Amaryllis DeJesus Moleski”™s Portal Pieces is the third installment of Aldrich Projects, a single-artist series that features a singular work or a focused body of work by an artist every four months on the museum”™s campus. Sited in the Leir Atrium, DeJesus Moleski presents two large-scale works on paper: Graduation Day, 2021, and The Guardians, 2015. They will be on view at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, now to May 29.
DeJesus Moleski”™s practice is informed by her Puerto Rican American heritage and a peripatetic upbringing spent crisscrossing the United States.
Her expansive body of work spans drawings, video, sculpture, performance and installation.
Born in 1985 in Bordeaux, France, DeJesus Moleski earned an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2019 and a BFA from the California College of the Arts in 2014. A multi-award winner, her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
