Ariela Rothstein (she/they) is a queer artist, librarian, mother and spouse living in Jackson Heights, NY. Granddaughter of Mexican sculpture artist Susika Karchmer, Rothstein was born in Massachusetts to a Jewish Mexican and American family. They moved to NYC after graduating from Yale College in 2010 to begin their first career as a NYC public school history teacher. Though Rothstein took a painting class as an undergraduate and completed some drawings and block prints in the 15 years since, this is their first solo show of oil paintings. In I See My World at Espresso 77 Gallery, the audience will see pictures of Rothstein’s family and community, set in Jackson Heights, Cabo Verde (their partner Lauraberth Lima’s birthplace) and St Louis.