Bridging Cultures: A Gallery Collaboration for Cultural Exchange

Gallery 40 is proud to announce an collaborative exhibition with the Trestle Art Space located in the Gowanus Canal area of Brooklyn in November 2025 with a focus on expanding art awareness and engaging our thriving community. The curated exhibitions will take place across the three galleries, Gallery 40, Convey/or/er, Womenswork.Art, with each show focusing on a group of artists. By fostering collaboration, we bring a momentum for artists, galleries and beyond to share resources, ideas, and inspirations. The exhibition aims to foster cross-cultural dialogue, and creative partnerships that benefit not only our galleries and artists, but the entire community.

The artist’s reception at Gallery 40 is planned on Nov 1st from 5-7pm. Womenswork.Art will host the opening reception from 1to 3pm,  Convey/or/er from 3 to 5pm to allow the audience to visit all 3 locations.

About the Trestle Art Space: Founded in 2012 by a group of artists, Trestle Art Space is a contemporary art space in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, offering affordable studios, a group of peers, and access to community programming and opportunities. Trestle philosophy comes from a belief that artists can grow and learn from each other. The studios are located in close proximity to downtown Brooklyn and are part of the growing and thriving Brooklyn art scene. The space is designed to facilitate independent studio work while also providing an exhibition space. Trestle Alumni have included Adrienne Tarver, Jason Stopa, Alex Paik, Sisi Chen, and Margie Neuhaus. 

Information about the artist showing at Gallery 40:

• Vicki Arthur https://www.vickiarthurart.com Vicki Arthur is a New York-based. She holds a Pratt Institute MFA, specializing in painting and ceramics. In her artworks, she combines her memories and experiences as a wildlife biologist with her creativity. She spends half of her time in New York City and half in Hilo, Hawaii as President of the University Hawaii Hilo Student Art Association. 
• Taylor Bielecki tbielecki.comTaylor Bielecki was born in Royersford, PA. She earned a BA in English and a BFA in Fine Arts at Penn State where she found a deep interest in painting, printmaking, and flash fiction writing processes. She attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to work on her MFA in Drawing and Painting, where she now works as the studio and gallery manager. She finished as a finalist in the Kennedy Center's VSA National Emerging Young Artist program for 2017; where she earned an award of Excellence. Taylor's work has joined the Center's national 2017 tour and she has shown throughout Chester county and Penn State, and has shown prints internationally in Australia, Dubai, India and Glasgow School of Art. She has also shown paintings internationally in Gallery 24N, PhilaMOCA's juried exhibitions in Philadelphia, PA. and she finished with an Award of Distinction in Creative York's Emerging Visions national juried exhibition in York, Pa in 2018. 
• Harley Ngai Greico https://harleygrieco.com Harley Ngai Grieco is a Chinese-American lens-based artist. She studies representations of the natural world, decorative object production, and how these traditions participate in their own decay. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art in 2013 and received the Vincent J. Mielcarek, Jr. Memorial Fund Prize and the Sara Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize. Harley has attended residencies and workshops at The Bard Graduate Center, The Bronx Museum, The Vermont Studio Center, Trestle Art Space, UrbanGlass, The Ox-Bow School of Art, and The Penland School of Crafts. Currently, she is an MFA candidate Maine College of Art and Design and is based in Brooklyn, New York. 
• Jennifer Prevatt https://www.jenniferprevatt.com Jennifer Prevatt is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, children’s book illustrator, and educator. She graduated in 2010 with a BA in Scientific Illustration from Arcadia University, then spent the subsequent 8 years abroad, obtaining her MFA from Newcastle University, England in 2014. She has exhibited her work internationally including Spain, Bulgaria, Germany, China, and the UK. Jennifer's primary medium is paper because of its delicate and vulnerable, yet resilient quality. Working in installation, sculpture, book art, illustration, and animation, she creates environments and atmospheres that give a sense of movement and fragility. Her work is influenced by psychological concepts found in fairy tales and mythology, which she uses to investigate themes of sexuality, mortality, and transformation. 

Opening Reception:

Saturday, November 1, 2025 5-7 pm

On display through November 30, 2025