Valeri Larko: Hidden in Plain Sight

Hidden in Plain Sight was a solo exhibition of new paintings by the New York artist Valeri Larko, best known for densely painted landscapes of the urban fringe, which she paints on location. She is drawn to the decaying and abandoned structures on the outskirts of America's cities, and to the stories those places can tell.

The paintings looked closely at overlooked corners of the Bronx and its edges: pilings along the Harlem River, the arches and overpasses around Highbridge, a closed gas station in Mount Vernon, a Bronx motel and a wall of small billboard paintings. Writing about the work, Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, observed: "While there are no people in the work, what we build, what we value, what we maintain, speaks to who we are as a civilization."

On January 27, 2022, Larko gave an artist talk at the gallery, followed by a reception.