NYAB Event - "About Me:" Exhibition

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At The Bronx River Art Center
Media: Drawing, Sculpture, Video installation

About Me: explores different ways in which contemporary artists are making use of the trope of autobiography in their work. The artists exhibited make reference to themselves— at times sincerely, subtly, ironically—and in so doing, ask us to question the relationship between personal history and memory, as well as the veracity of self-presentation.

This exhibition includes work in various media by six artists, each of whom approach the idea of the personal in a different, provocative manner. Colby Bird uses a beautiful sky and city skyline as the backdrop for his video, F Books, and allows its sublimity to strip audience members of a healthy skepticism that they may well wish they had maintained. Carla Edwards points the camera onto herself in video work that communicates through hard-worn cultural symbolism, but obfuscates her motivations by remaining silent. Naomi Miller uses herself and her family as subjects of her art, drawing intimate, familial moments onto the stage of high art. Maia Palileo has created an ongoing suite of drawings that revisit formative memories with such a great level of detail that they slip into fiction. Carlos Reyes has created a body of sculpture that asks the viewer to question the truth-value of personal photographs and mementoes, while also calling upon the viewer to become part of the work of art. James Zeske’s mixed-media installations create a personal symbolism by making use of idiosyncratic souvenirs of lived experiences: in this case, an extended stay in Argentina.

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