Arjan Martins is the 2018 PIPA Awardee. Martins began to develop his pictorial technique as a student at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage with a keen interest in the African diaspora and Afro-Atlantic migrations subject matter during Colonial Brazil. His paintings and drawings incorporate signs and codes excluded from history and retell the history …
Kanad Chakrabarti is an artist and writer based in London and New York. He uses the film-essay to interrogate the ambiguities inherent in technological capitalism, for instance the ecological, post-colonial, and bio-political legacies of nuclear weapons testing. During the Cold War, the military-industrial complex essentially captured Western democracy and media on a vast scale, generating anti-Communist …
so please when I die… / don’t take me far away / keep me nearby / take my ashes and scatter them thru out / the Lower East Side – Miguel Piñero Download exhibition publication For fifty years, as New York’s Lower East Side has gone from disinvested to gentrified, residents have lived with a …
Presented in collaboration with Congregation Beth Elohim Early Childhood Center Utilizing instant film cameras and monochrome film, artist and photographer Nat Ward encouraged students to engage in a closer kind of looking at the world around them. With the supervision and support of ECC Team Members, Ward led a photographic exploration of the block where the school is located. …
Part five of the 5-part Workspace ’19 exhibition series, featuring new work by residents of AAI’s LES Studio Program Nat Ward’s photographs and writing focus on the psychological implications of escapism and alienation in the American Landscape while variously exploring the subtleties of defeat, resignation, and themes of socio-political self-preservation. His work has recently been exhibited at the …
Part four of the 5-part Workspace ’19 exhibition series, featuring new work by residents of AAI’s LES Studio Program So Close is a new installation developed by Erica Bailey for Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space. The installation includes a miniature diorama of the LES Studio Program studios, where the artist was a resident from June 1 through September …
Joseph Buckley is a black british sculptor of Irish and Caribbean extraction. He is based in New York City and has, for the last five years or so, been making work about the historical, fictional, contemporary, and speculative abuses that render people into chattel, suspects, orcs, and clones. Image: Joseph Buckley, Traitor Muscle, 2018. Art in …
Part three of the 5-part Workspace ’19 exhibition series, featuring new work by residents of AAI’s LES Studio Program A Black Woman’s Art Show and… A White Man’s Exhibitionwill run from March 8–March 17, 2019, at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space. The exhibitions will be staged in two sessions: March 8 through March 10, A Black Woman’s Show and March 13-17 A White …
Mikhailo Deyak is a young Ukrainian artist who works at the intersection of neo-expressionism and minimalism, who experiments with painting and materials (glass and metal), and masterfully applies all of these techniques together. Despite his passion for the fundamental and exact sciences, he largely relies on the subconscious, delivering works that are known for their …
Paula Dunlop is an artist, designer and maker based in Brisbane, Australia. She has a persistent interest in materiality and making; our apprehension of, and how we engage with, the material ‘stuff’ of the world. Dunlop’s work explores the physical and cultural locations of making, and the bearing of these locations on what we do …
