Axel Vervoordt Gallery is please to announce Ann Leda Shapiro’s debut exhibition with the gallery. Shapiro’s works serve as portals into a richly layered universe where personal and collective histories intertwine. Through luminous colours and symbolic imagery, she invites us to reflect on the interwoven forces of nature, the human body, and the subconscious mind—a space where art and healing merge. Ann Leda Shapiro’s pioneering artistic evolution shows the interconnectedness of the micro and macro cosmos in gentle, intimate, and mesmerising ways.

The work of the American artist delves into feminism, nature, and the subconscious, blending personal history, activism, and healing. Over the decades, her paintings have explored the nature of being and self-identity with a mystical and thought-provoking quality. Shapiro’s formative years in New York City, studying art and visiting the Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, shaped her unique approach. Her involvement in the counterculture movements of the 1960s further influenced her art, which often challenges societal norms and conventions. As a pioneering feminist artist, Shapiro gained recognition in the 1970s, though her bold works on gender and sexuality were censored at the time. Today, these works, continue to reflect this timely and relevant vision, as noted by Glenn D. Lowry in Vital Signs at MoMA.