Drawing Rooms: 926 Newark Ave, #T107, Jersey City, NJ
Saturday 6/22/19 from 3:00-5:00pm
Artist Talk
3:45-4:15p Kimberly Becoat
3-3:30p Ibou Ndoye
4:30 – 5p Shoshanna Weinberger
Artist Talk
Sunday 6/23/19 from 3:00-5:30pm
3 – 3:30p Adebunmi Gbadebo
3:45 – 4:15p Theda Sandiford
As a woman, I find it is often easier to make my way in the world by keeping my mouth shut. These works are from a collection of one-sided conversations. The things I wish I said or could say, the things I say under my breath or the affirmations I use to remind myself that my voice is relevant even when I think no one is listening.
Workshop Sun
Sunday 6/23/19 from 4:30 – 5:30p
4:30 – 5:30 Theda Sandiford
Join me for a hair-raising yarn wrapping workshop to wrap and hitch knot yarn, recycled sari thread and ribbon on 100″ of cotton rope. Impart your essence and become a part of this community art making project.
Luis Alves: Luis Alves’s photo collages utilizes appropriated imagery from magazines, to incite dialogue on the role the media plays in the shaping of our lives. Each collage is hand-manipulated with the goal of transformation as a way of commenting on, satirizing or criticizing the source material. Website
Theda Sandiford: Theda Sandiford: Using internal conflict and diverse recycled materials as a starting point she constructs a mixed media mask to protect herself from fear. What may start off as an ugly statement about herself, is in the end transformed into something beautiful. Theda photographs her process and then digitally manipulate these images to extend the narrative.
Leslie Sheryl: Leslie Sheryll’s photo based collages start with appropriated 19th century tintypes which she scans and digitally manipulates. Sheryll then incorporate historical facts, imagery, personal experience and an infusion of fantasy to create a new narrative about women Website
Brad Terhune: Brad Terhune is forever seeking out new materials to work with leads to changes in style and subject. Terhune looks to create a weird, surreal world, and have been influenced by early twentieth century art movements that embraced and explored collage, while continuing to explore this vibrant medium in the contemporary arena. Website