Our First Roster

When we opened at 325 Broome Street, we called ourselves a gallery and meant it as a question: a gallery for whom, and for how long? Today we begin to answer it.

Collective Z is proud to announce its first roster of represented artists — five painters, sculptors, and makers we are committing to not for a season, but for the long arc of a practice. It is the gallery’s evolution from exhibition space to full representation, and it is, more than anything, a statement of intent.

These five make work that is alive — restless, rigorous, reaching toward something larger than what already exists. They span abstract painting, mixed-media assemblage, sculpture and works on paper, and figurative painting, and they are united by the thing this gallery was built to follow: work caught in transition, in tension, in the act of becoming.

Bill Buchman · Vivian Cavalieri · Marieken Cochius · 
Vanessa Jean Falgoust · James Stamboni

Bill Buchman has spent a lifetime moving between two instruments — the piano and the painted surface — and he treats them as a single practice. He calls the result Visual Jazz: abstraction built the way a solo is built, out of phrasing, return, and risk. He studied painting with Victor D’Amico and Fletcher Martin, and with the Abstract Expressionist Robert Richenburg at Cornell, and he holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the New England Conservatory. He is also the author of Expressive Figure Drawing (Watson-Guptill / Random House). His work has shown across the United States and Europe; his first solo exhibition with Collective Z opens this fall.

Vivian Cavalieri makes small, exacting assemblages that carry a great deal of weight — works about social justice, memory, and the quiet politics of domestic life. Trained first in the law (a JD from New York University) and in fine art (a BA from Harvard), she builds objects that argue without ever raising their voice. Her solo exhibition From War to Peace: World War II Opportunity, Postwar Domesticity has been on view at the Military Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery since November 2025, and her work traveled internationally with WOVEN 2023, which opened at the Sasse Museum of Art in Los Angeles before continuing to France.

Dutch-born and now based in the Hudson Valley, Marieken Cochius draws, paints, and sculpts from close, patient attention to nature in remote places — the line of a root, the logic of erosion, forms that look found rather than made. She is a recipient of a 2021 NYSCA Decentralization Grant and a 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and she completed a public sculpture commission for the Village of Wappingers Falls. Recent solo exhibitions include the Garrison Art Center and Galerie DNA in Deventer, the Netherlands; her work has appeared in Elle Decor and The New York Times.

Vanessa Falgoust paints memory — her own, and the memories entrusted to her over years of service as a minister and hospice chaplain. Her oil paintings give those interior images a body: tender, unsentimental, lit from somewhere just out of frame. She holds an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and trained at the Art Students League of New York. She has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Louisiana, and Brussels, and her paintings are held in private collections including those of the jazz artists Lew Tabackin and Toshiko Akiyoshi.

James Stamboni paints the figure in oil on hardboard, brass, and aluminum, moving between commissioned portraiture and large-scale work with the same unhurried precision. A graduate of SUNY New Paltz and a certified art educator, he returned to painting after years of severe chronic illness following a 2016 medication injury — an experience that gives his practice its urgency and its exactitude. Nothing in these paintings is incidental; everything has been decided.

Representation, for us, is not a season; it is a commitment — to build with these artists over years, through exhibitions, collaborations, and community. You will see them in dedicated presentations here on Broome Street and on Artsy, beginning with Bill Buchman’s solo exhibition this fall.

For now, The Ordinary — our Pride Month group exhibition of twenty-six queer artists — is on view through June 30. Come stand in front of the work, and meet the gallery that just made these five promises.