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Emerson Dorsch Gallery is pleased to announce Jessica Gispert’s solo exhibition Desvelos, opening October 14, 2023. With tondos, paintings and sculptures in wax and metal, Gispert employs tools of her artistic training to explore healing rituals of various Latin American and Caribbean cultures. Cotton-like fibers from the ceiba tree’s seed pods and root system join with the wax to invoke Gispert’s meditations on time, lineage, healing and alchemy.

Jessica Gispert works in elements, similar to the way a bruja mottles ingredients for an enchantment. For this exhibition, wax, a medium for …