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Arsenal Contemporary Art New York is pleased to present the final part of the painting exhibition series This Sacred Vessel. Past exhibitions looked at the renewed relevance of landscape painting in the face of ecological anxiety and how conversations about marginalized bodies have influenced the way painters represent the human form at a time when images of bodies are pervasive in the media. This second iteration was abruptly interrupted by a global crisis, a pandemic that has left the world – and all of us – profoundly altered. While in recluse in our homes, isolating from friends and …