A Tribeca gallery is showcasing art about antisemitism, including a Hitler-Kanye West portrait by Julia Gergely, Jewish Telegraphic Agency June 24, 2024 Anyone stepping inside 81 Leonard Gallery — an artist-run space named after its Tribeca address — will come face to face with Adolf Hitler. The Hitler on display at this gallery,…
The distressing truth behind an exhibit about antisemitism — it’s always timely by Stav Ziv, The Forward July 5, 2024 The first thing you see when you walk into 81 Leonard Gallery in Tribeca is an uncanny amalgamation of two faces: Adolf Hitler and Kanye “Ye” West. Is it a powerful dictator or a popular…
ROCHELLE VOYLES SELECTED WORKS: Photograph of artwork by Rochelle Voyles. Category Photograph of artwork by Rochelle Voyles. Category Photograph of artwork by Rochelle Voyles. Category The Bowline at Dusk_small Category SkyGlyphs_2_web Category Soft Spring_2021_Paper Collage_7.5” x 8” Category rochell1 Category Rvoyles_MultipleAmericas_2022+copy Category UnderneathIdyllicPasturesWborder Category EDUCATION: BFA, Printmaking, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY | 2012 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:…
ABBY CHENEY SELECTED WORKS: abby_9 Category abby promo Category abby6 Category abby4 Category abby3 Category install8 for web Category abby2 Category abby1 Category abby5 Category EDUCATION: MFA in Painting and Drawing, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY | 2018 BA in Studio Art and English, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH | 2014 SOLO/TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS: Warp and Weft,…
OPHELIA ARC’S “WE’RE JUST SO GLAD YOU’RE HOME” AT 81 LEONARD GALLERY: ART EXHIBITION REVIEW by Caleb R. Newton, Captured Howls May 25, 2024 “We’re just so glad you’re home.” That’s the title of a new exhibition at 81 Leonard Gallery in New York City from multi-disciplinary artist Ophelia Arc, who’s currently pursuing her MFA…
Ophelia Arc: we’re just so glad you’re home at 81 Leonard Gallery by Joanna Seifter, Art Spiel May 26, 2024 In her 2014 essay Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain, Leslie Jamison examines the literary phenomenon of women’s suffering being depicted in almost luxuriating detail, as much an object of fetishization by men as it…
Artist Ophelia Arc Welcomes You Into a Psychological Web of Her Own Making by Francesca Aton, ARTnews May 21, 2024 Somewhere between Faith Wilding’s 1972 crocheted “Womb Room” installation and the sculptural works of Eve Hesse exists the work of emerging artist Ophelia Arc. Her corporeal crochet sculptures and collaged drawings invite viewers into a psychological…
Warp and Weft at Satellite Art Show June 19-23, 2024 81 Leonard Gallery is pleased to present Warp and Weft, a duo exhibition of New York-based artists Abby Cheney and Rochelle Voyles at Satellite Art Show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Cheney’s architectural paper pulp sculptures and Voyles’ 2D and 3D cut-paper collages find their foundations in…
Artists on Antisemitism 81 Leonard Gallery in collaboration with Jewish Art Salon June 9th – August 30th, 2024 at 81 Leonard Gallery September 16th – December 8th, 2024 at Hyams Judaica Museum, NY January 9th – March 25th, 2025 at PJCC Art Gallery, CA January 23rd – March 2nd, 2025 at Suffolk…
we’re just so glad you’re home at 81 Leonard: The Ophelia Arc Q&A. by Akeem K. Duncan, Quiet Lunch May 3, 2024 Ophelia Arc’s work puts you in a chokehold. Her dramatically malformed crocheted sculptures are perplexing as they are intriguing. It invokes feelings of awe and uneasiness–a perfect mixture when consuming art that is…
