Join us for a final open house marking the close of our spring exhibitions Burning the Mask andYa Mero (Almost There). Light refreshments and sweets will be provided.

About the exhibitions:

Ya Mero (Almost There) is artist-in-residence Karla Diaz’s first solo exhibition in New York City. Karla Diaz was selected as artist in residence through a competitive national open call. She has made work about her life in Los Angeles for over twenty years, calling upon her own lived experiences and the stories of friends, family, and community. San Antonio-based curator Mia Lopez writes, “Her color-saturated works evoke a sense of dream-like recollection, endeavoring to give form to ephemeral emotions and remembrance.”

Curated by Afro-Caribbean interdisciplinary artivist and scholar Patricia Encarnación, Burning the Mask foregrounds practices that, in Encarnación’s words, “refuse imposed identities, rooted in ancestral memory, embodied truth, and radical love.” Encarnación was selected through the Curatorial Open Call at The Latinx Project.

Supporters

Burning the Mask and Ya Mero (Almost There) are made possible with support from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation.