Forced Omission

Join us and the Dorsky Museum of Art in celebrating their first 25 years and for the opening of their fall exhibitions, including Daria’s Forced Omission

Saturday, September 19, 4:00 to 6:00 pm

Forced Omission, by our 2026 NYSCA grantee Daria Irincheeva, is an ongoing series of oil paintings that reinterprets books by intellectuals who were imprisoned, executed, or exiled under the Soviet regime. By stripping away graphic elements from the original publications and leaving fragmented, indecipherable letters, Irincheeva creates a visual language of erasure, loss, and disrupted memory. Grounded in archival research and her own family history, the series examines how censorship and historical revisionism suppress individual voices and reshape collective memory. Currently presented as a coda to the Dorsky Museum’s In Our Time: R. B. Kitaj and Books, the work extends the exhibition’s exploration of books as witnesses to history while bringing that history into the present

Daria Irincheeva (b. 1987, Leningrad, USSR) is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York’s Hudson Valley whose practice encompasses painting, embroidery, sculpture, and research-based work exploring history, memory, displacement, and the cycles of political and social violence. She received her BFA with Honors from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Venice Biennale, the Albertina Museum in Vienna, and institutions and galleries in New York, London, and Barcelona. Her current series, Forced Omission, continues her investigation of suppressed histories and the relationship between memory, language, and erasure.