Scherezade is a versatile artist who combines a fluid drawing style with a vibrant color palette in works that are high energy and visceral. After her first visit to Wave Hill several years ago, she envisioned a curving wall that merges into the landscape with images that weave together natural and urban environments. As realized for this exhibition, Green Wall explores her longstanding interest in the fragility and expectation associated with paradise. Here she has created a captivating wall, activated by the breeze, with images in motion against a foliage backdrop. Nearly ninety pieces of fabric hang from a transparent frame, which in itself seems to be a fragile structure intended to disappear. Each panel is printed with images that merge nature, technology, and the utilitarian, and are layered with exuberant line drawings. This sensual and celebratory project expands on the book format; the viewer experiences the piece as a wall from a distance, or can “read” the fluttering pages in an open-ended sequence.

Scherezade has lived in New York since coming here to study in 1986. Her work frequently evokes memories of a faraway home and the hopes and dreams that accompany planting roots in a new land. Her solo exhibitions include Paradise Redefined at Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; Island of Many Gods at the Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY; Souvenir at the Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ; and Stories of Fallen Angels, Museum of Modern Art, Santo Domingo, DR. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including This Skin I’m In: Contemporary Dominican Art from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection and ¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms also at El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; and the Caribbean Abroad: Contemporary Arts and Latino Migration, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Her work was included in the Caribbean Biennial in Santa Domingo, DR, in 2003 and 2001, and the Havana Biennial in Havana, Cuba, in 2000. She received her BFA from the Parsons School of Design in New York, NY, and her AAS from Altos de Chavon School of Design in La Romana, DR. She teaches art through Studio in a School, and will lead a family art project at Wave Hill on June 28 and 29. For more information visit www.scherezade.net and http://scherezadeartstudio.blogspot.com/