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77 East 3rd St.
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MEET ME HERE TOMORROW (AGAIN)
Exhibiting Artists:
Lauren Baccus
Nuveen Barwari
William Bigby
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias
Sophia Mainka
Ian O’Hara
Diana Sinclair
Malaika Temba
Curated by:
Heike Dempster
Curatorial Assistance:
Eden Chinn
Opening Reception
10.30 @6pm - 9pm
10.30 @6pm - 9pm
Using textile, mixed media and photography, the artists present works that carry tradition and cultural heritage into a potential future that allows for a dismantling and reconstruction of existing ideologies and create a counter-narrative.
How do we respect and honor the ideas of what was and learn from ancestral hands to guide us? Identifying a space where tradition and technology intersect, the artists create works that allow for an intentional departure.
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Heike Dempster is curator, art writer, art industry consultant and artist collaborator from Munich, Germany based in Miami, FL. Her curatorial practice – often in collaboration with artists – includes exhibitions, performances and installations as well as talk series and panels. Most recent curatorial projects include “On the Way Home” at Baker —Hall Gallery (Havîn Al-Sîndy, Priscilla Aleman, Catherine Camargo, Isis Davis-Marks, Charles Mason III, Sheherazade Thenard, Cornelius Tulloch), “Sound, Stories” at Locust Projects (Helina Metaferia, Ambrose Murray, Ania Freer) and “Priscilla Aleman: The Ocean Within,” “Cornelius Tulloch: Rhythmic Landscape; Patterns of Identity” and “Malaika Temba: Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues” at Soho Beach House in Miami. Recent artist talks include Untiled Art Fair Miami Beach, NKR Duesseldorf, Atlantic Arthouse and Fountainhead Arts. She also works in international artist management with Amir Shariat representing artists Damon Davis, Alexandre Diop, Basil Kincaid, Studio DRIFT, Ardeshir Tabrizi and Kennedy Yanko. Her articles and essays have been published, amongst others, in Aesthetica, ArtDistricts, Art Pulse, Rooms-Art Uncovered and Whitewall Magazine, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and books for Kunsthalle Krems, Austria; Galerie der Kuenstler, Munich, Germany; and Pan-American Art Projects in Miami, USA, to name a few.
About the Artists:
Lauren Baccus is a textile artist, educator and independent researcher whose work centers around the construction of Caribbean identity through textile, costume and craft. Her ongoing project, Salt and Aloes, is a digital resource for art, design and material culture of the Caribbean. Born in Atlanta, GA, she was raised in Jamaica and Trinidad and is currently based in Miami, FL.
Nuveen Barwari was born in Nashville, TN and grew up in Duhok, Kurdistan. She received her MFA from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022 and her B.S in Art from Tennessee State University in 2019. Barwari has shown at Zg Gallery (IL), NGBK Gallery in Berlin, Germany, Duhok Gallery, in Duhok, Kurdistan, Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY), Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery (TN), and Art Toronto Canada’s Art fair. Barwari was the 2023 fellow in the Skidmore Art’s Department’s Workspace Residency Program. Her work has been featured in the Nashville Scene, New American Painting, Yahoo Nachrichten Deutschland, Gazete Duvar, and Botan Times. Barwari currently resides in Albany, NY.
Nuveen Barwari’s expansive studio practice involves gathering and repurposing artifacts from her community such as worn Kurdish clothes, fabric, and used rugs to investigate the multiplicity of materials, their inherited history, and cultural meanings. In her work, textiles are used as a tool of resistance, embodying the fluidity and adaptability of language. Instead of focusing on what is often lost through translation, Barwari explores the shapes and symbols that are found when living between clashing cultures, languages, and materials. Through a combination of collage, painting, textiles, and installation, Barwari investigates the intricacies of assimilation, material culture, and the contradictions of diasporic identities. Her work often alternates between the decorative and the interrogative, as she seeks to unravel cultural symbols, redraw borders, and reimagine the space between the homeland and the host land.
