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My Studio Burned Down in the Red Hook Fire
September 2025Please support by donating to our GoFundMe https://gofund.me/08e3bd20e
On Thursday we woke up to the news that our shared artist studio in Red Hook Brooklyn had been destroyed by a massive five alarm fire with over 250 firefighters responding to a blaze that burned for over 7 hours. The fire seems to have started on the 3rd floor - directly underneath our studio on the 4th floor. The roof and the 4th floor have both collapsed. We've seen some drone footage and have confirmed that it is a total loss. Nothing from our studio has survived or is salvageable. We've heard that the walls of the building are starting to buckle from all the water and there's a fear that the entire 150 year old structure may also collapse. Dozens of artists' life work has been destroyed.
Affected artists in our immediate studio include ayo ohs, Samantha De Maryela, Marina McGehee, Faye Harnest, and Andrew Schneider. We may expand or combine this fundraiser with other fundraisers in the future as we were about 9 studios in all - in our little section of the 4th floor.
Stay tuned. Thank you.
A Focus on the Feminine 2
December 2023Decmber 13 - December 18, 2023
Opening Reception December 13, 6-8PM
ZDS Creative Pop UP
2 Rivington St., New York, NY 10002
Exhibiting Artists:
Talia Smith - Photography and Mixed
Anna Letson- Ceramics
Zoey Schorsch- Mixed Media
Lily Grace- Photography
Samantha DeMaryela- Mixed Media
Mnatalla Eldaas- Written Word
Shelley Schorsch- Mixed Media
Alisa Harvey- Illustration and Animation
Joy Chen- Paint
Erin Sara Haas- Paint and Pencil
Daily Performances 7-8PM
Anna Letson- Ceramics
Zoey Schorsch- Mixed Media
Lily Grace- Photography
Samantha DeMaryela- Mixed Media
Mnatalla Eldaas- Written Word
Shelley Schorsch- Mixed Media
Alisa Harvey- Illustration and Animation
Joy Chen- Paint
Erin Sara Haas- Paint and Pencil
Daily Performances 7-8PM
Seeker
November 2023November 5 - November 26, 2023 (Sundays)
Opening Reception November 5, 1-6PM
Incubator Studio Gallery
56 Bogart St., Lower Level South, Brooklyn NYC
A Focus on the Feminine
September-October 2023Opening September 29, 7pm
“Samantha de Maryela’s featured “La Lava” (The Lava), “Se Lava” (Washes), and “As Female as Future” weave together female sensuality with ecological vitality. Within a lexicon of calla lilies, landforms, and fish, the protagonist of this project is a volcano who swells with lava, her bright red crater a reminder of the potential for catastrophic eruption at any moment. “In Lava Lakes We Wade” encourages you to swim to the edge of a climate disaster and linger in its strangeness.”
ZDS Creative’s debut traveling exhibition, A Focus on the Feminine, showcases and celebrates cross-discipline emerging female and non-binary artists, immersing visitors in a powerful
narrative of female excellence and ingenuity. A Focus on the Feminine will be on display at the Newport Art Museum in Newport, Rhode Island from Friday, September 29 to Monday,
October 2, 2023 and Nolita, New York from Wednesday, December 13 to Monday, December 18, 2023. Both exhibiting locations will showcase a diverse selection of paintings, photographs, sculptural installations, collages, written word projections, and more!
Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Ave, Newport, RI 02840
YEMA
May 2023May 6 - May 18, 2023
Opening Reception Saturday May 6, 3-6PM
The sculptures exhibited in Yema propose an alternate natural history from a chicana-futurist and ecofeminist perspective. Yema—egg yolk—the most delicious part of breakfast—is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg. This non-human female source of nourishment is the anthropomorphic connective tissue of the works on display. At what moment does a woman become a bird, tree, puddle, insect, or cyborg? In Yema, materials such as shells, water, corn husk, cigarette butts, fossils, driftwood, bacteria, plastic, scientific apparatuses, and lace are used to express a feminine ecology. Sculptures levitate, drip, and glow, creating a dreamlike experience of a threatened world.
The exhibition takes the subjects of climate change, globalization, and contagion seriously, but also approaches the topics with warmth and absurd humor.
“Apparition”– a microscope turned sideways– literally subverts the scientific gaze. Looking through the microscope, the Virgen de Guadalupe is revealed. “Garden of Friendship” is an assemblage in which viewers are invited to examine shape-shifting samples of male DNA arranged on lace. In “Vernal Pool”, cigarette butts sprout as flowers, and yellow fluid is contained by a plastic bag— it is a fertile wetland in a world changed by global warming. It is both vagina and body.
Structured as a “Natural History Museum”, Yema leads us from prehistory to a distant speculative future, bookended by sculptural ‘artifacts’ (“Orthoceras Cloud” and “Liberty Leading the Nipple”). Carolyn Merchant wrote that “The ancient identity of nature as a nurturing mother links women’s history with the history of the environment and ecological change. The female earth was central to the organic cosmology that was undermined by the Scientific Revolution” (Merchant, The Death of Nature, xvi). The female earth (Pachamama) as an ancient idea at odds with the scientific revolution is central to this exhibition, in which the scientific method, divine feminine, and Latin-American folklore become integrated. Yema’s syncretism is at once sensual and clinical, clumsy and formal, sacred and deviant.
45 O’Callhagan Lane, Red Hook, New York
Bard FVL Auction
October 2022Opening October 21, 5-7PM
https://www.bardfvl.com/2022-fvl-auction
The Fund for Visual Learning at Bard College provides material support to students on need-based financial aid so that they might achieve studio art work of quality and ambition.
The FVL also provides campus and classroom enrichment initiatives: bringing visiting artists to campus, improving access to new technology, and supporting special events such as field trips.
Since 2014, the FVL has provided grants for an ambitious range of diverse student art projects.
Gravures: Samantha Schwartz et Cascabel Son Factory
May 2019Vernissage Jeudi 9 Mai, 2019
3 - 6PM
Vernissage de gravures sur la culture et l’histoire du Mexique.Samantha Schwartz vient directement de New York à nous proposer ses derniers gravures, inspirées dans la vie quotidienne de la frontière Mexico-américaine, ainsi que de la campagne mexicaine. Notamment, elle expose dans ses travaux des sujets divers autour de l'immigration, de la spiritualité et du Son Jarocho - genre de musique traditionnelle afro-mexicaine de la Côte Atlantique de l'Etat de Veracruz (Mexique).
**Musique mexicaine traditionnelle en live !!
Venez nombreux.es !!
115 Boulevard de Ménilmontant, Paris, France
Leonard Codex 1998 - 2018
October 2018Opening Saturday, October 20, 6-10PM
Painting, Printmaking and Photography
Organized by Carlos Pez and Carlos Rodal
Leonard Codex Gallery
130 Leonard Street, Brooklyn, NY