THE BRONX SPEAKS: MAKING PLACE
Jarrod Beck, Lilly Handley, Christian Hincapie, Alexa Hoyer, Alexandra Phillips, Paz Ortuzar, Alona Weiss, Alex Yudzon
March 4 – 8, 2015
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Why do we feel that we belong in some places and not in others? Neighborhood foods, smells, materials, and structures can tell us a lot about who lives, works, and visits there, same as buildings, gardens, crafts and objects produced in a certain location, under certain cultural influences.
Place and identity are inextricably bound to one another. The two are co-produced as people come to identify with where they live, shape it, however modestly, and are in turn shaped by their environments, creating distinctive environmental autobiographies, the narratives we hold from the memories of those spaces and places that shaped us. Exploring the relationship between place and identity deepens our understandings of identity formation and the role of place in social and psychological development.
‘Bronx Speaks: Making Place’ aims to investigate this relationship by showcasing artists and artworks from the Bronx who interpret in different ways and through diverse techniques their own notion of cultural environment, personality, and belonging.
Artists: John Ahearn, Naftali Bezem, Leenda Bonilla, Julian Chams, Cecile Chong, Jane Dickson, Rosemarie Fiore, Ricky Flores, Martine Fougeron, Beatrice Glow, David Gonzalez, Alicia Grullòn, Esteban Guerra, Marina Gutierrez, Barbara Korman, Arnaldo Morales, Wanda Raimundi Ortiz, Danny R Peralta, Michael Pribich, Nina Robinson, Adriana Rostovsky, Catherine Telford Keogh, Dennesa Usher, Natalie Wood (leading Bronx Children’s Museum GreenArts After School Program), The Bronx Artist Documentary Project
Curated for the Bronx Arts Alliance in concert with The Armory Arts Week.
Directions:
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse Bronx, New York 10456
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