Exhibitions
April 11, 2024 – May 11, 2024
Mercurial
Chukwuemeka Anthony Chukwu’s solo exhibition Mercurial incorporates artworks that embrace painterly swaths of jewel-toned hues expanding across rounded compositions on panel: abstract, lyrical and, at times, haunting.
March 8, 2024 – April 6, 2024
In The Mood For Love
Seventeen women artists with roots in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Chinese-American diasporas are featured in this compelling group exhibition of women artists at VillageOneArt.
January 11, 2024 – February 10, 2024
Find Me
Alayna Coverly: Find Me at VillageOneArt will encounter subtle identities and bold swaths of fabric tumbling, unencumbered, across the surfaces of Coverly’s compositions.
December 7, 2023 – January 6, 2024
Waking Life
Polin Huang & Jingqi Wang: Waking Life offers a transcendental perspective of the interstitial: moments frozen between different cultures, geographic locations or states of consciousness.
November 2 – December 2, 2023
Cowgirls and Mermaids
Cowgirls & Mermaids explores unbridled feminine power through the lens of contemporary realism. Emma Hapner points to the agency of owning feminine identity in making work, as she “embraces the color pink as a symbol of unapologetic femininity.”
September 7 – October 28, 2023
Intercodex
Emily Cheng’s work combining semiotics and visual imagery, portrays and constructs spiritual connections between humanity, nature, and the cosmos, embodying her pursuit of human origins and the essence of the universe.
August 3 – August 26, 2023
Idylls & Reveries
Idylls & Reveries presents a survey of landscape and figuration with a soupcon of peculiarity – a figure is presented in an unsetting flat plane of color, figures are drawn together in unrealistic portrait settings or a woman is shown facing away from the viewer, gazing just out of sight.
July 6 – July 29, 2023
Memory Deluge
Memory Deluge presents the artist’s alluring yet idiosyncratic paintings:compositions that approximate both physical and emotional realities, with figures rendered in soft gradients and loose brushwork.
June 1 – June 29, 2023
Tactical Potato
Tactical Potato offers the viewer mysterious yet intriguing juxtapositions in these compositions, approximating geometric structures defining material spaces, as occurs with architecture, and ethereal, subtle nuances in tone referencing non-material spaces, like those found in the world of gaming.
May 4 – May 27, 2023
Starry Heavens, Moral Law
Wo Xinyu’s soft and voluminous figures set within abstracted landscapes question the place of humankind within a larger philosophical context. Softy diffused colors allude to a soft intuition, hinting at the lofty goal of extending consciousness into the realm of painting.
April 5 – April 29, 2023
Girls Will Be Girls
Girls Will Be Girls offers fantastical portraits of beauty and danger shown suspended in an innocuous, cotton candy dream world. Hapner’s nudes emote various psychological states, from introspection to mania.
March 2 – April 1, 2023
In The Mood For Love
In The Mood for Love offers a compelling view of the capacity that Chinese women artists from the Song Dynasty to present have to convey powerful visual compositions across mediums ranging from photography to painting, works on paper, mixed media work and more.
February 2 – February 25, 2023
Elements In Space
Surface, line and angle all combine to intriguing visual effect in the paintings on view in Timon I: Elements in Space. Otherworldly landscapes and interiors seem to immerse visitors to the exhibition in an expanse of natural and domestic motifs.
January 5 – January 28, 2023
Embodiment
The artist’s paintings recall charged figuration depicted in works by 20th century painters such as Paula Modersohn-Becker and Alice Neel. Matassa paints her subjects in fragments or with hollow stares as they directly face the viewer.
December 6 – December 31, 2022
Interstices
Interstices presents a contemporary take on representational painting through a variety of compelling viewpoints. Introspective visions pervade these paintings, many of which are portraits, infusing them with lush interiors and fantasy elements.
November 8 – December 3, 2022
Oasis
Oasis casts an intimate yet otherworldly lens on themes of identity, belonging and self-realization. The artist roots this body of work within a careful consideration of personal experience and art history topics in equal measure.
