Ross + Kramer is pleased to present Claudine’s house, a group exhibition inspired by the 1922 eponymous novel by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. The exhibition includes work by Katherine Auchterlonie, Anders Hamilton, Peter Hoffmeister, Athena LaTocha, Masha Morgunova, Taylor Marie Prendergast, and Dominik Tarabanski.

The exhibition’s curator, Director of Ross + Kramer New York, Cielle Hart, states:

“With Claudine’s House, I’ve set out to capture the emotional timbre of Colette’s writing—the quiet ache of remembering, the vibrancy of youth, the sacredness of place. I find in Colette’s writing qualities that are often unique to visual art. She rarely assigns overt emotion, instead relying on precise, sensorial description to evoke feeling.

Colette observes the world with a delicate, meditative detachment. Her prose lingers on the details of everyday life—furniture bathed in afternoon sun, the scent of damp earth, the rhythm of rural routines, the affairs of the cats, dogs, insects and other animals that were as much kin to her as her own mother and father—and through this careful rendering, emotion emerges naturally. The reader experiences whispers of their own memories, nostalgia, the preciousness of life, the sting of longing, not because Colette tells them to, but because the scenes she paints are so vividly alive that they resonate unescorted by a prescription of emotion. This restraint gives her work a contemplative, almost impressionistic quality, inviting us to feel more deeply, more precisely, because she never forces us to. Writing and visual art may not always be such natural friends but the two disciplines converge here—existing as a free-flowing translation of experience, an act of unadulterated remembrance. We can often find the most sincere meaning and beauty in works of art that express with tender abandon, works that do not, by virtue, designate their own fixed message. In this way, we engage with the artwork not just as observers but as collaborators in meaning-making, shaping the work as it shapes us.”

“Claudine’s House” will be on view at Ross + Kramer New York July 10th through September 13, 2025. The gallery is located at 515 W 27th Street, New York, NY and is open to the public Monday through Friday, 11am to 6pm. Please contact for more information.