LMCC Artist and Alumni News!
LMCC Alumni Esteban Jefferson's solo show May 25, 2020, is now open at 303 Gallery through February 25, 2023.
The exhibition’s title refers to the date of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, and the beginning of a series of ongoing protests denouncing police brutality and racial injustice which immediately ensued in cities around the world.
A lifelong New Yorker, Jefferson’s latest works consider the related symbolism of flags and the toppling of equestrian monuments in New York, through the lens of racial and colonial legacies. Through repeated visits to sites of protest, from small interventions like flags taped to a stop sign to large-scale vandalism of well-known colonialist monuments, Jefferson tracks the lifespan of the 2020 protests.
LMCC Alumni Emily Halaka's new film Organic Matter which was animated during her residency at The Arts Center at Governors Island is coming out this year!
Emily Halaka is an independent filmmaker from California using traditional drawn animation technique to create offbeat, stylized images. Her work has been screened at festivals such as the St. Louis International Film Festival, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, and Festival of Recorded Movement. Emily holds a BA in Animation from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
LMCC Alumni Leslie Kerby is exhibiting two large monoprint/drawings at the Paper Power group exhibition on view at FROSCH & CO through February 26, 2023!
Leslie Kerby’s drawings critically examine the American healthcare system, capturing the societal and political problematics of the industry in intimate, charged moments between doctors and patients. Her figures encounter one another in liminal spaces teeming with fungi and flora, implying both decay and the potential for healing and regrowth.
LMCC Alumni Maryam Turkey's solo show titled Walls, جُدران is currently on view at The Java Project!
It was the onset of puberty that brought the walls of restriction caving in, during the American invasion and the civil war in Baghdad, Iraq. After their first menstrual cycle, “good” Iraqi girls are expected to wear the hijab and prepare for a life in the home, and often at the service of the men around them. For Turkey, bleeding represented submission; submission to imposed womanhood and joining the weakest demographic of a male dominant society.
In Turkey’s solo show Walls, جُدران, she returns to her child spirit, painting her imagination, mixing dreams with memories. It is a reflection, a remembrance, and a reclamation.
LMCC Alumni Kenneth Tam's solo exhibition Tender is the hand which holds the stone of memory currently on view at Ballroom Marfa through May 7, 2023 was recently featured in The New York Times' article titled The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust.
Kenneth Tam’s solo exhibition Tender is the hand which holds the stone of memory features a series of commissioned sculptures alongside a two-channel video installation. In his exhibition, Tam unearths forgotten histories in order to reimagine our own identities and to question dominant myths that shape and govern our bodies. One of the most enduring myths that still haunts our nation is Manifest Destiny and the conquest of the American West. These ideologies have circulated and remain embedded in popular culture through Westerns and advertising, such as the figure of the Marlboro Man. These images reified claims to Indigenous land as well as distorted Indigenous histories, while also enforcing stereotypes of Anglo-American masculinity that remain pervasive.