ArtsWestchester
This exhibition is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts & ArtsWestchester's Board of Directors and Arts Committee.
Cover Image 'Freedom of Speech' by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery for For Freedoms, 2018
Exhibiting Artists
Gina Adams | Natalia Arbelaez | Anne Bobroff-Hajal | Jennifer Ling Datchuk | For Freedoms | Mariam Ghani | Jeffrey Gibson | Mona Saeed Kamal | Cannupa Hanska Luger | Susan Manspeizer | Sana Musasama | Cady Noland | Kambui Olujimi | Jorge Otero-Pailos | RIDIKKULUZ | Eric Rhein | Lauren Sandler | Arsen Savadov | Jean-Marc Superville Sovak | Howard Skrill | Art Spiegelman & JR | Lea Weinberg
'Adaptation', Susan Manspeizer
From the artist: "Using the symbolic imagery of bras, I explore how the qualities I relate to, as a mature woman artist, have been shaped by global power dynamics during the last half-century."
The Separtation (21st Century) by Lea WeinbergArtsWestchester
'The Separation' Lea Weinberg
From the artist: "Lea creates sculptures and reliefs in wire mesh with mixed media as well as bronzes. In her assemblage and Installation Art she is also using reused, found objects and fabric. Wire mesh is her main medium for more than two decades."
'I See Me' Dolls (2012/2021) by Sana MusasamaArtsWestchester
'I See Me' Dolls, Sana Musasama
From the artist: "What the doll did for me that day was taught me how to celebrate my differences instead of comparing my differences to the other girls. Not to want what they have, but to love what I
have."
'Freedom of Worship', For Freedoms
By Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery for For Freedoms.
For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse & direct action.
'Freedom of Speech', For Freedoms
By Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery for For Freedoms.
From the artist: "The 82 images in the campaign attempted to reflect the immeasurable diversity of American identities today."
If I Ruled The World (21st Century) by Jeffrey GibsonArtsWestchester
'If I Ruled The World', Jeffrey Gibson
From the artist: "This series of editions features vivid, screen-printed letters in a typographic treatment developed by Jeffrey Gibson, collaged onto a printed background, each in its own artist’s-selected color frame."
'Nerdeen, Within Our Lifetime', RIDIKKULUZ
RIDIKKULUZ b.1994 is a self-taught, New York-based, Jordanian-American multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, performance and video.
'Objects Migrations', Lauren Sandler
From the artist: "This series investigates historic and contemporary narratives of power and perspective through the familiarity of the vessel, assembled as stacked parts, embedded with an accumulation of cultural objects."
Mirror Shield Project (21st Century) by Cannupa Hanska LugerArtsWestchester
'Mirror Shield Project', Cannupa Hanska Luger
From the artist: "The Mirror Shield Project was initiated in 2016 in support of the Water Protectors standing up against the Dakota Access Pipeline near Standing Rock, ND."
Home Security At Any Crazy Price (21st Century) by Anne Bobroff-HajalArtsWestchester
'Home Security At Any Crazy Price', Anne Bobroff Hajal
Anne Bobroff-Hajal paints detailed and whimsical visual stories about powerful human motivations: love, greed, grief, competition, fury – as shaped by the geographic landscapes on which those humans live.
'Lee Floating in Richmond', Howard Skrill
From the artist: "Monuments transformed into weapons against their original purpose resulting in striking tableaus vivant in these works on paper."
Pinkster King (21st Century) by Jean-Marc Superville SovakArtsWestchester
'Pinkster King', Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
From the artist: " 'Pinkster King' is a memorial to the main character of the peculiarly Afro-Dutch, 18th-Century Hudson Valley cultural phenomenon once known as the “Pinkster Carnival.”
'Chica con Paccha', Natalia Arbelaez
From the artist: "My work takes the place of a storyteller, from my personal narratives of my Colombian family’s immigration to the research of pre-Columbian South American presence, to my American, latchkey, afterschool cartoon upbringing."
'Rain (Self-Portrait)', Eric Rhein
From the artist: "After his HIV diagnosis in 1987, Rhein began exploring themes of vulnerability, resilience and transcendence."
Drones in Waziristan (21st Century) by Mona KamalArtsWestchester
'Drones in Waziristan', Mona Kamal
From the artist: "This piece was inspired by Afghani rug weavers who in the 1990s began weaving war motifs in their carpets because the country had been in war for such a long time."
Universal Games (21st Century) by Mariam GhaniArtsWestchester
'Universal Games', Mariam Ghani
Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work looks at places, spaces and moments where social, political and cultural structures take on visible forms, and spans multiple disciplines.
'Champs & Chains', Jennifer Ling Datchuk
From the artist: "Like the grill and this cut plate jewelry, I am interested in the Asian labor in creating objects of cultural ownership and significance that exist in complicated conversations about pop culture.”
The Fall #1 (21st Century) by Jorge Otero-PailosArtsWestchester
'The Fall #1', Jorge Otero-Pailos
From the artist: "As I watched the global movement to topple monuments take place that summer, I became interested in preserving the act of taking them down and exploring the theme of falling."
Broken Treaty Quilt Series, Treaty with the Comanche and Kiowa (21st Century) by Gina AdamsArtsWestchester
'Broken Treaty Quilt Series', Gina Adams
From the artist: "Sewing together injustice with an object of comfort stirs deep emotion as the burden of the broken treaty is placed it on top of the hand quilted work that symbolizes part of Manifest Destiny, and the wagon trains westward."
'Feeling Reason Memory Will Conscience The Postmortem Existence', Arsen Savadov
Feeling-Reason-Memory-Will-Conscience-The Postmortem Existence (20th Century) by Arsen SavadovArtsWestchester
Randy Williams, Co-Curator
Adam Chau, Curator, Exhibitions Manager
Logan Hanley, Gallery Manager
Kathleen Reckling, Public Programs Director
Niara Jordan Flax, Public Programs Associate
This exhibition is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional thanks to ArtsWestchester's Board of Directors and Arts Committee.
See the catalogue here.
Story by Niara Jordan Flax.
