Co-Lab Projects @ Friends Fair 2026

Co-Lab Projects @ Friends Fair May 7th - 9th, 2026 The Loren at Lady Bird Lake 1211 W Riverside Dr, Austin, TX 78704 Wednesday, May 6th: Friends Fair Launch Party with Future Front at The Jones Center from 7-10pm Thursday, May 7: VIP Access 5-9pm & Frost Sponsored Party on the rooftop from 8-11pm Friday, May 8 & Saturday, May 9th: Open and free to the public with RSVP 12-6pm For Friends Fair 2026 Co-Lab Projects will present paintings by Elizabeth Schwaiger and Jeremy DePrez, plus performance, styling, and services by Sean Ripple. Elizabeth Schwaiger received her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2011 and currently lives and works in Paris, France. In her decade-long exploration of power dynamics and the climate crises, Schwaiger uses a variegated symbolism of water, fracturing, dimensional overlay, gesture, and dialed levels of representational clarity to construct images suggestive of the interplay among unseen forces that govern our world. She has exhibited in venues in the UK and the USA, including The Walker Gallery National Museum in Liverpool, The Macintosh Museum in Glasgow, The National Portrait Gallery in London, Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, Glasgow International, Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh, Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, and Co-Lab Projects and GrayDUCK Gallery in Austin. Recent projects include NYC solo exhibition Now & Now & Now at Nicola Vassell and solo exhibition Pressing Shadows at Gana Art in Seoul in 2023, as well as a solo presentation at the Independent art fair presented by Nicola Vassell. Jeremy DePrez is a Brooklyn, New York, and Houston, Texas-based visual artist whose paintings examine the shifting connections between personal identity, material culture, and the often-overlooked objects of daily life. Through painting, he renders ephemeral, discarded materials with an uncanny sense of permanence, transforming them into static artifacts that suspend the instability of value, memory, and consumer culture. Working at the intersection of personal history and broader cultural forces, DePrez’s work challenges how we assign meaning to the objects we possess, discard, or inherit. Selected solo exhibitions include Night Worker: Works on Paper 2018–2025, Front, Houston; Reality’s Coffin, Post/Times, New York; GLYPHS, Best Western, Santa Fe; Tent Posts, SUNNY, New York, Furnished Head, Marinaro, New York; Boy Meets World, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; Mind Fold, Texas Gallery, Houston; and Tenant, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York.  Selected group exhibitions include A Selection of Great Art By People Who Know What They Like (curated by Bob Nickas), The Drawing Center, New York; Hypervision, Magenta Plains, New York; Outside the Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston; Beyond the Frame, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels; Shapeshifters, Luhring Augustine, New York; Das Bild hängt schief, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin; and The Shaped Canvas Revisited, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York. Sean Ripple is an artist, writer, and curator base...