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TO THE DUPLEX COMMUNITY 🖤
with all our love - more in our stories

Sydney, Eden and Hollie

TO THE DUPLEX COMMUNITY 🖤
with all our love - more in our stories

Sydney, Eden and Hollie

Curator of NAKED SEDUCTION, Ricki Blakesberg amongst the photographs she selected from Elizabeth Sunflower’s archive to create this exhibition. We’ve loved our collaboration with @retrophotoarchive - come catch show this weekend before it closes.

DUPLEX will be open today, tomorrow and Sunday from 1-6pm 🌻


Works pictured:

Cemented (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Topless Luncheons (1970) Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Strip Tease (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Curator of NAKED SEDUCTION, Ricki Blakesberg amongst the photographs she selected from Elizabeth Sunflower’s archive to create this exhibition. We’ve loved our collaboration with @retrophotoarchive - come catch show this weekend before it closes.

DUPLEX will be open today, tomorrow and Sunday from 1-6pm 🌻


Works pictured:

Cemented (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Topless Luncheons (1970) Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Strip Tease (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Curator of NAKED SEDUCTION, Ricki Blakesberg amongst the photographs she selected from Elizabeth Sunflower’s archive to create this exhibition. We’ve loved our collaboration with @retrophotoarchive - come catch show this weekend before it closes.

DUPLEX will be open today, tomorrow and Sunday from 1-6pm 🌻


Works pictured:

Cemented (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Topless Luncheons (1970) Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Strip Tease (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Curator of NAKED SEDUCTION, Ricki Blakesberg amongst the photographs she selected from Elizabeth Sunflower’s archive to create this exhibition. We’ve loved our collaboration with @retrophotoarchive - come catch show this weekend before it closes.

DUPLEX will be open today, tomorrow and Sunday from 1-6pm 🌻


Works pictured:

Cemented (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Topless Luncheons (1970) Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

Strip Tease (1971)
Archival Digital Print
11x14 print, 16x20 framed
DM for inquires

In collaboration with Retro Photo Archivewe are excited to present NAKED SEDUCTION - a selection of work from the late photographer Elizabeth Sunflower, a photojournalist working in North Beach, San Francisco. Curated by @lil_rix the show opens this Saturday, April 22 with a reception from 4-8pm 🌻

As politicians and special interest groups continue to consolidate money and power in our modern landscape, these photographs are a painful reminder of the constant push-and-pull between conservatism and progressive ideals in America.

(Pictured) Elizabeth Sunflower, Members of the jury, 1970

In 1970, erotic performers and husband and wife Roberta Lee and William Milliken were arrested for a live simulated sex act at the Naked Seduction Club. As the trial progressed, members of the jury were brought to the club to witness the performance where the couple was eventually acquitted. The owner of the club, Kathleen Samuelspassed away prior to the conclusion of the trial. Pictured is attorney Jack Berman and member of the Jury.

@retroblakesberg
@retrophotoarchive
@lil_rix

💋

This past week Anna Bloda and Akeem Duncan took over Duplex to promote Anna Bolda’s first solo presentation MOTHER-HOOD. They approached us with the project as Anna’s dream space to showcase a section of her photographs.

Bolda has a massive community she cares for and participates in - a kind, encouraging and creative person - for Bolda this moment as been long awaited 💗 @akduncan85 @annabloda

This past week Anna Bloda and Akeem Duncan took over Duplex to promote Anna Bolda’s first solo presentation MOTHER-HOOD. They approached us with the project as Anna’s dream space to showcase a section of her photographs.

Bolda has a massive community she cares for and participates in - a kind, encouraging and creative person - for Bolda this moment as been long awaited 💗 @akduncan85 @annabloda

I Would Cease to Be (I) & (II) both now open ~ New York City @duplex.nyc and Providence, RI @apt13gallery ~ congrats @pixieforest2000 !!

