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Shellyne Rodriguez: 80 Blocks From Tiffany's: The Insistence of Life on the Periphery of Empire (online exhibition)

17 May 2021 - 09 August 2021

The Bronx Museum of the Arts / New York, United States

: “Essential Worker Unmasked” by Shellyne Rodriguez, 2020.

Shellyne Rodriguez is an artist, educator, writer, and community organizer based in the Bronx. Her practice utilizes text, drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to depict spaces and subjects engaged in strategies of survival against erasure and subjugation.  This collection of work depicts friends, comrades, and neighbors from the artist’s community in the places they live and hustle.

http://www.bronxmuseum.org/exhibitions/shellyne-rodriguez-80-blocks-from-tiffanyand39s-the-insistence-of-life-on-the-periphery-of-empire-online-only

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