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fromThe Haitian Times
1 week ago

Brooklyn artist Jennica Drice captures her hyphenated life in textiles

Blue textile collages and Haitian diaspora artifacts trace a hyphenated life between Haiti and Brooklyn, exploring belonging, memory, and cultural survival through migration.
fromArtnet News
3 months ago

Nicole Young Rethinks Abstraction and Environmentalism Through Medium

From swathes of her own paintings to pieces of reclaimed or recycled fabrics or found canvases, as well as sourcing her own pigments and dyes from nature, Young carefully crops and sews together otherwise seemingly disparate materials into wholly new compositions. Set into natural wood frames, the material nature of Young's work illuminates her longstanding exploration of environmentalism. The climate impact of creative practices is often overlooked and left uninterrogated, but for Young it is situated at the heart of her practice.
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