HAMILTONIAN ARTISTS PRESENTS NEW.NOW. AT CULTURE HOUSE

excerpted from article by the editorial team of East City Art

On view February 13-March 21 at Culture House.

Artists Talk on February 13 at 6pm. Click here to register.

Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present new.now., our annual group exhibition debuting the work of Hamiltonian’s five distinguished 2020–2022 Fellows—Maria Luz Bravo, Jason Bulluck, Joey Enriquez, Stephanie Garon, and Lionel Frazier White III. The exhibition is presented at and in partnership with Culture House from February 13 through March 21, 2021. There will be a virtual opening Artist Talk on February 13 at 6pm.

This exhibition provides a brief survey of these five artists’ recent work and the projects they will be expanding upon during their time with Hamiltonian Artists. Though they all have unique practices and approaches, common themes of place and space, materiality, change, and the body emerge in all of the work, offering an opportunity to reflect on common salient issues.

Maria Luz Bravo will be showing a selection of photographs from her ongoing series In Passing (2013–), which documents moments both quotidian and poetic that the artist encounters along her way. Jason Bulluck is including his larger-than-life Jacob Lawrence Playset (2018), his self-styled action figure that travels the world with him to help question dominant social and political constructs by disrupting the expected vista. Joey Enriquez has been working primarily in innovative printing techniques using found organic materials. He will present a selection of his most recent prints made at various sites beside the Potomac alongside clay monotypes of his grandmother’s photo album that recall a palpable absence. Stephanie Garon’s two included sculptural works, Concede (2020) and Prey (2021), juxtapose industrial and natural materials in consideration of balance and agency. Lionel Frazier White III works in drawing, painting, mixed-media collage, and installation to mine the legacies of forced and coerced labor, erasure, and gentrification. He will be showing a selection of new paintings and collage on found family photographs.

The 2020–2022 Fellows were selected by an independent national jury of arts professionals—Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, head of public programs with the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery; Larry Cook, assistant professor of photography at Howard University; Hasan Elahi, professor and director of the School of Art at George Mason University; Carl Gunhouse, co-founder and director of Transmitter Gallery⁠, New York; and Erin Jane Nelson, executive director of Burnaway.