William Bigby is a photographer from the Los Angeles area, and attends NYU. William’s love for photography started when he was an 8th grader living through the Covid-19 Pandemic. His parents bought him a camera for Christmas as they wanted him to pick up a hobby in which he could express himself. Without taking any classes, William excelled in portraiture. He quickly grasped the concepts of lighting and composition, exploring them using himself as his own model. Over time, his skill and knowledge of how to conceptualize images, and use the camera became sound. He is inspired by artists such as Kwame Brathwaite, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Tyler Mitchell, as they convey stories through lighting, and composition, with his favorite photo being Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’ cover by Tillmans. William’s work is centered around themes of self-expression and the liberation of both himself and the Black community as a whole from false racial stereotypes. William has won gold at the state level of NAACP ACT-SO two times for photography (2022 and 2023), and has won silver at the national level once (2022). He was a YoungArts Winner with Distinction in photography in 2024, where his work was featured on the cover of Cultured Magazine’s online promotion for National YoungArts Week. He has been featured in PhotoVogue three times, and wants to continue to devote his life to challenging the status quo with his images.
Constanza Camila Kramer Garfias is a Chilean textile artist based in Munich, Germany. Her artistic practice revolves around textiles, which she both explores and questions as the central medium and subject of her work. Through her engagement with theories of postcolonialism and her bicultural background, she has developed methods to deconstruct colonial structures in textiles. Her pieces reflect on social issues, cultural practices (past and present), and the transformative potential of textile art. Kramer Garfias challenges the perception that textiles are old-fashioned, addressing topics such as the Mapuche people’s view of the universe, rethinking colonialism, computer science, and genetic research. Her works push textiles to their limits, combining artisanal and industrial processes.
Sophie Mainka is an artist who lives and works between Paris and Munich. She graduated from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 2020 with a Master of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on the theme of trophy hunting and related issues concerning the relationship between men and nature, the representation of power and values in a society, and the possibilities of a post-anthropocene.
Ian O’Hara is an artist and photographer based in New York City. O’Hara has been creating art since he was a child whose creativity was fueled by his grandparents. Growing up in Queens, he takes to the streets to find inspiration for his art. This is ultimately what made him pick up a camera. He fell in love with photography as he could document and capture the world around him, realizing it was another tool he had to express himself.
Diana Sinclair (b. 2004) is a visual artist based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Sinclair’s work introduces narratives surrounding Black autonomy and freedom, often referencing historical narratives and folklore of the diaspora. In the past, she has worked with new media to communicate stories and has directed interactive public installations, such as her current collaborative work at the top of Rockefeller Center. Currently, she is in residency with Silver Art Projects for the remainder of 2024, with a studio in the World Trade Center in New York City. Sinclair’s view of worlds seen and unseen is very often captured by camera, but she also frequently turns to sculptures, canvas, or mixed textiles to visualize the pain of the human condition and theories of transcendence.
Malaika Temba (b. 1996, Washington, D.C.) is a visual artist based in New York. Temba creates textile works that honor the lineage of the diaspora’s aunties and femmes, addressing the responsibility, time, attention and patience expected of these laborers, comforters, nurturers, and providers. She wields fabric—an oft-overlooked material conflated with gendered notions of softness—as a resilient and unbreakable format to confront labor standards and global trade. Having grown up across Saudi Arabia, Uganda, South Africa, Morocco, and the United States, her lens and creative processes embrace globalization and intercultural connection by shining light on all of its intricacies.
Temba graduated with a BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018. In 2021, she was honored as the recipient of the YoungArts Jorge M. Pérez Award and since then, she has been selected for significant residencies: Art Omi (2023, NY), MASS MoCA (2023, MA), Bandung Residency, MoCADA + A4 Arts Alliance (2023, NY) and Silver Art Projects (2024, NY). Temba has had solo exhibitions with Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami (2021; forthcoming 2024; Miami, FL), Lilia Ben Salah Gallery (2023; Paris, France), and Gaa Gallery (2023, Cologne, Germany). She has participated in group exhibitions with Allouche Gallery (2021, NY), The Yard (2021, NY) and Mindy Solomon in collaboration with Albertz Benda (2022, LA). Her work has been collected by various public and private collections, including the collections of Jorge M. Pérez and Beth Rudin DeWoody.
About All Street Gallery:
Founded in 2018, All Street NYC presents works by emerging and underrepresented artists whose works demonstrate social engagement and community empowerment. First established as an artist collective and grassroots protest organization by born and raised New Yorkers, All Street NYC is a space that is both created by and for artists. Having deep roots in New York City, the gallery and collective share a background in public art and activations as a means of creative protest and resistance. Such socially engaged work has carried into their gallery space as they opened their doors on 77 East Third Street, and as they now open their second location at 119 Hester Street.
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All Street Gallery
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