For the closing at Duplex , THIS SUNDAY, collaborators of Erika’s will share writing and music in the space. The share will begin 4pm 🪄 all are welcome

A 16th century Spanish mystic, religious reformer, and prolific writer, St. Teresa defended bodily devotion. She described her experiences of divine ecstasy during bouts of illness in which her body and consciousness dissolved, leaving only the pain and joy of a sublime union with God.

Perceiving female mysticism, prayer, and ecstasy as defiant acts of freedom against the patriarchal hegemony of the Catholic Church, I Would Cease To Be (I) intertwines images of the artist with the famous saint, honoring Rios Hickle’s ancestral legacy and exposing the complicated relationships between piety, sexuality, mortality, pain, and pleasure.

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I’m Searching, I’m Searching, 2023 @pixieforest2000
Photographs, photo album sheets, safety pins, thread, variety of clips, felt, and wool
Unique

Documentation by @maxlakner

A 16th century Spanish mystic, religious reformer, and prolific writer, St. Teresa defended bodily devotion. She described her experiences of divine ecstasy during bouts of illness in which her body and consciousness dissolved, leaving only the pain and joy of a sublime union with God.

Perceiving female mysticism, prayer, and ecstasy as defiant acts of freedom against the patriarchal hegemony of the Catholic Church, I Would Cease To Be (I) intertwines images of the artist with the famous saint, honoring Rios Hickle’s ancestral legacy and exposing the complicated relationships between piety, sexuality, mortality, pain, and pleasure.

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I’m Searching, I’m Searching, 2023 @pixieforest2000
Photographs, photo album sheets, safety pins, thread, variety of clips, felt, and wool
Unique

Documentation by @maxlakner

A 16th century Spanish mystic, religious reformer, and prolific writer, St. Teresa defended bodily devotion. She described her experiences of divine ecstasy during bouts of illness in which her body and consciousness dissolved, leaving only the pain and joy of a sublime union with God.

Perceiving female mysticism, prayer, and ecstasy as defiant acts of freedom against the patriarchal hegemony of the Catholic Church, I Would Cease To Be (I) intertwines images of the artist with the famous saint, honoring Rios Hickle’s ancestral legacy and exposing the complicated relationships between piety, sexuality, mortality, pain, and pleasure.

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I’m Searching, I’m Searching, 2023 @pixieforest2000
Photographs, photo album sheets, safety pins, thread, variety of clips, felt, and wool
Unique

Documentation by @maxlakner

A 16th century Spanish mystic, religious reformer, and prolific writer, St. Teresa defended bodily devotion. She described her experiences of divine ecstasy during bouts of illness in which her body and consciousness dissolved, leaving only the pain and joy of a sublime union with God.

Perceiving female mysticism, prayer, and ecstasy as defiant acts of freedom against the patriarchal hegemony of the Catholic Church, I Would Cease To Be (I) intertwines images of the artist with the famous saint, honoring Rios Hickle’s ancestral legacy and exposing the complicated relationships between piety, sexuality, mortality, pain, and pleasure.

*

I’m Searching, I’m Searching, 2023 @pixieforest2000
Photographs, photo album sheets, safety pins, thread, variety of clips, felt, and wool
Unique

Documentation by @maxlakner

A 16th century Spanish mystic, religious reformer, and prolific writer, St. Teresa defended bodily devotion. She described her experiences of divine ecstasy during bouts of illness in which her body and consciousness dissolved, leaving only the pain and joy of a sublime union with God.

Perceiving female mysticism, prayer, and ecstasy as defiant acts of freedom against the patriarchal hegemony of the Catholic Church, I Would Cease To Be (I) intertwines images of the artist with the famous saint, honoring Rios Hickle’s ancestral legacy and exposing the complicated relationships between piety, sexuality, mortality, pain, and pleasure.

