
EXPLODING PROFILES David Joselit on Anna Ostoya at Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York
Shortly after she moved to New York, Anna Ostoya started sketching the faces of her fellow passengers as she rode the subway trains that run between the outer borough of Queens and the island of Manhattan. First, these faces appeared as digital collages in a 2021 book published in cooperation with Chantal Mouffe. Late last year, they appeared transformed as paintings shown in a solo exhibition. In his review of the show, David Joselit pieces together the various art histories that fill Ostoya’s vibrantly colorful profiles and draws out the contemporaneity of these encounters with strangers at a time when identities are being instrumentalized with renewed cruelty by the politics of the second Trump administration.
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