March 26 – May 8, 2026
the end of a sentence is where we might begin
Lower East Side Printshop
In Person Viewing:
306 West 37th Street, 6th FL
New York, NY 10018
Online Viewing:
https://printshop.org/exhibitions/the-end-of-a-sentence-is-where-we-might-begin
Printmaking is a layered medium, the product of which speaks to the lasting imprint of memory; the substrate features an echo of the matrix, brought into visibility by pigment. The process of printmaking provides the grounds for material experimentation and manifestation of literal and metaphorical transference, with what may persist, be abstracted, or disappear. The artists in this show contend with narratives (be it personal, familial, cultural, structural, or philosophical), that foments potentiality to explore the edges of boundaries and begin anew.
Many artists in this show call upon autobiography, heritage, and/or (im)migration in excavating landscapes of embodied memory. Rachel Burgess composes new narratives of New England childhood landscapes; Natasha K. De Armas fragments the body and threads together the past with present, home left behind with memory of home; Luis A. Gutierrez layers images of labor with architectural drawings and Indigenous objects; Katya Grokhovsky engages humor in constructing a new identity in the face of displacement; Leekyung Kang recovers Korean shamanistic cosmologies and activates its histories, memories, and lost potentials; Farah Mohammad negotiates reminiscence and evocation in locating resilience; and Felix Plaza invokes histories and cultural identities that shape perseverance.
Other artists consider the implications of the body in collective, social, or personal memory, utilizing abstraction as a method of transformation. Kate Liebman layers molecular and cosmic imagery, like scars on a body; Megan Tatem reconfigures motion into stillness, and stillness back into motion through an archive of voguing imagery; and Scott Vander Veen plays with abstraction and voyeurism in manipulating 20th century gay erotica.
On a more philosophical level, some artists re-think structural associations and information systems. Gillie Holme shatters the framework of language in an attempt to find what may survive and Hanna Wutig examines the crossover between data systems and craft motifs through pixels.
Faced with the end of a sentence, these artists consider where we might begin again.
Exhibiting artists: Rachel Burgess, Natasha K. De Armas, Katya Grokhovsky, Luis A. Gutierrez, Gillie Holme, Leekyung Kang, Kate Liebman, Farah Mohammad, Felix Plaza, Megan Tatem, Scott Vander Veen, and Hanna Wuttig