# Essex Flowers

> 2 upcoming shows at Essex Flowers in Downtown NYC, including “Gene's Presents Joshua Abelow & Katya Kirilloff: Transaction”. Showtimes, tickets, and directions.

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- Address: 19 Monroe Street, New York, NY 10002 ([Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=19+Monroe+Street%2C+New+York%2C+NY+10002))
- Neighborhood: Downtown
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- Last updated: Nov 04, 2026 at 10:27 AM

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## Gene's Presents Joshua Abelow & Katya Kirilloff: Transaction

- When: On view through Nov 15
- Run: Oct 16 – Nov 15, 2026
- Source: https://essexflowers.us/Gene-s-Presents-Joshua-Abelow-Katya-Kirilloff-Transaction

Walking through a very distinct market that somehow feels foreign to me, I spot someone who looks as though they might be familiar to me, but I can’t tell if it’s someone I know, someone I once knew, or simply déjà vu. There is a man in a three-piece suit, trying to sell me fresh fruit, and who am I to say no? I love sweetness in almost all of its forms. Nearby, there is a woman

## Sonya Derman: Wet Blanket

- When: On view through Nov 15
- Run: Oct 16 – Nov 15, 2026
- Source: https://essexflowers.us/Sonya-Derman-Wet-Blanket-1

Wet Blanket features textiles that combine appliqué, quilting, painting, drawing, and embroidery into dense visual fields. In this recent body of work, Sonya Derman investigates and interrupts happiness cultures and positive psychology, considering the coercive forces of the nuclear social unit and the workplace-as-family. She develops a visual language that complicates associations between craft, domesticity, and comfort. As the artist stitches and layers representation, abstraction, and text, she finds freedom in the negative and in the potential of alternative relational structures.The exhibition also features an essay on the work by artist Jamie Chan.