Soren Hope

Soren Hope’s work explores the unstable boundary between figuration and abstraction. Through painting and printmaking, they use substitutions and mirrored forms - an arm standing in for another, a face completing itself through reflection - to probe the limits of recognition and embodiment. Material gestures like pooling paint and eroded marks resist seamless illusion, creating images that hover between coherence and collapse. Across media, Hope’s practice sustains this tension, holding viewers in the space where meaning flickers and form comes undone. ...

Founded by Ethan James Green in 2022, New York Life Gallery’s program centers on collaborative curations with artists across all mediums. The gallery’s exhibition program includes emerging and mid-career artists as well as unknown archives and 20th-century artworks. As an artist-run space, the gallery focuses on programming that is community-oriented.