# Event Details - **Event Name**: "Place We Find Ourselves" | A solo exhibition by Jennifer Ahn - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Come explore the depths of our inner world through Jennifer Ahn's solo exhibition "Place We Find Ourselves."About this EventDate: Friday, December 12, 2025Time: 7 pm - Doors open at 6:30 pmLocation: W83 Ministry CenterStep into the captivating world of Jennifer Ahn’s solo exhibition, Place We Find Ourselves, and experience her artistry firsthand. Join us at the W83 Ministry Center for an immersive in-person event, where each work invites reflection and discovery. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with this artist’s compelling creations.*Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase artworks on view at the opening https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/a6b98320-bee1-11f0-a445-99d61a730958-rimg-w730-h740-dc47492f-gmir.jpg Abiding, 2024Acrylic and ink on wooden panel12" x 12"exhibit statementIn Place We Find Ourselves, Korean-born artist Jennifer Ahn invites us into landscapes that mirror the heart’s journey—through loss and renewal, wandering and return. Her semi-abstract terrains, layered with paper, pigment, and fragments of Hanji (traditional Korean paper), are at once intimate and expansive: spaces where memory, struggle, and resilience converge.Forests, rivers, and hills in Ahn’s work become vessels of endurance, their textured surfaces and flowing gestures echoing the rhythms of grief, hope, and quiet transformation. Torn paper and embedded fabrics trace paths between fragility and strength, shadow and light, suggesting that healing is a layered, luminous process.Drawing from her Korean heritage and personal experience, Ahn transforms nature into companion and witness. Her paintings do not depict home as a fixed place but as a state of being—a sanctuary found in reflection, in the tactile richness of materials, and in the silent resilience of the world around us.Continuing the inquiry of her 2022 exhibition Desolation | Consolation, Place We Find Ourselves is a meditation on impermanence, renewal, and the subtle, enduring beauty of becoming whole. Here, landscapes are not merely seen—they are felt, guiding us through turbulence toward a quiet, luminous return. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/a7382900-bee1-11f0-a445-99d61a730958-rimg-w592-h740-dc2c1d14-gmir.jpg Dismantling idols, 2025Acrylic, oil, Hanji collage on canvas48" x 60"artist statementPlace We Find Ourselves reflects my journey as a Korean-American, semi-abstract visual artist who turns to landscapes and nature as both mirror and sanctuary. For me, painting is not simply about depicting a view—it is about charting a passage through struggle, transformation, and return. The terrain of hills, rivers, and trees becomes a metaphorical map of human experience, where moments of turbulence and loss coexist with hope and renewal.Each work arises from layered processes—brushstrokes that suggest movement, textured surfaces built from paper and pigment, and colors that oscillate between shadow and radiance. These gestures hold the memory of hardship, yet they are equally rooted in the possibility of growth. My practice often points toward the idea of home, not merely as a physical destination but as a state of being: the recognition that we emerge, through difficulty, more whole and alive.Texture plays a central role in my practice. I work with papers, fabric, and found objects, which I tear, strip, and embed into the surface with a gel medium. These tactile layers catch light, create shadows, and extend the painting into a dimensional space. The process of embedding Hanji(traditional Korean paper) is both physical and symbolic: it grounds my work in heritage while transforming fragility into strength.Alongside ink, gouache, acrylic, and oil stick, these materials become vessels for movement—gestures of chaos and calm, turbulence and stillness.Place We Find Ourselves invites viewers to see nature as a participant in this journey—a place of witness, healing, and quiet victory. In these landscapes, I hope others may glimpse their own stories of wandering, struggle, and the profound return home. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/a7903410-bee1-11f0-88a8-8ff6fae1b638-rimg-w568-h740-dcdad0bf-gmir.jpg Linden Terrace, 2025 Acrylic, ink, Hanji collage on canvas16" x 20" about the artistKorean-born, self-taught artist, Jennifer Ahn, creates semi-abstract landscapes that weave memory, travel, and the redemptive power of nature into layered visual language. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, she developed an early reverence for forests, mountains, and open skies—motifs that continue to affect her work. Her practice blends abstraction and realism, drawing influence from Abstract Expressionism while integrating collage, paper, and textured surfaces to evoke both movement and stillness.Her journey as a full-time artist began after confronting the mortality of loved ones, an experience that deepened her exploration of impermanence, longing, and resilience. Themes of humanity as sojourners—seeking belonging amid struggle and desolation—permeate her work.Her past solo exhibition, Desolation | Consolation (Dec 2022, New York), reflected on the dualities of grief and hope. Her current solo exhibition, Place We Find Ourselves (Dec 2025), continues this inquiry into shared landscapes of memory and renewal.about the galleryAt the Gallery at W83, we cultivate art and community on the Upper West Side, providing space for personal engagement, community conversations, and spiritual reflection, and collaborate with local artists from diverse backgrounds to explore universal themes of culture, community, and faith.We bring together different perspectives in this space as an invitation to join in conversations we believe are vital to us all. We affirm the artist's right to express their views independently, and the views expressed by the artists are their own and do not necessarily represent the Gallery at W83 or Redeemer West Side.exhibit curated by Adriana Caicedo - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/place-we-find-ourselves-|-a-solo-exhibition-by-jennifer-ahn/100001926192837629 - **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, health-wellness, meditation - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: W83 Ministry Center - **lat**: 40.7851428 - **long**: -73.97572559999998 - **full address**: W83 Ministry Center, 150 West 83rd Street, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: "Place We Find Ourselves" | A solo exhibition by Jennifer Ahn - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/72ebff93e3d183cd66e403a2efeeed077229de823333cfcfa9d2206957d942bc-rimg-w1200-h1189-dc474a2e-gmir.jpg?v=1762853685 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is "Place We Find Ourselves" | A solo exhibition by Jennifer Ahn being held? - **A:** "Place We Find Ourselves" | A solo exhibition by Jennifer Ahn takes place on Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 12 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm at W83 Ministry Center, 150 West 83rd Street, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing "Place We Find Ourselves" | A solo exhibition by Jennifer Ahn? - **A:** "Place We Find Ourselves" | A solo exhibition by Jennifer Ahn is organized by W83. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** "Place We Find Ourselves" | A solo exhibition by Jennifer Ahn is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in New York, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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