EXHIBITIONS OPENING February 6, 2021, ON VIEW through April 25, 2021

(de)coding

Spandita Malik: Threads of Identity

Scaffold: Equity of Treatment, A project by Elan Cadiz

Raskika Reddy: 108 Hummingbirds

Also on view in our 2nd floor community galleries, February 6, 2021 through April 4, 2021, are two exhibitions by our museum members: Barbara Beeman and Janice Patrignani.

(de)coding

(de)coding features artists who employ ephemera such as antique quilts and braided rugs, printed fabrics, casino playing cards, matchbooks, newspapers and other printed matter. They act as decoders of these materials, reprocessing the cultural, social, or political meanings embedded in them and encoding their new work with some of these transformed ideas. Participating artists are: Gina Adams, DARN Studio, Elizabeth Duffy, Ghost of a Dream, Shanti Grumbine, Kwesi Kwarteng, Debra Ramsay, Leslie Roberts, and Viviane Rombaldi-Seppey.

Spandita Malik: Threads of Identity

Spandita Malik is a New York-based artist from India whose work often addresses women’s rights and gendered violence. Traveling to several small villages in India, she photographed women who use fabric and embroidery to achieve financial freedom while confined to their homes. After printing the photographs on fabric, Malik asked each woman to embroider and embellish her portrait, creating an international collaboration of shared art and experience.

Scaffold: Equity of Treatment

A project by Elan Cadiz

This series of portraits by New York-based artist Elan Cadiz highlights the importance of self-reflection and preservation and the need for equitable treatment. The subjects are fellow artists, friends, acquaintances, colleagues and mentors she contacted while quarantining during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cadiz added scaffolding around the figures to symbolize the individual care and support we all need in order to create a new and better world.

Rasika Reddy: 108 Hummingbirds

While quarantining at her home in Summit, NJ during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rasika Reddy began a practice of painting single hummingbirds—a different species for each day. She has filled our main stairwell with 108 of the birds rendered in watercolor, creating a “flock” of hope and joy for difficult times.

Make sure to also visit our community galleries on the second floor featuring exhibitions by our museum members!