CHRISTINA RAY is pleased to present Erasure, an exhibition of new work by Heather L. Johnson. In an installation of embroideries, watercolors and a text-based wall drawing, Johnson highlights a poignant moment in late nineteenth-century Hudson County, New Jersey. Uncovering the complicated history of institutions and asylums that once existed here, the artist revives some of what was lost as she questions our tendency, in American culture, to tear down the inefficient, inconvenient or painful parts of our past. The exhibition opens with a reception on Thursday, November 11, 7–9pm, and runs through December 12, 2010 at CHRISTINA RAY, located at 30 Grand Street, New York.