The Now After: What We’re Left With
On view April 30 through September 12, 2026
Featuring work by Lacey McKinney, Amy Hill, Chau Nguyen, V.L. Cox, and Tyvette Symone, alongside The Typewriter Project, an interactive installation by the New York Poetry Society.
Tyvette Symone, Delusions of Grandeur: The Death of Symone Seraphim, 2024, Mica, black tourmaline, snow geese wings, mallard wings, mulberry paper, cotton strings, 48 × 35 × 3 in; Lacey McKinney, Contact Zone 11, 2025, Oil on paper, 40 × 60 in; VL Cox, No Vacancy, 2017, Authentic church steeple from the Arkansas/Mississippi Delta and handmade church sign. Wood, steel, paint, wire, rubber, led lighting, 109 × 60 × 25 in
Participating artists will present work spanning painting, sculpture, photography, assemblage, and installation. Lacey McKinney creates interdisciplinary works that challenge hierarchies of gender and ecology, examining environmental crisis through a feminist lens that reflects on the destabilization and ecological aftermath of human intervention. Amy Hill paints scenes where natural and technological worlds coexist in uneasy balance, questioning what remains of intimacy, environment, and human agency as technological systems increasingly shape daily life. Chau Nguyen investigates the intersections of memory, labor, and Vietnamese history, tracing how images and materials circulate globally while revealing the ongoing cultural and generational aftermath of war. V.L. Cox transforms historical objects such as distressed American flags, segregation era materials, and antique furnishings into assemblage sculptures that confront the enduring legacy of injustice and ask what responsibility remains in the wake of historical oppression. Tyvette Symone translates her lived experience with Bipolar I disorder into symbolic visual language that connects personal mental health with broader cultural turbulence, reflecting the psychological aftermath of contemporary life.
The Now After: What We’re Left With confronts our world after impact, after rupture, and after the world we experienced yesterday. What we’re left with, as seen through the eyes of five artists and the Typewriter project, is a new world of reckoning: interrupted hierarchies, ecofeminisms, a little bit absurd, critical of the destructive past, mindful of personal accountability and the roles we all play, while questioning the sustainability and stability of our environment and our mental state.
Amy Hill, Woman on Zoom, 2021, Oil on canvas, 23 × 22 in
