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The Offing
Printmaker Katrina Andry Reimagines a Slave Revolt’s Past, Present, and Future as an Inferno of Simultaneity
January 26, 2024
Prospect New Orleans: Artists of Public Memory
kai lumumba barrow: Abolition Playground
Exhibition Text
September 22, 2023
Bomb
joiri minaya interviewed by emily Alesandrini
June 7, 2023
The Offing
Contemporary Exhibition Inspired by the Sacred – ALTER – Leaves One Changed, 2022
A review of ALTER, an exhibition exploring intersections of the sacred, secular, gendered, and commercial in the realm of art and object making. Curated by Sadaf Padder and featuring work by Keli Safia Maksud, Leila Weefur, Sandy Williams IV, Samira Idroos, Sanié Bokhari, Shelly Bahl and Suchitra Mattai.
A Women’s Thing
Artist Camille Hoffman on Women in the Arts and the Pursuit of Happiness, 2019
In this interview with Camille Hoffman, the painter, sculptor, and installation artist chats about travel, female support systems, and the objects that embody her creative practice.
Wave Hill
Duy Hoàng: The Art of Mad Science and (Quasi) Natural History
2019
Touching on cabinet of curiosities Wunderkammer tradition, vanitas painting, and notions of “fieldwork”, artist Duy Hoàng creates immersive, naturalist installations to reflect on topics of survival, memory, and the inevitability of decay.
A Women’s Thing
Artist Alia ali is challenging our perceptions of bodies, 2018
How do you read a body completely covered in patterned fabric? This artist obscures culture, race, and gender to unveil our assumptions about identity.
FIGURING THE FLORAL
WAVE HILL
THE BRONX, NEW YORK
JULY 21 - DEC 1, 2019
While floral imagery is often associated with decorative art and femininity, Figuring the Floral subverts these notions. Instead, artists complicate such limiting interpretations by relating these natural forms to deeper reflections on self and society.
HERE WE LAND
WAVE HILL
THE BRONX, NEW YORK
APRIL 14 - JULY 14, 2019
Cut-outs, peepholes, crawl spaces, and hiding places in the architectural sculptures of Sara Jimenez’s installation, The Edge of Dwelling, invite the viewer to explore, look beyond, and lose themselves in this thoughtful, sinister, archival playground.
kai barrow, Abolition Playground. On view at Norman C. Francis Parkway, situated between Bienville and Canal, in New Orleans, LA, from September 2023 through March 2024. Prospect New Orleans, Artists of Public Memory. Installation image by Jose Cotto.