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In the past, it was commonly believed that creativity is genetic—that some people are born with it. Today, we’re more open to the idea that creativity can be honed through education and practice. We can all be creative—it’s a matter of letting it out.

The paintings were largely invented “to impose order on what was perceived to be mostly a hybrid and therefore unruly society,” Katzew has explained. At the time, Europeans believed that people living in the Americas, regardless of ethnicity, “were degraded hybrids, which called into question the purity of blood of Spaniards and their ability to control their subjects,” Katzew has written. So, painting pictures of family units—ranked by purity of blood, with Spaniards at the top—was a means of quelling anxieties over not just miscegenation, but colonization more broadly.  

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Though the acclaimed German artist has been prominently featured at major institutions worldwide for the past decade—recently her installations have been shown at the 56th Venice Biennale, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and MoMA PS1’s summer exhibition in the Rockaways—she’s only now being shown in her first solo gallery exhibition in New York. Grosse’s show includes large-scale paintings created over the past year, done in her signature brilliant palette and spray-painted technique, as well as a monumental sculpture.

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