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Presented by Artist Residency Programs

Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition

May 28 - June 7, 2025
A painting of a domestic scene, featuring a male and a female figure with their cat, seemingly watching an out of view television, while resting on a blue couch. Used dinner plates rest on a coffee table before the figures, and a banana is taped to the pink wall behind them.A painting of a domestic scene, featuring a male and a female figure with their cat, seemingly watching an out of view television, while resting on a blue couch. Used dinner plates rest on a coffee table before the figures, and a banana is taped to the pink wall behind them.

Steve Danielson, Binging (Sunday Night), 2024, oil on canvas, 22 x 28 inches

Steve Danielson, Binging (Sunday Night), 2024, oil on canvas, 22 x 28 inches

SVA Flatiron Gallery

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

Reception

Wed, May 28; 5:00 - 7:00pm

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From the street outside a building, the SVA Flatiron Gallery and works hung in the hallway are visible through large windows. A few medium-large rectangular paintings hang beside a panel cut into an organic shape and painted with the colors of the sky.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From the corner, most of the gallery is visible, including the saint-like painting, the sculpture on a pedestal, the photos, and the figurative paintings.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

The blue fountain sculpture is visible in the corner to the left of the wall where the squiggle painting, the figurative paintings, and the abstract sculpture hang.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

On one gallery wall, there is a pink and yellow painting on a small, squiggle-shaped panel. To the right, there are two figurative paintings in the same style. On the far right, a sculpture on the wall appears to be a long string of hair tied to a piece of metal covered with pantyhose.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In a corner of the gallery, there is a sculpture of a blue fountain sitting on the ground. On the wall behind it, there is a very large painting of a saint-like person in a gold frame.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From another angle, the zipties, colorful paintings, white sculpture, and shadowy photos are all visible.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In the center of the gallery, a red sculpture and a white sculpture are placed on their own black pedestals. On the left half of the wall beyond them, three colorful but varied paintings hang beside each other. On the right half, there are three shadowy photographs pinned to the wall.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In the center of the gallery, a red sculpture and a white sculpture are placed on their own black pedestals. The wall to the right holds three paintings, and the wall straight ahead is covered with zipties.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

Inside the gallery, zip ties in organic shapes cover a wall. To the right, a pastel sky is painted on an organic-shaped panel.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

Facing the glass doors looking into the gallery, a painting of a saint or other holy figure hangs on the back wall. Sculptures and other paintings are also visible. Outside the door, zip ties are placed in a design on the wall.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In the alcove of the SVA Flatiron Gallery, zip ties formed into loops are placed in a design all over the wall. In the center, an orange and a black sculpture sit on two black pedestals. Through the glass doors to the gallery, a few paintings are visible.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From the opposite end of the SVA Flatiron Windows hallway, the large paintings are visible along with a painting on an organic-shaped panel.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

Inside the SVA Flatiron Windows hallway, two portrait-oriented colorful paintings hang beside a large, framed, landscape-oriented painting. More works hang further down the wall.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From the street outside a building, the SVA Flatiron Gallery and works hung in the hallway are visible through large windows. A few medium-large rectangular paintings hang beside a panel cut into an organic shape and painted with the colors of the sky.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From the corner, most of the gallery is visible, including the saint-like painting, the sculpture on a pedestal, the photos, and the figurative paintings.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

The blue fountain sculpture is visible in the corner to the left of the wall where the squiggle painting, the figurative paintings, and the abstract sculpture hang.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

On one gallery wall, there is a pink and yellow painting on a small, squiggle-shaped panel. To the right, there are two figurative paintings in the same style. On the far right, a sculpture on the wall appears to be a long string of hair tied to a piece of metal covered with pantyhose.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In a corner of the gallery, there is a sculpture of a blue fountain sitting on the ground. On the wall behind it, there is a very large painting of a saint-like person in a gold frame.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From another angle, the zipties, colorful paintings, white sculpture, and shadowy photos are all visible.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In the center of the gallery, a red sculpture and a white sculpture are placed on their own black pedestals. On the left half of the wall beyond them, three colorful but varied paintings hang beside each other. On the right half, there are three shadowy photographs pinned to the wall.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In the center of the gallery, a red sculpture and a white sculpture are placed on their own black pedestals. The wall to the right holds three paintings, and the wall straight ahead is covered with zipties.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

Inside the gallery, zip ties in organic shapes cover a wall. To the right, a pastel sky is painted on an organic-shaped panel.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

Facing the glass doors looking into the gallery, a painting of a saint or other holy figure hangs on the back wall. Sculptures and other paintings are also visible. Outside the door, zip ties are placed in a design on the wall.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

In the alcove of the SVA Flatiron Gallery, zip ties formed into loops are placed in a design all over the wall. In the center, an orange and a black sculpture sit on two black pedestals. Through the glass doors to the gallery, a few paintings are visible.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From the opposite end of the SVA Flatiron Windows hallway, the large paintings are visible along with a painting on an organic-shaped panel.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

Inside the SVA Flatiron Windows hallway, two portrait-oriented colorful paintings hang beside a large, framed, landscape-oriented painting. More works hang further down the wall.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

From the street outside a building, the SVA Flatiron Gallery and works hung in the hallway are visible through large windows. A few medium-large rectangular paintings hang beside a panel cut into an organic shape and painted with the colors of the sky.

“Sanctuary: SVA’s Artist Residency Alumni Exhibition,” SVA Flatiron Gallery, May 28 - June 7, 2025

SVA presents “Sanctuary,” a group exhibition featuring artwork from seven alumni of SVA Artist Residency programs. The exhibition will be on view from Wednesday, May 28, through Saturday, June 7, at SVA Flatiron Gallery,133/141 West 21st Street, New York City.

 

“Sanctuary” is a group exhibition featuring the work of seven alumni from the School of Visual Arts Artist Residency Programs. Showcasing a range of disciplines—including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and interdisciplinary media—the exhibition reflects not only on sanctuary as a subject in the world but also on the residency itself as a sanctuary: a temporary, intentional space for creative risk, reflection, and renewal.

 

From sacred structures and ecological refuge, to the body as a vessel of protection, and the studio as a site of healing, “Sanctuary” explores how artists imagine, construct, and inhabit spaces of safety, contemplation, resistance, and transformation. The works trace sanctuary across cultural, psychological, and political terrain—spaces that are at once internal and external, historical and contemporary, deeply personal and urgently collective.

 

Artists in the exhibition include Daniel Cosentino, Steve Danielson, Britt Harrison, Anna Jekel, Isabella Marcello, Tyler Andrew (6) Nelson, and Josué Morales Urbina.

 

Beyond the physical or symbolic spaces depicted in their work, “Sanctuary” foregrounds the creative process itself as a sanctuary—a site of survival, restoration, and resistance. For these artists, making art is more than an act of expression: it is a means of forging connection, reclaiming space, and cultivating care in a world often marked by instability.

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