The last few decades have witnessed a new set of curatorial models, each offering its own interpretation of what the role of this figure could and should be. One such proposition emerges through Toward a Sentence at NARS Foundation, which features thirteen works from its most recent cohort of international residents.
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Last week, Pam Wong, director of 440 Gallery and Editor in Chief of 'Art Hag NYC' visited five NARS artists. Conversations between Wong & the AiRs dissect identity, cultural memory, urban life, connection and isolation, ephemerality, and human vulnerability.
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At NARS Foundation, Shifting /\ Gazes curated by Joyous R. Pierce features the work of the organization’s artists in residence. The exhibition’s blend of visual and physical experiences constructs an experiential meditation on the spaces we define and how these spaces define us.
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Lauren Murao Walkiewicz’s debut solo show at the NARS Foundation in Sunset Park invites viewers within the subaquatic terrarium of pupating creatures yet unseen, dancing and dying before their eyes.
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Interdisciplinary artist Frank WANG Yefeng’s (season II, 2013) multicomponent conceptual work Avatopology results from a philosophical and playful journey of research, collaboration, and worldbuilding. At NARS Foundation, Wang’s solo exhibition explored digital nomadism, the creative potential of archives, and the satisfaction of unknowability. In an interview with curator Natasha Chuk, Wang shares how he grapples with perceived failure, the philosophies and wordplay that guide his thinking, Soviet hauntology, and in-betweenness.
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Fluorescent ’90s vagina art, looped films, and tender papier-mâché sculptures were on display as part of the South Brooklyn neighborhood’s annual open studios.
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Don’t pass up the chance to visit artist studios in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood, one of the latest emerging hotspots for creative practices across mediums and disciplines.
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A Partial History by Marina Kassianidou is on view at NARS Foundation through May 15, 2024. An artist talk with Mary Annunziata and catalogue launch will take place on Wednesday, May 15, from 6-8pm. About the writer: Mary Annunziata is an interdisciplinary writer who focuses on art’s intersections with conflict, migration, diasporic identity, and emerging technologies. She holds an MA in Critical & Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and has worked for arts and nonprofit institutions including the Royal Ontario Museum, the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, the Artist Protection Fund, and Access Now. Mary is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Kassianidou’s books are not facsimiles or translations, rather the artist “re-reads” each text as a material object, focusing on the thousands of marks made by usage and time: notes, folds, creases, tears, stains, discolorations, and wormholes. She then traces around each mark by hand, one page at a time, and scans, prints, and binds her drawings into a series of simple black artist’s books, true to the original texts’ dimensions.
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Embodied Futures & the Ecology of Care at BioBAT Curated by: Elena Soterakis & Eve Barro Exhibiting Artists: Aradhita Ajaykumar Parasrampuria, Katie Hubbell, Elaine Young, Karen Ingram, Laura Kung, Juyon Lee, Lolo Ostia, John Roach, Iz Nettere, Shihori Yamamoto, Suzanne HeadClosing Reception & Artist Panel Saturday, March 16, 2024. Artist Panel at 2 pm, followed by a closing reception.
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