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Forgivable Lies, Three Painters Keep You Guessing
Empty Set gallery, an artist-run cooperative in a South Bronx warehouse continues to expand the schedule they’ve maintained after their ill-timed inauguration in March 2020 when the COVID outbreak forced an online-only format. This latest is a group show curated by painter and exhibition participant Matthew Robinson, who along with Siobhan McBride and Brian Zegeer invite visitors to consider the portmanteau term confabulation as context for the show’s emphasis on memory…
KoLAJ Magazine
Tapestries of Memory
“Tapestries of Memory” is a solo exhibition by artist Deborah Yasinsky exploring narratives of fear, trauma, mourning, and redemption. With this installation, she investigates experience and imagination to create surreal, escapist environments which approach past trauma through symbolic intermediaries that illuminate despair and hope…
KOLAJ MAGAZINE
Vanidades
“Vanidades” is a solo exhibition showcasing recent works investigating Vanezza Cruz’s experience in being Afro-Latina. Cruz’s overwhelming experience of conforming her identity to mainstream depiction(s) of womanhood, has inspired a body of work intended to expand and challenge this view in how women of color are seen as a series of parts, rather than as whole…
Arcade Project
Points of Vulnerability : Arcade Project
Vulnerability is often misconstrued as weakness, as if it’s a cry for pity or inadvertently setting oneself up to be taken advantage of. I couldn’t disagree more. Vulnerability may compromise one’s privacy, but it is also rooted in the powers of self-advocacy, healing, and growth. The counter-behavior to vulnerability is repression, the aggressive act of slamming one’s internal doors shut and locking them, refusing to allow anyone in or out. These doors are wide open with David Rios Ferreira: in fact, he’s even added a welcome mat. The artist and curator has joined forces with Empty Set Project Space in the Bronx to present an immersive online exhibition, Expect Some Discomfort, featuring work by eight artists focusing on the varied and complicated expressions of human vulnerability…
Bronx 200
Filling the Void
The success of Empty Set Gallery in COVID-era New York is an inspiring testament to resourcefulness and collaboration among artists. This South Bronx project space is run by a collaborative of artist members who have been consistently rolling out both virtual and in-person programming since February of this year…