In the End, Everything Gives: Women Sculptors Group
Silver Art Projects, New York, NY
January 23 – April 3, 2026
Select images from In the End, Everything Gives: Women Sculptors Group.
The Women Sculptors Group
WSG was founded by artist Sarah Bednarek as a series of intimate gatherings of female-identified and non-binary sculptors in New York City. Created to foster connection, support, and exchange, the group grew through collective convenings centered on dialogue, shared learning, and community-building. Today, WSG is a network of more than 350 members across New York City, the tri-state area, and upstate New York. Following Sarah’s passing in 2019, the group has been stewarded by members Alta Buden, Dena Paige Fischer, and Heidi Norton, who continue to sustain and expand its founding mission.
In the End, Everything Gives presents a selection of works by thirty-one WSG members responding to turbulent political, ecological, and social conditions. The exhibition takes its title from a line by Ada Limón, which names both material and emotional states of yielding: “Everything gives way—the shorelines, the house decaying and becoming shrub and moss and haunt, the body that gives and gives until it cannot give anymore.” Here, giving way is not framed as collapse alone, but as a condition that calls making into being. Creation becomes a form of muscular hope—first for oneself, then extending outward—through which artists hold, shape, and reckon with the complexities of the present moment.
In this context, making emerges not as a search for answers, but as an urgent act in itself. “A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song.” First appearing in Joan Walsh Anglund’s 1967 book A Cup of Sun and later taken up by Maya Angelou, this idea finds resonance in Brooks’s declaration above. Together, these voices point to art as something born not only of inspiration, but also of grief, rage, and injustice. I shall create! becomes the shared cry of this exhibition. Across the works on view, materials range from watercolor, clay, plaster, steel, paper, and canvas to vintage prayer books, horsehair, eelgrass, antelope hide, and horns. Through varied materials, gestures, and forms, these artists insist on the necessity of creation itself. The works do not offer resolution, but they do offer care—affirming making as a collective act of attention, endurance, and survival.
Participating Artists: Armita Raafat, Chang Sujung, Claire Lachow, Corinne Beardsley, Dena Paige Fischer, Dina Weiss, Gabriela Vainsencher, Gabrielle Shelton, Heidi Norton, Jemila MacEwan, Kate Bae, Kate Clark, Kate Rusek, Kate Stone, Katherine Vetne, Kirsten Ator, Laetitia Soulier, Linda Ganjian, Liliya Lifanova, Marianna Peragallo, Marilla Cubberley, Natale Adgnot, Natalie Moore, Niki Lederer, Rachel Frank, Rose Malenfant, Sandra Eula Lee, Sarah Bednarek, Sarah Trigg, Sonya Blesofsky, Sun You.
Artworks in this exhibition:
Silver Surfer
2024
Umbrella canopy, nylon thread
94 × 39 inches