C24 Gallery is pleased to announce New Lands, a group exhibition bringing together three artists: Eric Clinton Anderson, Sarah Leahy, and Sona Lee—whose works traverse the uncertain space where abstraction meets landscape, and sensation overrides geography. These layered, tactile works evoke imagined topographies and emotional maps that drift between the distant and the familiar, the physical and the psychological. Viewers will navigate these elusive spaces, shaped not by maps, but by memory, material, and the unconscious. 

 

Eric Clinton Anderson resists traditional interpretation, favoring embodied experience over verbal explanation. His works invite presence over parsing, offering viewers an encounter with abstraction as a pure perceptual field—where meaning is felt rather than articulated. 

 

Sarah Leahy constructs wall-mounted reliefs from layered plexiglass panels meticulously painted with black India ink. Through a slow process of sanding and washing, her "Constructions" capture fleeting light conditions and textures from natural and built environments. Though appearing abstract, they resonate with the unmistakable realness of atmospheric memory and spatial perception. 

 

Sona Lee navigates the nonlinear logic of dreams and liminal states. Drawing from her daily dream journal and lifelong fascination with hypnagogic space, Lee’s work visualizes the fragile boundary between reality and unreality. Her landscapes are not of what was, but of what could have been—fragmented, emotionally charged spaces that blur time, memory, and identity. 

 

Together, these artists conjure new sceneries that shift across planes and perspectives. New Lands proposes a space of encounter where orientation is elusive —a visual and emotional cartography for a world in flux. 

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MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS: 

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Eric Clinton Anderson was born during a blizzard in 1979 to a middle-aged retired Marine couple on a tiny farm in rural Missouri. His family moved frequently between Missouri and Northern California. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has since lived in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Nashville, as well as his beloved Brooklyn. This peripatetic life has imbued Anderson’s work with a restless, sometimes uncomfortable, sense of adventure. His practice has encompassed photography, drawing, printmaking, and performance. For most of the last 15 years however, his energy has been focused almost exclusively on painting. To demonstrate the scope of the artist’s interests and vision, two examples: one particularly provocative early-career performance garnered positive press from critic Jerry Saltz; more recently Anderson contributed a painting and essay to a book on aphantasia (the inability to generate mental imagery) to a book published by Columbia University’s science department. Anderson’s paintings, drawings, and prints have been exhibited in galleries across the U.S. and are held in numerous private collections.

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Sarah Leahy is a visual artist living and working in New York City. Throughout her career, she has sought to create work that has a sensory and tactile presence with a luminous depth. She uses Plexiglass in a variety of formats to create both intimately scaled and mural-size works, in each instance aiming to establish a spatial and psychological connection with the viewer. Leahy has presented extensively at the Kim Foster Gallery in New York as well as the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery and Holden Gallery at University of North Carolina, CICA Museum in South Korea, Piazza di Pietra Gallery in Rome, Cello Gallery in London, Site:Brooklyn in New York, Mattatuck Museum in Connecticut, Katonah Museum of Art in New York,  Naples Art Association in Florida, VETS Gallery in Rhode Island, Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana, Axis Gallery in California, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Flowers East Gallery in London, Albright Knox Art Gallery in New York, National Academy Museum and Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. Leahy was the recipient of a grant from The New York State Foundation for the Arts in 2001 and is an ongoing studio recipient from The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts since 1999. She received a Norfolk Fellowship from Yale University and a BA from Bennington College. Her work is in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Seattle, Dallas, Pittsburg, Canada and the UK.

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Sona Lee is a Korean artist currently living and working in New York City. She primarily works in painting and drawing, reconstructing surreal spaces where fragments of dreams, memories, and reality intertwine to create multi-layered visual narratives. Lee received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Konkuk University in 2021 and her Master of Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2025. In 2023 and 2024, she was awarded the Lin Wang Endowed Scholarship Fund, and in 2025, she was selected as a finalist for the Long Meadow Art Residency. Selected exhibitions include solo and group presentations at The Blanc (2025), On the Fringe NYC (2024), and 25 East Gallery (2023) in New York City; Paris Koh Fine Arts (2024) in New Jersey; and Raum Art Center (2023), Gallery LVS (2022), and Gallery Imazoo (2021) in Seoul.

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Click Here for Eric Clinton Anderson CV

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Click Here for Sarah Leahy CV

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Click Here for Sona Lee CV

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Please contact info@c24gallery.com for more information.

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