Name: En Foco & Children's Art Carnival Present: Utopian Voyage
Start: 2022-11-05T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-11-05T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Children's Art Carnival

En Foco & Children's Art Carnival Present: Utopian Voyage

En Foco, Inc.is a non-profit that supports contemporary primarily U.S.-based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander heritage.Founded in 1974, En Foco is a non profit organization that nurtures and supports contemporary, fine art and documentary photographers of color and of diverse cultures; preserves and promotes its Permanent Collection; and is dedicated to creating and implementing public programs for underserved communities and the general public.

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En Foco is proud to announce the upcoming community exhibition, Utopian Voyage, hosted in collaboration with the Children’s Art Carnival.

Children's Art Carnival

En Foco is proud to announce the upcoming community exhibition, Utopian Voyage, hosted in collaboration with the Children’s Art Carnival, and curated by Kay Hickman. Utopian Voyage features the works of Albany Andaluz, Asherde Amoy Gill, and Cristina Bartley Dominguez. Exhibition on view November 5 - December 1, 2022, at the Children’s Art Carnival, 62 Hamilton Terrace, New York, NY 1003, by appointment only. Utopian Voyage explores the notion of what it would look like if people of color created their ideal future realities? Afrofuturism lends us the ability to look past our current state and shape a new reality. It is a way of exploring the future and alternate realities, undefined by lasting effects of settler colonialism, through a black cultural lens and an artistic aesthetic. Shaping the world around the idea of agency, is a method of self liberation and healing. The exhibition Utopian Voyage explores three different realities. Each photographer brings their own unique vision to what this could look like. Albany Andaluz uses photo composites and repurposed materials such as discarded textiles to archive her personal transformations which gives a sense of growth and transitioning. Each work builds upon the last, creating a cumulative narrative of Andaluz’s journey and perhaps future self. The present, future and past seem to be all represented in this work.Cristina Bartley Dominguez mirrors and merges symbols from layered performances reclaiming female power and identity. By placing Pre-Columbian and contemporary “artifacts” along with a female icon or gestural movements, she builds upon different foundations of history and allows them to collide. Throughout Bartley’s work you see the woman as a symbol which is a reflection of her intuition as a form of healing. Asherde Gill’s work invokes thoughts of home where Black queer lives are nurtured and allowed to grow. In the Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Harraway notes that “Liberation rests on the construction of the consciousness, the imaginative apprehension of oppression, and so of possibility.” Asherde is searching for a new consciousness that can live in and inform their identity. Utopian Voyage begins to examine the depths of what a utopia could be, by examining the past and reclaiming it to build a better future.

A﻿BOUT THE ARTISTSAlbany Andaluz (b. 1995, Bronx, New York) uses colloquialisms to draw intersections between Caribbean, Latin American, and American experiences. A life-taught artist, her practice reflects a repurposed, multidisciplinary approach with works that resurrect discarded textiles as mixed-media sculptures, paintings, and photographs to allude to the intersections of conflict, migration, and settlement. Andaluz’s practice examines the psychosocial and socioeconomic shifts that happen during the process of acculturation through the intertwining of techniques sourced from craft, fine, folk, low and high-brow cultures. Such work has awarded Andaluz residencies, grants and features with ProjectArt NYC, BronxArtSpace, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Bronx Documentary Center, BronxNet, ArtForum, and Aperture Foundation’s magazine.Asherdé Amoy Gill is a Cinematographer, Photographer, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Through community building and collaboration, they seek to tell the colorful and nuanced stories of the marginalized communities that they identify with. As a producing associate for Epic Theatre Ensemble, Amoy has worked on numerous narrative and documentary projects for the company. They have worked on two feature films and three short films as a cinematographer and editor for Epic. They have also played a key role in building the film department at Epic as a grant writer, equipment consultant, and educator. Amoy is a Co-teacher for the Virtual Youth Documentary Lab in Allentown, Pennsylvania where they support young artists who are beginning their filmmaking journeys. Over the past two years, they have helped more than thirty students discover their own filmmaking language and create short films. Cristina Bartley Dominiguez is a Mexican-American multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn. Her practice centers on the reconstruction of myths into icons of progress through the unraveling of memory and movement to negotiate the relationship between the US and Mexico. She uses movement and world-building as a way to activate history and unpack tensions between opposing cultures; commenting on the intertwining of tradition, change, and search for origin.ABOUT THE CURATORKay Hickman is a New York City based documentary photographer and visual artist. With an inquisitive eye, she offers a unique and empathetic perspective into the everyday lives of the people she photographs. Her work largely focuses on documenting the human experience as it relates to identity, human rights and health issues. Hickman’s work has been featured in The New York Times, TIME, Vogue, Financial Times, Ms. Magazine, and Photographic Journal: MFON Women Photographers of the African Diaspora. Hickman also Joined the Everyday Project’s Advisory Board where she works on various initiatives.

ABOUT EN FOCO | En Foco, Inc. is a non-profit that supports U.S.-based photographers of African, Asian, Latino, Native American, and Pacific Islander heritage. Founded in 1974, En Foco makes their work visible to the art world, yet remains accessible to under-served communities. Through exhibitions, workshops, events, and publications, it provides professional recognition, honoraria, and assistance to photographers as they grow into different stages of their careers. For more information, please visit: www.enfoco.org.ABOUT THE CHILDREN’S ART CARNIVAL | The Children’s Art Carnival is a Harlem-based not-for-profit providing visual arts education to young people and their families residing in Hamilton Heights and throughout New York City. Understanding that the arts are a bridge to learning and to overall competency, CAC’s long-standing objective has been to support the development and growth of participants from early ages through adulthood and to provide creative experiences that will engage young people, their families, and community members. We are equally committed to providing opportunities and resources to early-career and emerging artists From Harlem, New York City and throughout the region. For more information, please visit: www.thechildrensartcarnival.org This exhibition is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Ford Foundation, The Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Joy of Giving Something, Inc., and private contributions. Member of the Urban Arts Cooperative.

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