Sally J. Han
Wallflower
05.29 – 08.08.2025
Salon 94, 89th Street, NYC
Wallflower presents eight new paintings by Sally J. Han that meditate on presence, impermanence, and the quiet resilience of the everyday. Framed through a personal yet expansive visual vocabulary, Han’s works depict flowers, birds, mirrors, and glimpses of the artist’s everyday life to illuminate the border between the visible world and internal reflection.
Drawing from symbolic traditions such as floriography—the coded language of flowers—and mythologies that span from ancient Greece to Mesoamerica, Han imbues each composition with layered meaning. Her panels are rich with detail: hummingbirds flutter through dense foliage, women sit in contemplative solitude, and sunflowers jostle toward the light. Stillness and motion coexist in these scenes, conjuring a world that is intimate, observant, and charged with emotional precision.
The exhibition’s title, Wallflower, draws out the quiet power of this gaze. A wallflower may grow at the margins, but it sees everything. Positioned both botanically and metaphorically, it also signals a mode of observation that resists spectacle in favor of subtle and careful attention.
For more information about this exhibition, please contact Jack Ross (jack@salon94.com)
