walker created the album covers for Rihanna (2017), Mike Will Made It (2017), Sabrina Claudio (2019), and Michael Kiwanuka (2019).