e: purpose
Curated by Amanda Reid and Ali Rosa-Salas
on view: April 12 – May 4, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday, March 12, 6–9pm
This exhibition and its related programming is a FiveMyles collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), featuring Pamela Council, Sara Jimenez, Sondra Perry and Patrice Renee Washington. Through sculpture, photography, digital media and performance, these four New York-based women artists transform common domestic and cosmetic objects to expand the possibilities of self-representation. The work generates critical dialogue around the lived realities of women of color in the visual art world.
Pamela Council is interested in creating sculptural works that deconstruct human relationships with mass produced objects. Sondra Perry produces video installations and Minimalist sculptures from foam rollers, track weaves, and pancakes to merge Minimalist aesthetics with her personal vernacular. Through an exploration of feminized crafts like knitting and baking, Patrice Renee Washington examines the construction of racial and gender identity in European pastoral paintings and African American popular culture. Sara Jimenez creates durational sculptures and drawings from salt crystals and rust residue. Her work expresses the intangibility of memory, ancestral lineage and her negotiation of her multiracial and transnational identities.
Amanda Reid and Ali Rosa-Salas are MoCADA’s 2013 Curatorial Fellows.
Exhibition-related events (free and open to the public):
Sunday, April 13, 11am - 6:30pm
Artists’ Performances: Pamela Council and Sara Jimenez perform never-before seen works that connect their performance practices with their bodies of work in the gallery.
Wednesday, April 16, 7–8:30pm
Artist Talk: Join the curators and artists of Re: purpose for a conversation about the exhibition, and themes such as identity, race and gender, that are expressed through the artists’ work.
Saturday, May 3, 5–7pm
Dancing while Black: In partnership with the artist-driven initiative Dancing While Black, movement-based artists Rashida Bumbray, Ebony Noelle Golden, and company members will perform solos in response to pieces in Re: purpose.