Fridman Gallery has a suite of watercolor drawings that act as studies for larger oil paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Debra Cartwright. The works reflect on the painful history of the medical torture that Black women endured under J. Marion Sims, a physician whose experiments were done without anesthesia. In researching this history over the past two years while completing her MFA at Rutgers University, Cartwright has created spare drawings in which collaged body parts coalesce with delicate blobs and shapes, offering women an interiority that Sims had denied them.
