The show may be over but the Pattern and Decoration movement countering male-centric minimalistic trends continues.
Here are two Emotional Baggage Carts in all their maximal glory….
Follow The Thread to Meatpacking District
Come release a little anxiety in my Emotional Baggage Carts 🛒 installed on the streets of NYC for Follow The Thread. Curated by @ivyjeannebrowngallery
➡️ OUTDOOR INSTALLATION
MEATPACKING PLAZA
675 Hudson Street
New York NYC
For FOLLOW THE THREAD
promoted by @artemorbida
Release that Emotional Baggage!!!
New Emotional Baggage Cart Commission
I am pleased to announce that the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh has commissioned a new emotional baggage cart for their collection.
Introducing…
Woebegone: Emotional Baggage Cart
Neon painted recovered shopping cart, waterproof reflective tape and blacklight strip
woven with plastic grocery & newspaper bags, paracord and t-shirt yarn.
42” x 24” x 42”, 63 ½ LBs
I even wrote a poem for the occasion….
Woe Be Gone
Woeful news likes to go viral.
I will not let this despair settle in, like forlorn fog.
I will find something to rejoice.
Convert bad news into cheerful song.
And unshackle this emotional baggage from my spirit.
Woe Be Gone…
Triggered Truth & Transformation
Despite the growing commitment to racial equity, the day-to-day experiences of women of color have not improved. Women of color face similar types and frequencies of microaggressions as they did before the BLM.
The weight of these triggers underpins very real consequences… stress, anger, frustration, self-doubt and ultimately feelings of powerlessness and invisibility. These triggers come with a hefty toll of emotional baggage.
Extensions of rope, wrapped, knotted, woven, and embellished with recycled textiles, zip ties, ribbon and yarn, gingerly invite the audience into off the-wall conversations about the “respectability politics” of black hair. My Emotional Baggage Carts are vessels for this racial trauma. The act of making, weaves the sting of daily microaggressions into the cart, freeing me from these constraints.
Join the conversation.
Triggered, Truth & Transformation
Schweinfurth Art Center:
Exhibition Dates: March 25-May 28, 2023
Location: 205 Genesee St. Auburn, NY
Wa Na Wari
Exhibition Dates: April 22, 2023- July 17, 2023
Location: 911 24th Avenue, Seattle WAÂ
The Lab at Krasl Art Center
Exhibition Dates: July 1, 2023- September 17, 2023Â Â
Location: 707 Lake Blvd, St Joseph, MI
ATA@NOVARTIS Closing Next Week
Great Resignation: Emotional Baggage Cart is being installed in the gallery at Novartis in East Hanover.
Im curious to see what emotional baggage is left behind in my cart by the employees of this the pharmaceutical company…
Exhibition Dates: February 28- March 28
Location: Novartis, One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ
Closing Reception:Â March 28th 6-9pm
ATA@NOVARTIS
Great Resignation: Emotional Baggage Cart is being installed in the gallery at Novartis in East Hanover.
Im curious to see what emotional baggage is left behind in my cart by the employees of this the pharmaceutical company…
Exhibition Dates: February 28- March 28
Location: Novartis, One Health Plaza, Building 434 Gallery East Hanover, NJ
Opening Reception: February 28th, 12-2pm
Closing Reception:Â March 28th 6-9pm
Mini Emotional Baggage Carts @ Affordable Art Show
This week is your last chance to pick out your very on mini emotional baggage cart before they are shipped off for my solo shows in Seattle and Michigan this Spring.
Please join me for the close of the Affordable Art Show at Art House Productions Gallery
Closing Reception: January 27, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Art House Gallery at The Hendrix – 345 Marin Boulevard (on Marin Blvd between Morgan St and Bay St.)
JCAST Activity: CLUTCH MY PEARLS
There is opportunity to shift structural language when a person is invited to play with unexpected materials without any expectations. Throughout the weekend of JCAST, Sky Garden Gallery and Theda Sandiford invite you to make strings of beads from recycled bottle caps.
Drawing inspiration from various beading traditions, mixing different bottle caps to make a string of colorful oversized beaded necklaces. Your creation will become a part of an upcoming installation celebrating personal adornment.
You can also tour Sky Garden Gallery and interact with my Emotional Baggage Cart series.
I am looking forward to making, with you….
JCAST Hours
- Friday September 30, 3:00-8:00 pm
- Saturday October 1, 12:00-6:00 pm
- Sunday October 2, 12:00-6:00 pm
Location: Sky Garden Gallery, 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City NJ
NOTE: Entrance 150 Bay residential lobby with the sculpture in the courtyard and ride the elevator to the 10th floor, Sky Garden Gallery is in PH9. Follow the signs to the gallery.
Wonderland International Juried Exhibition
The Wonderland International Juried Exhibition is the point of entry to the PKX Wonderland Festival, September 15-17, 2022.Â
The show features work that disrupts standard notions of reality by exploring the Wonderland we create for ourselves. It asks, how does art help us reimagine our reality and create?
Exhibition Dates: September 15 – October 20, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 15, 5:00-7:00pm
Artist Panel: Friday September 30, 6:00-9:00pm
Location: Trolley Barn Gallery; 489 Main St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
