Exhibitions
Current Exhibition
ESPERANZA CORTÉS: PURITY OF BLOOD
ARTSY EXCLUSIVE – View here
Purity of Blood or “Limpieza de Sangre” refers to a concept of racial ideology with its origins in Early Modern Spain. In this historical context, the concern for “purity” was predicated on the biased belief that the unfaithfulness of the “deicide Jews,” (god-killing Jews) had not only endured in those who converted to Catholicism but also had been transmitted by blood to their Christian descendants. Consequently, Old Christians “of pure blood” were demarcated from the New Christians and their Jewish antecedents, who were deemed morally inadequate. This judgment of purity was primarily applied to the politically and economically influential group of Iberian conversos (Catholics of Jewish origins) but was extended also to moriscos (Catholics of Muslim lineage). “Limpieza de Sangre” also came to form part of the ideological basis of the caste system in colonized Colombia and New Spain.
Past Exhibitions
Nature Has a Way
Group Show
December, 2022
Williamsburg, NY
A four-person exhibition including the works of Jaynie Crimmins, Jeanne Heifetz, Nina Picon and Andra Samelson. Ranging from painting and drawing to woven silk textiles to both paper and ceramic sculpture, all artists featured are acutely aware of the environment in which they inhabit.
The work of the artists in this exhibition all engage with the current ability to listen and answer nature’s calling. In exploring the role of artistic expression when arriving at these questions, the scientific means by which we have come to understand much of the natural world are both utilized and expanded on.
Close Your Eyes and Think of There
Jaynie Crimmins and Maureen Krinsley
June 16th – July 3rd, 2022
Brooklyn Heights, NY
From oil painting to collage to paper sculpture by Maureen Krinsley & Jaynie Crimmins, “Close Your Eyes and Think of There” explores the concept of perception and what it means to “see.” What we choose to see, either consciously or subconsciously, is arguably a choice based on experience, memory and innate senses, as well as our current mental and emotional condition that are unique to each individual.
Maureen Fleming: Dances From Home
Winter, 2021
Nolita, NYC
A gallery installation/performance art series by 2021 Guggenheim choreographer/performance artist Maureen Fleming. This unique series featured intimate live studio performances, as well as Fleming’s new and retrospective photography and video spanning her 40 years as an artist working in her Lower East Side studio since 1981.
“…a wonderous choreographic metamorphosis.” – NY Times
Memory Mapping: Works by Linda Cunningham, Karin Waskiwicz and Lilian Kreutzberger
Winter, 2018
Chelsea, NYC
From oil painting to collage to paper sculpture by Maureen Krinsley & Jaynie Crimmins, “Close Your Eyes and Think of There” explores the concept of perception and what it means to “see.” What we choose to see, either consciously or subconsciously, is arguably a choice based on experience, memory and innate senses, as well as our current mental and emotional condition that are unique to each individual.
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