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- 10 - 19
Join us for live poetry readings and intimate musical performances within the exhibition space. This event is free and open to the public!
Location: Studio 9D, 508 W. 26th St, #9D, New York, NY 10001
- The exhibition is on view September 1 - 14, 2024 (Open 2 - 6 pm, daily)
- Visitors entering after 6 pm must use the freight elevator at 516 W 26th st.
- Opening Reception: September 5, 6-9 pm
- Poetry + Music Night: September 11th, 6-8 pm
Readings by:
Winnie Catalina Arzu is a woman of many talents, born and raised in the Bronx in a trilingual household. Fascinated by words, patterns, and rhythms from a young age, she began writing poetry and short stories at the age of nine. Winnie has honed her craft through poetry workshops with the Cave Canem Foundation and Murphy Writing at Stockton University.
In addition to her writing, Winnie enjoys baking, photography, traveling, and reading. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Spanish, along with a certification in project management.
Professionally, Winnie is a program manager at the Food Education Fund, where she builds programs and engages with high school students, making a meaningful impact on their education and future.
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor is the author of seven collections of poetry. In 2021 her verse memoir, Mama Phife Represents, won The Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. It is about her son, Malik, aka Hip Hop Legend, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest. Her latest collection: The Limitless Heart:New and Selected Poems won the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award in Poetry.
Renia White is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her poetry collection, Casual Conversation (BOA Editions Ltd., 2022), was named a Blessing the Boats selection, chosen by series editor-at-large Aracelis Girmay. Her work has appeared in publications such as NO NIIN, Poetry Daily, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Slowdown Show, and elsewhere. A Freund Prize awardee, she studied at Howard University (BA) & Cornell (MFA) and recently finished a fellowship at Château de Lavigny in Switzerland. She's taught writing at universities in both New Jersey and NYC and is currently at work on both poetry and prose projects.
Anton Yakovlev’s poetry collection One Night We Will No Longer Bear the Ocean came out in May 2024 from Redacted Books, an imprint of ELJ Editions. His chapbook Chronos Dines Alone (SurVision Books, 2018) won the James Tate Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Daily, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere. Anton co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in Manhattan, the Out of the Box reading series at Bowery Poetry Club, and the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow reading series in Rutherford, New Jersey. He is a former education director at Bowery Poetry Club. He has also written and directed several short films.
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I Split the Dream draws focus to the mechanics of historical memory and optical modes for displacing the viewer. A bifurcated sense of American identity surfaces through objects and land that have borne witness to or have been tools in the creation of American myths. The exhibition features work by Matt Coombs, Anna Gregor, Annie Grossinger, Petros Lales, Nicole Mouriño, Supermrin, and Dave Walsh. Represented mediums include painting, digital installation, biodegradable sculpture, documentary photography, archival images, and heirlooms.
Gregor's intimately scaled paintings of gold-gilded glass pull from the tradition of Western icon painting and are concerned with the psychology of sight. Reflections and transparencies fragment or multiply space between the painting, its viewer, and its art historical lineage. Lales' digital installation uses the contemporary self-portrait to comment on the role of technology in preserving memory and forming one's public identity. The mounted camera's high refresh rate produces an image of self that is ever-current, causing the space between memory and instant to close. Mouriño's storefront window paintings speak of the limbo space between reflection and interior. Details that might pinpoint the viewer to a specific street shimmer across the glass, while familiar food products and advertisements behind the windows spark a broader discussion about nourishment and ownership for the communities that gather in these comforting spaces.
Coombs' augmented landscapes emphasize the chemical interventions and colonial histories that are deeply embedded in his home region of rural Central New York. He uses invented imagery and abstraction to explore the emotional adaptability that accompanies interventions into the natural world. Walsh's paintings of half-tended or abandoned campfires employ acts of omission to challenge the myths of untouched nature that were propagated throughout 19th-century frontier painting and the establishment of the National Parks. He unveils the violent foundations upon which our contemporary notions of masculinity and wilderness are constructed. Supermrin's bioplastic sculptures are formed using genetically modified invasive grasses that are a popular choice on the American lawn. Informed by architecture and historically-selective materials, the work explores how our conceptions of nature are shaped by colonial narratives.
In collaboration with Daylight Books, we are pleased to feature work by Annie Grossinger, from her recently published photo book, Serpent Tongue. Through documentary photography and archival materials, Grossinger dissects family lore and contradicting narratives that shape her grandfather’s role in destabilizing the Guatemalan government during the height of the Cold War. This personal quest folds into the larger story of the following Guatemalan Civil War and the United States' increased control over resources in the region.
