A Massive Fire Destroyed Her Brooklyn Studio. She Has Only 10 Works Left
A massive fire destroyed Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez's Brooklyn studio in the Beard and Robinson Stores building in Red Hook on September 18, just days before her solo exhibition "Salt and Bone" opened at the Furnace: Art on Paper gallery in Falls Village, Connecticut. The blaze, which required 250 firefighters and a barge to contain, consumed her archives, tools, and equipment accumulated over 15 years, leaving only the 10 works in the exhibition as the entirety of her art practice. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, and the building is still off-limits.