Art Gallery
FREVO x Silver Art presents Bloodlines a solo exhibition by Aristotle Forrester.
This collaboration could only happen in New York — more specifically, in downtown Manhattan, where the city’s pulse has always energized creative evolution and innovation. As the art world evolves from the conventional gallery system, new spaces are emerging: more experimental, more ambitious, and more responsive to the moment. FREVO and Silver Art exemplify this shift—redefining how art is presented, supported, and experienced.
Silver Art, a New York-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has converted an entire floor of commercial real estate at 4 World Trade Center into more than two dozen artist studios and a world-class program now known as New York City’s most ambitious artist residency. Each year, thousands of artists apply for a chance to join the annual residency, which in addition to free studio space provides mentorship, top-tier art world connections, and professional development opportunities that catalyze their careers in the art world. Former residents have gone on to have solo shows at institutions as impressive as The Met and Brooklyn Museum, exhibit at fairs like Armory and Art Basel, receive representation from major galleries and achieve international press and recognition.
Together, FREVO and Silver Art collapse boundaries and offer a new model of how artists can be supported beyond traditional art world paradigms. This exhibition is not just a showcase of artwork, but a testament to the city’s ability to incubate hybrid forms and new models of cultural production.
At the center of it all is Aristotle Forrester, a 2025 Silver Art resident whose work navigates memory, ancestry, and the Black male experience through bold gestural abstraction. “Bloodlines” explores the sacred rituals of becoming — of manhood, fatherhood, and artistic inheritance — and turns the act of painting into an intimate form of remembrance.
