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.
Joyful Resistance Recap
JCAST 2023 Recap
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.
Artist Talk Today: 1:00pm on Govs Island
REBEL
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…
Free Your Mind: Artist Talk 10/15/22
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.
Inspired By: a Fur-Lined Teacup
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.
Joyful Resistance: Closing Event
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7
Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
212-925-1111 by appointment
Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm
Come say goodbye to Joyful Resistance at Ivy Brown Gallery. And your last chance to pick up your own mini Emotional Baggage Cart…
Inside And Out
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
#NAF2022 Opening Night, Oct 6th 6-9pm
Join me for Opening Night of the Newark Arts Festival and celebrate Newark Arts Festival: Artful Healing, the NAF 2022 annual group exhibition!
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.
LOCATION: The Newark Museum of Art, 49 Washington Street, Newark NJ 07192
October Exhibitions
Sensing Woman
Dates September 27- October 1
Location: C24 Gallery, 560 W 24th St, New York, NY
Tickets are available for purchase at https://sensingwoman.org/
VIP Opening Sept 27th @ 6:30pm with Eve Ensler, the playwright of the Vagina Monologues.
My Artist Talk is Thursday, September 29th 10:30am
The REBEL Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: September 29 – October 28
Opening Reception September 29 6pm-9pm
Location: The Untitled Space 45 Lispenard St, New York, NY
Emotional Baggage Cart Installation JCAST 2022
Friday, September 30, 5:00-9:00pm
Location: Art 150, window of studio #231. 150 Bay Street. Enter at Provost and First Street and ride the elevator to the 2nd floor. Studio # 231
Clutch My Pearls @ JCAST 2022
Saturday, October 1, 1:00-6:00pm
Sunday, October 2, 1:00-6:00pm
Location: Nimbus Arts Center, 329 Warren St, Jersey City, NJ
Bridge Art Gallery presents Garden Renaissance
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 2
Location: Firmament Gallery Space at the Nimbus Arts Center in Downtown Jersey City.
Joyful Resistance (solo show)
Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 7
Location: Ivy Brown Gallery; 675 Hudson St, New York, NY
Community Art Making: Wednesday, September 28, 3:00-6:00pm
Closing Reception: Friday, October 7, 3:00-5:00pm
Newark Arts Festival
NAF will celebrate “Artful Healing,” this Fall in New Jersey’s largest city. NAF will showcase Newark’s dynamic and diverse arts and culture sector from Thursday, October 6 through Sunday, October 9, 2022.
Dates: Thursday, October 6 -Sunday, October 9
Location: Newark Museum of Art, 33 Washington Street, Newark, NJ,
Inside And Out
Dates: October 8- December 16
Opening Reception, Saturday, October 2022, 5:30-7:30pm
Location: The Gallery at Hillside Square, 8 Hillside Avenue, Montclair NJ
Free Your Mind Artist Talk @ Art Crawl Harlem/ Governors Island
Artist Talk, Saturday October 15, 1:00pm
The installation runs through the end of October 2022
Location: Governors Island, 406b Colonels Row
Wonderland
Exhibition Dates: September 15 – October 20, 2022
Location: Trolley Barn Gallery; 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
2022 New Jersey Arts Annual: Reemergence.
Exhibition On View: June 18, 2022 – April 30, 2023
Museum Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 9am to 4:45pm; Closed Mondays & all State Holidays
Location: New Jersey State Museum; 205 West State Street Trenton NJ
Sculpture Walk Springfield 2022-2023
Exhibition Dates: Now through May 21, 2023
Location: 411 N. Sherman Parkway, Springfield MO