Exhibition Review: Jewish Artists Take On Jew-Hate by RIchard McBee, Jewish Press June 28, 2024 Artists on Antisemitism, currently running at 81 Leonard Gallery in Manhattan, is a courageous artistic proclamation attacking an insidious cancer growing in the midst of New York’s cultural capital. Each artwork defiantly says, “Never Again!” The myriad aspects of…
Artists on antisemitism by Joanne Palmer, New Jersey Jewish News July 3, 2024 The art world isn’t a terribly comfortable place for Jewish artists right now. Even before October 7, being Jewish was becoming increasingly less fashionable; now, after Hamas terrorists invaded, raped, tortured, and murdered 1,200 people inside Israel, often the feeling in…
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…
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…
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…
Interview | Vincent Donato by Brainard Carey, Museum of Non-Visible Art March 27, 2024 Listen to the interview Praxis is the collaborative name for the work of artists Delia and Brainard Carey. The Museum of Non-Visible Art is a project by Praxis, hosted by Yale University Radio with over 1500 interviews in the archive.
The Observer: The Fantastic World of Cande Aguilar by Tribeca Citizen September 26, 2019 In the United States when you place the word “barrio” in front of anything, it acts as a filter. It filters whatever words follow through a Mexican-American context down to common denominators like family and the neighborhood. If I say I…
