DIVERSE. Poetics of Nature.
2024-10-17 19:00 - 2025-03-15 17:00 (America/Puerto_Rico) | Universidad Ana G. Méndez – Recinto de Gurabo, 6XRV+Q6H, Rio Grande Road, Juncos, Gurabo 00777, Puerto Rico, Gurabo, Puerto Rico
“Diverse. Poetics of Nature is an exhibition that reveals my enormous admiration and respect for nature, for its intuitive and spontaneous frankness. In times when everything tends to be the result of a construction: images, what we say, perceptions… the only thing that remains real and true, is nature.”
Jeannette Betancourt

From the summit the clouds
2024-11-22 18:00 - 2025-02-17 20:00 (America/Mexico_City) | Jardín Borda Cultural Center,, Av. Morelos 271, Cuernavaca Centro, Centro, 62000 Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
This is a multisensorial installation by Mexican artist and curator Elizabeth Ross.
The artist primarily used Xuan paper and inks to create an emotional, artistic, and gestural diary, a response to the intense emotions evoked by the ongoing events in West Asia. Sound, video, and aroma create a singular experience.
The curator Iris lam Chen ends her presentation text with this paragraph: All the works highlight the complementary contrast between the angry and sanguine nature of the Latin American vocal denunciation that demands a reaction, and the melancholic and phlegmatic nature of the Chinese culture that prays for the honor of the fallen from silence and ritual. This intercultural mix is ​​inexorable in Elizabeth’s work and a constant in the present exhibition.

Tacit Knowledge: Paper as Practice in the Dieu Donné West Bay View Foundation Fellowship Program
2025-01-23 18:00 - 2025-03-07 17:00 (America/New_York) | Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, EFA Studios - 323 West 39th St., 3rd Floor, New York, NY, 10018, United States
Tacit Knowledge:
Paper as Practice in the Dieu Donné West Bay View Foundation Fellowship Program
January 23 – March 7, 2025
EFA Studios
323 West 39th St., New York, NY, 3rd Floor
Hours: Tue–Fri, 12–5 pm
Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin
Katharine L. DeLamater
Candy Alexandra González
Jaz Graf
Lauren Krukowski
SR Lejeune
Anela Ming-Yue Oh
Curated by Eliana Blechman
Contemporary papermaking draws on generations of knowledge about fibers, waters, and motions of the body. There is ritual in the processes of preparing pulp, pulling sheets, and pressing and drying paper between or upon boards. The practice of papermaking is learned as much through an inherent, tacit understanding within the body as it is through overt instruction. Working with pulp is a tactile exercise – one through which artists imbue meaning and history into their materials and art.
Tacit Knowledge celebrates seven years of Dieu Donné’s West Bay View Foundation Fellowship, an immersive studio mentorship for emerging papermakers to expand and enrich their artistic practices at Dieu Donné’s papermaking studios in Brooklyn, NY. Artists and papermakers Anna Hendrick Karpatkin Benjamin, Katharine L. DeLamater, Candy Alexandra González, Jaz Graf, Lauren Krukowski, SR Lejeune, and Anela Ming-Yue Oh each spent three to six months in the Dieu Donné papermaking studios, fully immersing themselves in the art of papermaking, supporting artists and projects coming through the studio, and learning to hone their techniques and develop their own practices. Their fellowships culminated in dedicated professional studio days for each artist to each create new bodies of artwork in handmade paper. Their resulting artworks pull from personal, social, and historical experience, and explore ritual, identity, heritage, and environment, mining both inherited and privatized forms of knowledge.
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