Friday, January 28, 2022

Upcoming

 35th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition



The exhibition will be on view March 24 - May 6, 2022 in the Grand Gallery, Shearman Fine Arts Annex, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA. An opening reception will be held on March 24th from 6 - 8pm, with a juror's talk and awards presentation at 7pm.


FINAL FRONTIER


Curated by Jan Anders Nelson

Catalogued-Hashtag Magazine

33 Contemporary Gallery

1029 W 35th St, Chicago, IL 60609

Feb. 12 - April 16th

https://www.artsy.net/show/33-contemporary-final-frontier?sort=partner_show_position


THE FRAME REMAINS THE SAME

Arcadia Contemporary Invitational

421 W Broadway, New York, NY 10012

New York, NY

Opens May 13th 2022

ADAH ROSE GALLERY

June 4th Opening reception

May 27th- June 30th 2022

3766 Howard Ave, Kensington, MD


Portraits Project

The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) will present an original commission titled PORTRAITS to be premiered in June 2024.  

PORTRAITS will represent through visual art, music, and dance, the spectrum of sexual, gender, racial, ethnic, and cultural identities. My painting, Steeled and eight other paintings selected from artists around the world will be used as projections as part of a live performance, brought to life aurally by music, and visually by GMCW’s 17th Street Dance ensemble to be presented in June 2024.

https://www.gmcw.org/portraits-project/




“My painting ‘Steeled’ is about the isolation you feel while being cast as the other. My model and I had a conversation about some specific incidents in our lives that made us feel that when it happened again, next time we would be more prepared, steel ourselves to the situation. The overall grayness of the palette, the turbulent sky, the jagged rock outcropping as well as the cocoon-like pose wrapped up in a shawl are intended to contribute to this feeling. I feel that the broken shards embedded in the gesso layer work to assist the idea of a broken trust in a broken world but the figure representing humanity has the ability to bring those pieces together.  My idea to make this work as diptych was to have the landscape contained in one painting and the figure in another, kind of boxing the figure in and opening it up to a landscape as well.”