{"id":13380,"date":"2026-11-06T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=13380"},"modified":"2026-11-04T16:12:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T21:12:38","slug":"scherezade-garcia-golden-skin-at-praxis-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/06\/scherezade-garcia-golden-skin-at-praxis-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Scherezade Garcia, &#8216;Golden Skin&#8217; at Praxis Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The female figures in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scherezade.net\">Scherezade Garcia<\/a>\u2019s latest solo show at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.praxis-art.com\/en\/exhibitions\/scherezade-garcia-golden-skin\">Praxis Gallery<\/a> are dressed in such elaborate costumes, merged with rich, decorative backgrounds, that their faces and bodies are almost secondary to a rich profusion of cultural references from Africa, Spain and the Caribbean.\u00a0 Here, a youthful face with a composed and wise expression suggests a visionary figure; the painting\u2019s title, \u2018Anacaona Catalina Marie del Congo Alto\u2019 brings to mind Anacaona, the female Taino leader who resisted Spanish occupation, along with references to Spain and Africa. (On view in Chelsea through Nov 28<sup>th<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 1413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/ad691962-c694-e1e8-6f89-c61a84ad9b8a.jpg\" alt=\"A woman's head appears from the top of an elaborate area of decoration.\" width=\"1413\" height=\"1715\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scherezade Garcia, Anacaona Catalina Marie del Congo Alto, Golden Paints acrylic, charcoal, pastel on linen, 70 x 54 inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The female figures in Scherezade Garcia\u2019s latest solo show at Praxis Gallery are dressed in such elaborate costumes, merged with rich, decorative backgrounds, that their faces and bodies are almost secondary to a rich profusion of cultural references from Africa, Spain and the Caribbean.\u00a0 Here, a youthful face with a composed and wise expression suggests &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/06\/scherezade-garcia-golden-skin-at-praxis-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scherezade Garcia, &#8216;Golden Skin&#8217; at Praxis Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[11921,11922,273,11923,10354,10611],"class_list":["post-13380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-anacaona","tag-catalina-marie-del-congo-alto","tag-contemporary-painting","tag-golden-skin","tag-praxis-gallery","tag-scherezade-garcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3tO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13384,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions\/13384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}