There’s fresh laundry and then there’s fresh art. The latest exhibition from Desnivel Gallery is spinning both ideas together—literally—inside JJ Cleaners & Laundromat on East 5th Street, where artist Gloria Maximo’s new show SERVICE unfolds among the washers and dryers.

Now open through November 15, the exhibition transforms the East Village laundromat into an unlikely gallery, reimagining a space of everyday labor as a site for reflection on work, care and the invisible economies that keep life running. “Gloria Maximo’s paintings depict an economy of care,” reads the exhibition text. “They adjust our perception to the reality of need—the need for services, the need for employment, even the need for a place to be.”

The show, organized by Desnivel founder Maria De Victoria, is

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