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The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism

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Derosia is happy to present The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism, an exhibition of new paintings by Emma Rose Schwartz.

The exhibition draws its title from an eponymous book written by Leah Underhill, one of the infamous Fox sisters known for bringing the American Spiritualist movement into mainstream culture in the mid-19th century. Against this narrative backdrop of conversing with the dead via “table tipping” or the rattling of a bed frame, it seems fitting that Schwartz’s new paintings find her signature childlike and adolescent characters embedded in architectural forms and vernacular furniture: red-headed girls truncated by a wicker chair or tucked away in a coffin-like dresser drawer, or contorted in postures defined by a painting’s border while engaged in acts of comfort or care, like braiding hair. Importantly, their airless surroundings are less illustration of the story than reflection on mortality and the technologies and structures of living that...More expand_more

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Installation View of "The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism"
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The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism

Press Release
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Derosia is happy to present The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism, an exhibition of new paintings by Emma Rose Schwartz.

The exhibition draws its title from an eponymous book written by Leah Underhill, one of the infamous Fox sisters known for bringing the American Spiritualist movement into mainstream culture in the mid-19th century. Against this narrative backdrop of conversing with the dead via “table tipping” or the rattling of a bed frame, it seems fitting that Schwartz’s new paintings find her signature childlike and adolescent characters embedded in architectural forms and vernacular furniture: red-headed girls truncated by a wicker chair or tucked away in a coffin-like dresser drawer, or contorted in postures defined by a painting’s border while engaged in acts of comfort or care, like braiding hair. Importantly, their airless surroundings are less illustration of the story than reflection on mortality and the technologies and structures of living that...More expand_more

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197 Grand St #2W, New York, NY 10013, USA
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