Conceptual Materials Social Practice Artist
I wanted to share with you the digital exhibition catalogue for the 2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence.
And let you know that i’ll be giving a Artist talk, March 22, 2023 in Trenton at the NJ State Museum about my work Lady Whistledown Emotional Baggage Cart.
What a thrill ride this past month has been.
Thank you to Ivy Brown and all the folks that attended my show, Joyful Resistance at Ivy Brown Gallery in the Meatpacking District in New York City.
The best part of JCAST is seeing old friends and making new ones.
Thank you to Bridge Art Gallery, Nimbus, SurfaceDesign, Art House Productions, NJ.com, Jersey Journal and the Jersey City Department of Cultural Affairs for your tireless support of the arts and my art practice in particular.
If you know me, you know I’m a Rebel on a mission. So inclusion in the REBEL show at Untitled Gallery in NYC is a natural fit.
To view the Google Photo Album of Untitled Magazine. Click here.
View photos from the NYC Launch event below…
Please join me for my artist talk this Saturday, October 15 from 1:00-2:00pm on Governors Island at to learn more about my social justice public art project Free Your Mind.
Location: Art Crawl Harlem House; 406b Colonels Row, Governors Island, NYC
Free Your Mind is a public textile art project aiming to collect, exhibit, embed and release personal narratives about Microaggressions in a multi-sensory installation facilitated by artist Theda Sandiford.
Participants are invited to write a story about a microaggression they have experienced onto a ribbon and tie this ribbon onto a net to release this story from their personal narrative. This is a story ribbon.
The installation evolves with each new story ribbon, keeping a public record of disempowering interactions, that can be exposed and talked about. Participants have the feeling of being seen and acknowledged while interacting with the work.
In 2021 Free Your Mind toured, collecting story ribbons in Bayonne NJ, Jersey City NJ, Sunsets @ The Standard, Miami Art Week. The installation is currently at Governors Island May through October 2022 and made stops in Indianapolis for Butter Fair. Free Your Mind is scheduled to travel to Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Newark and Michigan next year in 2023.
I was recently asked if Meret Oppenheim’s fur-lined teacup, inspired Blackty Black Blanket.
According to the MOMA, Object was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso, and photographer Dora Maar at a Paris café. Admiring Oppenheim’s fur-trimmed bracelets, Picasso remarked that one could cover just about anything with fur. “Even this cup and saucer,” Oppenheim replied.
Blackty Black Blanket came about by completely by happenstance. I tossed a partially finished zip tie blanket onto the white chaise in my studio and turned around to work on the computer. Later when i got up to leave the room and saw the blanket draped on the chaise, I did a double take and knew the Chaise and blanket belonged together.
I lost a comfortable place in my studio to lounge but gained a subtle yet powerful way to communicate how discomforting microaggressions feel.
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7
Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
212-925-1111 by appointment
Come say goodbye to Joyful Resistance at Ivy Brown Gallery. And your last chance to pick up your own mini Emotional Baggage Cart…
The Gallery at Hillside Square and the Hillside Square Sculpture Garden is open this fall with a dual show featuring two and three-dimensional works from Peter Allen, Kate Dodd, Jerry Gant, Wendy Letven, myself, and Charlie Spademan.
Please come see my my woven textile work Inside and my emotional baggage cart in the sculpture garden outside. I will be at the Opening Reception, Saturday, October 8, 5:30-7:30pm. Hope to see you there.
Exhibition Dates: October 8- December 16
Location: The Gallery at Hillside Square, 8 Hillside Avenue, Montclair NJ
The Gallery at Hillside Square is open Monday through Friday, 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Curated by NAF 2022 Lead Curator Adrienne Wheeler and the Museum’s Elena Muñoz.
NAF 2022 kicks off with a festive celebration featuring live performances by dancers, drummers, vocalists and more. View artwork and explore healing spaces throughout the museum.
The theme in 2022 features art as medicine. Participating artists demonstrate what healing means or looks like to them and inspire others with their messages of hope, comfort, and encouragement.
You will leave uplifted and inspired!
Join us to celebrate NAF 2022 at the opening event on October 6.
