Manju Shandler’s installation entitled Gesture will be on view at the 9/11 Museum, New York from September 12 to December 18, 2016, on the occasion of the exhibition Rendering the Unthinkable: artists respond to 9/11.

Overwhelmed with emotion like so many New Yorkers in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Manju Shandler sought to ground herself through the process of making art. She chose to express the magnitude of loss through individual paintings, one for each victim.

Gesture is an almost 3,000-piece installation consisting of one painting for each person who died as a result of the 9/11 attacks. When installed, the paintings form a grid of vibrant blocks that subtly shift from red to yellow, white, black, and pink. Shandler turned to the images that dominated the news media after 9/11 and juxtaposed them with images of her own creation. Among the approximately 3,000 paintings she created are portraits drawn from photographs appearing in the New York Times’ Portraits of Grief series.

More information about the exhibition can be found: here