Grace Aneiza Ali
Grace Aneiza Ali is a Curator, an Assistant Professor and Provost Fellow in the Department of Art & Public Policy at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She also serves as the Curator-at-Large for the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York. Her recent book, Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora explores the art and migration narratives of women of Guyanese heritage. Speaking about her guest curator selections, Ali comments that "over the last year, as we grappled with immense sorrow, loss, tumult, and injustice, so many of us rooted ourselves in the natural world. There we found solace and repair; reprieve and restoration. I was drawn to these artists for the reverence shown towards flora and fauna in their oeuvre—whether in subtle touches or extravagant flourishes. Their work kept drawing me back to ponder this lovely question by the artist Camille Henrot: 'Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?'"
Anna Wehrwein
Born 1990 in Albany, New York. Lives and works in Columbia, Missourri.
2017 MFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2012 BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"Anna Wehrwein’s body of work returns us to the domestic space—the home, the backyard garden—as a site of creativity, renewal, and, most importantly, care. Whether we see them in full or obscured, the women as subjects in Wehrwein’s paintings reflect something deeply wholistic as equally as they emanate beauty, community, grace, fortitude, vulnerability. The artist’s reverence for and the embrace of objects of the natural world signal the ability to capture an equally powerful quality—metamorphosis."
Artwork Image: Replanted (by falling asleep she becomes a plant), 2017. Oil on Canvas. 60 x 48 in.
Spandita Malik
Born 1995 in Chandigarh, India. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
2019 MFA, Parsons School of Design, New York.
"Spandita Malik is not interested in speaking for the Indian women she photographs—she is not perpetuating a lens of the outsider nor is she repeating the trope we hear so often of ‘giving voice to the voiceless.’ Instead, Malik embraces the stories of the women she meets and the hardships they have experienced as a privilege and gift shared with her. The artist offers these women the tools to tell their own stories and with their own creative flourishes. Those artistic gestures come in the artform of embroidery—the portraits are printed onto regional fabrics and then embroidered by the women themselves, many of which are marked with floral bouquets as central motifs. For the artist, these women are not only subjects; they become collaborators."
Artwork Image: Fozia, 2019. Photographic transfer print on Khadi, Embroidery. 23 x 19 in. Series: Nā́rī (2019-Ongoing).
Dominique Hunter
Born 1987. Lives and works in Georgetown, Guyana.
"Dominique Hunter masters the art of collage. She layers organic imagery reminiscent of Guyana’s lush vegetation found in its interior Amazon as well as on its riverbeds and the famous Sea Wall on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Embedded in her visual imagery is a silhouetted self-referential figure. Its haunting presence is rooted among the flora and fauna that thrives amidst Guyana’s extreme elements of temperature, wind, water, and sand. In this symbolic artistic gesture, Hunter places the viewer in a seeming contradiction—entanglement and agency."
Artwork Image: The threats that stalk by day, 2018. Mixed media collage on watercolour paper. 30 x 22 in.
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