June 5 - July 4, 2021

WATERS MEET / SANGAM

Mildred Beltré, leslie jean-bart, tara sabharwal, mary ting

OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, june 5, 6-8pm

The four artists in this exhibition were included in You Will Know Me, a comprehensive, international exhibition held in India in 2020. The exhibition was curated by Tara Sabharwal and based on the theme of migration and displacement. The artists in the exhibition largely live with two cultures: the one inherited through the family and the culture they live in.  Covid co-opted many exhibitions and artistic projects and the travel program of the Now you see me exhibition was stalled by it. FiveMyles is pleased to show the work of four artists who participated in the exhibition in India, and who live and work in New York. Tara Sabharwal, the curator of the original exhibition, has organized Waters Meet / Sangam for FiveMyles.

Mildred Beltré, a Dominican-American artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY is invested in grassroots activism, social justice, and political movements. Her work explores the simultaneous phenomena of hyper-visibility and invisibility. Her finely patterned prints in the exhibition let the viewer sense a presence embodied in them. The prints don’t detour into mystifying, they simply let you understand the easy acceptance of others' invisibility. 

With his photographs the Haitian-born artist Leslie Jean-Bart probes the interaction between an immigrant’s host country’s culture and the culture of his origin. He photographs the movement of the tide and sand on the beach, a metaphor for the automatic interaction of the cultures in motion every immigrant experiences; sometimes fluid and sometimes turbulent, just as the sand and tide act on each other. It is a constant movement in unison, but each retains its distinctive characteristic.

Tara Sabharwal, an Indian painter who lives in New York, shows paintings that look at the interwoven experience of centeredness and displacement, at this time when displacement has become more and more a global fact. But these two opposing currents are also within us, and with her painting the artist tries to understand this. Through a process of ‘free-association’ mark-making, she taps into her unconscious self to gain and then observe her own awareness of the reality around her.

Mary Ting's drawing installation reflects on the collection, display and commodification of the "other". The feet, fingers, heads and other amputated parts of humans and non-humans alike inhabit her work in this time of continuous loss. 

Mildred Beltré’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, Kentler International Drawing Center, Brooklyn, The Santa Fe Art Institute, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, Bric Arts, Brooklyn, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, International Print Center, New York and in many other galleries and museums.

Leslie Jean-Bart has been exhibited in the USA, and abroad. Born in Haiti where he acquired his love for the ocean, the call to combine the ocean and the camera has been a constant throughout his life.

Tara Sabharwal’s work has been presented in 42 solo shows in the UK, US, India, among others. She has received several awards, including the Joan Mitchell CALL (Creating a Living Legacy),[3] The British Council Scholarship,[1] and the Gottlieb Foundation awards.[4] Her work is in the collection of The British Museum,[5] Victoria and Albert Museum,[6] and the Peabody Essex Museum[7] among others.

Mary Ting has a bachelor's degree from Parsons School of Design, NYC, a diploma from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in Chinese folk art studies, and a masters degree from the Vermont School of Fine Art. She has shown in galleries and art venues throughout the U.S. and has received grants and awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan Community Arts Fund. NYFA Immigrant Artist Program, Van Lier Fellowship mentor, Gottlieb Foundation, NY. 

GALLERY HOURS:

Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.
Please wear a face mask to visit the gallery. Visitors without masks cannot be let inside. Thank you for your cooperation.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, the Greenwich Collection, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation.