The Co-Founders

Jennifer is a self-taught, contemporary still life painter with work held in private collections in the US and abroad. Her paintings are drawn from the color and energy of the natural world. A Reiki-attuned artist, Jennifer imbues this healing life-force energy into her work, so that those who engage with her painting may experience it as well. Jennifer studied art and art history at Wells College in Aurora, New York and in 2022 left a 34 year career in healthcare and moved to Sag Harbor to pursue painting full time.

Jennifer Soccorsi

Kurt Giehl is an East Hampton–based artist whose abstract oil paintings are inspired by the light, landscape, and waters of Long Island’s East End. After 23 years on Wall Street, he left finance to pursue art full time. His seascapes, informed by fishing trips across the North and South Forks, explore the subtle meeting of air, land, and water while capturing a distinct mood and sense of place. His dimensional Block Series uses hundreds of angular forms to create the illusion of movement as light and perspective shift. Giehl also works as an art consultant, helping clients build collections focused on East End artists.

Kurt Giehl

The Jurors

  • Adrienne Ruger Conzelman

    Adrienne Ruger Conzelman

    FOUNDER | ARC FINE ART

    Adrienne is an art dealer, art historian and founder of ARC Fine Art, a contemporary art gallery and advisory firm that has mounted over 3 dozen solo exhibitions and numerous group shows - in Fairfield, Connecticut, New York City, Charleston, East Hampton, and Shelter Island. After 16 years in Connecticut, the gallery re-opened in the spring of 2026 in Amagansett, NY, with a special focus on artists living and working on the East End. During the summer of 2014, 2019 and 2022, the gallery had pop-up locations in East Hampton and Amagansett.

    Adrienne holds a BA in Art History from Hamilton College and a Masters in Art History from Williams College, worked as a specialist in American Paintings at Christie’s, and brings decades of advisory experience to the juried table.

  • Fairfax Dorn

    FOUNDER | BALLROOM MARFA

    Fairfax is an arts leader, designer and co-founder of Ballroom Marfa, an internationally recognized contemporary art and performance space in West Texas, established in 2003. She served as Ballroom Marfa’s Executive Director until 2013 and later as Artistic Director, helping shape its reputation for ambitious contemporary art, performance, site-responsive and landmark projects such as Elmgreen and Dragset’s Prada Marfa. Dorn is also the Principal of Fairfax Dorn Projects and serves on several arts boards, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Calder Gardens, Foundation of Art and Preservation in Embassies/FAPE and the Judd Foundation.

    Photo credit: Mark Schafer

  • Coco Meyers

    FOUNDER | FOLIOEAST

    Coco is the founder and curator of Folioeast and author of Light, Sand, and Sea: Hamptons Artists and Their Studios. Coco grew up in East Hampton among the artists of the Abstract Expressionist movement - many of them family friends whose paintings hung on her parents' walls. After earning a degree in art history at Princeton and years as a magazine editor at Elle and Allure, she returned home and founded folioeast in 2015.

    Coco curates the annual "Hamptons Artist for Haiti" auction with over 60 artists participating and served for several years on the East Hampton Arts Council. She has showcased the work of more than 100 East End artists across 100+ exhibits, from Ashawagh Hall to the Watermill Center.

  • David Netto

    INTERIOR DESIGNER & WRITER

    David is a New York-based interior designer and writer. He has written on architecture and design for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Cabana, and other publications, and he currently writes the “Case Studies” column for Town & Country. He is the author of monographs on François Catroux and Stephen Sills, and most recently, authored a monograph on architect Rosario Candela. His interiors have appeared in Vogue, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, House & Garden, Town & Country, and Veranda. In 2023, a self-titled book representing 20 years of his own designs was published with Vendome.