Personal Architecture |
November 11, 2023 - Digital Exhibition with UTA Artist Space Atlanta
Artist Statement
Depicting numinous scenes of everyday life, my work is an archive of remembered locations. I recall and record segments of the home, vehicle, and surrounding areas, drawing reference from my present-day environment, dreams, and memories of my childhood home. I construct these scenes using collage and water-based media, working from both memory and observation. In recalling these scenes I find the spaces that shelter us are embedded with our personal stories. Moments are encapsulated into the thresholds of the home, and our environments become a reflection of our individual cosmologies. The home and its structures act as a continuation of the self and the vessel that holds my memories. My interior and exterior surroundings signify my internal and external experiences. The windows, design structures, and patterns make up my personal architecture.
Depicting numinous scenes of everyday life, my work is an archive of remembered locations. I recall and record segments of the home, vehicle, and surrounding areas, drawing reference from my present-day environment, dreams, and memories of my childhood home. I construct these scenes using collage and water-based media, working from both memory and observation. In recalling these scenes I find the spaces that shelter us are embedded with our personal stories. Moments are encapsulated into the thresholds of the home, and our environments become a reflection of our individual cosmologies. The home and its structures act as a continuation of the self and the vessel that holds my memories. My interior and exterior surroundings signify my internal and external experiences. The windows, design structures, and patterns make up my personal architecture.
Echolocation : Industrialized Persona
May 13 - June 4, 2023 - at The Front Gallery, New Orleans, La
Exhibition Statement
The development of physical and social spaces (or lack there of) give objective resonance to identity and persona based of the relationship between occupancy and landscape. This exhibition explores the way black people and people of color take up space generationally, as natives and foreigners. These works accompany sound, reflecting movement and experience with mobilizing the imagined self in the collective. Some will share the narratives of displacement or the fragility of being upwardly mobile. Others will show the evolution of their cultures as they’ve been curated to take up space in the socio-industrial complexes. whether it’s the joy of sharing space in an apartment complex, nation, or a suburb, Whether it's securing more capital from a cultural streamline or creating a new landscape, we all wear our socialized personas to represent locale through imagery. We all share space and coexist at different angles, but it’s important we archive the multifaceted experiences with the internalization of our disposition. we must narrate our own vanity because they leave a lot of stuff out when they tell it. When you see us, we are the embodiment of location.
Curated by Yashira Davalos and John Alleyne
The development of physical and social spaces (or lack there of) give objective resonance to identity and persona based of the relationship between occupancy and landscape. This exhibition explores the way black people and people of color take up space generationally, as natives and foreigners. These works accompany sound, reflecting movement and experience with mobilizing the imagined self in the collective. Some will share the narratives of displacement or the fragility of being upwardly mobile. Others will show the evolution of their cultures as they’ve been curated to take up space in the socio-industrial complexes. whether it’s the joy of sharing space in an apartment complex, nation, or a suburb, Whether it's securing more capital from a cultural streamline or creating a new landscape, we all wear our socialized personas to represent locale through imagery. We all share space and coexist at different angles, but it’s important we archive the multifaceted experiences with the internalization of our disposition. we must narrate our own vanity because they leave a lot of stuff out when they tell it. When you see us, we are the embodiment of location.
Curated by Yashira Davalos and John Alleyne