Dennis Miller New York Welcomes Four New Artists to Its Showroom and Introduces an In-House Art Consultation Service for the Trade

The four artists — Natalya Sevastyanova, Shelby K. Smith, Topher Gent, and Gerald Posley — work across porcelain, paint, sculptural ceramics-and-metalwork, and mixed media, each bringing a distinct material vocabulary to the showroom floor. Three of the four — Sevastyanova, Smith, and Gent — are represented by Candita Clayton Gallery, which maintains a permanent presence within the Dennis Miller showroom. Posley is represented primarily by Dennis Miller New York directly.

The consultation service gives designers shopping the showroom direct access to Candita’s curation, sourcing, and placement advice — across her full roster of artists and beyond, not only the four new representations. The service is available exclusively to Dennis Miller’s trade clients and is complimentary for a limited time.

“Each of these artists offers something a designer cannot easily source anywhere else in the city,” said Justin Orlansky, President and CEO of Dennis Miller New York. “We’ve never been interested in being just a furniture store. We’ve always wanted to be the well-rounded resource a designer comes to when they’re bringing a project to life. Adding Candita’s consultation service for our trade clients takes the next step: a designer doesn’t just buy the art on our floor — they have an advisor sourcing art well beyond it.”

Natalya Sevastyanova is a Los Angeles–based ceramic artist working in porcelain, wood, and fire. Raised near the Ural Mountains and trained in architectural design at the Academy of Architecture and Arts in Ekaterinburg, Russia, she founded SevaCeramics in 2014. Her site-specific installations — composed of hundreds and sometimes thousands of individual ceramic elements — translate organic forms of water, wind, and botanical growth into large-scale architectural compositions. Recent commissions include work for the Regent Santa Monica Beach Hotel, the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, and the Norman Regional Hospital Healing Garden. She is represented by Candita Clayton Gallery.

Shelby K. Smith is an abstract painter based in Darien, Connecticut, whose modern geometric work is rooted in color, repetition, and structural precision. A former beauty-industry executive who developed brands and color stories at Estée Lauder, L’Oréal, and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Smith brings a designer’s discipline to the canvas. Her practice draws on the lineage of Frank Stella, Carmen Herrera, and Josef Albers, and incorporates textile, linen, natural wood, and metallic surfaces alongside acrylic. She is represented by Candita Clayton Gallery, Quidley & Company, and Elisa Contemporary Art.

Topher Gent is an artist, designer, and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island, where he founded Gent Design Co. in 2015. At Dennis Miller he is represented through sculptural ceramics and metalwork: 3D-printed porcelain vessels finished with hand-applied glazes, and one-of-a-kind metal vases. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a Master of Design from the University of Bergen in Norway, Gent is currently an Assistant Professor of Experimental and Foundation Studies at RISD, where his research focuses on the intersections of handcraft and modern manufacturing technologies — a thesis the ceramic vessels demonstrate directly. The form is computer-generated and additively printed; the surface is resolved entirely by hand. He is represented by Candita Clayton Gallery.

Gerald Posley is a New York–area multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between charcoal, oil stick, scored and embossed surfaces, and bronze relief. His representation at Dennis Miller introduces a body of work distinguished by a particular and unusual approach to contemporary technology: he uses AI-generated imagery as source material — a reference and starting point — and then resolves the work entirely by hand through traditional fine-art media. The resulting pieces, including the recent “African Diaspora Bronze” series, sit deliberately apart from the AI-output discourse that has dominated recent conversations about the medium. Posley is represented primarily by Dennis Miller New York.

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