Women in the Heights: Women of Substance, Past, Present, Future

I am pleased to be among the many women artists “In celebration of Women’s History Month” in the Heights. And, in addition to good art, good food, NoMAA’S new gallery is in the Annex of the gorgeous lush United Palace Theatre, a historic concert venue.

NoMAA Gallery
4140 Broadway (Ground Floor), between 175th & 176th Streets
New York City

Exhibition Dates: March 23 – June 29, 2023
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays & Saturdays, 1-5pm (excluding holidays) or by appointment | closed 5/29 through 6/14

Opening Reception: March 23, 6-8pm
Closing Reception (& Uptown Arts Stroll Closing): June 29, 6-8pm

Curated by Andrea Arroyo.

“End of The Fan Fare”:

End of The Fan Fare
Mixed Media
15 x 15 x 3 in

Objects of Agency (virtual exhibition)

I am pleased to share that I was chosen to participate in this 52 week long virtual exhibition through 2023 addressing the health care crisis since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Objects of Agency aims to stimulate, educate, and encourage abortion care. It aims to challenge the anti-abortion campaigns and false information which dominate the internet. It aims to provide access to factual information and ultimately to create a platform and a network to share the voices, choices, and stories of all women and female identifying persons.

Each week, Hera Gallery will choose one featured artist and artwork from the exhibition to represent the tribulations and inspirations of the current state of women’s health care in America. Featured artists will be posted on all social media accounts.

The following two images and poems (below each image) are included in this exhibition.

“En Route”:

En Route
Mixed Media 
50 x 14 x 14 in

I have labored hard
Using graceful implements
Of wood and steel
Keeping quiet every meal
With little bell to quell
The fury in my heart
Unseen unheard as I
Minced, was minced,
Chopped, was chopped
Till, cut from myself
See myself awake
To the power in my hand
An object of agency: 
En Route to freedom. 

“Never Again II”:

Never Again II
Mixed Media
16 x 12 x 4 in

Hallowed folds of being
Tender petals holding
The beginning of the world
Clawed to death
Mauled to death
By a rake that could
Be tilling fecund earth.

Creating Home: Immigrant Perspectives

Dear Friends,

Please join me for the joyous celebration of our arts community's Uptown Arts Stroll. This is being held in conjunction with the inauguration of NoMAA’s new gallery at the United Palace Annex with the exhibit "Creating Home: Immigrant Perspectives" where I am excited to be among the 16 selected artists.

On view: June 23- August 31, 2022

NoMAA Gallery
4140 Broadway at 176th Street, First Floor
New York City

Gallery Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-5:00pm & by appointment.

One of four pieces that were selected for this exhibition, entitled “Passport”:

Exploring a new medium and exhibition announcement.

I’ve been writing rhymes and poems since I was a little girl. Rhyming came naturally as a way of comforting myself, and it still works to do so. And even though I use text and poems in my found object constructions, it’s only now that I was drawn to partner them with photos I have taken.

I submitted three to the exhibition entitled, “Women in the Heights: Up Close & Personal,” celebrating Women’s History Month at the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance. The curator, Andrea Arroyo, selected “After I Met You” (first image below), a piece I dedicated to my late husband.

I hope you like them!

After I Met You

Anna of the Senior Center

Fort Tryon Elm

THE HEIGHTS/EL ALTO GROUP EXHIBITION, Extended

I am happy to announce that The Heights/El Alto Project, a commissioned portfolio of prints from 15 artists including myself, traveled to the Alianza Cultural Center in Washington Heights, NY, last month.

October 21 - November 12, 2021

The Heights/El Alto Group Exhibition is a commissioned portfolio of prints that asks visual artists who are longtime residents of the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods in New York City to capture, reflect, represent, interpret, and/or process the changing population and landscape—in all its economic, social, and civic complexity—of Washington Heights/Inwood today. Washington Heights/Inwood has been the site of immigration—and attendant real estate turmoil—ever since Mannahatta was purchased from the Lenape in what is now Inwood Hill Park. For decades, urgent conversations have taken place around housing, socioeconomics, race and ethnicity, city infrastructure and preservation, and displacement and change—dialogues that became all the more constant leading up to the ratification in 2018 of the City’s plan to rezone Inwood. The Heights/El Alto contributes an artistic response to this neighborhood-wide—and citywide/nationwide/global—issue.

The Heights/El Alto is organized by Realengo Studio and Word Up Community Bookshop/Librería Comunitaria, and is made possible in part with funding from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation and administered by LMCC.

ARTISTS: Diógenes Abreu, Jerise Fogel, Reynaldo García Pantaleón, Alex Guerrero, Inju Kaboom, Carlos Jesus Martinez Dominguez, Rosa Naparstek, Gregory Rafael Nuñez, Sky Pape, Mary Ely Peña-Gratereaux & Virginia Ayress Moreno, Dister Rondon, Rene De Los Santos, Elizabeth Starčević, Rider Ureña, Cindy Vasquez.

LOCATION:
530 W 166th St, New York, NY 10032
(917) 242-0811

Group Exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery, New York City

I’m pleased to announce my participation in a group show, entitled “Looking Forward,” that opens here in New York on November 18th at the Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea:

Carter Burden Gallery is pleased to present its first national juried exhibition Looking Forward, juried by artist and feminist educator Nancy Azara.

Guest Juror Nancy Azara writes, “Things are uncertain in so many ways for all of us. With this comes the unknown, with endless possibilities for new ideas. We are beginning to plan ahead, form bonds again and to be in community. It gives us strength and power. To be present together gives us hope to plan for the future, towards a better future.”

For more information, please visit:

https://www.carterburdengallery.org/upcoming-exhibition

Buddha Nature (2021)
14 x 25 x 3 in.
Brahmin bull skull, brass buddha head, mezuzah brass

Innerscapes and Landscapes

The Gold Wing Gallery of Hebrew Tabernacle in Washington Heights presents Innerscapes and Landscapes, a virtual art exhibit featuring the work of Rosa Naparstek, a multi-media artist and writer and Miriam Katin, a graphic novelist and cartoonist. Both artists deal with the subjects of the Holocaust, loss, survival, and displacement in deeply personal ways, using visual art and text. 

This art event partners with Mendelssohn on the Hudson – the new historical musical walking tour of German Jewish Washington Heights, created by Alison Loeb.

Download PDF:

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Uptown Images: Meet the Artists →

A conversation with artists:

Joanne Barham, Natasha Beshenkovsky, Daniel Bonilla, Susan Bresler, Robert Buckwalter, Rose Deler, Kat Gooch-Breault, Aileen Hengeveld, Kathleen Holloway, James Jennings, Mike Johnson, William Keaveney, Lilia Levin, Rafaela Luna, Rosa Naparstek, Elizabeth Starčević, Navahjo Stoller, Rachel Sydlowski, and Mario Tavarez.

“Join several artists who have contributed images of their work to Uptown Images, Hebrew Tabernacle’s digital gallery, an offshoot of its Gold Wing Gallery. The artists will discuss their work and engage in conversation with exhibition curator Lilia Levin.

Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights has launched Uptown Images, a digital gallery showcasing the work of Northern Manhattan visual artists. Through the filters of their diverse backgrounds, the nineteen artists in the gallery depict life in Washington Heights and Inwood using different media and a variety of techniques and styles. We asked the artists to comment on their own work, share how they created it, and reflect on their individual experiences of Uptown.”
— Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights, Manhattan

For more information, please visit Hebrew Tabernacle of Washington Heights.

THANK YOU!