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Artist Feature: Olga Feshina
“Specifically, she offers a compelling critique of how the paradigms of contemporary feminine beauty are created, distributed, and absorbed across digital devices and platforms.”
PINGO
Through smears of paint and drops of color, the artist aspires to facilitate bodily healing, psychological repair, and the restoration of compassion as an important value in society.
“Studies For New Guernica”: New Work by Michael Francis at NYA Gallery
"Whereas Picasso’s painting was a powerful form of artistic protest and lamentation condemning atrocities committed in the Basque region by the military dictator Francisco Franco, SilverHaus’s collection of images offer an equally powerful statement against the use of chemical weapons and drones extensively seen in recent conflicts in the Middle East, particularly Syria and Yemen."
Nurture
"Each work in the show touches upon the idea of nurture, visualizing approaches to reciprocal processes of caring for self and others. In a range of media, these cultural producers thoughtfully prompt viewers to consider the formative nurturing experiences and forces that have had an impact on their own development and construction of identity."
Heal
"In response to an increasingly divided and distressed population, the artists in Heal offer powerful commentaries on individual and collective healing, be it in the bodily, environmental, or spiritual sense."
NYAFAIR
"With this robust schedule of cultural programming slated for the first week of May, NYA Art Center will be an important meeting point for creative practitioners, buyers, critics, and art admirers during one of New York’s most important weeks for the exhibition and sale of contemporary art."
Gene Myers: Abstract Meditations on the 14 Stations of the Cross
"Through abbreviated strokes, Myers conveys a sense of energy and movement that animates the figures while concurrently encouraging devotees to move from one station to the next in order to follow the narrative action."
Artist Feature: Kevin Champeny
"The work’s subject matter gains greater potency since the dominant artistic material is integral to the manufacture of chemical agents used to exterminate living organisms and numb or eliminate human pain."
Mushrooms: April 4 - 27, 2019
"The belief that everything is connected on a molecular level served as a starting point in the organization of this large-scale group exhibition."
NYA Gallery Launches Artist Residency Program with Evan Sebastian Lagache
"Based on his exhibition history and artistic promise, Lagache was chosen as the inaugural grant recipient of the residency."
Artist Feature: Norbert Waysberg & NYA Gallery Opening
"The ghostly, ethereal quality that surrounds and emanates from many of these works further contribute to this notion of historical layering in Waysberg’s imagery."
Artist Feature: Evan Sebastian Lagache & NYA Gallery Opening
"His art is in part a response to the urban environment and explores themes that touch upon humanity’s relationship to technology, nature, and the cosmos."