Summary
- Parker turns the gallery’s white cube into a warm and cozy living room with dreamlike creations.
- Her latest collection encompasses lighting, ceramics and mirrors.
Hannah Traore Gallery in New York City is showing its first-ever design exhibition entitled A Soft Place to Land. The presentation takes on a dreamlike approach to texture and form, highlighting Brooklyn-based designer Eny Lee Parker‘s latest creations encompassing, lighting, ceramics and mirrors. Parker turns the gallery’s white cube into a warm and cozy living room, embodying the show’s title.
Building on her 2022 show Soft & Sensitive (A Love Letter to Me), Parker’s new collection imbues a shieft from childho od nostalgia to more grounded self-assurance. Ceramic sconces shaped like calla lillies cast delicate light across vases resembling twin doves and curving floor lamps topped with glowing orbs. Every detail feels personal.
What sets Parker apart is her way of softening hard materials, as seen from her work in our 2023 exhibition Noisy Reality. Her porcelain surfaces, glazed in deep reds, blush pinks and cloudy whites celebrate imperfection in texture rather than guising it. The resulting appearance is more visceral and raw, inviting viewers to get closer.
A Soft Place to Land is on view until April 11, 2026.
Hannah Traore Gallery
150 Orchard St.
New York, NY 10002