The collective exhibition “Holy Water” opened on July 2 and can be on view till July 24, 2022, at Eric Firestone Gallery, The Storage (62 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, New York).
“Holy Water” is curated by Zoe Lukov and options works by Shagha Ariannia, Radcliffe Bailey, Bhakti Baxter, Carlos Betancourt, Brandon Deener, Jen DeNike, Martha Edelheit, Raúl de Nieves, Naomi Fisher, April Gornik, Armani Howard, Zhang Huan, Jillian Mayer, Nicolette Mishkan, Stephen Neidich, Ricardo Partida, Nereida Patricia, Bony Ramirez, Fawn Rogers, Sheena Rose, Gabriela Ruiz, Jamilah Sabur, Hiba Schahbaz, and Jwan Yosef.
As a part of Eric Firestone Gallery’s debut season at its second East Hampton location at 62 Newtown Lane, greater than 20 up to date artists from outdoors the gallery’s program have been invited to reply to the idea of water and the foundational oceanic myths that populate our cultural imaginary. From fishing and browsing to baptism and migration, from quotidian marine life to fantastical sea gods and monsters, the works on view replicate various conceptual and formal interpretations on the theme. They convey to the fore a broad vary of environmental, religious, feminist, and political views.
Curated by Zoe Lukov and opening on July 2, Holy Water options portray, sculpture, and images by established artists equivalent to Radcliffe Bailey, Raúl de Nieves, Zhang Huan, April Gornik, and Jwan Yosef, rising stars like Bony Ramirez, Gabriela Ruiz, and Hiba Schahbaz, in addition to rising artists, together with Shagha Ariannia, Armani Howard, and Nereida Patricia. The exhibition will embrace artists who’ve by no means earlier than offered their work on Lengthy Island, alongside these with lengthy trajectories of working towards on the East Finish. Hailing from a various vary of nations, together with Barbados, Dominican Republic, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Syria, Sweden, and past, every artist has a profound relationship with our bodies of water and the best way that each the myths and histories of {our relationships} with the water have deep cultural, religious, and political implications.
[. . .] New works by Bony Ramirez and Ricardo Partida discover the fantastical hybrid figures of gods and monsters. Partida references mythological creatures, whereas addressing the sensuality and energy of the illustration of queer Brown figures—on this case reinventing the goddess Venus, who was famously birthed from the ocean foam. Ramirez mines wealthy references to the Caribbean and the Dominican Republic, repurposing mundane utilitarian objects of the tropics to create new iconography and reliquary. [. . .]
[Shown above: Brandon Deener’s “Still Waters,” 2022; oil, spray paint, and pigment stick on linen, 84h x 84w in.]
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