Following recent acquisitions by the Baltimore Museum of Art and selection for inclusion at Art Basel Miami Beach next month, Iraqi-American painter Vian Sora is presenting her first New York solo exhibition. On view this month at the David Nolan Gallery, the show titled Vian Sora: End of Hostilities consists of abstract, gestural work distilling the artist’s experience of coming of age in Baghdad. Grappling with themes of war, political upheaval, and geographic and cultural displacement, the exhibition takes place just steps away from Manhattan’s iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art at a relevant time for the city. Since the spring of 2022, over 116,000 migrants fleeing hardship in their home countries have gone to New York from the US-Mexico border.
December 1, 2023
