UP UP & AWAY

Up Up & Away brings together new work by Soup Studio resident alumni Clare Kim, Megan Lee, and Yen Yen Chou, celebrating the momentum and evolution of our extended creative family. This exhibition marks a moment of shared growth: Clare stepping from the flat plane into three-dimensional form, Yen Yen mounting her first out-of-tristate solo show with Kishka Gallery, and Megan relocating to Hong Kong to continue building an art and design practice.

Clare’s sculptures rise from the same intuitive, child-guided curiosity that drives her drawing, painting, and ceramic work. She follows the small signals—memories, textures, moments of wonder—that open pathways between mediums. Her pieces trace the subtle threads linking us to each other and to the quieter forms of magic that surface when we slow down enough to notice.

Yen Yen’s work turns everyday encounters into portals of transformation. By pairing motifs that don’t usually share space—rainbows and Pocky sticks, sparkles and bow ties, mushrooms and eyes—she builds a visual language that hovers between the ephemeral and the physical, the micro and the macro. Her layered watercolor, gouache, and mixed-media processes accumulate like lived experience, revealing how emotions and sensations shift shape over time.

Megan’s new series distills wide clover fields into reflections on abundance, gratitude, and the gentle surprise of luck. Each four-leaf clover becomes less a rare discovery and more an exercise in attention: look long enough, slowly enough, closely enough, and the world starts offering gifts that were waiting there all along.

Together, these artists chart upward motion that is personal, geographic, and artistic. Up Up & Away is a reminder that growth gathers through curiosity, patience, and the willingness to follow the next small spark.

Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, December 18th, from 7-9pm.

Clare Kim
Clare Kim is a self taught Brooklyn-based artist working across drawing, painting, and ceramics. Her practice focuses on everyday moments and the connections that link people to each other and to the natural world. She has exhibited with The Other Art Fair, Pushup Gallery, Visionary Art Collective and Warnes Contemporary, Paradigm Gallery, Gallery 263, Studio 9D, HBX, Land to Sea, and Chinatown Soup. She completed a residency at Chinatown Soup and has presented two solo exhibitions there.

Yen Yen Chou
Yen Yen Chou is a Taiwanese artist based in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2018. She has held solo exhibitions at Chinatown Soup in New York, One River Clark Gallery in New Jersey, and Kishka Gallery in Vermont. Her work has appeared in multiple New York group exhibitions, and she has also curated projects at SPRING/BREAK and Tutu Gallery.

Megan Lee
Megan Lee is a Korean American artist and graphic designer based in New York. She earned her BFA from Pratt Institute after attending the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Her recent work includes participation in The Other Art Fair and Chinatown Soup’s residency abroad at Omnicent in Ukiha, Japan. She has held solo and group exhibitions across New York, Connecticut, and Los Angeles. In her digital design practice, Megan has received four Cannes Lions and eleven Clio Awards for her work at Deloitte Digital. She currently freelances with designer Henry Steiner of Steiner & Co. in Hong Kong while continuing to build toward a full time studio practice.