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Interrupting the After Image

Curated by Boryana Rusenova-Ina
Schick Art Gallery
September 10 – October 8, 2026
Opening Reception and Artists’ Talk: Weds., Sept. 16, 5 – 6:30 p.m.
(Artists’ Talk at 5 pm)

Interrupting the After Image brings together three artists — Ayesha Kamal Khan, Boryana Rusenova-Ina, and Choey Eun Young Cho — who draw from materials embedded in their everyday lives. All three work from distinct entry points, investigating the shifts in meaning that arise from geographic, linguistic, and material changes. Their works articulate these shifts, as well as the ongoing evolution of what is encountered and what is remembered.

Trained in Pakistan and the US, Ayesha Kamal Khan deals with the construct of placehood and the folding of contexts that come about in the impossible task of translating and carrying a sense of place. Her work exaggerates the reduction that happens in this inevitable cycle.

Kahn received her MFA from Pratt Institute, New York in 2015, and was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program 2022-23. Khan’s work has been exhibited at art institutions internationally, including Venice Architecture Biennale 2021 and the Queens Museum in New York. 

Boryana Rusenova-Ina collects the residue of the everyday from personal archives, scribbles, and paper clippings. By tracing and layering these forms across various mediums, her work reflects on the condition of distance— as an emotional and bodily separation from place—and examines love as a second-hand experience.

Rusenova-Ina earned an M.A. in Art, Design and Architecture Education from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland (2009) and an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University (2016). Recent solo exhibitions in the U.S. include the Springfield Museum of Art (OH) and Penn State Altoona (PA).   Currently, Boryana is an Assistant Professor of Art at 91ÉçÇø (NY).

Translation and material transformation recur throughout Choey Eun Young Cho’s practice, often complicating one another. Her work approaches communication as an unstable passage, following its uneven movement across time, material, and perception.

Choey received an M.F.A. in Painting from The Ohio State University in 2018. Her
solo shows include: I ordered a new body and it never came, at Project Space Sarubia, Seoul, South Korea, and Secret Echo, at the Holman Arts and Media Center, University of Nevada, Reno. She has been awarded many residencies, including the KHN Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, NE, and Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA.

Both Ayesha Kamal Kham and Boryana Rusenova-Ina will participate in the
Artists’ Talk at the Schick Gallery on September 16th, starting at 5 p.m.

All exhibits and events at the Schick Art Gallery are free and open to the public.