“At Sea” Exhibition

“At Sea” Exhibition

Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs

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D O R S K Y G A L L E R Y | Curatorial Programs presents the continuation of its program of independently-curated exhibitions - At Sea curated by Zeljka Himbele.

Through various media, the artists in At Sea ̶ Zalika Azim, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Heide Fasnacht, Scherezade Garcia, Shirin Kazemi, Franck Lesbros, Roger Clay Palmer, Sky Pape, Jennifer Wynne Reeves, Adrien Segal, Charlotte Schulz, Eve K. Tremblay ̶ utilize sea imagery as a vehicle to address the notion of being adrift in the face of fraught events - natural and man-made, global and personal.

Throughout history, the sea has been used in art and popular culture to suggest uncertainties associated with momentous voyages and humankind’s reckoning with formidable forces of nature. So much has the sea been incorporated into art, culture, religion, and more, that the phrase “at sea” has entered the language as a metaphor for being adrift, unmoored, lost, grounded, without purpose. It appears in contexts far removed from ocean travel - in political and social analysis, in literature and in the visual arts, in psychology and behavior, and much else.

In this exhibition, distinct creative voices survey the verisimilitude and richness of the “at sea” metaphor. The artists explore existential uncertainty and alienation as well as the psychological trauma of feeling unsafe. They delve into ecological issues interrelated with global economy and politics. Some reference colonialism and history’s impact on identity construction, revealing the philosophical and physical aspects of being estranged from the feeling of certainty and familiarity. Using oceanic imagery, the artists in the present exhibition create poignant statements and dialogues connoted by the phrase “at sea.”

Zeljka Himbele is a curator based in New York City. She is a 2006 graduate of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In her native Croatia, she worked for several years at the Museum of Contemporary Art, curated exhibitions for numerous non-profit spaces in Zagreb, served on the editorial board of Kontura, a Croatian art magazine, and has curated numerous projects at G-MK Gallery in Zagreb. From 2008-2010 she curated a series of solo and group exhibitions for New Media Gallery at the RISD Museum of Art in Providence, RI. She was a guest critic, lecturer or exhibition juror for the institutions Residency Unlimited, Flux Factory, Chester College, Cambridge Art Association, Parsons The New School for Design, Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Art Omi, Wave Hill, among others. Additionally, she was a Curatorial Fellow at Art in General, curating the exhibition at Bloomberg LP headquarters, and co-curated exhibitions at NURTUREart in Brooklyn, NY, the Big Medium Gallery in Austin, TX, among many others.

Media

• Drawing
• Photography
• Prints

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