Show # 109
Reclaimed, Reimagined
Curated by David Rios Ferreira
Featuring: Kelly Chuning, Maya Ciarrocchi, Vanezza Cruz, Francisco Donoso, Alexis Duque, Fei Li, Maria Liebana, Dionis Ortiz, Deja Patterson, Brad Silk, Jill Slaymaker, Joey Solomon, Luis Vasquez
Opening Reception: Thurs, Nov. 12, 6-9pm
Dates: November 12 - December 12 2020
Regular Hours: Thurs-Sat, 12-6 pm
The work found in Reclaimed, Reimagined speaks to the urgent issues unfolding in the United States today. Our rights are challenged by an uncertain political future. Women’s rights and those of the LGBTQIA community are threatened by the reconfiguration of the Supreme Court. And despite all of these challenges, the battle to recognize that Black lives truly matter continues. Many artists in this exhibition remind us of the need to reclaim one’s position in the socio-political landscape. Concurrently the pandemic forced us to reimagine both our interior and exterior relationships to space and how to navigate environments in new ways.
Many of the artists in Reclaimed, Reimagined use the body as a tool for demonstrating power, history and beauty while others reimagine bodies as a platform for political discourse and as a space where identity structures are redefined. Other artists look at the spaces they inhabit—drawing from elements of building construction like blueprints, raw materials and diagrams. Utilizing abstraction and symbolism, these artists explore issues such as equity and immigration, while others develop dream-like environments—brand new spaces we may escape to in order to find solis from this current tumultuous time.
About Guest Curator:
David Rios Ferreira
Ferreira is a visual artist, curator and is currently the director of public programs and curator of contemporary art at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). Ferreira’s curatorial approach sheds light on under-represented narratives through works of art that challenge audience views on materials, art-making practices, and ideas of who is welcomed to these practices. The artists he collaborates with and the exhibitions he curates confront preconceived notions of artists and contemporary art while providing an entry point to the broader public. Most recently he developed the Museum’s newest series of exhibitions starting with Art, Artists & You (2018) and the recently opened Inside Art (2020). These exhibitions merge art installations, family art making spaces and an artist-in-residence program to introduce contemporary art through the lens of creative placemaking, maker movement philosophy and social justice.
VIDEO EXHIBITION
Reclaimed, Reimagined : Moving Image
Curated by David Rios Ferreira
Featuring: Natalia Almonte, Shelly Bahl, Medina Dugger + Francois Beaurain, Hyemi Kim, LaRissa Rogers
As an extension of the exhibition at Field Projects Gallery Reclaimed, Reimagined Moving Image is a curated selection of video and time-based works featuring artists who contemplate the manipulation of information and the problems that come with storytelling and memory, while simultaneously providing us access to untold histories and glimpses into the future.
Francois Beaurain + Medina Dugger / Chromatin / GIF
Shelly Bahl, "We Know What Is and Is Not," 3 channel video projection and series of photographs, 2019-2020, video: 2:54 min.
LaRissa Rogers, We’ve Always Been Here, Like Hydrogen, Like Oxygen (II), 2020, video: 7:22 min
Natalia Almonte / Un día como hoy (A day like today) / 2019-20 / video / 10 min 14 sec
Hyemi Kim / City Collage 3, 2020, 1 channel video, 2:45