So Different, So What!

A Showcase of 9W Artists
September 20 – November 9, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20, 5–7 PM ​

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Wired Gallery is pleased to present So Different, So What!, a group exhibition by 9W Artists, on view from September 20 through November 9, 2025.

Founded in 2024 by New York–based artist and educator Jill Ziccardi, 9W Artists is a collective of Hudson Valley–based visual artists united by a lifelong commitment to making and exhibiting their work regionally, nationally, and internationally. More than a matter of shared style, the group thrives on its plurality—embracing divergent voices bound together by friendship, mutual support, and the cultural richness of the region.

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So Different, So What! celebrates this pluralist spirit, foregrounding the unique perspectives of seven accomplished artists:

•    Archil Pichkhadze

•    Dionisio Cortes

•    Edward M. O’Hara

•    Jill Ziccardi

•    Leticia Ortega

•    Paul Chidester

•    Polly Reina

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Together, their works span abstraction and figuration, painting and print, installation and sculpture—revealing the kaleidoscopic simultaneity that defines contemporary practice. From Pichkhadze’s enigmatic narratives of magical realism to Cortes’s dynamic explorations of perception and form; from O’Hara’s tactile collaborations with the natural world to Ziccardi’s feminist-inflected iconography; from Ortega’s fluid play between memory, figure, and landscape to Chidester’s inventive reconfigurations of the familiar; and Reina’s bold abstract expressionism—each artist contributes a distinct vision. Taken together, they embody the exhibition’s provocation: that difference is not a divide, but a source of vitality.