*

I’m Searching, I’m Searching, 2023 @pixieforest2000
Photographs, photo album sheets, safety pins, thread, variety of clips, felt, and wool
Unique

Documentation by @maxlakner

A 16th century Spanish mystic, religious reformer, and prolific writer, St. Teresa defended bodily devotion. She described her experiences of divine ecstasy during bouts of illness in which her body and consciousness dissolved, leaving only the pain and joy of a sublime union with God.

Perceiving female mysticism, prayer, and ecstasy as defiant acts of freedom against the patriarchal hegemony of the Catholic Church, I Would Cease To Be (I) intertwines images of the artist with the famous saint, honoring Rios Hickle’s ancestral legacy and exposing the complicated relationships between piety, sexuality, mortality, pain, and pleasure.

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I’m Searching, I’m Searching, 2023 @pixieforest2000
Photographs, photo album sheets, safety pins, thread, variety of clips, felt, and wool
Unique

Documentation by @maxlakner

Silver Screen 👁 from Erika Rios Hickle’s I Would Cease to Be - up @duplex.nyc through April 2nd

Silver Screen, 2023
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000

Silver Screen 👁 from Erika Rios Hickle’s I Would Cease to Be - up @duplex.nyc through April 2nd

Silver Screen, 2023
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000

Silver Screen 👁 from Erika Rios Hickle’s I Would Cease to Be - up @duplex.nyc through April 2nd

Silver Screen, 2023
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000

Silver Screen 👁 from Erika Rios Hickle’s I Would Cease to Be - up @duplex.nyc through April 2nd

Silver Screen, 2023
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000

The Bride from Erika Rios Hickle’s I Would Cease to Be (I) - open this weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-6pm 📌

The Bride, 2023
ink, acrylic medium, glitter, plaster, silver leafing, black nail polish, bee’s wax, rock, thread, safety pins, pins, clips, burlap, silk, canvas
82” x 54” (dims variable)
Unique

I WOULD CEASE TO BE
God
dissolved
my mind – my separation.
I cannot describe my intimacy with Him.
How dependent is your body’s life on water and food and air? I said to God, ‘ I will always be unless you cease to Be,’ And my Beloved replied, ‘And I
would cease to Be
if you
died.’
- St. Teresa Avila

Erika Rios Hickle: I Would Cease to Be (I) is now open Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 1-6pm ~ come explore 📍

Silver Screen, 2023 (detail)
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000

I WOULD CEASE TO BE
God
dissolved
my mind – my separation.
I cannot describe my intimacy with Him.
How dependent is your body’s life on water and food and air? I said to God, ‘ I will always be unless you cease to Be,’ And my Beloved replied, ‘And I
would cease to Be
if you
died.’
- St. Teresa Avila

Erika Rios Hickle: I Would Cease to Be (I) is now open Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 1-6pm ~ come explore 📍

Silver Screen, 2023 (detail)
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000

I WOULD CEASE TO BE
God
dissolved
my mind – my separation.
I cannot describe my intimacy with Him.
How dependent is your body’s life on water and food and air? I said to God, ‘ I will always be unless you cease to Be,’ And my Beloved replied, ‘And I
would cease to Be
if you
died.’
- St. Teresa Avila

Erika Rios Hickle: I Would Cease to Be (I) is now open Friday, Saturday, Sunday from 1-6pm ~ come explore 📍

Silver Screen, 2023 (detail)
silkscreen, silver leafing, staples, pins, thread, clips, photographs, velvet, silk, and linen
Unique
@pixieforest2000

Duplex is pleased to present our next exhibition Erika Rios Hickle’s I Will Cease to Be (I) opening THIS Sunday, March 5th from 6-8pm 👁📍

In a new series of mixed media wall works and sculptures inspired by St. Teresa de Avila’s influential text The Interior Castle, Rios Hickle explores her own visual interpretation of the religious figure, most famously eroticized in Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Baroque altarpiece “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.”

