The Records & Archives Committee of American Abstract Artists (AAA) spent yesterday afternoon in the Art & Architecture Room of the New York Public Library studying the contents of their AAA files in preparation for a May display in a vitrine just outside the room. Lots of beautiful and informative early exhibition announcements, posters, and press clippings.
2026 is the 90th anniversary of the founding of AAA in November of 1936.
Opening this Saturday, Dec. 6, 2–5 pm.
Conversations II
Dec 6–January 3, 2026
James Clark, Cordy Ryman, Claire Seidl, Bettina Blohm, Sue Carlson, Holly Miller, Sylvia Schwartz, Nell Waters, Shawna Miller, Tad Wiley, Deb Covell, Jo McGonigal, Howard Schwartzberg, Alex Stolyarov, Christopher Blyth, Robert Melzmuf, Daniel G. Hill, Jacob Cartwright, Victoria Palermo, Sonita Singwi.
Helm Contemporary
132 Bowery, 3rd fl, NYC
Tue–Fri 11–6
Sat 1–5
Looking forward to moderating a discussion this Sunday (11/16) at 3:00 pm at Helm Gallery on the language of abstraction with the four artists in the exhibition ‘Pattern Space’. The work is as articulate as the artists so should prove to be an interesting discussion.
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In order:
Sonita Singwi @sonitasingwi
Jacob Cartwright @jacobcartwrightpaintings
Daniel Hill @danielghill
Victoria Palermo @victoriapalermostudio@helmcontemporary located at 132 Bowery, 3rd floor
This Sunday, November 16, 3–4 pm, Helm Contemporary will present a conversation with the four artists featured in PATTERN SPACE—Victoria Palermo, Daniel G. Hill, Sonita Singwi, and Jacob Cartwright—moderated by NYC-based abstract painter Lindsay Walt.
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Helm Contemporary
132 Bowery, 3rd Floor, New York, NY
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This Sunday, the gallery will be open 2–5 pm.
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#patternspace #danielghill #victoriapalerma #sonitasingwi #jacobcartwright #lindsaywalt @helmcontemporary@jacobcartwrightpaintings@sonitasingwi@victoriapalermostudio@lindsaywaltart
Artist Talk — Sunday, November 16, 3–4PM
In conjunction with Pattern Space, on view through November 22.
Please join us for a conversation with artists Lindsay Walt, Daniel G. Hill, Victoria Palermo, Sonita Singwi, and Jacob Cartwright.
Lindsay Walt is an abstract painter based in Brooklyn. She received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from The Art Institute of Chicago where she majored in sculpture and installation work. Awards include the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and a MacDowell Fellowship. After years of working three-dimensionally, her practice shifted to watercolor and painting. She has exhibited her work in many group exhibitions and solo exhibitions including, most recently, at High Noon Gallery in New York.
Pattern Space brings together four artists—Jacob Cartwright, Victoria Palermo, Daniel G. Hill, and Sonita Singwi—exploring geometry as both framework and generative force, where pattern, folded planes, and intersecting forms reveal the quiet mechanics that shape perception.
Artist Sonita Singwi will be at the gallery this Saturday, Nov 1st, 3–5 PM.
Featured works in these images: Pink Fold (2019), Warm Yellow (2018), Light Blue Fold (2019) Acrylic on paper 15 × 22” each.
“The Fold series is an investigation of the intrinsic spatial complexity of folding… The process of cutting and folding transforms the flat surface of the paper into three dimensions, blurring distinctions between inside and outside, front and back.” — Sonita Singwi
A graduate of Hunter College (MFA) and NYU (MA, Art History), Singwi has exhibited with Liebman Magnan Gallery (NYC), Hales Gallery (London), and The Shed (Brooklyn), and is a member of the American Abstract Artists.
When your cracked lens turns into an unexpected Bowery light show. 🌈
I stopped by the new exhibit Pattern Space at @helmcontemporary on the second day of the show, missing the opening because life is like that. But coming on quieter hours brings its own rewards.
This one is truly fab. The show brings together @jacobcartwrightpaintings , @danielghill , @victoriapalermostudio , and @sonitasingwi , artists exploring pattern, rhythm, and structure in unexpected ways.
Gallery director @karinaeargudo and artist @danielghill gave me a mini walk-through. Daniel even adjusted my camera to find the right angle I was missing—which is how we discovered one of my very new phone iPhone lenses is cracked and now adds a rainbow to everything. 🌈 Fortunately I have AppleCare and I’m headed to the SoHo Apple Store next.
Karina and I talked about process, proportion, and how geometry can feel weirdly human. People drifted in and out, and I met others in that unhurried way that never happens at openings, including artist @susankmastrangelo , whose work I’ve admired in person before.
Pattern Space runs through November 22 at HELM CONTEMPORARY, 132 Bowery, 3rd Floor.
Hours: Tues–Fri 11–6, Sat 11–5.
Go see it in person!! Yes the Bowery is loud outside, but inside it’s all pattern and calm artistic conversation, with or without a rainbow lens.
Chris Hiebert with Barbara MacAdam at her show “Back to School” at Victoria Munroe Fine Art speaking about how each mark in her drawings relates to a state of being and that the negative space is full of energy. Her interest lies not in the picture plane but in the idea of expanding space.
Helm Contemporary
Pattern Space brings together four artists—Jacob Cartwright, Victoria Palermo, Dan Hill, and Sonita Singwi—whose practices converge around questions of structure, visual movement, and spatial logic. Across painting and sculpture, geometry becomes both a framework and a generative force.
In this exhibition, folded planes and intersecting geometries create a field where precision and intuition coexist. Forms hinge, balance, and expand, revealing the quiet mechanics that shape perception. Through shifts in proportion, rhythm, and light, abstraction becomes a system in motion—its order provisional, its equilibrium continually redefined.
Rather than fixing meaning, Pattern in Space invites the viewer to engage with the active structures that govern visual experience. Each work, distinct in material and approach, contributes to an evolving dialogue about how we measure, construct, and inhabit space through the language of abstraction.
Helm Contemporary (/helmcontemporary/)
132 Bowery, New York, NY 10013
T: 917.721.6395
