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Asya Geisberg Gallery is pleased to present “She Shed”, our second solo exhibition with Katarina Riesing. Referring to both the female counterpart to the Man Cave where a woman can be herself, and the shedding of skin, clothes, masks, or burdens, “She Shed” is a group of quieter works nonetheless fraught with intensity. Where earlier pieces cropped body parts and pushed them to the frame edge in order to play with the intersection of the sexy and the grotesque, Riesing’s new works on silk focus on the body submerged in its surroundings. Rather than sit atop the stretched surface as paint …