PALIMPSEST: Inaugurating the Public Launch of GR Virtual Production Studios in Jersey City // 6:00pm-10:00pm

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Friday, March 6th, 6:00pm-10:00pm

Gitana Rosa Gallery GR Virtual Production Studios - 15 Wilkinson Ave 4b 6, Jersey City, NJ 07305

GITANA ROSA GALLERY PRESENTS PALIMPSEST

Launching GR Virtual Production Studios with a Solo Photographic Exhibition by Nicholé Velásquez (he/him) EXHIBITION DETAILS (QUICK FACTS) Title: PALIMPSEST Artist: Nicholé Velásquez (he/him) Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 2026 | 6:00–10:00 PM On View: March 6 – May 1, 2026 Viewing: Opening night public; otherwise by appointment only Venue: GR Virtual Production Studios, 15 Wilkinson Ave, Unit 4B–6, Jersey City, NJ

OVERVIEWGitana Rosa Gallery presents PALIMPSEST, a solo photographic exhibition by Nicholé Velásquez (he/him), inaugurating the public launch of GR Virtual Production Studios in Jersey City. The exhibition opens Friday, March 6, 2026 (6:00–10:00 PM) and remains on view through May 1, 2026.

CURATORIAL STATEMENTVelásquez’s photography is not a single captured moment, but a PALIMPSEST: a surface overwritten by time, memory, and revolution. Each image is an act of excavation, revealing and concealing forms that emerge, collapse, and reappear. Architecture and landscape blur into one another. Color and light are not mere description, but sensation; a call to arms for the eye. The result is a body of work that is both intimate and expansive, demanding close looking and rewarding that watching with new meanings. In Velásquez’s hands, the photograph becomes an interstitial interface—like a mirror—forcing the viewer to confront the traces of what came before and the possibilities of what might yet be.Launching GR Virtual Production Studios with a solo photography exhibition is deliberate: it establishes the space as both a production destination and a cultural venue, and introduces an ongoing program designed to connect Jersey City’s creative community with the New York art ecosystem and an evolving Berlin dialogue.

JC FRIDAYS

This event is part of JC Fridays, a free city-wide visual & performing arts festival held four times a year at the start of every season. Events take place across Jersey City in restaurants, galleries, hair salons, and beyond. Please check out future offerings at www.jcfridays.com.

ARTIST BIO

Nicholé Velásquez is a New York–born artist and photographer whose practice spans experimental analogue photography, portraiture, and compositional theory, with a sustained transatlantic presence between the U.S. and Northern Europe. He has exhibited at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and participated in ICP’s Vantage Point exhibitions, and Gitana Rosa Gallery presented his work in the context of Art Basel Miami.Velásquez’s career includes residencies and research appointments across Europe, including Christiania (Denmark) and an Artist-in-Residence with the City of Copenhagen, as well as two invited residencies at Jørn Utzon’s Can Lis in Mallorca through the Danish Art Foundation/Jørn Utzon Foundation.He is a recipient of the ICP Fellowship / Jocelyne Benzakin Fellowship Scholarship (under the supervision of Joseph Rodriguez) and was awarded the Prix ART FABER (Paris). His work has been presented in Berlin, including the Arts and Culture festival for the Tom of Finland Foundation’s 40th anniversary at Halle am Berghain (2024), highlighting his refined technique of analogue multiple exposure—layering compositions within a single negative.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / HIGHLIGHTS

• International Center of Photography (ICP) — “The City, Curated by Annie Leibovitz” (2005)

• ICP — Vantage Point 13/14/15 (2005–2007)

• Art Basel Miami — presented with Gitana Rosa Gallery (2009)

• “Botero, Warhol y Velásquez un joven” — Panama City (Yoo, Tamayo) (2019)

PUBLIC VIEWING / APPOINTMENTSThe exhibition is open to the public during the opening reception (March 6, 6–10 PM). All subsequent visits are by appointment only.

MEDIA CONTACT / BOOKINGS / PRESSVanessa Liberati — Gitana Rosa Gallery / GR Virtual Production Studios

Main line (inquiries, bookings, press): 323-559-2383

Alt: 646-783-8519

Email: vanessa@gitanarosa.com

Address: GR Virtual Production Studios, 15 Wilkinson Ave, Unit 4B–6, Jersey City, NJ

Instagram: @gitanarosa | @grvirtualstudios

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