HESTER: Welcome Home — All Street Gallery

NEW YORK, NY – All Street Gallery is pleased to present Welcome Home, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Ari Brochin, whose playful yet emotionally grounded practice transforms everyday objects into large-scale sculptural and painted works. Through humor, color, and an unmistakable sense of tenderness, Brochin invites viewers to reconsider the small, overlooked items that quietly shape our daily emotional landscapes.

Welcome Home extends Brochin’s ongoing interest in the emotional significance of the mundane: the keys, lighters, charms, and personal artifacts that often go unnoticed yet carry memories, routines, and pieces of identity. Through wooden cut-outs, resin works, painted objects, and playful installations, she enlarges these familiar items until they become monumental, inviting a slowed, more reflective encounter. Her work asks viewers to notice what they normally rush past, and to consider how meaning accumulates through touch, repetition, and the simple things that accompany us through daily life.

Brochin notes: “This show is about the small things we hold onto; the keys, the clutter, the keepsakes that quietly carry our stories. In Welcome Home, I share the weight I’ve learned to carry, turning ordinary objects into moments of pause, reflection, and unexpected comfort.”

When contextualized by the often inaccessible and self-serious trends dominating the fine art world, Brochin offers a fresh perspective with a body of work that is simultaneously aesthetically engaging but with genuine depth. In staying true to the values of her robust online studio and the community she’s cultivated on social media around her art, Brochin maintains a commitment to making work that she is truly passionate about rather than conforming to expectations.

Throughout the exhibition, vivid color, hand-built surfaces, and exaggerated scale create a sense of warmth and play, while the underlying themes of identity, emotional weight, and the search for comfort lend each object a deeper resonance. What may appear whimsical at first glance reveals an invitation to reflect on how we build a sense of home through imperfection, memory, and the humble things we choose to keep close.

About the Artist:
Ari Brochin is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist known for transforming everyday objects into whimsical, large-scale works that blend humor, nostalgia, and emotional depth. Her wooden cut-outs, resin sculptures, and painted props turn the ordinary into portals of play and introspection, inviting viewers to slow down and find beauty in the mundane. Ari merges art, storytelling, and social media to share the raw process behind her creations. Through her work, she explores identity, emotional weight, and the magic in imperfection, reminding audiences that what makes us “weird” is often what makes us most human.

About All Street Gallery:
Founded in 2018, All Street Gallery is a gallery and platform for emerging and underrepresented artists whose work focuses on social engagement and community empowerment. Initially created as an artist collective and grassroots protest organization, All Street is driven by its roots in the city’s creative community. The gallery’s mission is to use art as a means of protest, resistance, and social change, highlighting voices that challenge the status quo. After opening its first location on East Third Street in the East Village, All Street expanded in 2023 with a second space at 119 Hester Street. Both locations continue to provide a platform for artists whose work addresses important social and political issues.

For inquiries, please contact:
gallery@allstnyc.com
646 335 3717

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