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Outside/In to Open September 23, 2025, at G-Gallery in Tribeca
New York, NY — September 3, 2025— Thea Arts is pleased to present Outside/In: From Image to “I”. This group show will open on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, with a 6-8 pm reception. The exhibition brings together seven emerging and mid-career artists who live and work in New York: Meredith Bakke, Melinda Hackett, Sophia Kayafas, Devaun Longely, Tom Prinsell, Mario Saponaro, and Sarah Angele Wilson. Curated by Kristina Andersson, the two dozen-plus works on view include painting, illustration, sculpture, and video. Located at G-Gallery (404 Broadway, 2nd floor, New York, NY), the exhibition is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm until September 28, 2025, and is free of charge.
The works take as their central subject the visual depiction of internal states of being and ideations of selfhood. There is a nod to surrealism in Bakke’s oversized eye, Wilson’s gargantuan plants, and Saponaro’s man in a black suit standing in front of a mushroom cloud. The works contain references to mythological symbols (Kayafas’ woman wrestling a serpent) and classical art (Prinsell’s elaborate staging that mimics Renaissance art). Hackett’s oils conflate the microscopic realm with the cosmic, creating a visual vocabulary that resonates with Hilma av Klint. Longely’s video and illustrations show how the techniques of animation can be turned to interior exploration.
But unlike surrealism whose animus was the subconscious and mode free-flowing, these works foreground intentionality, with disciplined cropping, repetition, and flattening of the picture plane. Nearly all the works are marked by vivid use of color and exaggeration bordering on cartoonish. Today’s pervasive media and gaming culture has resulted in animation being a new vernacular form of narrative creation. But the playful and humorous elements in these works often serve to deflect from deeper emotional content. The biomorphism in the works of Hackett and Wilson think about the porous border between self and world. Saponaro’s many-windowed rooms provide glimpses of the natural world whose existence is real and yet provides no respite from internal cogitation.
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