MEMBER EVENT @ ONE EYED STUDIOS:
An Exhibition at Tempest Gallery
Tempest Gallery at One Eyed Studios is pleased to present Welcome Stranger curated by Lauren Bradshaw featuring the work by Yasmeen Abdallah, Taesha Aurora, Amir Badawi, Haifa Bint-Kadi, Lauren Bradshaw, Katherine Earle, Francisco echo Eraso, Gigi Gruenburg, Jenna Hamed, Clare Hu, Vandana Jain, Ayqa Khan, Amalya Megerman, Kris Rumman, Jordan Segal, Theo Trotter, Defne Tutus and Natasha Vega.
Welcome Stranger
Curated by Lauren Bradshaw
Septemeber 6th-28th, 2024
Opening Reception: September 6th, 6-8pm
TEMPEST Gallery @ ONE EYED STUDIOS,
1639 Centre St,
Studio 179,
Ridgewood, Queens, 11385.
Enter via 1642 Weirfield St.
347 668 8411
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Welcome Stranger Curated by Lauren Bradshaw
For September 2024 NY Textile Month, a group of 18 artists will present new work on layette pincushions at TEMPEST Gallery. Titled Welcome Stranger, the group show will focus on amuletic craft and Palestinian steadfastness.
Photo: Natasha Vega, u&iareearth3
The current genocide and displacement of Palestinians stands in discussion with the hopeful beauty and labor inherent in these objects. We see layette pincushions as a punctum of resourcefulness, resilience, and evidence of a gifting culture amongst a community that supported each other through the serious mortal threat that childbearing and birth could be. Currently, giving birth in Gaza is more dangerous than it was for the Victorian women sewing layette pincushions in the 1800s.
Photo: Lauren Bradshaw, Repletion 2023, Embroidered-shoulder-pads
The threads tying Victorian layette pincushions to Palestinian resistance are imaginary, but we are interested in the way material culture and especially amuletic or emotionally charged objects can widen our lens with which to see current events.
Research on the themes in Welcome Stranger by Lauren Bradshaw & Jenna Hamed will accompany the exhibition.
Photo: Jordan Segal, Meatball 1.1
Photo: Haifa Bint-Kadi, Beehive Home
ABOUT TEMPEST GALLERY
At TEMPEST, we want to talk about art in a maelstrom. We invite artists to be unafraid to broach difficult conversations and address colonial structures of violence through their practice in textiles, sculpture and installation. Our main desire is that each monthly show present layered themes where multiple cultural references intersect and tussle.
Launched in 2024, TEMPEST Gallery is nestled in the culturally rich border of Ridgewood and Bushwick at One Eyed Studios. Through our programming and events, we aim to create community and a space for gathering, presenting work and building relationships in Ridgewood Queens.