October 4 – November 5, 2022
Subtle Gestures
The artist’s demonstrated acumen across a range of painterly styles offers the viewer a range of experiences, spanning deft expressions of diffuse, atmospheric light and figurative articulation. Natividad’s oeuvre offers a dazzling array of artworks for visitors to explore.
September 6 – October 1, 2022
Dream Worlds
Bold colors merge with organic forms throughout the suite of works on view, creating surreal scenes in visually complex landscapes. Khurieva’s compositions dwell in vivid imagination, with surprising juxtapositions, abstracted figures and delightful contrasts of artistic mediums.
August 2 – September 3, 2022
Double Trouble
Works on view offer whimsical takes on portraiture, abstraction, surface texture, bold colors and complex narratives. Many of the works are subversive, offering the viewer saccharine cotton-candy tones casting a Pop Art lens onto subject matters often both potent and powerful.
June 29 – July 30, 2022
Passing Notes
Brown presents hyper realistic oil paintings create strange, unintelligible narratives framed within natural phenomena, such as presenting a presumed family portrait in a space station, a young boy in an amusement park airplane and an eerie light illuminating a rocky outcropping.
May 24 – June 25, 2022
Revealing The Beauty Within
Works on view encompass a broad range of subject matter spanning landscape, popular culture and portraiture. These representational paintings survey the keen observations of a new generation of artists presenting beauty in its myriad of forms. By presenting tableaux and figures that engage with the individual’s unique lived experience, each artist confronts and upends expectations surrounding notions of beauty socially, culturally and artistically.
April 21 – May 21, 2022
Guilty Pleasure
Ellie presents stylish self-portraits alongside images of finely bedecked mannequins, with figures posed along city streets and within urban interiors. The artist’s mastery of pattern, hue and tone complement the poignant facial expressions and subtle body language comprising these evocative artworks.
March 15 – April 20, 2022
Contours And Crevices
Contours and Crevices offers a glimpse of the stunning range of work being created by rising stars of contemporary painting based in New York City. From portraits to landscapes, colorful abstraction to hyper-realism, these artists breathe new life into the genre of painting with their keen attention to detail in the small moments defining the corners and creases of their compositions.
January 21 – March 15, 2022
Portraits
Shu’s nuanced use of color and prescient grasp of cultural melange is evident in these portraits. In “Jojo as a God,” the subject of the portrait appears suspended in a trance, centered within abstract swaths of blue and green hues. The white picket fence contrasts with Jojo’s powerful stance in the foreground, presenting a visceral yet ambiguous tableau.
November 22, 2021 – January 8, 2022
Tilted Visions
Surprising contrasts and playful compositions traverse two- and three-dimensional space, while organic lines crossing the picture plane create a sense of depth and movement. Where figures appear in these works, they are warped or twisted, becoming nearly unidentifiable. Tilted Visions presents perspectives that are out of the ordinary, offering imaginative takes on familiar themes explored from new angles.
October 15 – November 15, 2021
Boundaries
These paintings focus on borders comprising the formal aspects of representation, tracing the fault lines between the figure and the natural world. Where figures are depicted, the focus in the composition is often on concrete boundary lines. Bodies are fragmented and faces abstracted, while scenes depicting the natural world incorporate dreamlike imagery bounded by the lines defining them.
September 9 – October 30, 2021
Dialectics of Abstraction
As an artist, scholar, and lecturer, Kelly has developed a multi-faceted artistic practice using politically, culturally, and historically significant materials to create works encompassing painting, collage, calligraphy, pyrography, new media, installation, and sculpture. Initially drawing from personal experience, Wang adopts a wide-ranging perspective that considers the human as well as the non-anthropocentric and timeless.
