SoMad Chats with Lorenzo Triburgo & Sarah Van Dyck

SoMad is thrilled to welcome you for an intimate evening of art and conversation with Lorenzo Triburgo & Sarah Van Dyck. For one night only, we extend an invitation to our community to visit their open studio presentation at SoMad, gain insight into the process of creation for Shimmer Shimmer and other work, and take part in generative conversation around topics including queer spaces, identity, collaboration and resilience.

Doors open at 7pm, Screening begins at 7:30, with Q&A to follow. Beverages will be available. RSVP required. Please be mindful by staying home if you are feeling unwell. We look forward to seeing you!

SoMad is a femme and queer led independent art space fostering creative community as an artist incubator, production house, and art gallery. Located just South of Madison Square Park, we are SoMad about the landscape of New York’s homogenous and inaccessible art scene. Our collective is a team of working artists committed to elevating artists by creating opportunities for a more equitable future that embraces intersectionality both in medium and message.

Lorenzo Triburgo was a 2019 Workspace Resident at Baxter St/CCNY and an AIM Fellow at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2020. Permanent collections include the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL) and Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR). Select exhibition venues include Bruce Silverstein, NYC; Photoforum Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland; Dutch Trading Post, Nagasaki, Japan; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Magazzini del Sale, Siena, Italy; and Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands as a winner of the international Pride Photo Award. Triburgo is a full-time Instructor at Oregon State University’s College of Liberal Arts online campus who teaches critical theory, photography, and gender studies with a focus on expanding liberatory learning practices in online environments. Triburgo features "Venus" and "Mars" from their series "Shimmer Shimmer."

Sarah Van Dyck is an Industrial-Organizational (I/O) psychologist who specializes in mixed methods research, blending and translating quantitative data with qualitative audio, visual, and narrative sources. Her research centers on gender and identity at work, occupational health psychology and disparities in underrepresented populations, and LGBTQIA research in applied settings. Sarah earned her PhD in Applied Psychology from Portland State University in 2021 and has conducted research with organizations such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Center on Work-Family Health and Stress.