One Art Space was a featured exhibit at the 2026 Hamptons Fine Art Fair, with a curated presentation led by internationally recognized artist Shepard Fairey, whose art recently graced the cover of Time Magazine and featuring works by Al Diaz and Chuck Connelly at the Southampton Fairgrounds.
The fair, one of the major art events in the Hamptons summer calendar, brought together galleries, collectors and artists for four days of modern and contemporary art in Southampton—and resulted in the sales of nearly all of the works on display at the Gallery’s booth and sold out of all of the Shepard Fairey.
Curated by One Art Space’s MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, the presentation framed three artists through the powerful language of street art and urban visual culture: Fairey as the future-facing force, Diaz as the living present and Connelly as a vital bridge to the expressive past. Together, the works created a conversation about how art born from the street, the studio and the charged atmosphere of public life can move from provocation to permanence.
Fairey, best known for the Obey campaign and the instantly recognizable Barack Obama “Hope” image, anchors the presentation with the graphic impact, cultural immediacy and political resonance that have made him one of the defining visual voices of his generation, while Diaz brings the presentation firmly into the present through his legacy as the pioneering New York street artist and co-creator of the influential Samo project with Jean-Michel Basquiat and his current text-driven works that transform New York City “Wet Paint” signs into socially reflective anagrams and installations. Connelly completes the presentation by representing the expressive and unruly past that helped shape the visual energy from which later street and post-street movements emerged, with his Neo-Expressionist sensibility, restless gesture, raw feeling and psychological charge offering a compelling counterpoint to Fairey’s graphic precision and Diaz’s verbal immediacy. Together, the three artists create a dialogue across generations, demonstrating how rebellion in art can move from walls and public language to brushwork, memory and the enduring refusal to conform.
“One Art Space continues to support my work by having a showcase of pieces available and on view at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair,” said Artist Shepard Fairey. “I aim to draw people in with the beauty of an image and leave them with a deeper message and all of the works presented are a great example of that philosophy.”
“One Art Space has always believed in showing artists whose work carries a point of view,” said MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, curator. “For Hamptons Fine Art Fair, we wanted to bring together three artists who each changed the conversation in a different way. Shepard Fairey brings a global visual language; Al Diaz brings the living DNA of New York street culture and Chuck Connelly brings the raw power of painting as resistance. Together, they tell a story about where street art came from, where it stands now and where it is going.”
Notable attendees at the opening night VIP reception included: MaryAnn Giella McCulloh, Mei Fung, Carmen D’Alessio, Donna Rubin, Jean Shafiroff, Rebecca Seawright, Ashley Medici, Rick Friedman and Cindy Lou Wakefield.
