The Bronx Museum of the Arts: "Shellyne Rodriguez: 80 Blocks From Tiffany's: The Insistence of Life on the Periphery of Empire" (Online Only) - 5/17-8/9/21

Shellyne Rodriguez, Hillary Paints a Banner, 2020. [Image Description: A woman reclines on a banner looking at her cell phone. She wears a red shirt and blue jeans. Near her head is a white container with two paintbrushes. On the banner, in dark green paint, are the words “TURISTAS GO HOME.”]

Shellyne Rodriguez, Hillary Paints a Banner, 2020. [Image Description: A woman reclines on a banner looking at her cell phone. She wears a red shirt and blue jeans. Near her head is a white container with two paintbrushes. On the banner, in dark green paint, are the words “TURISTAS GO HOME.”]

Shellyne Rodriguez: 80 Blocks From Tiffany's: The Insistence of Life on the Periphery of Empire (Online Only)
Monday, May 17 - Monday, August 9, 2021

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.

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Anjuli Nanda