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Participating artists: Andrius Alvarez-Backus, Sebastian Ore Blas, Adam de Boer, Peter Hong Tsun Chan, Henry Hung Chang, Sylvia Trotter Ewens, Christina Lucia Giuffrida, Yifan Jiang, Darina Karpov, Kwesi O. Kwarteng, Azadeh Nia, Shuto Okayasu, Benny Or, Diana Sinclair, Tang Shuo, Felandus Thames, Shingo Yamazaki.
Artists who live away from their native countries tend to experience nostalgia prompting them to recreate familiar landscapes, interiors and customs. New York-based painter Azadeh Nia repeatedly depicts Iran's Damavand mountain, a symbol of resistance, as well as balconies and terraces where she spent a great deal of her childhood in Tehran. Sebastian Ore Blas recalls the front door of his grandparents’ house in Lima, Peru, lovingly recreating the curves of its metal entry gate, only to overpaint them in white, obfuscating direct access to the distant memory. Canadian Sylvia Trotter Ewens, originally from Honduras,…
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Participating artists: Andrius Alvarez-Backus, Sebastian Ore Blas, Adam de Boer, Peter Hong Tsun Chan, Henry Hung Chang, Sylvia Trotter Ewens, Christina Lucia Giuffrida, Yifan Jiang, Darina Karpov, Kwesi O. Kwarteng, Azadeh Nia, Shuto Okayasu, Benny Or, Diana Sinclair, Tang Shuo, Felandus Thames, Shingo Yamazaki.
Artists who live away from their native countries tend to experience nostalgia prompting them to recreate familiar landscapes, interiors and customs. New York-based painter Azadeh Nia repeatedly depicts Iran's Damavand mountain, a symbol of resistance, as well as balconies and terraces where she spent a great deal of her childhood in Tehran. Sebastian Ore Blas recalls the front door of his grandparents’ house in Lima, Peru, lovingly recreating the curves of its metal entry gate, only to overpaint them in white, obfuscating direct access to the distant memory. Canadian Sylvia Trotter Ewens, originally from Honduras,…
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