Look This Way
Presented by Art Lives Here at JVS Project Space
Look This Way
Presented by Art Lives Here at JVS Project Space
181 East 108th Street Ground Floor
New York, N.Y. 10029
Participating artists:
Cheryl Aden
Heather Cox
Jose Soto
Curated by Connie Lee
Saturday October 8, 2022 – Saturday November 5, 2022
Opening Reception:
Saturday October 8, 2022 | 2:00 – 5:00 pm
The gallery is open Thursday – Sunday 2:00 – 6:00 pm
Art Lives Here is thrilled to be back at JVS Project Space presenting a new exhibition featuring three collaborating artist members. Look this way is an exhibition that takes photography beyond its expected boundaries with sculptures and assemblages that create an unexpected dialogue. In a culture inundated with images the artists are exploring how visual art informs our perception of essentially everything.
The exhibition features Jose Soto’s, Aurora 2017, which has been exhibited only once before at the 2017 Occupy Museums - Whitney Biennial. Soto works with photography, video, sculpture and installation to transform the complex visual structures found in nature. His practice is grounded in the aesthetic strategies of Formalism, Minimalism and the principles of Gestalt. He invites the viewer to consider his or her own perception of the natural landscape.
Cheryl Aden is a fine art photographer and a bit of a rebel. Aden challenges the traditional notion of what is considered a beautiful object by exploring visual dichotomies. She captures ordinary things as if they were extraordinary. Her images convey life in all of its glory and the inevitable decay that binds the human experience to the natural world.
Heather Cox is a multidisciplinary artist trained as a photographer and a sculptor. Look This Way features works from her ongoing series “Roundels” which she began in 2020. Cox alters snapshots and vintage photos by cutting/sewing/gluing/stapling them into pointillistic sculptural forms. They hang from the ceiling and protrude from the walls creating compelling colorful shapes that require a closer look.
Exhibition Programming:
An art workshop for young people, between the ages of 9 and 12 who live in the East Harlem neighborhood where the gallery is located. Taking place on 3 consecutive Saturdays, participants will work with each of the artists and will be given an opportunity to create their own work which will be installed in the hallway gallery and on view during the closing weekend of the exhibition.
Workshop dates:
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Saturday, October 29, 2022
2:00 - 4:00 pm.
The youth workshop is sponsored by Carol Paik, Collaborating Artist member of Art Lives Here