Tickets are not required, walk-in participation is encouraged!
Please note: there may be photography at this event.
Curator :
Matt Coombs (b.1988, he/him) is an artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his MFA at Tyler School of Art in 2016 and a BFA in 2013 from Ringling School of Art and Design. Coombs is a landscape painter infused with chemicals. He creates oil paintings and drawings that depict a fluidity between the figurative, synthetic, and the natural environment. Coombs combines abstraction and invented imagery with naturalistic light, creating images that feel familiar but unnamed. He often references marine life, mechanical devices, or landscapes to interrogate his own emotional adaptability, and the desire to find the sublime in an augmented nature.
Anna Gregor, a New York City-based painter, explores the history of painting materials and spatial representation. By blending diverse historical elements and techniques, she creates multi-dimensional spaces that challenge viewers to construct new perceptions. Gregor earned her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2019 and is pursuing her MFA in Painting at CUNY Hunter College. She has exhibited in three solo shows, including "Double Space" at D.D.D.D. (2024), and various group exhibitions.
Annie Grossinger is a documentary photographer and visual storyteller in Brooklyn, NY. Her work focuses on long-term visual projects surrounding the carceral system, global health, and the effects of government policy on communities. She’s particularly interested in humanizing complex systems in order to drive a deeper connection. Much of her work combines photo with text, archival imagery and ephemera in an effort to collaborate with the people she is photographing and create historical context. She graduated from Lehigh University with a B.A. in Journalism and History and was awarded a “Director’s Scholarship” to attend the Documentary Practice & Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography (ICP). In 2016, she taught the "Ethics of Photojournalism" course at Rush University's Global Health Summer Institute. During the pandemic lockdown, she was the Communications Director and Photo Editor for Fotodemic, an online platform that explored new visual strategies during a changing time.
In collaboration with Daylight Books, we are pleased to feature work by Annie Grossinger, from her recently published photo book, Serpent Tongue. Founded in 2003, Daylight seeks out emerging and mid-career photographic artists and showcases them to a global audience via both print and digital publishing programs. By exploring the documentary mode alongside conceptual photographic work, Daylight raises awareness about important issues of the day while revitalizing the relationship between art, photography, and the world at large.
Petros Lales is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. His latest work investigates how mythology and personality influence cultural realities. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and his BFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece. He is the recipient of the Gerondelis Foundation scholarship and the School of Visual Arts Paula Rhodes Memorial Award. His work has been shown internationally, including in New York, Greece, Indonesia, and Poland. His art practice addresses social, political, and cultural topics. He often reflects on the complexities of the human experience, and investigates the varying relationships between contemporary cultures, their by-products, and mythologies. His methodology includes various materials and practices determined by each project's unique nature
Nicole Mouriño (b. 1987, MIA) is a Cuban-American artist based in BK, NY. She received an M.F.A. in Social Practice from Queens College ('16) and B.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute ('11). Her practice involves photographing windows (eg. Bodegas, Botanicas, Florerias, Peluquerias) throughout NYC. These images become the compositional source for large-scale paintings depicting crashing/merging understandings of identity, desire, and beauty.
Mouriño's work has been exhibited at Untitled Miami, Pulse Miami, BRIC, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts - among others. Most recently, Nicole presented Mama Dukes at Peep in Philadelphia (2024).
Supermrin makes sculptures and installations from foraged trees and grasses. Her practice draws from fields including biophilosophy, architecture, postcolonial theory, material science, and speculative fiction. Recent exhibitions include “Rodin Response: FIELD family secrets”, a reply to the sculptor Auguste Rodin through her bioart practice “FIELD”, curated by Dr. Peter Bell at the Cincinnati Art Museum, 2024; and “Aliens: Colonial Narratives through Plant Migration and Bioart” curated by Isabella Indolfi at PS122 Gallery, NYC, 2024. Her work is featured in Lund Humphries recent publication, “Towards Another Architecture: New Visions for the 21st Century”, edited by Owen Hopkins, a critical rethinking of Le Corbusier’s legacy in the global south in the face of climate change. Supermrin lives and works between Ohio and Massachusetts.
Dave Walsh is a painter based in Brooklyn. His work investigates the facilitation of American landscapes mythologies through infrastructrue and architecture. He received his B.F.A from Tyler School of Art and his M.F.A from Yale School of Art. He was a 2105-16 Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Studio 9D, 508 W. 26th St, New York, NY 10001
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