About

Smack Mellon is pleased to present Shanti Grumbine’s intricate cut-paper works, silkscreens, and sculptures. The chosen works coalesce around the theme of Zeroing, which refers to the recalibration of value as well as the action of aiming a gun at a target.

Grumbine began collecting the first and second pages of the New York Times several years ago when a struggle with neurological Lyme Disease left her unable to absorb the text. She responded to her condition by methodically redacting all the words on the pages—an action that conjured themes of censorship, marginalization, bias, and …