Sanctuary: An Exploration of Queer Safe Havens
Sanctuary: An Exploration of Queer Safe Havens explores safe spaces and personal sanctuaries through Queer POC artworks. This exhibition gives the viewer an opportunity to look into the most vulnerable and intimate spaces that these artists create for themselves and others in their community. This exhibition presents the reality that we all build a space that protects us from the harshness and tragedies of the world; some of these spaces are filled with others that share our identities and sometimes we are in these sanctuaries alone. This reality brings us closer together in a time where we are divided.
This exhibition showcases the works of Rick Vaughn, Autumn Wallace, Dara Haskins, Pablo Alarcón Jr., Jungmok Lee Yi, and the members of the Somatic Stories Project. “Sanctuary” creates a space for artists to show why developing a safe haven is so important for one's well being. Sanctuary: An Exploration of Queer Safe Havens will take place at the Da Vinci Art Alliance from February 18th- March 7th.
19.5%: Women in Power & Politics
“19.5%” is a group exhibition that showcases works by 16 women artists who are responding to the increase of women in congress as a result of the 2018 midterm elections. The election results were a monumental moment for women in the U.S. and symbolized a collective hope for more gender equality. Even though there are more women than ever in congress, women only make up 19.5% of the total number of elected representatives; this exhibition aims to remind viewers that the project of representation remains incomplete and that a change in politics will have to be driven by an articulation and visibility of new needs and experiences.
This exhibition features works by Chris Friday, Chloe Pinero, Jessica S. Oler, Hysterical Men, Nikki D’Agostino, Lucy H. West, Gabe Loredo, Annalise Yuri Murphy, Jacqueline White, Shelby Fleming, Autumn Wallace, Alezendria Decking, Kelley Prevard, Alfiatul Nurdin, Francena Ottley, and Gerald Brown. All of these incredible women artists are showing works that explore what women in politics and power looks, feels, and sounds like. They take agency over their positions and empower others through their bold and boundary pushing work. Concepts ranging from the experience of many black women navigating through the United States today and being born into skin that makes these women inherently political objects to the oversexualization and hyper critical deconstruction of women in powers physical appearances are explored in this exhibition. These artists grapple with and defy gender expectations like the need to apologize and for approval to depictions of women combating stereotypes by working in male dominated professions. All of these works remind us of the powerful women from our past and present who have shaped and continue to mold our future while also showing the importance and struggles of the fight for gender equality.
19.5% creates a space for these women artists to challenge what women empowerment can look like, vocalize their own political views, and to start critical conversations as we enter 2020, the year of the presidential election.
This exhibition features works by Chris Friday, Chloe Pinero, Jessica S. Oler, Hysterical Men, Nikki D’Agostino, Lucy H. West, Gabe Loredo, Annalise Yuri Murphy, Jacqueline White, Shelby Fleming, Autumn Wallace, Alezendria Decking, Kelley Prevard, Alfiatul Nurdin, Francena Ottley, and Gerald Brown. All of these incredible women artists are showing works that explore what women in politics and power looks, feels, and sounds like. They take agency over their positions and empower others through their bold and boundary pushing work. Concepts ranging from the experience of many black women navigating through the United States today and being born into skin that makes these women inherently political objects to the oversexualization and hyper critical deconstruction of women in powers physical appearances are explored in this exhibition. These artists grapple with and defy gender expectations like the need to apologize and for approval to depictions of women combating stereotypes by working in male dominated professions. All of these works remind us of the powerful women from our past and present who have shaped and continue to mold our future while also showing the importance and struggles of the fight for gender equality.
19.5% creates a space for these women artists to challenge what women empowerment can look like, vocalize their own political views, and to start critical conversations as we enter 2020, the year of the presidential election.
Bond of Knowing
Intimacy is often broken up into four types; physical, emotional, cognitive, and experiential. Bond of Knowing invited 25 artists to display works that explored these four categories of intimacy within romantic and platonic relationships. This exhibition included paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, video works, performance pieces, and mixed-media works. Bond of Knowing ran from October 3rd, 2018 - October 6th, 2018 in the Stella Elkins Gallery at Tyler School of Art.
