Meliksetian | Briggs is pleased to present a two-person booth featuring the work of Meg Cranston (b. 1960, Baldwin, NY) and Yifan Jiang (b. 1994, Tianjin, China) for the Untitled Art Fair, Houston, 2025.

Meg Cranston has a broad artistic practice which includes painting, sculpture, performance, and video, writing and lecturing along with curatorial projects. Cranston has an ongoing interest in themes of personal identity, the subjective and its relationship to the broader culture by way of color theory, design, art history, shared cultural references, and formal experimentation. Cranston’s work is characterized by its playfulness and wit, an entrance into her explorations of the nature of image making and the role the artist plays in our society. The large-scale paintings presented at Untitled, Houston examine organizational structures in a playful and idiosyncratic manner, while fusing the artist’s interest in color theory and art historical precedents. In Organization Chart (Come and Get Your Love), 2024, Cranston subverts the traditional corporate hierarchy, flattening the conventional organizational chart into an absurd, humorous gesture where the chain of command leads nowhere. The artist satirizes the corporate world playfully questioning, “Who’s in charge?”

Yifan Jiang works in painting and digital animation, the two media informing one another across her practice. She constructs psychological landscapes that mirror dreamlike structures, weaving personal experiences with philosophical inquiries into cultural memory and language, proposing new ways of interpreting the world. The paintings featured in Untitled, Houston, draw upon literary sources from classics such as Joris-Karl Huysmans’ À Rebours (1884) and Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies (1951) to Cristina Rivera Garza’s contemporary The Taiga Syndrome (2018). Jiang visually interprets elements of these written works, charging the subject matter with intensity and emotional resonance through her deft handling of paint, her use of color, and her dynamic compositions.