{"id":7603,"date":"2018-07-14T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=7603"},"modified":"2025-02-11T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T23:00:23","slug":"rachel-lee-hovnanian-at-leila-heller-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/14\/rachel-lee-hovnanian-at-leila-heller-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Lee Hovnanian Sculpture at Leila Heller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A huge, flawless bar of soap in Carrara marble acts as an icon of purity in Rachel Lee Hovnanian\u2019s current solo show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leilahellergallery.com\/exhibitions\/rachel-lee-hovnanian-part-iii-pure\">Leila Heller Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0 The third in a series of consecutive exhibitions by the artist at this Chelsea gallery, the show encourages introspection and the chance to \u2018clean up\u2019 some mental baggage.\u00a0 Assistant by gallery staff, a visitor can write down something (s)he\u2019d like to eliminate from her\/his life on one of the cast plaster soaps stacked against the gallery wall, then smash the soap with a mallet.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through July 20<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7604\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/14\/rachel-lee-hovnanian-at-leila-heller-gallery-2\/hovnanian\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7604\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/hovnanian-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rachel Lee Hovnanian, PURE Marble Large, carrara marble, 15 x 10 \u00bd x 3 \u00be inches, ed of 8, 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A huge, flawless bar of soap in Carrara marble acts as an icon of purity in Rachel Lee Hovnanian\u2019s current solo show at Leila Heller Gallery.\u00a0 The third in a series of consecutive exhibitions by the artist at this Chelsea gallery, the show encourages introspection and the chance to \u2018clean up\u2019 some mental baggage.\u00a0 Assistant &hellip; 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