The Flag brings together nine artists who engage with one of the most enduring and contested icons of American culture: the national flag. Through painting, sculpture, and mixed media, these artists explore the flag not as a fixed emblem, but as a shifting symbol shaped by identity, experience, and personal history.

Each work challenges or reinterprets the flag’s formal language, its stars and stripes, its bold palette, its cultural weight. Some artists embrace its traditional structure; others fragment it, blur its boundaries, or reimagine it through abstraction. In their hands, the flag becomes a space for inquiry, about what it means to belong, to remember, to critique, and to hope.

This exhibition takes inspiration from a 1976 project by artist Dasha Reich, who used construction materials and paint to express her experience as a new American. Nearly 50 years later, that impulse remains relevant. While the context has shifted, the need to question and redefine national identity through art feels more urgent than ever.

Rather than offering a singular view, The Flag presents a chorus of voices. The works reflect a broad spectrum of perspectives, immigrant and native-born, celebratory and critical, abstract and representational. Together, they form a living conversation about the meanings we assign to shared symbols.

In a time of deep reflection, this exhibition invites viewers to reconsider the familiar, and to see the American flag not just as a national symbol, but as a mirror of who we are.