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Melissa Misla’s ‘What a Part of the Apartment Meant’ explores the complexities of Latinidad

Unlike other galleries in the Chelsea Arts District, Praxis Gallery exclusively features the works of Latinx artists.

Praxis Gallery is unique in its expansive mission to include Latine artists in the contemporary art world without trying to promote the artists’ work as solely applicable to their Latin American experiences. Although all of their artists share factors of cultural identity, the exhibitions stand by themselves as reflecting something much deeper, countering the all-too-common stereotypes about the Latine artist. The exhibitions do not try to frame themselves as selling some cultural fantasy, but instead include the works simply as they are.

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