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  • Meet Dawn Delikat

    By Canvas Rebel, an interview with Pen + Brush Executive Director, Dawn Delikat Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Dawn Delikat. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below. Dawn, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. What’s been the most…

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    From the Archives: White Hot Magazine, Deborah Jack

    Salt, (re)memory, and aftermath: an interview with Deborah Jack. The first retrospective of 20-years of Deborah Jack’s work is now on view at Pen + Brush until February 19th, 2022. To encounter Jack’s work is to sit at the shoreline of colonial histories, to face a storm surge and live to hear the melodies of…

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    DAWN DELIKAT, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CHIEF CURATOR AT PEN + BRUSH

    Meet Dawn Delikat, Executive Director, Chief Curator at Pen + Brush, a publicly supported non-profit that showcases the literary and visual work of women, non-binary, and female-identified transgender artists and writers located at 29 East 22nd Street.

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  • 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…

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  • Pen + Brush.

    Michela Griffo: The Price We Pay

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: New York, NY, (August 1, 2022)— Pen + Brush is pleased to present Michela Griffo: The Price We Pay (October 13th – December 17th, 2022), curated by Parker Daley Garcia with Birdie Piccininni, a solo exhibition that brings together both large-scale paintings and small-scale watercolor works by Michela Griffo for the first…

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  • Pen + Brush.

    White Hot Magazine

    Salt, (re)memory, and aftermath: an interview with Deborah Jack. The first retrospective of 20-years of Deborah Jack’s work is now on view at Pen + Brush until February 19th, 2022. To encounter Jack’s work is to sit at the shoreline of colonial histories, to face a storm surge and live to hear the melodies of…

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    Hyperalleregic Reviews

    Deborah Jack Explores the Shared Histories of the Body and Landscape. A current retrospective highlights Jack’s insistence on photography’s capacity to express stories held in the environment rather than the archive.

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    Between The Pen and The Brush

    The Other Side of the Desk presents a focus upon professionals whose efforts support artists in their careers. The path is personally different for each individual, though the choices one makes, to pursue a degree in Art History, to take on professional positions in art galleries, work for artists, and so forth, these choices define…

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    Deborah Jack: 20 Years, a mid-career survey Pen + Brush NYC

    Over the decades, her works have collectively become part of the (de)colonial memory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In the Netherlands we know or hear little or nothing about St. Maarten unless a hurricane like Luis (1995), Ivan (2004) or Irma and Maria (2017) passes over the island and leaves it devastated.

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