about 11 months ago (02/08/2024)

Danielle De Jesus’s Ode to Puerto Rican Bushwick Skip to content Danielle De Jesus, "Puerto Rican Rosary" (2023), oil and packing material on canvas, 48 x 60 inches (all images courtesy Danielle De Jesus) Artist Danielle De Jesus grew up near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Knickerbocker Avenue in a Puerto Rican household in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood that has steadily gentrified since the mid-aughts, when artists began establishing studios in the warehouses near Flushing Avenue...