Introspective Collective at 181 Cabrini

Introspective Collective at 181 Cabrini

181 Cabrini – 854 W 181st St, New York, NY 1003

Works by Ana Paula Cordeiro, Aurora De Armendi, and KS Lack

On Exhibition through March 1, 2020

Meet the Artists – Friday, February 7 at 7pm.

Ana Paula Cordeiro

A membrane is a selective barrier; it allows some things to pass through but stops others” 1, 2 & 3

Alternative photographic processes

2019

Misrepresentations of reality have always been a useful escape strategy. Recently though, they have become a way of living that allows small groups of people control over the narrative of humanity. My work looks at the degrees of variation between truth and untruth under a historical microscope and compares it to the current administration’s immigration policies. The selection of works shown here portrays the social delusion of freedom as a series of passages leading nowhere. All images were taken in Northern Manhattan (historically an immigrant neighborhood) and are printed by hand.

Aurora De Armendi

El mar en mi memoria

Lithograph, etching, monotype

2007–2008

Since 1959, Cuban exiles have been leaving their country for political and economic reasons, doing so almost entirely by sea: Camarioca (1960), The Mariel Boatlift (1980) and the Balseros Crisis (1994). In 1994, 30,000 Cubans left in makeshift rafts. The sea is the only way off the island toward an imagined reality in a host country. El mar en mi memoria project, explores this condition of contradiction, fragmentation and the possibilities of living and remaining in a liminal space.

KS Lack

when I dream, I dream in color

 soft shoots unfurl; fire spreading thin; the curve of my love’s lips;

Monoprint pressure prints

2015–2020

Combatting a long-term illness often breaks down to a question of perception: it can be hard to remember there is more to your identity than your health. The pieces in when I dream, I dream in color are my attempt to impact reality by transforming negatives into positives. I cannot will myself into wellness. Pain gives me nightmares, but I choose to mold these into visions better reflecting the existence I strive for.

Introspective Collective

We seek to explore the cross-currents where the individual artist intersects with the wider community.  We are long on anties (hierarchy, patriarchy, climate change denial, to name a few), but short on hate. Our membership is fluid and wide open. We hope our works show the relationships between artist and society, those inside and out—the introspective and the collective.

Presented by Inwood Art Works | @InwoodArtWorks

ALCHEMY OF PLACE: PROJECTIONS – ART WORKS by EVA NIKOLOVA

ALCHEMY OF PLACE: PROJECTIONS  

Art Works by Eva Nikolova  

Artist Statement 

Since 2012 Bulgarian-born, Northern Manhattan-based Eva Nikolova has been creating hand-drawn, cameraless gelatin silver photographs that blur the lines between drawing and photography. Experimenting with a vast inventory of substances, chemicals, and vintage gelatin silver papers, her prints contemplate place, memory, transformation and destruction through the prism of architecture and landscape.  “Alchemy of Place: Projections” presents Nikolova’s latest series of cameraless prints inspired by Balkan vernacular architecture. Drawings created on a recent trip to the region were transformed through two 19th century photographic processes – the cliché-verre and mordançage (AKA: Bleach-etch), which combine to bring forth visions of structures that hover between reality and dream. 

Biography 

Eva Nikolova works in drawing, printmaking, handdrawn animation and cameraless photography exploring themes of memory and identity in relation to place. She holds a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Southern Illinois University and MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work, which is in the permanent collections of Temple University, The Amity Art Foundation, Manhattan Graphics Center, Arkansas State University, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, has been exhibited nationally as well as in Germany, England, Canada, Scotland, and India. In 2018-19 her work was included in group exhibitions at NYC’s Flatiron Building; Manhattan College; Inwood Art Works’ “Stack Galley”; Walnut Hill Fine Art in Hudson, NY; Art Intersection in Gilbert, AZ; Emporia Arts Center in Kansas; and Ohio’s Artist Archives of Western Reserve, the Rutherford B. Hayes Library and Museum, and American Frame. Nikolova is the recipient of numerous scholarships, fellowships, grants and awards, and has participated in fully funded residencies at VCCA, Millay Colony, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. 

All prints are for sale for $12or $210 framed. 

www.evanikolova.com   

On exhibition through January 5, 2020 at 181 Cabrini @ 854 W 181st St. All Works for Sale. Curated by Inwood Art Works.

Alchemy of Place is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council and administered by LMCC.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Color Me on Fire – Art Works by Shannon Kelly

COLOR ME ON FIRE
Art Works by Shannon Kelly

Shannon Kelly was born in a small Kentucky town (people to cow ratio 1:1) but escaped to the Northeast after graduating college. After a stint stage managing in the beautiful Berkshires of western Massachusetts, she moved to NYC and began working at a talent agency.
Shannon took up photography well over a decade ago. She loves travelling and shooting landscapes and nature. She gets highly irritated whenever she sees something she’d like to photograph but doesn’t have her camera with her. Shannon lives in Inwood, which is a bit of a photographer’s paradise due to its gardens, parks, salt marsh, and abundant wildlife.
Shannon’s work has been exhibited at Inwood Gourmet, Kuro Kirin, and Inwood Art Works events. She also recently had a piece in the Medicine Wheel series at Bruce’s Garden in Inwood. Later this month she is providing an artwork gallery for a JCCA-sponsored conference on child exploitation.

All framed prints are for sale for $40 each. Contact info@inwoodartworks.nyc

www.shannonkellyimages.com | @shenanigan70 and @macshenanigan70

On exhibition through December 1, 2019 at 181 Cabrini @ 854 W 181st St. All Works for Sale. Curated by Inwood Art Works.

Colors – Art Works by Takashi Harada

See a unique vision of nature through the paintings of Japanese “Nihonga” artist, Takashi Harada, and learn more about the beauty and craft of this style of Japanese art that is often characterized by the use of natural pigments derived from minerals, shells, corals, and even semi-precious stones, along with the use of “sumi” ink, wood, silk, and paper.

Artist Statement
I believe that all the natural things include human beings have a sort of common structure form, and each of them exist having the equal value of a molecule or an atom.

It is my opinion that when we as humans place our body among all natural things, such as rocks, air, water and other living organisms, the information for existing as a living thing is recorded inside of the body, and part of our essence dissolves into the natural object – becoming a part of it. I want to create artworks that can evoke such a feeling.

Biography
Takashi Harada is a Japanese Painting (Nihonga) artist and currently lives and works in Manhattan, NY. He was born in a small porcelain-making town, Arita, Saga, in Japan.

After completing the PhD program of the Graduate School of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (currently Tokyo University of the Arts) without a dissertation in 1998, he moved out from Japan. Since then he had stayed in Germany, France, and Canada, before arriving in U.S in 2001. He was granted fellowship “Japanese Government Overseas Study Programme for Artists” from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho), Japanese Government in 2005. He has been exhibiting his artworks in Japan and US numerous times over 30 years.

Staying outside of Japan made him to face the identity of himself being Japanese, and at the same time, it gave him opportunities to contemplate about the connection between human beings and other natural matters while collecting the images of nature in other countries.

He is represented by Scott White Contemporary Art in San Diego, California and has had many Solo and Group shows. Most recently he had a solo exhibition at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum in Inwood, Manhattan in New York City in 2018.

www.takashiharada.com | @studiotakashiharada

Meet the Artist!  Join us for a reception with Mr. Harada on October 3, 7-9pm. 

On exhibition through November 3, 2019 at 181 Cabrini  @ 854 W 181st St.  All Works for Sale.  Curated by Inwood Art Works.