Pandemic contemplation was the reason for the artist's new series

In the post-lockdown reopening scenario in New York, Lenora shows new works executed during her confinement in Porto Alegre. From July 15 to August 8, Lichtundfire presented the exhibition “When Night Falls” with an outdoor reception at the gallery situated on the Lower East Side.

The collective received nine artists from all over the United States - Gretl Bauer, Vian Borchert, Jane Fire, Leslie Ford, Augustus Goertz, Bobbie Moline-Kramer, Robert Solomon, Arlene Santana and Martin Weinstein - and one Brazilian artist who returned to the city she called home in 1970s and 2000s.

Curators Robert Curcio and Priska Juschka urged the artists to explore what happens from dusk to dawn, to express the potent awe that night exerts on humans. Lenora presented circular paintings created specifically for this exhibition. In her own technique of synthetic fresco on non-fabric material, she recorded the stars observed through a large glass ceiling in her studio. Ptolemy was an influence in the design of the three pieces in the artist's new series. Studies of the Greek figure, who was an astronomer among many other things, have long contributed to Lenora's poetics.