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Thank you ARTnews and Tessa Solomon for including “All That Before Us” at Ruiz-Healy Art as one of the “Eight Group Shows to See in New York”. “All That Before Us: Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood”, a two-person exhibition at our New York City gallery is on view until November 27, 2026.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email info@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.221.

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Thank you Art Week NYC! We are thrilled to participate from November 11-14.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email info@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.221.

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We are thrilled to be part of Art Week NYC a citywide celebration of contemporary art presented by ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum from November 11-14.

“Our vision for Art Week NYC began with the galleries,” Danielle McConnell, publisher of Artforum, said in a statement. “The galleries are where artists are discovered, careers are built, and the conversation around contemporary art moves forward. By bringing them together under one citywide platform, we’re creating an experience that reflects the strength and diversity of New York’s gallery community. We’re excited to invite audiences to see art where it is best seen, at the galleries and museums across the city.”

All that Before Us, with works by Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood will be on view during Art Week. All that Before Us explores intergenerational empowerment, lineage, and a shared reverence for materials. The unique connection between Datchuk and Jimenez Underwood underpins the exhibition. Using time-honored craft techniques and materials, Datchuk and Jimenez Underwood create work that uniquely balances fine art and technical skill. Their practice explores compelling themes such as migration, gender equality, and multicultural identity.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email info@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.221.

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Jimenez Underwood’s “Galactic Detention Center” series offers unique interpretations of constellation maps woven from steel and aluminum barbed wire and metallic thread. These pieces capture a celestial glow and evoke stars and cosmic matter. The series addresses young people in juvenile detention and those now held in immigration detention centers. Imagining these centers in a cosmic context highlights their arbitrary nature, indeed their ridiculousness, for what is a human system of documentation compared to the universal scale of life? Jimenez Underwood constructed these studies as an exploration in metal, choosing materials that are hard, cold, and often sharp. In this way, the metal’s connotations mirror the nature of outer space and the lack of humanity in the immigration detention centers they reference.

Jennifer Ling Datchuck & Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: All That Before Us is currently on view at our New York Gallery until Friday, November 27th, 2026. For Inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside of our gallery hours, please email info@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.221.

Artwork: Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, Galactic Detention Center #5, 2026, Woven and assembled. Handmade anodized aluminum barbed wire, barbed wire, anodized aluminum wire, and metallic thread, 12.5 x 8.25 x 5 in., 31.8 x 21 x 12.7 cm

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We are delighted to share gallery artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood’s two-person exhibition “Leading the Camino: Latinx Art by Juan de Dios Mora and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood” at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.

The exhibition features prints by Mora and textiles by Jimenez Underwood that question borders and embrace living in the “borderlands.” Mora adopts figuration and humor to resist homogenization and contest political rhetoric that criminalizes immigrants. Jimenez Underwood embraces textiles to similarly cross borders and honor her hybrid identity as Chicana, Mexicana, Americana, Indigenous, woman, and artist. Her artworks bridge art and craft to examine geopolitical barriers and weave together bodies and traditions from past and present.

“Leading the Camino” is curated by Dr. Adriana Miramontes Olivas, Curator of Academic Programs and Latin American and Caribbean Art.

Image courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email info@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.221.

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Ruiz-Healy Art is thrilled to announce our participation in the inaugural Upper East Side Gallery Night, which takes place this Thursday, September 24, 2026 to celebrate the opening of New York’s fall art week. Twenty-eight Upper East Side galleries will participate for a day and evening of exhibitions and conversation across the neighborhood. Galleries will keep normal hours and extend them until 9 pm. Ruiz-Healy Art will be open from 11 AM - 9PM on Thursday, September 24, 2026.

Join us to view All That Before Us: Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood at our New York City gallery at 74 E 79th St, 2D. Thank you to Ben Brown Fine Arts and the participating galleries for organizing.

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Three sleeps in NYC 🥱😴🫩
I feel like this Sarah Lucas sculpture trapped behind a metal fence sometimes.

My family thinks it’s great that work brings me back to NYC often. It’s always a struggle to fit it all in and it’s never enough time.

This time I stayed with my second cousin Jean, her mom was my Paw Paw’s niece in law and one of the few elders in our family that are still alive.

I asked her what the Cantonese word was for menopause and she said it was “baby and then no baby time”. She remembers being with my Paw Paw when she was first going through it. She had no clue what was going on in her body and even went to the hospital to seek care. It was so bad she went to the ER. My grandmother never went to the doctor!

It’s an elders responsibility to tell it like it is but my aunt has always been gentle and kind with words. She told me I looked flushed and plump and it must be motherhood but menopause is a fragile time in a women’s life and I need to get more sleep or I will keep getting sick. Already there auntie! I was told to drink more soup!

