Summer 2026
Currently PREviewing:
PREview: Jenny Wu
Now displaying two pieces by Jenny Wu! These sculptural paintings playfully challenge the boundaries between painting and sculpture, order and chaos, intention and accident. Through a labor-intensive process of layering, cutting, and reassembling latex paint, the works transform a familiar material-- liquid paint-- into tactile, dimensional objects that record time, labor, and chance.
Wu’s work acknowledges the sensational and perceptual properties of materiality and then transforms the materials from their original forms and purpose to present them within new contexts.
Jenny Wu was born in Nanjing, China. She holds a BA from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Studio Art and in Architectural Studies, and an MFA in Studio Art from American University. Wu is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and the chair of Touchstone Foundation for the Arts in Washington, DC.
We Love Dorothy Hershman!
PREview is honored to present We Love Dorothy Hershman, the first solo show highlighting Connecticut artist Dorothy Hershman after over seven decades of oil painting and mixed media work.
Originally from Philadelphia, Hershman married and moved to Connecticut to start a family. She painted in obscurity while battling severe mental illness, producing hundreds of paintings and textiles that were never shown until the 2024 Outsider Art Fair, where collectors, artists, and viewers alike exclaimed: “We Love Dorothy Hershman!”
Early in her career, Hershman dropped out of the art world of the 1950s. When gallery owners pushed her to paint like the abstract expressionists, she felt the paintings she created for them were lifeless, and she never returned to the New York galleries. She was never interested in exhibiting and selling, choosing her artistic freedom to explore painting about her life, the human condition, and most of all the beauty and power of the natural world.
In 2024, Elm City Films made a short film about Dorothy, which you can view here.
Dorothy’s journey is one of resilience and creativity. Overcoming challenges that hospitalized her several times, she found balance in life as medications were discovered and refined. She continued creating innovative paintings that were beautiful and profound well into her late 80s. Now, at 93 years old, Hershman will be featured in her very first solo exhibition as PREview showcases nearly two dozen of her breathtaking oil paintings this summer.
