Amanda Gutiérrez “Walking in Lightness”

Baxter Street/ the Camera Club of NY

[Image: Amanda Gutiérrez "Paradise Memories 2" (2017)]

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Baxter St at the Camera Club of New York presents Walking in Lightness, the first NYC solo exhibition by 2017 Workspace Resident Amanda Gutiérrez.

Walking in Lightness is a multisensory presentation of Gutiérrez’s subjective experience as a Mexican woman living and working in New York. Gutiérrez uses a range of media to investigate how the conditions of everyday life set the stage for our experiences and in doing so shape our individual and collective identities. Through the work, Gutiérrez presents a collective culture of the Mexican immigrant; reminding us of the sociopolitical imbalances at the same time emphasizing a broader definition of America.

Throughout the exhibition, the gallery will also function as a performative studio; using the space to create visual essays created from darkroom test prints, which comprise part of the video installation. The visibility of the analog film process, the studio, and scheduled Chinatown soundwalks invite the viewer to participate in the artist’s experience, thus establishing a relationship between the cultural identity of the observer (the ethnographer) and artist.

Amanda Gutiérrez (b. 1978, Mexico City) explores the experience of home, belonging, and cultural identity by bringing into focus details of everyday practices whose ordinary status makes it particularly hard for us to notice their key role in defining who we are. Trained initially as a stage designer from The National School of Theater, Gutiérrez completed her MFA in Media and Performance Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Gutiérrez has held numerous art residencies in FACT Liverpool in the UK, ZKM in Germany, TAV in Taiwan, Bolit Art Center in Spain, Baxter St at the Camera Club of NY, Harvestworks, and MISE-EN_PLACE Bushwick. Her work has been exhibited internationally in venues such as The Liverpool Biennale in 2012, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She was a recipient of a grant from the National System of Art Creators, in Mexico.

Soundwalks: Thursdays 5-6pm, April 26th through May 10th
Live studio: Tuesday and Thursday 3-5pm, April 24th and May 10th