10/15/2026
🥂 This Saturday, join us for the Opening Reception of Susan Chen: Rooms by the Sea and meet artist Susan Chen.
Marking Chen’s first museum solo exhibition, Rooms by the Sea brings her vibrant, contemporary view of Cape Cod into conversation with the work and legacies of Edward Hopper and Josephine Nivison Hopper.
At the center of the exhibition is Chen’s large-scale double portrait Rooms by the Sea (2026), a direct tribute to Edward Hopper’s iconic 1951 painting of the same title and his Truro studio.
Chen has spent summers on Cape Cod for the past decade. What began as an annual getaway evolved into an immersive project, yielding nearly 40 canvases painted outdoors across Truro, Eastham and Provincetown. As a first-generation American artist, Chen explores this familiar landscape through questions of memory, belonging, assimilation and the American Dream.
“Where Hopper’s Cape Cod is one of a quiet hum, Chen’s rumbles,” notes exhibition curator Indira A. Abiskaroon Valbuena.
Join us Saturday to meet Susan and celebrate this extraordinary new exhibition.
📅 Saturday, October 17
⏰ 3–5:30 PM
📍 Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center, Nyack, NY
🎟️ RSVP required. Register at the link in the comments.
Susan Chen: Rooms by the Sea is on view through February 21, 2027.
*Susan Chen, Rooms by the Sea, 2026, Oil on linen, 64 x 72 in., Photo Credit: JSP Art Photography
*Installation images photographed by Stan Narten
