“Engaging Artists: New Works in Practice” Exhibition

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HERE presents Engaging Artists: New Works in Practice.

Artists working to inspire social change engage in-depth processes often unseen by the public. Engaging Artists: New Works in Practice is an entry point into the practices of emerging artists who participated in More Art’s 2017-18 Engaging Artists Fellowship. This is exhibition is a collaboration between HERE and More Art. While HERE is a theatrical space, and More Art is a visual arts organization, these two cultural institutions both facilitate the creation of socially engaged art.


BRYAN RODRIGUEZ CAMBANA
Brooklyn, New York

Born in Callao, Peru, Bryan Rodriguez Cambana is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and educator living and working in New York City. He is co-founder of Sweety’s, a curatorial initiative catered to artists of color.


VANESSA TERAN COLLANTES
Brooklyn, New York; Ecuador

Vanessa is a multimedia artist from Ecuador. At 19 she began to experiment with photography. In 2012, Vanessa was awarded with the IECE Excellence Scholarship to do a BFA in Photography & Video at the SVA in NYC, which she recently finished. She is interested in notions of belonging, racial identity and territorial conflicts. She uses installation and participatory art to explore past and ongoing history of colonization.


WORKERS ART COALITION
New York City

The formation of the workers as artists collective was catalyzed through a combination of events and organizations. The beginnings of the Workers Art Coalition was fueled by a unique membership that includes tradespeople, former HVAC students, artists, and educators. The group engages in a variety of movement building which developed a worker’s art practice in which the artisan practices are re-elevated. Visit their website: www.theworkersartcoalition.com/

ÁLVARO FRANCO
Bronx, New York

A native New Yorker, Álvaro Franco’s interest in film led him to participate in the Ghetto Film School, and enroll in the Film/Video program at the City College of New York, where he earned his B.F.A. degree. Currently he resides in the Bronx, where he is raising awareness of income-based discrimination.


NOE GAYTAN
Brooklyn, New York

Noé Gaytán is an artist, writer, and educator. He born and raised in Southern California and is now based in Brooklyn. He holds a BA in Studio Art and a Minor in Art History from the University of California, Irvine and an MFA in Public Practice from Otis College of Art and Design. As an artist, Noé is a member of the art collective Michelada Think Tank. MTT is interested in facilitating conversations and creating community around issues faced by people of color while promoting action beyond the discussion. Previous projects include Race, Art, and Survival at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and Strength in Numbers: Equity & Cross- Racial Solidarity at the CUE Foundation. As an arts administrator, Noé has worked with the Skirball Cultural Center and Armory Center for the Arts in Los Angeles.

FLOOR GROOTENHUIS
Queens, New York

Floor Grootenhuis is a Dutch/Kenyan artist whose contemporary art practice is conceptual and socially engaged, collaborative and gives new value to the ‘everyday’. Floor makes subtle critiques of the society’s structures at the micro and macro levels using different mediums in a variety of materials and sizes, ranging from sculptures, installations, found objects, everyday recyclable materials and performance. Her work points to divisive forces of consumerism, institutionalization, global corruption and chronic violence against humanity.

These themes come from her experience growing up in East Africa and her work in the humanitarian and development fields. Her art is inspired by the places in which she has worked and lived, ranging from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Afghanistan to Barcelona, Jakarta and now New York City.


MELISSA LIU
New York City

Melissa Liu is a Chinese American cultural worker, activist, as well as emerging oral historian and social sculptor. Her artistic practice explores the intersection of culture, cuisine, identity, and place in the Asian Diaspora through cooking, written and spoken language, and artmaking. Melissa has worked across the world with many cultural institutions and organizations such as The Laundromat Project, Columbia University School of the Arts, Hammer Museum, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Terra Foundation for American Art, and The Getty Foundation. She has organized and facilitated workshops for Arts/Admin, College Art Association, and Kelly Street Garden Bronx, and was part of Arts & Labor and its Alternative Economies working group. She has also contributed to the working board of Museum Hue.

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from January 23, 2019 to February 23, 2019

Opening Reception on 2019-01-24 from 17:00 to 19:00

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