Spirits Against the Patriarchy
A 17-artist exhibition at Andrew Edlin Gallery in Tribeca examines visionary work produced through claimed spirit communication, primarily by women. Paulina Peavey’s jewel-toned oil and acrylic compositions on board, attributed to a nonbinary spirit entity named Lacamo since the 1930s, anchor the show with their embryonic, stained-glass-like imagery. Curator Susan Aberth connects the participating artists through a thematic thread: their channeled messages collectively resist patriarchal structures and envision alternative social worlds. The exhibition positions automatist and spiritualist practices as historically appropriated by male Surrealists—particularly André Breton—who stripped metaphysical dimensions from mediumship to claim unconscious expression as individual artistic psychology. The show recenters women’s esoteric and occult-informed artistic traditions against mainstream art historical erasure.
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