NYFA and New York Live Arts Partner to Present Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Exhibition in Manhattan
Exhibition will feature 16 immigrant artists from NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.
NYFA has partnered with New York Live Arts to present the exhibition In/Between 2022: Transcendental Coordinates, on view from Friday, March 11 through Wednesday, April 6 at the New York Live Arts Ford Foundation Live Gallery at 219 West 19th Street in Manhattan. The exhibition will feature 16 immigrant artists from NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. The opening reception will take place on Friday, March 11 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM, followed by a closing reception on Wednesday, April 6 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM. Both events are open to the public and free with RSVP. The Ford Foundation Live Gallery is located in the Live Arts lobby and has daily viewing from 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM.
Initiated in 2019 by artist Yanira Castro as part of her Live Feed residency at New York Live Arts, In/Between is an annual immigrant artist group exhibition created by Castro, Martita Abril, and Poppy DeltaDawn. It was developed in partnership with New York Live Arts and NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, with a commitment to increasing the visibility of, and conversation around, the work of immigrant artists. The name In/Between reflects on the multiplicity of immigrant artists’ experiences, identities, practices, and politics, while also speaking to the liminal experience of home/residence/community.
Each year, the collective body of work showcased by ‘In/Between’ takes on its own cultural gravitas. The 2022 cohort of immigrant artists’ works include explorations of the angular relationships between future and past without necessarily ascertaining what constitutes a point on the timeline. We all traverse our unique lines, but there are parallels, intersections and overlapping realities which form the basis for a collective understanding of the world. Our title for this year’s exhibition, ‘Transcendental Coordinates,’ is a response to an overarching theme in this year’s amazing cohort, one of a spiritual, even astral, connection to architecture, geography, and community
-Curators Yanira Castro, Martita Abril, and Poppy DeltaDawn
This year’s exhibit features works by Noga Cohen (Israel), Robin Curtil (France), Bahar Demirtas (Turkey), Caroline Garcia (Australia), Ji Yong Kim (South Korea), Sayoko Kojima (Japan), Lillian Xuege Li (China), Kariny Padilla (Dominican Republic), Ami Park (South Korea), Jiwon Rhie (South Korea), Ciara Stack (Ireland), Tatiana Stolpovskaya (Russia), Sagarika Sundaram (India), Ma’amoun Tebbo (Lebanon), Akiko Yamamoto (Japan), and Farangiz Yusupova (Uzbeckistan).
All ticket holders for the opening and closing receptions will be required to provide proof of COVID-19 full vaccination with booster prior to entry. Daily gallery hours do not require proof of vaccination and all visitors to Live Arts must wear masks—please visit the Live Arts website for full up-to-date guidelines and protocols.
ABOUT THE CURATORS
Yanira Castro is a Puerto Rican interdisciplinary artist living in New York City. Since 2009, she has made performances, videos, and installations with a team of collaborators under the moniker, a canary torsi. a canary torsi’s practice has involved creating systems, scores, and software programs that ensure that elements of performance (choreography, text, music, environment) unfold in real time in response to the presence/participation of the audience, often building the work as a communal act. The work has been presented extensively in New York City and has toured nationally. Castro has received two Bessie Awards for Outstanding Production and a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Choreography as well as various commissions, residencies, and project grant awards. Castro received her B.A. degree in Theater & Dance and Literature from Amherst College.
Martita Abril is a performer, choreographer, and teaching artist from the border city of Tijuana, México. She’s worked with dance artists and companies throughout México, South America, and the United States, including Lux Boreal, Cristina Baquerizo, Kim Brandt, Yoshiko Chuma, Rebecca Davis, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik’s The Commons Choir, Allyson Green, Mina Nishimura, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Will Rawls. She was also a performer in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions at the Museum of Modern Art. Abril is currently working with Yanira Castro, Milka Djordevich, Kat Galasso, Abigail Levine, and continues to create her own work.
She’s been a PECDA Scholar as a “Young Creator” and received a Mexican national fellowship from FONCA to continue making work in New York City. Abril was selected for the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts and served as a mentor in NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Program from 2015-2020. Her work has been seen at New York Live Arts, Sunday Service at The Knockdown Center curated by Yanira Castro, Movement Research at the Judson Church, CPR Performance Studio Open House, NYFA, HERE Art Center, Potiker Theater at UCSD, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, and site-specifics throughout New York City and Tijuana. She is currently the Programs and Events Manager at Movement Research (MR) and coordinates MR at Judson Church on Monday nights.
Poppy DeltaDawn is an artist and curator who makes work about the landscape of queerness and how we perceive it through disseminating information like diagrams and tutorials. She holds an MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA degree from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her most recent projects have included a solo exhibition at H Space Gallery (Cleveland, OH) and a Media Arts Fellowship at BRIC Arts Media (Brooklyn, NY), as well as exhibitions at The Heidelberg Project (Detroit, MI), Hatch Art (Hamtramck, MI), Lillstreet Art Center (Chicago, IL), and ACRE Projects (Chicago, IL). DeltaDawn is the associate director of Geary Gallery in New York City, and is an adjunct faculty member in the Fiber and Material Studies Department at Tyler School of Art, Temple University; and in Fiber at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
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