Articles: Review Posts

‘No Matter What’: The unshakable pulse of Pen + Brush
By Avalon Ashley Bellos Banality by Dana Ellyn is one of the paintings on display at Pen + Brush, a cultural sanctuary with a lineage so rich it hums beneath the floorboards. Founded in 1893 by painters Mary and Janet Lewis—visionary women who dared to organize at a time when the world had yet to grant […]





Alida Wilkinson Interview with Christopher Squier
Interview by Christopher SquierJune 29, 2025 Original Post Link Pen + Brushpresents The Now: Materiality April 24 – June 7, 2025 Alida Wilkinson is one of three artists included in Pen + Brush’s exhibition The Now: Materiality. I met Allie through friends this past year and was excited to catch the show in its final […]





‘Free, Fearless, Fantastic’ featured on GothamToGo
Pen + Brush is thrilled to announce our first exhibition of 2025 Free, Fearless, and Fantastical, a group exhibition at Pen + Brush, curated by Bina Sarkar Ellias. The exhibition, which prominently features both art and poetry by a notable group of international artists and writers, evokes an exhilarating sense of liberation as a call out to […]


Michela Griffo: The Price We Pay Reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail
By Ksenia Soboleva Falling between the cracks of history is a common side effect of queer identity. Few of the queer elders that fought for LGBTQA+ rights in the 1960s have received their due recognition, and as time goes on, less and less of them are still around to receive it. Seasoned activist Michela Griffo was […]





Prism Review: Review of In The Foam of the Blue Waves
In the Foam of the Blue Waves, by Kathleen Wakefield (Pen And Brush) rev. by Lauren Lancaster In the Foam of the Blue Waves is a fiction book published by Pen And Brush in October 2015. Kathleen Wakefield captures Irma’s search for her father, Nicholas, through landscapes and sceneries in California. The author incorporates childhood memories […]