Sunroom Project Space 2021
Wave Hill commissions a diverse group of emerging New York-area artists to create a new body of work or site-specific project for a solo exhibition in the Sunroom Project Space. The Sunroom provides an engaging setting for artists to contemplate, explore and ultimately transform the gallery using various materials and techniques.
Shoshanna Weinberger: Fragments of Perception
May 22 – June 27
Inspired by Wave Hill’s Aquatic Garden pool and tropical plants, Shoshanna Weinberger’s installation treats the garden as a metaphorical space to explore the complexity of her Caribbean-American heritage.
Gyun Hur: So we can be near
May 22
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June 27
Gyun Hur’s So we can be near is a landscape she has composed from her memories of loss and beauty. This installation visualizes histories that are personal, familial and intimately shared.
Kamari Carter
July 3 – August 15
In the Sunroom, Kamari Carter’s multimedia installation investigates the local, forgotten, colonial-era histories of Black communities in the Hudson Valley, exposing systems of violence, identity and racial and social control.
Salvador Muñoz
July 3 – August 15
2020 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow Salvador Muñoz draws on his identity as a third-generation Xicano, as well as his social practice focused on queer people of color, to create an installation that highlights cultural histories that have been lost due to colonial exploitation.
Katherine Miranda
August 28 – October 10
Mining their familial history and lived experiences as a non-binary Latinx person in the Bronx, 2021 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow Katherine Miranda will create a large-scale, sculptural shrine referencing a photograph of their maternal grandparents seated on chairs and honoring the story of their relationship.
Jake Brush
August 28
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October 10
2021 New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellow Jake Brush will combine digital animations, photography, sculpture and performance to realize surreal, comical and personal reflections on how technology mediates our reality and lived experience.
Priscilla Aleman
October 16 – December 5
Priscilla Aleman’s installation Origins of Devotion transforms the Sunroom into an overgrown, devotional environment that uses the body as an innate symbol in ceremony to convey the sacred, the afterlife and the deities of our time.