Residents and Friends Show: June 18th, 2026
The Residents & Friends Group Exhibition brought together artists from the 3 World Trade Center Artist Residency Program alongside various invited artists.
For the past eight years, Silverstein Properties had provided artists with studio space on vacant floors of 3 World Trade Center, creating a unique environment for artistic production and collaboration in Lower Manhattan. The exhibition celebrated the residency program and the community of artists it fostered.
Featured Artists
ARTIST: Orna Adoram
SIZE: 64 × 40 in
Orna Adoram is a full-time abstract artist that has been painting all her life. After 20 years of running her interior design business she pivoted her professional path to that of a professional painter. Her work has been exhibited in the Neeman buildings in Tel Aviv and Women of the World exhibition in Tribeca. She has had solo exhibitions at Colorida Gallery Lisbon and Hasimta Theater Gallery.
ARTIST: Sky Alvarado
MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas
SIZE: 4ft x 5ft
My name is Sky Alvarado, a dedicated painter with over six years of experience working with various mediums, including multiple design and media programs. My current artistic practice involves exploring new ways to integrate the elements in textiles with painting. My main inspiration comes from the culture of my Ecuadorian background.
ARTIST: David Hollier
MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas
SIZE: 54 × 65 in
DATE CREATED: 2026
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ARTIST: John Black
MEDIUM: Acrylic
SIZE: 36 × 48 in
DATE CREATED: 2026
John Black is a painter who creates his work through embodied gestures that channel the energy and frequency of the surrounding world and translates felt experience into a visual language. Rooted in an appreciation for ancient cultures and their metaphysical approaches to communication, Black explores how symbols, marks and patterns act as conduits by bridging the seen and unseen.
ARTIST: Carly Han
MEDIUM: Oil on canvas
DATE CREATED: 2025
Carly Han is an artist and illustrator currently studying Illustration with a Minor in Fine Arts and Visual studies. Working primarily in oil painting, her practice also extends to watercolor, children's picture books, installation, and experimental visual storytelling.
Drawing inspiration from absurdist literature, existential philosophy, and romantic visual traditions, Carly’s work explores the tension between beauty and uncertainty, freedom and structure, reality and imagination. Through dreamlike imagery, symbolic narratives, and poetic compositions, she investigates how romantic aesthetics can serve as a gateway into the complexities of the absurd condition.
ARTIST: AISLING LYNN
MEDIUM: Photobook
SIZE: 18 × 15 in
DATE CREATED: 2026
Aisling Lynn is a young New York City based artist interested in combining documentary and photo journalist practices withy more experimental curatorial choices. She is drawn to surrealist imagery and practices to make sense of the moment we are living in. Aisling Lynn’s first publication is This Door Closes at 10, a book exploring life in an apartment building on Aguila street in Havana, Cuba. She has followed this up with an expansive project called “An Inaccessible Wilderness Near Central Park,” exploring extreme wealth in Manhattan through the lens of the Upper East Side.
ARTIST: Brandon Sines
MEDIUM: Dayglo on canvas
SIZE: 48 x 36 x 1.5 in
DATE CREATED: 2024
ARTIST: Hugo Bastidas
MEDIUM: Oil/Linen
SIZE: 24 × 16
DATE CREATED: 2025
ARTIST: Charlotte Hailstone Wu
MEDIUM: Acrylic on canvas
SIZE: 20 × 28 in
DATE CREATED: 2025
Charlotte Hailstone Wu is a New York-based painter and curator whose work explores color, perception, and spatial tension. With a background in graphic design, her practice is built on formal clarity through composition, color theory, and the translation of spatial experience onto a flat surface. Her work centers on how color structures experience, using calibrated palettes and optical tension to create paintings that operate between image and object and resist a stable sense of foreground or depth.
ARTIST: Marie-Jose Robinson Kafri
MEDIUM: Left Panel: Mixed Media on Gallery-Wrapped Heavy-Duty Canvas
Right Panel: Acrylic on Gallery-Wrapped Heavy-Duty Canvas
SIZE: 36 × 48 in
DATE CREATED: 2024
Through layered textures, intuitive mark-making, and emotionally resonant color, Marie-Jose Robinson Kafri creates works that explore transformation, memory, and the invisible dimensions of human experience. Her paintings invite reflection while offering spaces of beauty, contemplation, and connection.
ARTIST: Djordje Skendzic
MEDIUM: Pigment Print on 23 Karat gold leaf
SIZE: 24 × 24 in
ARTIST: Evelyn Franco
MEDIUM: Linoleum Print
SIZE: 22 × 18 in
Evelyn Franco is a Latin American artist based in Westchester whose work is inspired by cultural traditions, the vibrancy of city life, and a deep appreciation for humanity. A mixed media artist with a primary focus on oil painting, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a minor in Art History from Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work celebrates human connection and encourages viewers to reflect on the qualities that unite us across cultures and experiences.
ARTIST: Ann Catherine Hughes
MEDIUM: Acrylic on wood
SIZE: 18 × 24 in
Ann Catherine Hughes is an illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. From a young age, they had a passion for cartoons and storytelling. Drawing inspiration from pop artists like Keith Haring, the early days of YouTube, anime, cartoons, comics, film, and literature, they imbued their works with a style that is simultaneously dark, humorous, and “cute.” Whether it be creating fantastical worlds, exploring intense emotions, or addressing societal issues such as artificial intelligence and human rights, they are always armed with their iPad, ready to materialize new ideas. Hughes holds a BFA in Art History from SCAD and is pursuing the Master of Arts in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. This is their first exhibition with New Apostle Gallery.
ARTIST: Michela Roman
MEDIUM: Bronze
SIZE: 9W X 6.5D X 15H in
DATE CREATED: 2024
Michela Roman is an Italian-Canadian sculptor living and working in New York. Through stone carving, bronze casting, and clay modeling, she uses the human figure to explore emotional and physicalstates.
Rooted in classical training and guided by intuition, her work manipulates anatomy through gesture, balance, and distortion. By fragmenting and reconfiguring the body, she creates forms that hold opposing qualities at once: tension and stillness, discomfort and beauty.
She is interested in capturing moments of pause within the pace and distractions of everyday life. By manipulating the figure, she creates spaces for reflection that encourage a closer awareness of ourselves and how we move through the world.
ARTIST: Vexta
MEDIUM: Spray paint, ink, watercolor, chrome pen, acrylic, gouache and metal leaf on hand-deckled 300gsm watercolor paper
SIZE: 16 × 22 in
