A New Edition by Lily Wong, in Support of Silver Art Projects

A New Edition by Lily Wong, in Support of Silver Art Projects

Posted on By Kayla Seifert

ART FOR CHANGE x SILVER ART PROJECTS
Announcing our partnership and a new edition by Lily Wong, in support of Silver Art Projects

We are thrilled to announce our partnership with Silver Art Projects, a non-profit organization that provides artists with free, year-long studio spaces and career development opportunities that accelerate and enhance their artistic practice at 4 World Trade Center. 

The collaboration will debut at the Silver Art Gala 2024 on Thursday, November 14, at 6:00 PM. This year’s event celebrates artists who drive social change through transformative art, and will honor artist Jesse Krimes amongst others. At the event, ART FOR CHANGE will debut a new limited-edition print by current artist-in-residence, Lily Wong. Wong’s “Touch” will be available for purchase at the Gala and simultaneously released online. Also at the event, ART FOR CHANGE will showcase limited-edition prints by past and current Silver Art Projects residents including Alannah Farrell, Cydne Jasmin Coleby, Jean-Pierre Villafañe, Jesse Krimes, and Susan Chen. 

Supporting Silver Art Projects’ mission, ART FOR CHANGE will donate a portion of the print proceeds to help fund their Artist-in-Residence program, in alignment with the ART FOR CHANGE mission to support artists in order to maintain a thriving cultural ecosystem.

Stay tuned for more information about the ART FOR CHANGE x Silver Art Projects partnership!
LILY WONG
LAUNCHING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14TH

Lily Wong (Silver Art Projects '24) is a figurative painter whose work delves into the vulnerabilities and complexities of yearning. In Touch, her protagonists transcend the physical, embodying sensations and emotions that move through dreamlike spaces and disjointed time. Here, color becomes a pulse, guiding viewers through a visual map that explores how fractures—literal and metaphorical—shape the body’s connections to memory, intimacy, and desire.

The limited edition print, Touch, by Lily Wong, will be available for purchase at 6pm on November 14th at the Silver Art Projects Gala and will be released online to the public that evening.  Please reach out for more information on the upcoming print release!
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Limited edition prints by Silver Art Projects Residents
Shop a collection by past and current residents
ALANNAH FARRELL
Omari (FiDi)

Depicting a tattooed figure gazing downwards before a tall mirror, Alannah Farrell’s (Silver Art Projects ‘24) Omari (FiDi) captures an intimate moment of quiet introspection. As characteristic of Alannah Farrell's practice, the image—intended to be a testament to the devotion and emotion invested in the process of becoming acquainted with another person, as well as a painting—originates from a real exchange shared between the subject and the artist. Luminosity defines the work, rendered through numerous, transparent layers glazed onto a classical grisaille underpainting. For this limited edition series, the artist will hand-embellish five prints with newly painted elements.
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CYDNE JASMIN COLEBY
Remembering I
 
Comprising collaged elements that make up an image of two companions seated by the sea, Cydne Jasmin Coleby’s (Silver Art Projects ‘24) Remembering I was created in response to the Bahamian government’s decision to restrict citizens’ access to the beach, during the height of the pandemic. Regardless of its well-meaning intentions, this policy deprived locals of access to a natural space where they could self-heal and gather in a socially distanced manner, leading many to question the distinction between ‘tough love’ and punitive action. This discourse prompted Coleby to reflect on simpler days, and to hold onto hope that they would greet her again in the future. Notably, the original iteration of Remembering I resides in the collection of Destinee Ross-Sutton, NY. For this edition, the artist will hand-embellish a portion of the prints by adding gold leafed, matte, gloss, and glitter finishes.
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JEAN-PIERRE VILLAFAÑE
Sombras

Jean-Pierre Villafañe’s (Silver Art Projects ‘24) Sombras is a rich, rhythmic composition teeming with illusionistic depths of field, geometric tricks, and tangible verve expressed through satirical groupings and dramatic figures. Influenced by his formal architectural training, Sombras renders the social environment and its identifiers with a sharpness and spirit that dances out of the canvas. Through a complex, cubist sense of layering, the artist explores notions of intimacy, sexuality, self-concept, and performativity through a destruction of the distinctions between figure and environment. The viewer finds Villafañe’s animated characters each arrested in brief moments of ecstasy and bacchanalian indulgence. Accessories, embraces, and figurative interminglings weave integrally through the architecture of their setting, physically and interpersonally. The artist has hand-embellished the edition with additional acrylic details in the scene, making each print a unique work.
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JESSE KRIMES
Blackwater

Blackwater is from Jesse Krimes’ (Silver Art Projects ‘22) Elegy Quilt series, which incorporates memories or feelings of home described by currently incarcerated people. In the Elegy series, antique chairs sit empty, evoking both absence and symbols of Americana that have been forgotten and cast aside. Krimes harnesses the power of absence to reassert the humanity of his unseen subjects. Portraying the homes of people who are incarcerated is an affirmation that they once lived in community with the free world and that many of them will return home. The frames are not entirely empty of life, however: animal figures loom or confront the viewer directly, suggesting a panoptic state of surveillance and alluding to American zoology’s troubled history of eugenicist and white supremacist ideas. Krimes has created each hand-transferred print for ART FOR CHANGE on prison bedsheets and embellished each work through a combination of hand embroidery, sewing on remnants of fabric from the original quilted work, and hand-drawing or painting over the print, making each print unique.
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SUSAN CHEN
Chinatown Block Watch

Chinatown Block Watch captures the resilience and local character of New York City’s Chinatown, a neighborhood teeming with history yet undergoing significant change. The print highlights the namesake advocacy group which has provided assistance and protection to the area throughout the pandemic by surveying the streets and providing ad-hoc care. Captured in the artist’s characteristic vibrant and painterly style, the exaggerated proportions and dense composition unveil Susan Chen’s (Silver Art Projects ‘24) preoccupation with her subjects and community. Exploding with iconography such as popular shops and restaurants, Chinatown Block Watch marries a dreamy realism with an emphatic, social urgency that captures the concerns and priorities of the moment.  Inspired by the disappearing bilingual street signs, the artist has hand-embellished each print with a red brick border in India Ink and art markers, making each piece a unique work.

 
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