(HACKENSACK, NJ) -- Riverside Gallery presents two group exhibitions, Painterly Dialectic, featuring paintings of Andrea Geller, Lee Dae Sun Hwa, Jinhee Kim, Joyce Pommer, and Jung Eun Yang, and a Collections Show, featuring the works of Taemo Yang, Marsha Heller, David Hollier, Kookhyun Ga, and Ko Chan Yong. The exhibitions run from January 30 to February 18, 2026.
Painterly Dialectic is an exploration of new visual possibilities and sensibilities that can manifest with the painterly language and process in imagemaking. What are some of the questions that painters are asking today in terms the assessment of quality (of a good or bad painting, or the degree of labor versus the conceptual significance), the preconceived notions and habits (or the assumptions concerning the needs of representation versus abstraction), and the internal requirements of the painterly style and language (involving the dynamic of the paint, brush, and the artist’s hand).
Especially, artists such as Andrea Geller, Joyce Pommer, and Jung Eun Yang engage with this kind of questions on painting, explore the language of painting in an experimental and investigative framework. They in addition to Lee Dae Sun Hwa and Jinhee Kim utilize the act and process of painting as a tool for self-investigation and reflection (whether this is the symbolism of a dream or the strokes of abstraction or color that materialize by chance to reveal the subconscious), revealing in greater depth the true nature of the artist’s own psychology and personal being. By extension from the individual to the collective and the universal, paintings by this sort of painter’s painters carry an ontological significance, allowing not only the artist but also the viewer to learn more about themselves through the act of viewing and reacting to the paintings, in a visual engagement and meditation.
Andrea Geller - SUBMERGED (2007), oil on canvas, 20 x 32 inches
Andrea Geller is an American painter based in New Jersey. She holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design, following two years of painting study at Cornell University, and an MFA in Painting from William Paterson University. Her early career as an illustrator and designer included work for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Random House Publishing. Her paintings have been exhibited nationally, and her work Floating was selected for display in the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. In 2023, her piece Swimming Over Antarctica was featured in the NJ Arts Annual at the Noyes Museum. In her latest series, Geller shifts her focus to the world’s grasslands—landscapes that are as vibrant and changeable as water. Inspired by her travels across the U.S. and abroad, she explores how these ecosystems reflect resilience, diversity, and the constant motion of life.
Lee Dae Sun Hwa - "Untitled." Mixed media, 20.9 x 20.9 inches.
Lee Dae Sun Hwa was a South Korean artist. She studied oil painting at Duksung University, and was an advisory board member of art at the Carnegie Lee Foundation and the Director of Korean Art Association. Her work dealt with the concept of nature within her and life lived, following the philosophy of Laozi. In her work, the act of erasing allows the shaping of the inner structure of her abstraction, in which the form of “nature” disappears as an image and new forms replace it with a primitive simplicity of color, revealing the buildup of texture as an abstract emotion. She exhibited in over 30 international art fairs, as well as group exhibitions in South Korea and globally.
Jinhee Kim is a South Korean artist who studies dreams and the unconscious, working from imagination and composing the visual elements onto a lyrical composition. Kim seeks to provoke an enigma rather than art is more about provoking an enigma and liberating the representational functions of painting rather than working within a fixed narrative. She simultaneously pursues a visual style that can be characterized as “infantile,” yet she uses wits to overcome its limitations. Kim received her BFA from Chosun University and MFA from Hongik University, and she exhibited internationally in the US, China, Austria, Russia, India, and others, including art fairs (KIAF, SOAF, Hong Kong Art Fair, etc.).
Jinhee Kim - “Diary Road” (2018). Acrylic on canvas, 35.8 x 28.6 inches.
Joyce Pommer is an American artist, who studied at the Art Students League of NY, Art Institute of Boston, and the Academy of Art (San Francisco). Her work evolves out of her subconscious in a free flowing intuitive process, without a preconceived idea or plan. Inspired by the early Abstract Expressionists, Pommer seeks emotion and spirit of painting by the way of the unconscious and the spiritual, and her imagemaking process is a time for and a process of reflection for the artist. Pommer recently participated in group exhibitions at Lichundfire, Pelham Art Center, and others, as well art fairs in NYC including the Focus Art Fair, Superfine, and The Other Art Fair.
Joyce Pommer - "Fragmented Spaces" (2014). Acrylic, handmade papers, ribbon on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.
Jung Eun Yang is a South Korean painter. She received her BFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts (NYC) in 2021 and will receive her MFA in Painting from Hong-ik University (Seoul, Korea) in 2026. Yang works in a lyrical and metaphorical framework to investigate the metaphysical and the ontological aspects of existence and being, contextualizing them within the contemporary and modern experience/life as a South Korean. In her most recent series, “The Table of Hospitality,” Yang investigates the everyday-ness within one’s societal participation juxtaposd with the sense of “human loss and… wandering.” Her painting “builds trust with objects that do not know how to struggle against time.” In 2024, Yang held her solo exhibition at Gallery the Flow (Seoul) and participated in the Seoul Art Show.
Jung Eun Yang - "The Place for Two Rabbits" (2025). Acrylic on canvas, 41 × 53 cm (16.2 × 20.9 inches).
Riverside Gallery is a 21st century pioneer in exhibiting international and regional artists, showcasing a diverse range of works from abstraction to representation on the topics and the questions that define our time. The Gallery is dedicated to providing opportunities for both established and newer artists, as well as meeting the requirements of high-end collectors and clientele. It is located at the Riverside Mall in Hackensack, NJ, within a close proximity to New York City, playing an important part in the discourse surrounding contemporary art and issues.
