Photography by Harley Grieco

October 7-30th, 2021
J&M Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Press Release & List of Works

Sunset Park Open Studios
October 15th: 6:00pm-9:00pm
October 16th & 17th: 12:00pm-5:00pm

On Terrain and Emblem is a group exhibition of four women artists working in papermaking, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. This exhibition unearths fragments of memory, home, and immigrant lineage through analog/contemporary renderings of landscapes and cultural/domestic motifs. In each artist’s practice, these ‘renderings’ take on unique forms, unified through multidisciplinary processes and the ambiguous nature of nostalgia.

 Each artist performs ‘excavations’ of the self and cultural recollection by exploring their relationships with objects and materials. The work assumes the role of artifact; proposing that the act of excavation can become a meditation on home. By exhibiting scenes, icons, and artifacts from their personal histories, their collection becomes an active time capsule: a living, resilient, generational history. As the work excavates, it also destroys: it digs to seek an implicit (collective) meaning (feeling). The show asks the viewer to examine their own perception and recognition of home.