Sept 7, 2025 – January 11, 2026

Reception and Artists’ Talk
Sunday, September 14, 1:30 p.m. in person

Open House New York: Guided Exhibition Tour
Sunday, October 19, 1:30 p.m. in person

Derfner Judaica Museum + Art Collection
Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Main Campus
1st Floor Jacob Reingold Pavilion
5901 Palisade Ave, Bronx, NY 10471
Free Admission

R.S.V.P. art@riverspring.org> or 718-581-1596 or Maya@mayaciarrocchi.com

mages, left to right: Maya Ciarrocchi (b. Winnipeg, Canada, 1967), Ephemeral Lake, detail, 2023. Tapestry thread on needlepoint canvas, 18 x 20 in.; Sandra Caplan (b. Winnipeg, Canada, 1936), Downtown View, September, detail, 1989. Oil on linen, 50 x 42 in.; Ray Ciarrocchi (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1933), Field by a River, detail, 1989. Oil on linen, 40 x 70 in. Courtesy the artists.

Please join me for the opening of Fantastical Realities: Sandra Caplan, Maya Ciarrocchi, and Ray Ciarrocchi, at the Hebrew Home’s Derfner Judaica Museum + Art Collection in the Bronx. This three-person exhibition marks the first time my parent’s and I have exhibited our work together.

Sandra Caplan works almost exclusively in still life, using vivid colors and staged tableaux that she carefully assembles and paints directly from observation. Atmospheric conditions are also important to Caplan, as is bold color.

Maya Ciarrocchi’s two tapestries, three needlepoints, and a sixteen-panel cyanotype installation by Ciarrocchi’s and Caplan’s daughter, Maya Ciarrocchi, will be on view. A response to the present-day climate catastrophe, they are related to LoopCurrent, a research-based performance installation that envisions humanity’s impact on the planet and the irrevocably altered future.

Ray Ciarrocchi has a strong formalist practice related to the physical aspects of landscape. His vibrant compositions begin with observation and become fantastical places all their own with the dramatic color and shadow that appear within his works.

To learn more about the exhibition, click here. On view through January 11, 2026.