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Join us for the opening of our annual exhibition “Rooted in Sculpture”, a collaboration between KAPOW @kapowgallery and The Artist Gardener NYC @theartistgardenernyc

Curated by Megan Youell

Opening Saturday Sept. 19th 3-7 pm

The West 132 Street Community Garden
108 - 114 West 132d Street, New York, NY 10027

Featuring works by:

Graciela Cassel @graciela_cassel
Aaron Cobbett @aaroncobbettstudio
Ana Garcés Kiley @anagarceskiley
Lusmerlin Lantigua @lusmerlin
Sandra Lapage @sclapage
Jamie Martinez @jamiemartinezstudio
Elissavet Sfyri
Natsuki Takauji @natsukiuji
Loretta Violante @misslorettaaaa

Garden Hours
12-7 pm Fri, Sat, Sun
Through Oct. 31
(Except when it rains)#
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#exhibition #outdoorart #westharlem #communitygarden

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Loretta Violante is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and research-based practices.

Her sculpture “Mom Plow” is featured in our inaugural exhibition opening September 17. This is one of three works of hers in the show.

Mom Plow
Loretta Violante
Steel
29 x 19 x 12”
2026

From the backseat window of her childhood car, Loretta Violante remembers passing a giant yellow bird parked outside the highway department. This body of work returns to that memory: retired municipal snowplows, big, bulky metal things that once served a function and now sit parked and memorialized, once moving, now still.

Using repeated gestures like printing, rubbing, soaking and perforating, alongside a serial approach to making, Violante uses process itself to investigate form and material. Holes become passages that let light, shadow and environment pass through the work, optical shifts that collapse foreground and background. She’s guided by questions of what purpose a utilitarian object serves once it becomes fragile, porous, old, and how time and meditation can shift our perception of an object’s identity.

Loretta’s work will be on view at Magic Hour Gallery, 661 W. Lake St, opening September 17 during Chicago Exhibition Week, September 14 to 20.

Free and open to the public. On view through December.

@misslorettaaaa@chicagoexhibitionweek @gertie.chicago

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today… I thrive

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One of the most transformative years I have ever experienced 31! 32 now! I’m eternally grateful to all the people who have been so close to me. Bless my fiancé, my family, my friends, and my Co-conspirators! Alhamdoulilah!!!

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ACL in October- both weekends 🫦❤️🤬🍾

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Doing lots of things but also nothing at all!

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Everyday is so wonderful

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Loretta, 27: “My boots are Italian vintage, socks John Fluevog, jacket Dickies’s jacket, and the hat was given to me by a friend. Anything and everything with pattern and color inspires me.”

May 2, 2026 ∙ Seaport

#nyclooks #nycstreetstyle #seaportdistrictnyc #alfargosmarketplace #colorfulstyle

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documentation of “Absolute Personal” at @indexartcenter 🍇 🧤which closed on may 30th

Exhibiting artists:
@_bb_ben
@chrisgolub
@fannypackforseeds
@ileftmyfartinsanfrancisco
@quinnyanku
@elizabethkkaiser
@misslorettaaaa
@angelina_laguna
@katikirsch
@beforehouses
@jessecapozzi
@sean_fiske
@elicivita
@falserreality
@eeluc01

co curated by me mia and marielle

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Updated post and poster for Sunday✨🧥🧥🧥

Back by popular demand! alLuPiNiT & Düspati Review present HUDSON RUNWAY Il; Sunday, May 3, 2026, 2-6pm; 579 Hudson St. NYC

Custom Jackets by:

Kelly Bugden ~ Dietmar Busse ~ Jorge Clar ~ Dana Avendano Delvalle ~ Christen Clifford ~ Scot Chiatoo - Keith Connolly ~ Peter Cramer - Billy Erb - Jen Fisher ~ Jim Fletcher ~ Ryan Foerster ~ Danielle Gadus ~ Isaac Gerard - Myranda Gillies - Sara Glick ~ Kendall Glover ~ Suzanne Goldenberg ~ Erik Hanson ~ Patrice Aphrodite Helmar ~ Scott Hug ~ Craig Jun Li ~ Darryl LaVare ~ Robert McNeill ~ Mehdi Matin ~ Tyler Maxin ~ Dávý Náya Mayá ~ Mieko Meguro ~ Sophy Naess ~ Aaisha P. ~ Laura Parnes ~ Juliet Rania ~ Amy Elise Safrankova ~ Michelle Salazar ~ Nick Sethi ~ Ethan Shoshan ~ Sur Rodney Sur ~ Rafael Sánchez ~ TARWUK ~ Gail Thacker ~ Tom Thayer ~ Naomi Luna Tinga ~ John Tremblay - Sarah Valdez ~ Loretta Violante ~ Phillip Ward ~ Jack Waters ~ Van Wifvat

(the list is growing, dm if you
want to join or just show up!)

See you then
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Rain date:
one day at a time

♥️ 📚 ♾️ 🗽✨

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#allupinitnyc
#duspatireview

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OPEN CALL for submissions ~ a group show to take place in the backyard at What Mary Kept (203 Knickerbocker Ave) opening the weekend of June 13+14, exact opening night TBD

Please fill out the Google Form linked in my bio before May 27 to be considered for the exhibition. We wanted it to be as easy and accessible to fill out as possible <3

And don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions! The theme is open, but please keep in mind these are works that will be housed outside for a month, so outdoor friendly materials strongly encouraged.

Last slides are for context of the backyard space - install images from Loretta Violante and Bobby Smith’s duo show Tippy Drifter last summer

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