Interview: Rochelle Voyles by Brainard Carey, Museum of Non-Visible Art April 1, 2026 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. Listen to the interview here: https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/rochelle-voyles/…
Unreliable Narrators: Rochelle Voyles by Will Kaplan, ArtSpiel March 31, 2026 In Unreliable Narrators, Rochelle Voyles’s collages hold both a capacious nihilism and a hope to build stories from the void. From this fulcrum, I think of Joan Didion’s classic essay The White Album, and its opening truism: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Voyles’s compositions…
A Show of Slithering Snapshots: Unreliable Narrators by Rochelle Voyles at 81 Leonard Gallery by Kate Sherman, Whitehot Magazine March 31, 2026 What if you saw photographs that were intertwined? How might the pictures change? Rochelle Voyles’ solo exhibition entitled Unreliable Narrators, currently up at 81 Leonard Gallery in Tribeca, investigates this unique premise. Voyles, born…
Rochelle Voyles Is Suspicious of Certainty by Morgan Everhart, ArtRabbit March 24, 2026 In Unreliable Narrators, Rochelle Voyles turns found images into shaped collages that hold labor and pleasure, gender and myth, softness and dread, without forcing any of it to resolve. Rochelle Voyles does not make work that settles. In Unreliable Narrators, her…
Editors’ Selects: March 2026 by Aliya Nimmons, IMPULSE Magazine March 15, 2026 Rochelle Voyles’s Defense and Entrapment (2026) immediately signals an exhibition that refuses to play it safe. Drawing from her background in carpentry and a sustained interest in textiles, artist Rochelle Voyles’s solo exhibition Unreliable Narrators examines the friction within personal memory and collective…
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…
