Bracha L. Ettinger’s new solo exhibition at Andrew Kreps Gallery is opening on February 18 and will show Ettinger recent works.

“To paint is to self-fragilize myself, to make myself vulnerable in accessing the other and the cosmos, to
join as I differ, to withness what I give witness to. In my process, the abstract universe encounters the one we live in—a world absorbed by pain and violence—and offers itself up to it in a kind of trust after the end of trust. In the past ten years, my methods of abstraction have engaged the quivering moves of the butterfly and the jellyfish, its hovering tendrils in the water—ocean, spring, and womb.

I don’t start oil paintings with blankness. The first brush touch is already an encounter with traces. I work with tiny color lines toward light and translucency, to give witness—in the feminine—to the spectral ashen traces of catastrophe, imprinted, transmitted, transformed, and cross-inscribed.”