Urban Reverence – a dialogue between the city motion and the conflicts and harmonies of indigenous ritual and ceremony that might place an integral and holistic concern for nature at the center of environmental consideration.
Group Exhibition, Location TBD
INDEX is a group exhibition of works in all mediums by artists currently participating as both mentors and mentees in the New York Foundation of the Arts 2019 Immigrant Artist Mentor Program, Newark. (Image design by Gisel Endara)
Exhibiting Artists: Ole Lie Vandal, Ananda Lima, Anne Trauben, Jin Jung, Ceaphas Stubbs, Kimmah Dennis, Colleen Gutwein, Daniela Puliti, Agnieszka Wszolkowska, fayemi shakur, Olu…funke Ogundimu, Jen Mazza, Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, Jo-El Lopez, Francisco Pena , Kati Vilim , Eka Pramuditha, Katrina Bello, Mic Boekelmann. Malik Whitaker, Kanako Tsutsumi, Matthew Gosser, Diana Candelejo, paulA neves, Gisel Endara, Sally Helmi, Sarah Walko, Adishetu Oyibo, Yvette Molina, Shiza Chaudhary
…with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete…” ― Flannery O’Connor
“When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them…
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, …
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.” – Walt Whitman
I am a participating artist in this city-wide art exhibition Windows of Understanding.
The vision for this public art project is to transform our “main street” spaces into literal windows of understanding; spaces in which the community can learn about the positive strides being made by local organizations around a wide array of social justice issues that don’t make daily headlines. Windows of Understanding is a creative, community-building response to the negativity and hate being perpetuated in today’s media landscape. Our belief is that through visual language, artists can communicate methods of understanding in powerful ways that cut across cultural boundaries.
In this second iteration of the project, over 30 non-profit organizations will be paired with an artist facilitator to create an original work of art that answers the question: “How do we see through hate?”. The works will be on display at venues throughout New Brunswick and Highland Park, NJ from January 21- February 28, 2019. I am paired with the Fair Housing Program within the NJ Citizen Action, a statewide grassroots organization fighting for social, racial and economic justice. The fair housing program educates people about their rights under the Fair Housing Act, and coordinates fair housing investigations in the areas of rentals, sales and accessibility for people with disabilities, performs data analysis and facilitates complaint resolution. Additionally they provide fair housing education and assistance to housing providers, nonprofit professionals and various organizations statewide. The installation resides within the window of Pura Vida boutique in Highland Park.
(Photo: Sculpture by Kevin Blythe Sampson)
Opening Saturday, Jan 12, 7 – 11PM. Index Art Center, 233 – 237 Washington St, Newark, New Jersey 07102
BETWEEN WISDOM AND MADNESS: Works in Sculpture
Curated by Agnes Deja and Sarah Walko.
Artists:
Peter Allen, Gianluca Bianchino, Jerome China, Donna Conklin-King, Lisa Conrad, Patricia Dahlman, Asha Ganpat, Sunil Garg, Adebunmi Gdadebo, Katherine Jackson, Joshua Knoblick, Julie Ann Angle, Daniela Puliti, Kevin Blythe Sampson, Lisa Sanders, Hila Sela, Charlee Swanson, Amanda Thackray, Adrienne Wheeler
The title of this show refers to the context of our times and the many levels of disparity we are trying to reconcile. As a renowned sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz wrote “Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality”. Despite our current political, environmental and economic climate which affects the morale of all of us, artists continue to create.
