come closer

Through tactility, coded narrative, and elements that conceal or reveal, Ezra Benus, Marie Franco, Woomin Kim, and Sydney Kleinrock open a dialogue about the ways we make ourselves and our communities visible. Beckoning the viewer to come closer, look closer, and even at times to touch the artwork, the works on view highlight the web of relationships that sustain us.

Please join us for a reception on Thursday, April 30th from 6-8pm.

Ezra Benus has exhibited nationally at Print Center New York, BRIC, Perlman Teaching Museum at Carleton College, NYU Gallatin Gallery, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Dedalus Foundation, EFA Project Space, The Shed, and internationally with Shape Arts (UK), Museion (IT), Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (DE), Doris McCarthy Gallery (CA), Art Gallery Windsor (CA), Migros Museum (CH). They have received support as an Art Matters Foundation Artist2Artist Fellowship, and had residencies with Art Beyond Sight’s Art + Disability Residency, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, EFA SHIFT Residency, BRIClab Contemporary Art. Ezra is also one half of Brothers Sick (with Noah Benus), a sibling artistic collaboration steeped in explorations of disability justice, politics and histories of illness, spirituality, Jewishness, and care. Their work has been reviewed and featured in publications such as Artforum, Pin Up, Mousse Magazine, Ocula, Art Agenda, Publico ípsilon, and Welt Kunst. ​Ezra Benus is the Disability Futures Manager at United States Artists, and is also an artist, educator, and curator raised and based in Brooklyn. They received degrees in Jewish Studies and Studio Art at CUNY Hunter College.

Marie Franco is a Peruvian-Venezuelan artist living in South Florida, whose practice focuses on storytelling and describing community through painting. She explores social connection, moments of everyday life, and shared immigrant experiences within emergent immigrant communities such as flea markets. She has a special focus on the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, a representative space for immigrants and culture in South Florida that is tied to her family history. As a public artist, Marie has contributed murals to organizations such as Hispanic Unity of Florida, the City of Dania, and Broward County Public Schools. She is a recent graduate of New World School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting and a minor in Art History. Her work has been exhibited at the YoungArts Gallery, the New World School of the Arts Gallery, and the historic Alfred I. duPont Building.

Woomin Kim is a South Korean artist currently based in Queens, NY. Through her textile and sculptural projects, she examines the active materiality of daily objects and urban landscapes. Kim has participated in exhibitions and residencies at the Queens Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Art Omi and Boston Children’s Museum. Kim has received fellowships and awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Noguchi Museum and Korean Cultural Foundation. Her works have been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz and BOMB Magazine. Kim holds a B.F.A from Seoul National University and received an M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sydney Hunter Kleinrock (b.1996 Long Island, NY) is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She designs, constructs, and quilts canvas structures that become the substrate for her paintings. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Hampshire College and has since exhibited work in New York City, Richmond, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, as well as in a solo show at Club George in Northampton, MA. Most recently, she was part of a three-person exhibition at IRL Gallery in NYC. She has participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center and ChaNorth, and showed work at Upstate Art Weekend in 2025. Her work was featured in issue #176, the Northeast issue of New American Paintings.