- Visual Art
Church of the Nativity
Shay Rutkowski
3 July 2026 19:00–22:00
4 July 2026 12:00–17:00
5 July 2026 13:00–19:00
"Church of the Nativity" is a multimedia research project exploring a street corner in the artist’s home neighborhood in New York City. The corner once housed a Catholic parish Church, and was recently demolished, now existing as a vacant lot. Shay’s works fixate on light, rubble, and what has been unearthed from exposed buildings. Centering graffiti, memory, and architecture, Shay’s works pay homage to the East Village, a neighborhood simultaneously grappling with rapid gentrification and blooming with accidental beauty.
Biography
Shay Rutkowski
Shay Rutkowski is a multimedia artist living and working in Neukölln. Shay is keen to question how architecture and design factor into urban gentrification. In Shay's works, they convey something that has gone awry for both the human and non-human worlds and weave together these realities. Shay primarily uses colors to translate their observations and animate a sensory feeling.
Recently, Shay has been studying tensions between corporate hyper-development and buildings created before the turn of the century. They gravitate towards finding something fantastical that grows in between these structures.
Recently, Shay has been studying tensions between corporate hyper-development and buildings created before the turn of the century. They gravitate towards finding something fantastical that grows in between these structures.
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