Echoes of New York

About

New York City is a place of constant motion—but what happens when the motion stops? Echoes of New York is a powerful collaborative exhibition that captures a rare pause in the city’s rhythm and the slow, beautiful return that followed.

In this two-artist show, acclaimed photographer Viet Chu presents a series of hauntingly quiet images taken during the height of the pandemic. Empty streets, still storefronts, and the rare hush of a sleepless city turned inward. Each photograph tells the story of a moment suspended—when life retreated behind closed doors and the city revealed a different kind of beauty.

Four years later, multimedia artist Annabella Ducheneaux revisited each of these locations to capture their ambient sounds—children playing, subway brakes, café chatter, footsteps on pavement. Using a technique developed by abstract artist and daeuArt Gallery founder Daeu Angert, she transformed those sound recordings into abstract digital compositions, printed on reflective aluminum panels. Her pieces translate sound into shape, color, and energy—visual echoes of a city reborn.

Together, Chu and Ducheneaux create a layered experience of New York: one half memory, one half pulse. As you move through the exhibition, you walk a nonlinear map of the city—across neighborhoods, generations, and timelines. It’s a city remembered, a city reimagined, and a city heard in a way it’s rarely seen.

About Annabella Ducheneaux

Annabella was born and raised outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her BBA in advertising and integrated marketing and a minor in arts and entertainment management from Pace University in New York City. Through her storytelling, Annabella seeks to explore the complexities of life by embracing both the joyous and the somber. She crafts narratives that reflect the full spectrum of the human experience through various media.

About Viet Chu

Born in Vietnam, Viet’s early life spanned across Vietnam and Taiwan before he spent his adolescence in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area. His adulthood has been shaped by the vibrant streets of New York City, where his artistic vision has flourished, balancing out his 25+ corporate years in Technology Development & Wireless Communications, Viet’s work encompasses a wide range of subjects, from street scenes and landscapes to architecture, aerial, beauty, and portraiture. His images are driven by the desire to capture the esoteric beauty of people and things, in their own presentation, and all inherently unique. Viet loves to travel and explore, and was only a few hundred miles short of reaching Antartica to complete his 7th continent when he was recently in Ushuaia, Argentina. Viet’s entry into photography was inspired by his father, who captured the essence of beauty in endearing portraits of Viet’s mother and family. At the age of 13, Viet received his first camera, an Olympus OM-1 SLR, a gift from his father who recognized his budding interest in photography even before he had taken his first shot.

The show will run from September 12 through 14th, at 72 Warren St, New York, NY. We are pleased to offer free admission to the exhibition, in line with our commitment to making art accessible to everyone.

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Location
72 Warren St, New York, NY 10007

Dates
Sep 12, 2024 – Sep 14, 2024

Opening Reception
Sep 12th, 5pm-8pm

Gallery Hours
Sep 12th, 1pm-8pm
Sep 13th, 11am-8pm
Sep 14th, 11am-8pm

Artists:
Viet Chu
Annabella Ducheneaux

Curators:
Daeu Angert
Viet Chu

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