Coffee and Conversation: Fall 2023 Exhibitions
BRIC House
647 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
New York
40.68884670000001
-73.97905759999999
Description
Join artists Adama Delphine Fawundu and Jenny Polak for a tour and discussion of their work in our fall Gallery and Project Room exhibitions. Free coffee will be provided.
B-Side: (Broken) Memory and Remix features photography, painting, and sculpture and explores remix as a crucial method of creation within the Hip-Hop genre. In Homeward Bound, Polak blends the language of interior design with powerful imagery – transforming domestic objects into symbols of borders and prisons to address the effects of state-sanctioned violence, mass incarceration, and immigration detention in the United States and abroad.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Adama Delphine Fawundu
Born and lives in Brooklyn, NY
Adama Delphine Fawundu (she/her) is a photographer and visual artist born in Brooklyn, NY of Bubi, Mende, Bamileke, and Krim descent. Her distinct visual language centers on themes of indigenization and ancestral memory. She began her career documenting Hip-Hop culture in NYC in 1993. Her work often incorporates elements of portraiture, symbolism, and storytelling to evoke a sense of connection and empowerment.
Fawundu co-published the critically acclaimed book MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. Her solo exhibition, In the Spirit of Áṣẹ is currently on view at the Newark Museum of Art. She has presented her work at The Tate Modern, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harvard University amongst many other institutions. Her past fellowships and residencies include: BRIClab and the Project for Empty Space, NJ; and she is currently in residence at the Fountainhead in Miami, Fl. Fawundu has received awards from the Catchlight Fellowship, the Anonymous Was A Woman Award, New York Foundation for The Arts Photography Fellowship, and the Rema Hort Mann Artist Grant, amongst others. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Princeton University Museum and The Petrucci Family Foundation of African American Art, both NJ; Bryn Mawr College, PA; The Brooklyn Historical Society; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL; The David C. Driskell Art Collection, College Park, MD; and a number of private collections. She is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University.
@adamadelphine | delphinefawundu.com
Jenny Polak
Born in London, England, UK; based in Brooklyn, NY
Jenny Polak has been featured in exhibitions and programs at the Brooklyn Museum, BRIC, Smack Mellon, and Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; MoMA PS1 and Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; Brief Histories, New York, NY; the Newark Museum, NJ; the Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; the Hyde Park Art Center and Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL. Polak has also exhibited internationally at the First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe; Les Kurbas Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine; Barbican Concourse Gallery, London; Dean Clough, Halifax, UK; and Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Holland. She was awarded residencies and fellowships at the Camargo Foundation, BRIC, Villa Albertine, Socrates Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Grand Canyon National Parks, and the Graham Foundation. Polak is currently a resident artist with The Fortune Society under the Creatives Rebuild New York’s Artist Employment Program. Polak attended the Whitney Independent Study Program. She received her BA in Architecture from Cambridge University, her BA in Fine Art and Critical Studies from St. Martins School of Art, and her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts.
@jennypolakstudio | jennypolak.com
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