Biggest thanks to everyone who came out to see “All That Before Us” with @cju.art.threads at @ruizhealyart . Till next time NYC.

#allthatbeforeus #auntie #chinesemedicine #ceramics #nyc

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Opening tonight at our San Antonio gallery - Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: In Our Hands, a two-person exhibition opens tonight, Wednesday, September 16 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Employing time-honored craft techniques and materials, Datchuk and Jimenez Underwood create work that uniquely balances fine art and technical skill. Their practice explores compelling themes such as migration, gender equality, and multicultural identity. Ruiz-Healy Art is proud to participate in Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026, a nationwide initiative led by Craft in America to honor the handmade during America’s Semiquincentennial. Through both exhibitions, we join museums, artists, and organizations nationwide in celebrating craft traditions that connect us across history and time.

Datchuk’s series For Your Eyes Only is inspired by red velvet curtains on a stage that separate performer and audience; Datchuk’s curtains suggest metaphorical thresholds from girlhood to womanhood, from being a woman to entering all-male spaces, and from being a person of color to entering all-white spaces. Porcelain hands with acrylic manicures hold a peach, a chicken foot, and a Venus of Willendorf reproduction, capturing the tension between the power to give and receive pleasure.

For inquiries regarding our gallery programming or to schedule a private appointment outside our regular gallery hours, please email info@ruizhealyart.com or call 646.833.7709 or 210.804.2219

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Today marks the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month. Let's examine this work by Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, whose work is about traversing borders.⁠
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In tapestries like “Planetary Expedition, Undocumented,” the artist explores the lived experiences of her own childhood along the US-Mexican border. Her family of agricultural workers would regularly move between their two houses in the aptly compounded cities of Calexico, CA and Mexicali, Baja California. ⁠
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Alongside her signature use of barbed wire—interwoven rather than as a line of separation—Underwood weaves planets with alternating areas of opacity and translucency from other commodities such as silk and copper. ⁠
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“The work was about the Earth splitting in half with Venus and Mars watching,” said the artist. ⁠
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On view in You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry. Included with free admission. ⁠
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Images: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood. “Planetary Expedition, Undocumented” (installation view and details), 2024. Originally commissioned and produced by Artpace San Antonio. Photo credit: Constance Mensh.

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All That Before Us showcasing the talented Consuelo Jimenez Underwood and Jennifer Ling Datchuk. Beyond grateful to be able to help out with such a beautiful show!

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Proud and grateful for this two person show! We couldn’t dream of a better pairing than Consuelo’s and Jennifer’s work united in this exhibition. The NYC show opened on Thursday and our San Antonio one will open on Wednesday. Still processing all the conversations and meaningful works. Stop by and see it in person! @cju.art.threads @jenniferlingdatchuk @ruizhealyart @pattiruizhealy .
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last image I am next to an historic textile Consuelo’s work from 1990.

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A great duo of shows opened last night at El Museo del Barrio @elmuseo .
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Congratulations to curators C. Ondine Chavoya @ondinechavoya and David Evans Frantz @davidevansfrantz for their exhibition Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, a major exhibition examining the life and work of Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995), an innovative yet historically underrecognized artist whose practice explored gender, sexuality, identity, and belonging with humor and political urgency. Rooted in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicane artistic communities, Sandoval’s work engaged the social and cultural movements shaping the United States and Latin America from the 1970s through the 1990s.

the exhibition takes its title from Butch Gardens, a gay bar in Los Angeles frequented by Sandoval and fellow Chicane patrons in the early 1970s. Sandoval adopted the bar’s name for the fictional “Butch Gardens School of Art,” a conceptual framework through which he fostered collaboration, experimentation, and creative community while challenging traditional art world structures.

“Octopus & Others: Acts of Collaboration & Poetics,”
an exhibition inspired by a significant project from the museum’s history by artist, poet, and Exit Art co-founder Papo Colo. Octopus: An Act of Sculpture (1982)—an accordion-style outdoor book composed of eight-by-four-foot plywood panels—was first staged in El Museo’s courtyard in 1982. Anchored by a recent gift of several panels from the project to El Museo’s Permanent Collection by Colo, presented here for the first time in more than four decades, Octopus & Others showcases the power of collaboration between artists and poets and of artworks that embrace and subvert the book form and its function. So great to see Rolando Briseno and Marta Sánchez work included and have a San Antonio reunion with the amazing Norma Cantu @norma.cantu #teddysandoval #teddysandovalandthebutchgardensschoolofart #papocolo

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