Photo Courtesy of Young Yu Dong.
Please join us for an Artist Panel Discussion, as part of NARS Entree Encore Alumni series.
October 30, 6:30-7:30pm
in the NARS Main Gallery.
Keren Anavy, Sanié Shoaib Bokharie, Magdalena Dukiewicz, Kathie Halfin, Jamie Martinez, and Leila Seyedzadeh will take part in a panel discussion.
As part of The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone, NARS Foundation is pleased to present Enmeshed, Dreams of Water an exhibition featuring twelve artists exploring metamorphosis and reflection at the intersection of sculpture, painting, fiber, video, and performance art. Enmeshed, Dreams of Water explores how new morphologies of identity emerge across time, place, and patterns of self-reflection. Here, water is reimagined as an access point that connects different parts of the self and of histories that cross generations. Whereas water is often a place through which borders and divisions are marked out, the artists featured here reclaim this space as a source of transformation and persistence. Fluidity and malleability reign.
Sanié Shoaib Bokhari, b. Lahore, Pakistan, Her current practice is an undertaking of an inquiry of the broad range of prospects presented by contemporary painting. She holds a Bachelors in Painting from the National College of Arts and was enrolled at the MFA program in painting at Rhode Island School of Design.
Umber Majeed, b. 1989 New York, is a multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. Her writing, performance, and animation work engage with familial archives to explore Pakistani state, urban, and digital infrastructure through a feminist lens. Majeed lives and works in New York, USA and Lahore, Pakistan.
Keren Anavy, b. Israel, is a multidisciplinary visual artist, working in drawing, painting, installation and performance. A chapter about her work related to Transnational Landscapes was recently published in an Anthology by Bloomsbury Publishing, UK (2023). Anavy holds an MFA from Haifa University, Israel and BA in Art History, from Tel Aviv University.
Jonathan Ojekunle, b. Nigeria, is a portrait artist. Drawing inspiration from nature, history, and life experience, his practice includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, public art, and installation. He holds a Master’s Degree from Brooklyn College and a BFA from Obafemi Awolowo University.
Kathie Halfin, b. Crimea, Ukraine, is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist working in textile, installation and performance art. She has exhibited her work widely at venues including Bronx Museum AIM Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, Itinerant Performance Festival, Art In Odd Places Performance Festival, and Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center.
Bringing attention to fragmented and hybrid realities, Sa’dia Rehman’s art practice focuses on the relationship between printed images, text, and the body. Queering media images, family photographs, and artwork reproductions she enacts the labor of undoing this world and building another..
Magdalena Dukiewicz, b. Warsaw, Poland, is a visual artist based in New York. Her multidisciplinary and often site-responsive practice is rooted in methodologies of process and material experimentation. In Fall 2023, she will be a resident artist at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.
Masha Vlasova is an award-winning experimental filmmaker. She has exhibited and screened her films at various film festivals and art institutions. Currently, she teaches film production at Oxford College of Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
Jamie Martinez, b. Ibagué, Colombia, is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the intersection of history, research, indigenous spirituality, and ancient beliefs. He has exhibited at the Queens Museum, Spring Break Art Show, Petzel Gallery, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery at the New School, and all over the world.
Leila Seyedzadeh, b. 1986 Tehran, Iran, is an interdisciplinary artist and curator who addresses ideas of imaginary landscapes, placelessness, and memory. She holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BFA in Painting from Tehran’s University of Science and Culture.
Bonam Kim, b. Seoul, Korea, is a Brooklyn-based multi-disciplinary artist working in Brooklyn. She holds dual MFA degrees from Pratt Institute and Hongik University.
Carlos Franco is an artist living and working in Brooklyn.