Name: In-Person: Interconnectedness – Art Exhibition and Reception
Start: 2026-01-03T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-03T16:00:00-05:00
Location: New York Insight Meditation Center

In-Person: Interconnectedness – Art Exhibition and Reception

with works by Lydia Dona, Nicole Parcher, and Stephen Pusey

Reception: Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 | 2:00pm – 4:00pm ET
Exhibition open until January 31st, 2026, whenever NY Insight is open.

Location: New York Insight at 115 West 29th Street, 12th Floor

New York Insight Meditation Center is pleased to announce Interconnectedness, an exhibition of fourteen works by Lydia Dona, Nicole Parcher, and Stephen Pusey—three brilliant artists, each of whom reenvisions abstraction in dynamic and exceptional ways. Ludic, liquid, intense, animated, employing what Félix Guattari would call “ensemble[s] of lines of alterity,” these innovative artworks offer “virtual possibilities, unprecedented new becoming.”

Emphasizing the physical act of painting and drawing, where the aleatory and improvisatory, the volatile and energetic, and a massive “lexicon” of marks (dabs, drips, splashes, smears, scribbles, etc.) converge, these works not only singularly express deep and profound feeling but a generous spirit of knowing and not-knowing, of the synergy between thoughts and bodily actions, evoking how mind influences body, body influences mind, where both dissolve, forming vast webs, networks, rhizomes, tapestries, where everything—actions, beings, and the universe—are interdependent. All the artists featured in Interconnectedness live and work in New York City. Interconnectedness was curated by John Madera.

Click HERE for Madera’s essay about the artwork in the show. A price list for the artwork in the show is available at NY Insight and upon request.

A reception for Interconnectedness will occur on January 3, 2026: 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. It will feature a conversation with the artists moderated by Madera. Updates about the exhibit may be found on this site. The artwork may be viewed until January 31st, 2026, whenever NY Insight is open.

Inquiries about the works in the show may be sent to John Madera.

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Teacher(s)

Lydia Dona

Born in Romania, Lydia Dona holds a BFA degree from both the Bezalel Academy and the School of Visual Arts, and an MFA from Hunter College in 1984. Dona has an extensive history of solo and group exhibitions both in the United States and internationally. Works by her can be found in major institutional collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium; and Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland.

Nicole Parcher

Nicole Parcher is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Since 1996, her work has been included in many group exhibitions, most recently at Zurcher Gallery (2021 and 2024), Amos Eno Gallery (2022), Trestle Gallery (2018), the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum (2014), and Ille Arts (2013); and at a solo show at the Gerald Peters Gallery (2011). Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Parcher has lectured about her work at the Parrish Art Museum and has participated in the Works on Paper Art Fair, the Cutlog Art Fair, and the Affordable Art Fair. In 2002, she was awarded a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. And in 2016, she was awarded the Zeta Orionis Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center. Parcher has been a selected resident at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts multiple times, most recently in 2024. She holds a BA from Skidmore College and is an Alumni of SACI in Florence, Italy.

Stephen Pusey

Born in London, Stephen Pusey graduated from St. Martins School of Art in 1975. From 1977 to 1982, he painted monumental public murals around London commissioned by local authorities. In 1986, he exhibited at MoMA PS1, after which New York became his domicile. In the following years, Pusey experimented with various forms including digital and networked media. In 1996, he co-founded the online art and discussion hub Plexus (plexus.org) with curator Yu Yeon Kim. He was a founding member of the Foundation for Digital Culture (1996) and a contributing artist to ArsDoom (Peter Weibel, et al.) for Ars Electronica (1995). In 1997, he co-curated OMNIZONE: Perspectives in Mapping Digital Culture, which featured on the Guggenheim Museum’s Cyberatlas website (curated by Jon Ippolito). Concurrent with his empirical digital and net art, his painting followed a personal trajectory, which, while abstract, was informed by an interest in physical, neurological and biological resonance. Pusey has had various solo and group exhibitions in New York City and internationally; and his work is in international public, corporate, and private collections, including Neuberger Berman.

John Madera

John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). His other fiction is published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. A recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University and a two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee, John lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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