SaveArtSpace is proud to present Abolish ICE, a public art exhibition on wheat paste ad space in New York, NY, starting November 7, curated by Molly Crabapple.

The Abolish ICE selected artist is Reesa Baxter.

ICE is the American Gestapo, kidnapping our neighbors from the streets and locking them in concentration camps. This call is devoted to art opposing ICE.

Opening November 7, 2025 SaveArtSpace will launch a public art installation for the selected artwork on wheat paste ad space in Brooklyn, NY. The public art will be on view for at least four weeks.

Selected Artist

Reesa Baxter
I Like My Ice Crushed

Location: 12th St & 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Theresa Baxter, who goes by her online moniker “Reesa”, is an artist, illustrator and product designer best known for her paintings and illustrations of women that marry mythic symbolism and mundane life through technicolor palettes, lush landscapes and cheeky details. Themes of her work include the body, body image, emotional honesty, love, sexuality, femininity, nature, food, dreams and the internet.

Born in 1991 in Los Angeles, CA, Reesa holds an undergraduate degree in Psychoanalysis from Sigmund Freud Privat Universität in Vienna, Austria. Since 2013, she has lived and worked in Los Angeles. Over the years Reesa has built an online community around her digital illustrations and product designs that showcase her unique style and voice. Since 2019, she has sold thousands of art prints to individual buyers through her online store, as well as her empowering, size-inclusive jewelry and home goods designs. Reesa has also been commissioned to create illustrations for Vice, Refinery29, Kiblind, BUST, Polyester and Autostraddle to name a few.

Reesa’s first solo exhibition “My Own” showed at SPACE Art + Supply in Topanga, CA in December 2024. She is currently working on illustrating a Tarot Deck to be published by Row House in 2026.

Artist Statement: I make portraits of the experience of being in a woman’s body. The myth, symbolism and expanse of the inner world vs. the mundane and limiting outer world. I hope that my work challenges the restrictive assumptions we hold about womanhood and femininity, about the body as inherently sexual and the value and parameters of beauty. My art is about finding your place in this big magical (and often dark) universe, personal ownership and expression of the body. My style is influenced by Art Nouveau, where feminine figures and natural motifs are used as decoration across art, interiors and advertisement, the indulgence of Rococo, religious art and the aesthetic logic of the internet.

Connect with Reesa at @reesabobeesa. Portfolio - ReesaBoBeesa.me / Shop - ReesaBoBeesa.com

Curator

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage is the 2022 winner of the Bernhard Labor Journalism Award, and has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animations have won two Emmy awards and also won an Edward R. Murrow Award. She was a 2024 fellow at the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library researching her upcoming book, 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Labor Bund.'

Connect with Molly at @mollycrabapple.

SaveArtSpace

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a message of social change that benefits the working class. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.