NYAB Event - Jude Broughan “Nauscopy”

Jude Broughan “Nauscopy”

chashama Gallery (461 W 126th St.)

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Jude Broughan’s exhibition “Nauscopy” (the obscure term refers to the
ability, sometimes pretended, to sight ships or land at great
distances) is a meditation on contingency. A sequence of imagined
journeys, it seeks to cast light on various points of departure and
arrival, on the anxiety of distance, and on the planning and
experience of travel itself. Broughan’s forbears made the crossing
from the United Kingdom to New Zealand by sea, and the artist still
feels the pull of her birthplace—particularly when events such as the
recent oil spill in Tauranga come to light. Also central to the work
in “Nauscopy” is the idea of a sea-change, a transformation in which
form is retained but substance is radically altered.

In “Nauscopy,” Broughan combines photography with colored and painted
paper, translucent and textured vinyl in collages that are ‘sutured’
together physically with thread, and conceptually with ideas around
narrative and continuity. Images from the artist’s neighborhood,
including shots taken at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, appear
alongside others taken in other countries—or en route to or from them.

Jude Broughan is a New Zealand-born, New York-based artist. Her work
has been included in exhibtions at 179 Canal, Newman Popiashvili,
Sunday L.E.S., Heist Gallery, Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, and
Pendergast Gallery (La Jolla). She graduated from the School of Visual
Arts, is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College.

This exhibit is supported in part by an award from the National
Endowment for the Arts.