Time and Place are No Longer Singular: In conversation with Ezra Wube
Time and Place are No Longer Singular: Ezra Wube in conversation with Henone Girma
Join The Africa Center and The Newark Museum of Art on Tuesday, May 24 at 12:00PM ET for a virtual conversation between artist Ezra Wube and Associate Curator of Arts of Global Africa at The Newark Museum of Art, Henone Girma. Ezra Wube is a mixed-media artist living in Brooklyn, whose work explores fragmented senses of time and place to forge newly imagined realities. Wube’s own experience of navigating between different geographies—from the country of his birth, Ethiopia, to his new home in the United States—shapes his approach to storytelling through art. His work incorporates both traditional and contemporary media and references, using collage and animation to create multilayered, fluid explorations of here and there, then and now. His mixed media installation Project Junction, a site-specific commission that considers food as an expression of collective identity in its ever evolving state, is currently on view at The Africa Center. The conversation will be introduced by Alana Francis de Govia, Chief Program and Experience Officer at The Africa Center.
Time and Place are No Longer Singular: Ezra Wube in conversation with Henone Girma
Join The Africa Center and The Newark Museum of Art on Tuesday, May 24 at 12:00PM ET for a virtual conversation between artist Ezra Wube and Associate Curator of Arts of Global Africa at The Newark Museum of Art, Henone Girma. Ezra Wube is a mixed-media artist living in Brooklyn, whose work explores fragmented senses of time and place to forge newly imagined realities. Wube’s own experience of navigating between different geographies—from the country of his birth, Ethiopia, to his new home in the United States—shapes his approach to storytelling through art. His work incorporates both traditional and contemporary media and references, using collage and animation to create multilayered, fluid explorations of here and there, then and now. His mixed media installation Project Junction, a site-specific commission that considers food as an expression of collective identity in its ever evolving state, is currently on view at The Africa Center. The conversation will be introduced by Alana Francis de Govia, Chief Program and Experience Officer at The Africa Center.
Ezra Wube, Fulton Flow, 2019 (still). Stop action animation, paint on a single canvas, 2:00 min. © Ezra Wube, Fulton Center. Commissioned by MTA Arts & Design