Vantage Points

An opening night reception will take place on February 29, 2024, from 5:30 - 8 PM. To RSVP, please email info@sheencenter.org.  

Osheen Harruthoonyan is a New York based artist merging movement with themes of cultural heritage and renewal. Hand printed on gelatin silver paper, his limited-edition prints bring together images of the macro - the sun, Saturn, mount Ararat - with the micro - specks of dust, tiny organisms - to create a new perspective of the world around us, challenging our perception of familiar sights and landscapes through interweaving themes of hope and wonder into the visual narratives we interact with on a daily basis. Osheen’s work has been featured in numerous international exhibits, collections and publications, including the Boston Public Library, Aga Khan Museum, Museum London, The Louvre, Hudson’s Bay New York, National Gallery of Canada, as well as features on Vice!, Bravo! Arts, Space Channel, the CBC's "Exhibitionists" and the Marriott Courtyard Hotel in Los Angeles.

Warren King is an American sculptor based in New York City.  Through his figurative sculptures and reliefs, he examines his connection as a second-generation immigrant to his Chinese cultural roots.  He is the recipient of the Alex J. Ettl Grant, awarded by the National Sculpture Society in 2023, and is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow for Craft/Sculpture.

Adrienne Der Marderosian explores themes of memory, gender and identity in her work. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Tufts University in Medford, MA and has studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. Her work has been widely exhibited in international, national and regional exhibitions in museum, gallery and university venues. Select exhibitions include: Where I Come From, Ohio University, Athens, OH; Home, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL; National Collage Society’s 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Kent State University, Kent, OH; Interrupted, Ashland University, Ashland, OH; 6th Contemporary Invitational Art Exhibition, Yerevan, Armenia; Art by America: A National Review of 2-D Contemporary Art, Art House, Chicago, IL; Kiss The Ground, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA; The Future of the Past: A History Ignored: Leslie University, Cambridge, MA; Off The Wall, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA; Drawing Out Of Bounds, Wheaton College, Norton, MA; Fragile Navigation, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA and The 2nd Annual Art Competition, Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York. She is the recipient of numerous grants including a Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grant as well as multiple Local Cultural Council awards. The artist’s works can be found in both public and private collections.

Sumayyah Samaha is a Lebanese painter and mixed media artist who has lived and exhibited work in New York since the early 1980’s. She had a recent solo exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY, in September 2019.

In addition to numerous solo exhibitions at 22 Wooster Gallery, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House, Denise Bibro Fine Art, and Skoto Gallery, Samaha also has an extensive group exhibition history at venues throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Highlights include American Abstraction: A New Decade at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; New York Chronicles at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar VCUQ Gallery, Doha, Qatar (2010); Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Kuwait City, Kuwait (2008-09); In/Visible: Contemporary Art by Arab American Artists—the opening exhibition of the Arab American National Museum and Cultural Center in Dearborn, Michigan (2005); and New York Collections 2002 at the Albright Knox Museum Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2002).

Samaha’s work can be found in public collections that include the Arab American National Museum and Cultural Center in Dearborn, Michigan; Centrum Sztuki in Warsaw, Poland; Kenkeleba House in New York, NY; Pfizer Pharmaceutical in New York, NY; and Bank Audi in Beirut, Lebanon.

Publications include At the Edge of the City: Reinhabiting Public Space Toward the Recovery of Beirut’s Horsh Al-Sanawar, edited by Fadi Shayya; Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists by Fayeq Oweis; and The Women Artists in Lebanon, by Helen Khal, prepared for the Institute of Women’s Studies in the Arab World.

Samaha was a Co-Founder of 22 Wooster Gallery in New York (1978-1988), has participated in panels, including Turning Writing into Art: Artists Talk on Art at New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies, and was a juror of painting for the New York Foundation of the Art’s 1998 grant season.

Awards include grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2016) and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2015). Samaha is a two time resident at the Emily Harvey Foundation Residency in Venice, Italy.