Postcard from New York I Aug 11 -Aug 15, 2025
- Art Dealer Street
- Aug 14
- 3 min read
Here is our weekly Postcard from New York, in collaboration with Clio Art Fair!
In this article, we will explore some of the highlights of this week, looking for the most interesting and inspiring exhibitions and events in NYC.
Let's discover our selection of NYC-based art events!New York 2025
In Museums
EMPATHIC UNIVERSE - SAYA WOOLFALK
@MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN 12 APR - 07 SEPT 2025 The first retrospective of the artist’s two decades of world-building installations, the exhibition showcases Woolfalk’s ambitious fictional narrative of an imagined race of women known as “Empathics.” Woolfalk has created for the Empathics’ their own distinctive visual imagery, symbolism, and folklore, which reflect her investigations of African, African American, Japanese, European, and Brazilian art, craft, and storytelling. In this parable told through garment-based sculptures, video, paintings, works on paper, and performances, cultures mix, clash, and are ultimately transformed through shared understanding. Discover more
In Galleries
CHRONOMATIC ECHOES - SEHEE KIM
@A.I.R. GALLERY 09 AUG 2025 - 07 SEP 2025
A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to announce Chronomatic Echoes, an exhibition by artist Sehee Kim. Kim presents a series of paintings that begin with embodied gestures and are refined through careful, deliberate coloring, tracing the dialogue between body, emotion, and material. This is Kim’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Coined from the words chronos (time) and chromatic (color), “Chronomatic” describes how time dissolves into color, and how color gathers the echoes of time. Time is embedded in two stages: first, through embodied gestures that form the compositional understructure, and second, through the painstaking process of infilling those marks with precise, deliberate color. Surfaces accumulate over hours, days, and months—revealing time not as something that passes, but something to be physically held, layered, and preserved.
In Brooklyn
ANTIDOTE - WEN LIU
@GAA GALLERY
09 MAY - 15 AUG, 2025
Gaa is thrilled to present Antidote, a solo exhibition of new sculptures by Wen Liu. Including a selection of wall and freestanding sculptures molded and cast in epoxy clay and resin, these new pieces manifest Liu’s prolonged interest in and consideration of ideas surrounding transformation, presence, balance, and belonging. Antidote represents Liu’s inaugural solo exhibition with Gaa. Natural materials, organic forms, and found objects play an integral role in Liu’s methodical practice. Referencing the discarded skins of reptiles, or the distinguishable skeletal system of the female body, Liu kneads, bends, carves, and shapes malleable pieces of clay to create the intricate framework for these sculptures. Through her multi-step mold-making process, Liu pays subtle homage to the reptilian molting ritual, which not only serves as a marker of the passage of time, but also as evidence of growth, development, and renewal. Functioning similarly to an exoskeleton, Liu’s intricately molded structures form the bones which provide support for the delicate elements protected inside.
Outside
TABLE TALK - HIVE PUBLIC SPACE @ZION TRIANGLE, BROOKLYN
27 JUN, 2025 - 26 JUN, 2026
Table Talk honors the resilience, creativity, and unity of Brownsville. It is part of Pitkin Avenue BID’s efforts to uplift Zion Triangle as a welcoming, inclusive, and inspiring public space for all. The installation offers a space for neighbors to come together, share stories, exchange ideas, and find moments of rest and reflection. Translucent hexagons capture and refract light, casting a dynamic, colorful glow onto the surface below. Each hexagon has a handwritten message from community members responding to the prompt: “Brownsville is…” Discover more
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