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 Poetry Society of New York.
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
The Typewriter Project is an interactive installation by the The Poetry Society of New York, that invites visitors to contribute to a collective poem on a 100-foot paper scroll using a vintage typewriter equipped with a custom USB kit that archives every keystroke. Inspired by the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse, the installation captures the collective voice of the city and offers a participatory space within the exhibition for visitors to reflect on what we are left with.
Across painting, sculpture, assemblage, photography, and installation, the artists explore themes of historical reckoning, technological impact, environmental instability, and collective mental health, offering reflections on resilience, vigilance, and the responsibilities that emerge in the aftermath of crisis.
