New. Now. at Culture House DC
Culture House is pleased to partner with Hamiltonian Artists to present their annual group exhibition new. now. in The Gallery at Culture House in Washington DC, debuting the work of Hamiltonian's five distinguished 2020 Fellows, Maria Luz Bravo, Jason Bulluck, Joey Enriquez, Stephanie Garon, and Lionel Frazier White III. 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 collages.
