New York Memory Center is Holton Rower’s third exhibition with the gallery and the first time the gallery has shown Holton’s wife Mario Robledo and his daughter Isabel Robledo Rower. This is truly a family affair and is the first time the family has shown together and Robledo’s first gallery exhibition.    

Along with the ceramics, Holton Rower is showing a collection of Button Drawings. The drawings are portraits that juxtaposed clean white Japanese buttons sewn onto old canvas US Mail bags.    

Maria Robledo is an accomplished photographer. She worked for Martha Stewart Magazine for around 10 years and has been sculpting for the last decade. She likes to break traditional forms with planes bisecting her nonfunctional pitchers.    

Isabel Robledo Rower is a recent graduate of RSDI where she studied furniture design. She has been tapped by rapper Ye on and off for the last five years for creative input on his videos and has even designed furniture for his playroom which was featured in Architectural Digest.    

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world and the ensuing lockdown, Isabel went back to her family Brownstone. The family hunkered down and all three artists used Maria’s small basement studio. This body of work was born out of the family being physically close and trading ideas and inspiration.   

Holton Rower was born in Greenwich Village in 1962, the grandson of artist Alexander Calder. He has exhibited in New York at The Pace Gallery, John McWhinnie, and The Hole, as well as internationally including in England, France, Spain, and Switzerland. He currently lives in Brooklyn Heights and has a studio in lower Manhattan.