COURT TREE COLLECTIVE AT OUTSIDER ART FAIR 2026
Proudly Featuring:
Jasper Stieve, JIEM, Louis Sarowsky, Mary Limonade, Ryan Mettz, Teddy Salad, Yool Kim, PITR
Public Days:
Mar 19 – Mar 22, 2026
Booth C15
45 artworks
Jasper Stieve (b. 2000, Lambertville, NJ)
Jasper is a self taught mixed media artist who is heavily influenced by industrious settings and admires the fluent chaos found in city scapes. Primarily working with found objects and in airbrush, his work often encourages interaction, pushing away the common “do not touch” principle. He is a household name in the NYC skateboarding community and recently created his own niche fashion brand. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
JIEM lives in Lille in Northern France. He paints there in his studio and all over European streets and walls. He has a long and wild history with graffiti. His work is greatly influenced by his explorations and travels. He is a self-taught artist working in a “faux naïf” style. He enjoys the freedom of this expression and his work benefits from this lifestyle. Subcultures, social interactions, diverse cultures often dominate the subjects in his work.
Louis Sarowsky is part of a new generation of "self-taught" artists. Not necessarily an Outsider. As it's almost impossible to go on without any knowledge of how things work directly at our fingertips. With YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok, these new types of self taught artists are fearless and ambitious. Creating granite sculptures is no easy task for even the most seasoned sculptor. With only a few years under his belt in doing so, he is creating images that speak his language. As seen here in the "Stone VX1000", the most influential camera in skateboarding cinema. Known in the skateboarding community as Lurker Lou. His skateboarding and personality has always been his own. We are excited to be exhibiting perhaps his next chapter in super creative life.
MARY LIMONADE is a Belgian self-taught artist. Her work features a strong spirit of independence, through a great freedom of action and a wide range of practices. In addition to graphic and illustrative concepts in her paintings, she is also a prolific street artist and muralist. Her paintings are nostalgic and ebullient in memories, overflowing with anecdotes and bittersweet feelings. All of her works have a freshness to them, free of academic rules and the standards of representation.
Ryan Mettz ( born 1990) is a self-taught artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Knownfor his naive, urban folk art style, his work vividly depicts his experiences livingin, and navigating the city landscape. He uses bold palettes that exploredepth, form, and chaos while remaining flat and simple.
TEDDY SALAD born in East London in 1961, Teddy worked as a fishmonger until 2009,when a critical illness prompted a change in direction. During rehabilitation,walks along the beach led to the collection of driftwood and other foundobjects, which were configured and painted into new forms. These workswere first exhibited in 2017 at the Brighton Festival, where several pieceswere sold.Since then, the artist has participated in numerous exhibitions, with workscollected both nationally and internationally. The content and context of themixed-media pieces draw from a lifetime of observation, music, the arts, andsubculture. Wherever possible, materials are recycled, found, and upcycled.
YOOL KIM, a Seoul-based artist, navigates ideas of identity and subconscious mind through mixed media artwork. Her paintings focus on figures expressing a form of disorder. This is seen not through just facial expressions, but extends throughout the painting to express dissatisfaction and dizziness that come from the human experience. Kim’s work often highlights self expression that have not yet matured, an expression stunted in growth. Her desire is to organize these emotions through her artwork.
Kim was born in 1982 and graduated from Hongik University Graduate School of Industry in 2015 with a degree in Color Studies.
Pizza In The Rain (PITR) Self-taught artist PizzaInTheRain or PITR (born 1988) celebrates working oncollaborations with other artists and unsanctioned figurative work on wallsacross Chicago, the US, and overseas. PITR finds inspiration in the conceptof public art and the underlying deviance that goes along with creating andpainting anywhere, regardless of permission. His pieces are often site-specificas he likes his work to harmoniously interact with the surrounding area. Asan underground artist, this is a rare opportunity to see his work in a gallerysetting.
Petal To The Metal By Jasper Stieve
March 7th - April 11th, 2026
Court Tree Collective proudly presents Petal To The Metal, a solo exhibition by New York City artist Jasper Stieve.
Jasper is a self-taught mixed media artist inspired by industrial landscapes and the rhythmic chaos of urban environments. Working primarily with found objects and airbrush, his pieces often encourage physical interaction, rejecting the traditional “do not touch” barrier between viewer and artwork.
This exhibition features a new body of work representing some of Jasper’s most ambitious and refined pieces to date. The presentation includes dynamic interpretations of city architecture, toys, urban landscapes, street artifacts, and three-dimensional installations, all underscored by his constant drive toward originality and reinvention.
A cultural scene often overlooked or disconnected from the broader public becomes tangible through the artifacts Jasper creates, offering viewers a direct and immersive connection to his world.
It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken
Nov 22 - Jan 17th, 2026
“It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken” is the latest exhibition by Mary and Jiem at Court Tree Collective in Brooklyn. In this new body of work, the self-taught duo from Northern France and Belgium unveils 100 fresh paintings, each forming part of a winding journey through everyday rituals, dreamlike landscapes, and nostalgic yet ebullient memories. Their compositions feel like fragments of lived experience—moments at once intimate and expansive—woven through with anecdotes, humor, and a gentle, bittersweet emotional charge.
True to their creative spirit, Mary and Jiem’s paintings radiate a sense of spontaneity, freshness, and freedom, standing unbound by academic conventions or orthodox approaches to representation. They work with an intuitive hand, allowing color, gesture, and storytelling to lead the way. The result is a visual world that feels deeply personal yet universally resonant, grounded in sincerity and the joy of making.
This exhibition marks the duo’s first solo presentation in the United States, following their well-received group appearance at Court Tree Collective and their participation in the Outsider Art Fair 2025. “It’s a Good Life If You Don’t Weaken” offers viewers a rare chance to enter their world in full—playful, vulnerable, and unmistakably alive.
Bridging The Gap
October 18 – November 15, 2025
“Bridging The Gap” brings together a powerhouse roster of artists whose practices span from self-taught visionaries to classically trained contemporaries. United by a shared spirit of experimentation and edge, the exhibition highlights the intersections of tradition and innovation, showing how diverse approaches can spark dialogue and expand what contemporary art can be.
Two Sides Of Sunday by Theo Bardsley
Sept 20th - Oct 11th 2025
Court Tree Collective is please to announce the debut solo exhibition by Theo Bardsley. Through a mix of observation and memory, Two Sides of Sunday explores the tension between solitude and connection, ritual and randomness. The quiet intimacy and unexpected encounters that define the week’s most reflective day.
Theo Bardsley is a London-based figurative painter whose large-scale portraits blur the boundaries between past and present. While each work begins with reality—often grounded in a direct reference photo—the paintings frequently take on a life of their own. Everyday encounters, whether moments in the pub, intimate exchanges, or fleeting daily interactions, are transformed into scenes charged with narrative depth and layered with art historical resonance.
With his background in Art History, Theo draws on a wide range of influences to build rich textures and meanings across the canvas. His work invites viewers to pause and reflect, uncovering echoes of both personal memory and collective history within his portraits.
