Next Up: Sun Chasers

January 14 - 25, 2025

SVA Flatiron Gallery
133/141 West 21st Street, 1st floor, New York, NY 10011

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About the exhibition

"Through painting, photography, and printmaking, the six artists in Next Up: Sun Chasers retrace steps and identify recurring patterns that have led societies to their present-day state. A common thread among their aesthetically varied work is the pursuit of freedom, ranging from social expectations, embedded ideologies, groupthink, and alienation. These artworks use familiar visual vernacular while embedding alternate messages amidst their subjects. Pushing for an unlinking of time-honored yet destructive constraints, they assert that transformative progress happens through acknowledging and reckoning with the past. These artists grapple with forms of darkness—emotional wounds, tradition and power dynamics—in pursuit of the light within. As they reach toward the horizon, viewers may consider new trajectories between here and the future.Exhibiting artists include Yining (Cindy) Cai, Amber Dacanay, Shaohan Fang, Elika Jiang, Jimmy Johnson, and Sofiia Sichkar."

Exhibition text courtesy of School of Visual Arts, 2025.

Works in this exhibition:

Gena The Crocodile
2024
Acrylic and pigment transfer on canvas
13" x 16" in. (33.0 x 40.6 cm)

Press Release (Labeled)
2024
Acrylic and pigment transfer on canvas
36" x 48" in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)

Cheburashka
2024
Acrylic and pigment transfer on canvas
13" x 16" in. (33.0 x 40.6 cm)

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Next Up: Sun Chasers
School of Visual Arts Flatiron Gallery, 2025
133/141 West 21st Street, 1st floor, New York, NY

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