Referencing domestic interiors and architectural motifs of Mexican Catholic Churches, Rios Hickle combines remnants of old, sun-bleached, moth eaten, and torn fabric, with photography, drawing, and collage to form her own makeshift alters reflecting an archive of collective maternal history. Simultaneously becoming and disappearing, the altars bring viewers into contact with St. Teresa’s miraculous experience which took place at a moment when her body and mind was at the brink of death.

Spanning two physical locations in New York City at Duplex and in Providence, RI at Apartment 13, Rios Hickle mimics sites of religious pilgrimage in which images of the artist’s and Saint’s disjointed body parts transform into holy relics.
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I Would Cease to Be (II) opens at Apartment 13 on March 30th, 2023 @apt13gallery coinciding with the closing weekend of I Would Cease to Be (I) @duplex.nyc

Duplex is pleased to present our next exhibition Erika Rios Hickle’s I Will Cease to Be (I) opening THIS Sunday, March 5th from 6-8pm 👁📍

In a new series of mixed media wall works and sculptures inspired by St. Teresa de Avila’s influential text The Interior Castle, Rios Hickle explores her own visual interpretation of the religious figure, most famously eroticized in Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Baroque altarpiece “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.”

Referencing domestic interiors and architectural motifs of Mexican Catholic Churches, Rios Hickle combines remnants of old, sun-bleached, moth eaten, and torn fabric, with photography, drawing, and collage to form her own makeshift alters reflecting an archive of collective maternal history. Simultaneously becoming and disappearing, the altars bring viewers into contact with St. Teresa’s miraculous experience which took place at a moment when her body and mind was at the brink of death.

Spanning two physical locations in New York City at Duplex and in Providence, RI at Apartment 13, Rios Hickle mimics sites of religious pilgrimage in which images of the artist’s and Saint’s disjointed body parts transform into holy relics.
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I Would Cease to Be (II) opens at Apartment 13 on March 30th, 2023 @apt13gallery coinciding with the closing weekend of I Would Cease to Be (I) @duplex.nyc

Duplex is pleased to present our next exhibition Erika Rios Hickle’s I Will Cease to Be (I) opening THIS Sunday, March 5th from 6-8pm 👁📍

In a new series of mixed media wall works and sculptures inspired by St. Teresa de Avila’s influential text The Interior Castle, Rios Hickle explores her own visual interpretation of the religious figure, most famously eroticized in Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Baroque altarpiece “The Ecstasy of St. Teresa.”

Referencing domestic interiors and architectural motifs of Mexican Catholic Churches, Rios Hickle combines remnants of old, sun-bleached, moth eaten, and torn fabric, with photography, drawing, and collage to form her own makeshift alters reflecting an archive of collective maternal history. Simultaneously becoming and disappearing, the altars bring viewers into contact with St. Teresa’s miraculous experience which took place at a moment when her body and mind was at the brink of death.

Spanning two physical locations in New York City at Duplex and in Providence, RI at Apartment 13, Rios Hickle mimics sites of religious pilgrimage in which images of the artist’s and Saint’s disjointed body parts transform into holy relics.
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I Would Cease to Be (II) opens at Apartment 13 on March 30th, 2023 @apt13gallery coinciding with the closing weekend of I Would Cease to Be (I) @duplex.nyc

Last weekend ~ to see
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Last weekend ~ to see
BODY OF/AND WORK
april vendetta

#humantrashdump

Open today / tomorrow

Last weekend ~ to see
BODY OF/AND WORK
april vendetta

#humantrashdump

Open today / tomorrow

Last weekend ~ to see
BODY OF/AND WORK
april vendetta

#humantrashdump

Open today / tomorrow

Last weekend ~ to see
BODY OF/AND WORK
april vendetta

#humantrashdump

Open today / tomorrow

Last weekend ~ to see
BODY OF/AND WORK
april vendetta

#humantrashdump

Open today / tomorrow

Last weekend ~ to see
BODY OF/AND WORK
april vendetta

#humantrashdump

Open today / tomorrow