July 22 – August 31, 2021
Narrative Visions
Powerfully personal narratives and dream-like visions reign triumphant in large-scale paintings by artist Sofia Zubi, offers bright hues and a range of symbolism evocative of artists like Marc Chagall and Henri Rousseau. Zubi features her studied range of styles both painterly and graphic, with an intuitive ability to adapt her sense of line and color to evoke emotional resonance within the composition.
May 27 – July 15, 2021
More and Less
Tal’s neo-representational painting and mixed-media work juxtaposes a lush treatment of surfaces with geo-abstraction and minimalism.The artist effectively contemplates sculpture through the lens of painting in these works, with his keen sensibility for three dimensional modeling visible in the treatment he gives the leaves and flower petals in works
April 1 – May 10, 2021
Exquisite Planes
Exquisite Planes is an exhibition of new oil and acrylic works on canvas by artist Alexander Yulish and Iris Kufert-Rivo, exhibiting a range of techniques exploring figuration and abstraction. Neutral tones and bright jewel-tone hues alike pervade both artists’ works, with strident lines and geometric planes define Kufert-Rivo’s canvases while Yulish alludes to the figure, with swaths of bright colors evoking emotion throughout.
November 15, 2020 – January 15, 2021
A Tale of Two Cities
This show traverses abstraction, mining the grounds of contemporary minimalism and color field painting while exploring a range of textures and materiality. Works on view incorporate transcultural artistic influences while adopting a postmodern approach in line, color, and medium to bridge the gap between traditional and contemporary, universal and local.
July 14 – September 30, 2020
Inverted Realism
Artworks in “Inverted Realism” track a compelling vein of contemporary realism in which additional elements such as assemblage, surface texture, perspectival line and photographic processes, combine to produce a heightened sense of form and composition. The juxtaposition of repetitive and/or three-dimensional, textural elements blend to eye-catching effect across the surface of the works as a result of each artist’s unique process.
February 13 – March 31, 2020
Altered Visions
Altered Visions presents works by artists Amy Hill and Guido Garaycochea at VillageOne Space in SoHo. Presenting works inspired by Pop Art and Surrealism in equal measure, the artists’ work complement one another, providing a reflection of the past by presenting historical art figures who have defined the landscape of contemporary art.
December 19, 2019 – January 30, 2020
Sitelines
Reflecting on such diverse influences as agriculture and sustainability to the built environment, lines create sites consisting of both bold and delicate weights. Taking cues from Conceptual Art and Abstract Expressionism, this exhibit spans contemporary views of the landscapes both foreign and familiar that determine our interaction with the world of nature surrounding us.
October 10 – November 30, 2019
Surface Visions
Artworks in Surface Visions feature the discreet interplay between the expectation of a painting’s surface and the reality of it as exuded through each artist’s process. Artists on view – Lee Tal, Gianna Putrino, Rachel Rubenstein, Meir Srebriansky and Kelly Wang – play with the relationship between line and surface, using unique framing mechanisms of scenery, surprising materials and juxtapositions to create new visions in these clever compositions.
September 5 – September 30, 2019
Dance You to The Light of Existence
Dance You to The Light of Existence spotlights the exuberant artistic stylings of New York-based artists Geraldine Neuwirth and Danielle Frankenthal. Marking a lyrical foray into bright, painterly abstraction, these artists’ works take a contemporary approach to the long-established style of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism.
June 20 – July 31, 2019
Eternal Flame
Eternal Flame features artworks by distinguished New York-based artist James Gortner, who incorporates a range of methods and materials to realize his ethereal and abstract compositions. Gortner’s practice spans from oil and acrylic paint to encompass rope, stretchers, and found materials.
March 28 – May 30, 2019
Light at Night
In the art world, there are people that dislike fitting into the existing social order and mingling with the common. They separate themselves from the mainstream, both in conduct and creation, and avoid getting involved in worldly matters.
December 13, 2018 – February 28, 2019
Time Tunnel
Cao’s works have fascinated viewers, capturing famous American icons’ deepest emotions and inner connections. Cao’s signature style employs tiny pixelated images to form complete compositions, usually combining two or more artworks.