Prince Street Gallery presents Vivid Defiance, a solo exhibition of prints by Katharine Cosenza Butler. The show opens with a public reception on Thursday, May 21, 2026 from 5–8 pm at the gallery’s Chelsea location in the Landmark Arts Building, 547 West 27th Street, and remains on view through June 13, 2026.
Vivid Defiance brings together etchings, monoprints, and encaustic monotypes that reflect Butler’s fierce concern for the state of the world. From climate crisis to the ongoing patterns of global conflict and greed, the exhibition positions art as an act of resistance and renewal. Where the work of many artists might turn inward in the face of such subject matter, Butler turns outward, toward color, toward nature, toward defiance.
Flowers and vivid color are not merely subjects in these works; they are arguments. By documenting growth where there should be desolation, Butler honors the persistence of life in the face of destruction. The natural world functions here as a manifesto of hope, a refusal to accept silence or resignation as the only available responses to catastrophe. Even in the grey of war’s shadow, the earth blooms.
The exhibition’s title captures its spirit precisely. Vivid Defiance is not protest art in the conventional sense; it is something more intimate and more stubborn, a printmaker’s insistence that beauty and resistance are not opposites but the same gesture, made again and again with unyielding brilliance.
Exhibition Details Show: Vivid Defiance Artist: Katharine Cosenza Butler Opening Reception: Thursday, May 21, 2026 | 5–8 pm On View: May 19 – June 13, 2026 Venue: Prince Street Gallery | 547 West 27th Street, Suite 504, New York, NY 10001 Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–6 pm Website: princestreetgallery.com | katharinecosenzabutler.com Contact: info@princestreetgallery.com | 646.230.0246
