Shellyne Rodriguez at PPOW Gallery

New Yorkers get on with their business, striding forward in this colored-pencil on black paper drawing by Bronx-based artist Shellyne Rodriguez at PPOW Gallery in Tribeca.  Informed in layout by ‘80s Hip Hop poster designs by Buddy Esquire, Rodriguez’s diagram includes the upbeat phrase ‘together but separately and in agreement’ in English, Spanish, Twi, Kichwa and other languages.  Sourced from a Zapatista text, the words “show how our autonomy can be embedded within our collectivity.” (On view in Tribeca through April 22nd).

Shellyne Rodriguez, BX Third World Mix Tape no. 4, Caminos (Slow and Steady), color pencil on paper, 62 x 46 inches, 2022.