NYAB Event - Caroline Paquita “Woo-Woo-Womanival”

Caroline Paquita “Woo-Woo-Womanival”

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Caroline Paquita’s WOO-WOO-WOMANIVAL explores the yin-yang of life/death/happy/sad through a carnival-meets-healing-center installation. Building upon a larger body of work, Paquita uses her WOMANIMALS as a vehicle to explore these topics, as well as gender, sexuality, spirituality, and the nuanced energies that surround the “unknown.” An amalgamation of works inspired by Coney Island, nudist retreats and crystal shops, the exhibition features drawings, paintings, papier-mâché, sewn soft sculpture, automaton/kinetic wood sculpture, Risograph prints and zines. Viewers will be able to interact with several vending machines, “toys,” and other objects of absurdity while surrounded by crystals, new age music, and essential oils. In celebration of Comic Arts Brooklyn, a collection of works published via Paquita’s publishing house, Pegacorn Press, will be also be shown.

WOO-WOO-WOMANIVAL is Caroline Paquita’s second solo exhibition in New York. Born in Miami in 1980, Paquita studied creative photography and art history at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In addition to her personal art practice, she is a musician and an independent publisher working under the guise of Pegacorn Press. Printing exclusively with Risograph since 2009, Paquita publishes not only her own work, but collaborates with fellow artists to create unique and affordable editions. Thirty titles have been released through Pegacorn Press in four years, all of which have been distributed worldwide and can be found in institutional collections. When there’s any free time, she enjoys beekeeping, tinkering on motor bikes/classic cars, swimming, and sitting in hot springs and/or saunas.

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Portrait of Some Sort of Self
Works by Eddie Chu
(curated by Brittany Natale)

We’re proud to present Portrait of Some Sort of Self, featuring works by Eddie Chu. Portrait of Some Sort of Self explores one’s sense of self and one’s projection of self through social media in the digital age. We live in an era where “high-def” camera phones and platform filters (i.e. Instagram) have managed to color-saturate images of the “projections” of one’s life - actually creating something that doesn’t truly exist IRL in the literal sense. Eddie Chu’s colorful portraits addressing “self” on social media make one wonder if the “true person” is really the foundation of the image or if, at the end of the day, it is nothing more than just a pretty picture.

Eddie Chu was born in United States, works in New York City and lives in Brooklyn. Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA Painting) and Hunter College (MFA Art), Eddie Chu has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including group shows at Swiss Institute and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He has been nominated for the Christoph Merian Stiftung residency in Basel, Switzerland and has received a KACAL honorarium. Chu currently lives and works in Brooklyn.