# Sonya Derman: Wet Blanket

> Wet Blanket features textiles that combine appliqué, quilting, painting,… Sonya Derman: Wet Blanket at Essex Flowers in Downtown. On view through Nov 15.

- Venue: [Essex Flowers](https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/essex_flowers.html.md)
- 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
- Status: On view through Nov 15
- Section: [NYC Art Galleries](https://bronder.nyc/gallery/index.html.md)
- Web page: https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/essex_flowers/sonya-derman-wet-blanket.html
- Markdown: https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/essex_flowers/sonya-derman-wet-blanket.html.md
- Last updated: Nov 05, 2026 at 07:24 AM

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- 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.

## Also on at Essex Flowers

- [Gene's Presents Joshua Abelow & Katya Kirilloff: Transaction](https://bronder.nyc/gallery/galleries/essex_flowers/genes-presents-joshua-abelow-katya-kirilloff-transaction.html.md) — On view through Nov 15