The Winter Garden, NYAE’s annual Members Juried Invitational, brings together works inspired by the winter garden as a place of refuge, sustenance, and quiet persistence. The exhibition considers endurance and renewal, gathering artists’ reflections on tending inward spaces through the cold and carrying them forward into spring.
Siyan Wong’s paintings focus on immigrant Chinese women working in garment factories, restaurants, and domestic labor, bringing visibility to lives often overlooked. Drawing on her experience as a workers’ rights lawyer, her self-taught practice combines direct observation with a flattened, patterned style that emphasizes both the physical demands of labor and the interior lives of her subjects. Mother Warriors presents recent paintings alongside works by students and artists from her community, extending this focus through a shared reflection on the immigrant experience.
Familiar Stranger brings together works by Luisa Henao, Ying Hung, Sharon Cheuk Wun Lee, Elim Mak, and Mary Ting, extending Siyan Wong’s focus on immigrant life and labor. Taking its title from Wong’s painting of an elderly woman collecting cans on the Lower East Side, the exhibition considers questions of visibility, precarity, and survival shaped by migration. Across varied practices, the artists attend to the lived conditions of assimilation and the forms of resilience embedded in everyday experience.
NYAE is excited to announce the continuation of the artists’ critique group that originally ran in Bushwick and reprised at NYAE in fall 2023. Sessions will be presented in person at Equity Gallery, 245 Broome St. NYC. Sherilyn Neidhardt will be returning as the key host and point person for the series. The critique format will adhere to previous models whereby the artist narrates a 10-image, nine minute, PowerPoint presentation of their work to a live audience followed by a five minute audience Q&A. All media are welcome so long as works are clearly represented in still images.
Interested participants need to send an email with a single paragraph artist statement and five – seven images to sharilyn.neidhardt@gmail.com with the subject line “transcender application”
Now on view at Equity Gallery is the 2022 annual New York Artists Equity Members Invitational Exhibition. Equity Gallery is the physical exhibition space of the New York Artists Equity Association (NYAE).
A genuine and organic appearance of a collective with shared aspirations is rare and never random. In this instance, no three artists could have come from more divergent backgrounds and yet their work converses on an intimate and formalist level with adjoining narratives and motives to be explored fore with.
