Judy Glantzman (left) · María Berrío (right) Photo by Brad Ogbonna
P·P·O·W is pleased to host a conversation between Judy Glantzman and María Berrío in conjunction with Playing with Dolls, Glantzman's first exhibition with the gallery. The artists first met at the School of Visual Arts while Glantzman was teaching and Berrío was earning her MFA. Using the works on view in the exhibition as their point of departure, Glantzman and Berrío will explore their distinct creative practices and the importance of friendship, identity, and a sense of play throughout their work.
Playing with Dolls is currently on view at 390 Broadway through Saturday, March 14.
Please join us for this in-person event at 390 Broadway, 2nd Floor, on Thursday, March 12, at 6:30pm.
No RSVP necessary. Seating will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Judy Glantzman (b. 1956) was born in Long Island, NY, and now lives and works in Chatham, NY. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978, she began exhibiting in the early 1980s East Village art scene at galleries such as Civilian Warfare, New York, NY, and Gracie Mansion, New York, NY. Since the 1990s, Glantzman has presented solo exhibitions at Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; BlumHelman Gallery, New York, NY; Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA; Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY; Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; and Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY; among others. In 2009, Glantzman presented a 30-year survey exhibition at Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, New York, NY. Throughout her career, Glantzman has taught drawing and painting at institutions including the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Studio School, among others. The artist’s work belongs to numerous public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH; and the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; among others. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most notably the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation Grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.
María Berrío (b. 1982) was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Through her intricate collages, Berrío explores the complex layers of identity and belonging, moving fluidly between the cultures that have shaped her—her Colombian roots and her experiences in the dynamic urban landscape of New York City. Working out of her Brooklyn studio, she creates works that are as much about the flow of energy in the city as they are about the mythical, vivid world of her childhood recollections. Berrío has presented major solo exhibitions at ICA Boston, MA, in 2023 and The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, in 2021. Her work has been featured in institutional group exhibitions at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL; The Modern, Fort Worth, TX; The DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; University Art Museum at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; and El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; in addition to the Prospect.4 Triennial, New Orleans, LA, and Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. Berrío’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, New York, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China; among others.