An exhibition of feminist paintings, drawings, and writing by incarcerated writer and artist Corey Devon Arthur, presented in collaboration with Empowerment Avenue, Fulton Art Fair, and the Brooklyn Quaker Meeting.
Dispatches and Disappearances explores themes of loss and survival often caused by systemic violence and marginalization. Artists Corey Devon Arthur, Sasha Chavchavadze, Christina Kelly, Angela Kramer, Karen Mainenti, JoAnne McFarland, and Larry Weekes offer work that explores the pathos and power of forgotten narratives and lives. The exhibition is an overview of Footnote projects—past, present and future.
Considered mere eyesores today, the first suburban shopping malls were examples of exemplary design: innovative civic architecture created to foster a sense of shared community. Against the background of the recent rezoning of the Gowanus neighborhood, this exhibition explores the optimism of urban planning against the eventual decline of these utopian dreams.
Interpreting the past can be a catalyst for change in a utopian community. Artifacts can reveal important lost narratives, or toxic systems of gender, class and race that must be reckoned with. This collaborative installation includes artifacts from the Hall of Gowanus, a community-curated collection gathered during walks along the canal.
Presented in collaboration with Artpoetica Project Space, Best and Brightest: Redefining Excellence uses art and artifacts to express new concepts of excellence rooted in community and collaboration. The exhibition also looks back at earlier hierarchical forms of excellence that rewarded the few while neglecting everyone else, often proving ruinous across space and time.
What do objects tell us about the way we live and who we are? And what objects are permitted to become part of our cultural history? Unnatural Histories seeks to unearth obscured stories from the past while creating a space for new stories to be told.