Courtney Askey is a cross-disciplinary artist, musician and writer who aims to interrogate her experience as an artist through the use of transmedia storytelling. She explores fiction, identity, AI technology and gender through an anti-capitalist and post-cyberfeminist lens. Her work is imbued with a questioning of what labor means in both a wider sense, and …
Book Repair Lab: The Jefferson Market Library & the Women’s House of Detention, 2019-Ongoing My artistic motivation derives from contemplating my identities and their social invisibility. As an ethnic and sexual minority, I am interested in such invisibility in the racialized and class-oriented urban structure that gives it a spatial form and context. My art …
Installation view. Collective Photo Album (many images of us alone, together), 29 March 2023 – ongoing. Artists Alliance, Norfolk St (between Broome and Delancey), New York. Photo: Brad Farwell. Collective Photo Album (many images of us alone, together), is the result of a photo workshop created in collaboration between P.S. 134 fourth and fifth grade …
Texture, flavor and heat are my work. I’m building a visual Patois, a practice through which I can triangulate myself between the Caribbean, New York and the innumerable cultures and cuisines yet encountered. Layers of luscious whorls draw the viewer into fields of color which operate with coded references to my histories; one, generations-long in …
imago of a queer artist* Educational and Accessibility Materials (download here) Created through a series of drawings, paintings, sculpture, and personal objects, imago of a queer artist* offers space for an expanded notion of queerness as the capacity for porousness, fluidity, and transformation. The exhibition’s title (abbreviated here) is a deliberate tool providing a conceptual …
Raphaël-Bachir Osman, At the Studio, 2021. (Photo by Florian Dautecourt) At all costs, never lock yourself into a style. Always subordinate the painting to the subject. To make every detail an obsession. Finally, to avoid boredom. There are the watchwords that guide Raphaël-Bachir Osman’s pictural work. His series on the theme of delicacies honors pastries: …
Žarko Aleksić, “Monu_Mental Structure”, 2019. Courtesy of the artist. Žarko Aleksić is the winner of the 2020 Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos Award. Aleksić works across several mediums integrating experience, photography, video, installation and performativity – all of which relate to his interest in experience as a synthesis of the modernistic techniques of collage and montage. This …
Javier Castro, Four Basic Things (Coconuts) (video still), 2018. Run time 06:40. Open Wounds Educational and Accessibility Materials (download PDF) Through a series of videos, installations, documents, and sculptures, Afro-Cuban artist Javier Castro’s solo exhibition Open Wounds questions the broken promises of a postcolonial world. While many of the practices at the center of the work …
Lau attempts to investigate how history, fiction, personal memory, and virtuality collide in the process of identity formations, through utilizing photography, moving images, new media, sculptural objects, and installation. Their research and material sources range from personal and historical archives to cinematic imagery, popular culture, and emerging technologies. Lau was born in Hong Kong and …
Calli Roche, Journey Inside, 2021. Image courtesy the artist My recent works evolved from thoughts surrounding classism and exceptionalism in the African diasporic community. My attempt at externalizing the tension between innate, inherited, ancestral values and indoctrinated western values; creating space for Black mediocrity as a site of critique, for re-evaluating Black entanglements with capitalism …
