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Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11

The National September 11 Memorial Museum

It was an honor to have 850 paintings from GESTURE, my 3,000 piece installation included in the first art exhibition at the September 11th Museum. The exhibition was on view from September, 2016 to January, 2018.

Click here for an interview with me about GESTURE.

Gesture

GESTURE is a memorial installation comprised of almost 3000 individual paintings, one for each person lost on September 11, 2001. In the years since then GESTURE has been shown frequently throughout the United States.

In honor of the 20th Anniversary GESTURE was exhibited at The Pelham Art Center. All 2,977 painting were exhibited for this solo exhibition.

Eight hundred and fifty GESTURE paintings were exhibited at The National September 11th Memorial Museum for close to two years in honor of the 15th anniversary of the attacks in the exhibition Rendering The Unthinkable:Artists Respond to 9/11.