Exhibitions

Past

Breathe

February 1, 2026

An invitation to pause, recenter, and find calm.

Creative expression encompasses many forms – from visual art to music, dance, drama and literature. In this exhibition, artists were invited to consider music that enhances or alters their mood, has inspired or influenced them or has marked significant moments in their lives.

Each painting, drawing or photograph shown is informed by a specific piece of music that correlates with the work. The synergy between art and music allows the viewers to tap into the emotional power of both art forms.

Faded Sea

September 12, 2024

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

Faded Sea aims to celebrate artists who galvanize action through their work to protect our endangered oceans, rivers, lakes and other waterways. By bringing the devastation caused by climate change to the surface, artists convey the need to take action before it is too late. All 2D mediums are eligible to present ideas through representational, abstract, surreal and other genres.

This will be both an online and brick and mortar show at the Art at First gallery at the First Presbyterian Church in New York City. Unfortunately, the gallery cannot accommodate sculpture or video art. An in person opening event will be scheduled.

Seeing Music

November 1, 2022

“The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life.” — Pablo Casals

“Seeing Music” is a curated online exhibition featuring the selected artworks of 30 artists that have explored how music from the playlist of their lives has informed their creativity. This virtual exhibition will be on view from November 28, 2022 –January 31, 2023. Curated by Yvonne Lamar-Rogers and Cheryl Aden.

Elsewhere

July 4, 2022

Elsewhere is defined as “in, at, or to some other place or other places”. In this exhibition, artists meditate on the meaning of “place”, exploring the boundaries of physical, philosophical, and spiritual interpretations. Reflecting on universal elements of reality as well as abstract and intangible concepts, these artists depict ideas of identity, time, and space through their works, seeking to understand fundamental truths about their relationships to the world.

What is a City? Solidity & Suspension

March 1, 2022

What is a city? 23 Artists offer Visual Answers through Iconic Urban Structures. The work demonstrates the strong influence of the structures that make up a city – buildings, roads, tunnels, bridges and the like. The structures have been imposed upon nature, yet over time have become inevitably integrated with it, like the fusing of bone, each dependent upon the other.

Lost and Found: A Personal Vision

May 1, 2021

What is Lost? And What is Found? 117 selected Artists have joined together to give us a wide-ranging array of personal explorations on the theme of Lost and Found from the tangible concrete to the sheer existential. In this Spring/Summer 2021 Virtual Art Exhibition, the New York Artists Circle is pleased to present their unique visions of how they have coped and reacted to this past pandemic year of waves of serial losses.

Fragile Earth: Artists Respond to Climate Change

March 1, 2021

The earth is the source of all life and one of our most revered inspirations. It is also under grave threat. The works in Fragile Earth represent an artistic call to action from a group of creators who remind of the reverence and awe unique to the planet. The New York Artists Circle is proud to be able to offer an online platform for this important work.

Stillness

November 15, 2018

Sometimes in life we seek excitement, but sometimes we seek stillness. And what exactly is stillness? We can find stillness in nature as in a landscape, or in a selection of nature that is brought indoors as in a flower arrangement. Or we can also find stillness in abstraction. Each of the twenty artists in this exhibition approaches the notion of stillness in their own individual manner. Three distinct categories emerge: landscape, still-life, and abstraction. Interestingly, absent in almost all cases is the presence of a figure.