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Nadia Liz Estela + Linn Meyers "Light as a Feather"
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Nadia Liz Estela, Linn Meyers
Light as a Feather is an exhibition of recent work by artists Nadia Liz Estela and Linn Meyers. In 2021, Estela and Meyers were selected from over 500 applicants to attend the Hayama Artist Residency. The mission of the Hayama Artist Residency is to introduce visual artists from around the world to Japanese culture and offer them an opportunity to have their first gallery exhibition in Japan. Light as a Feather is Estela and Meyers' first collaborative exhibition. The exhibition is curated by Dexter Wimberly, Founder and Director of the Hayama Artist Residency.
Nadia Liz Estela is an interdisciplinary artist born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Newark, NJ. Estela’s work examines how identity is constructed through migration and memory. Her mixed-media pieces, which often incorporate textile and sculptural elements, reference the different layers of migration, including uncovering that which is often invisible. She keenly explores the aspects of life and society - its norms, morals, and indoctrinated labels that we know exist but do not acknowledge. It asks about the journeys that we have made both collectively and individually; how we navigate our social and cultural capital; how have we arrived here; what are the implications of our biases; how do we profit from those imbalances; and how do all these strata make a whole or keep it separate. Her work is the tableau where these contradictions visually exist on the same plane.
Estela’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries including the Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ), Luo Zhongli Art Museum (Chongqing, China), Torpedo Factory Art Center (Alexandria, VA), and American Medium (New York, NY). She received her MFA from Montclair State University in 2018. Prior to that, she attended Rutgers University-Newark and Parsons at The New School for her undergraduate studies.
Linn Meyers is an American, Washington, DC-based artist whose paintings, drawings, and site-specific works use repetitive applications of line and color hand-drawn on a variety of surfaces including paper, vellum, mylar, and gallery walls. Each piece begins with a single mark—a line that
traces a predetermined framework of circles, or a simple singular gesture. This first stroke defines the direction in which the entire image will evolve—each line a direct response to the mark made just before. These marks amass to create an image, which is both still and moving, ordered and chaotic, both pointing toward perfection and also wholly imperfect. At the core of the work is the artist’s own relationship to time: learning how to move back and forth between natural time, measured time, and
subjective time.
Meyers’ works have been shown in public and private venues, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Drawing Center in New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, Sandra Gering Inc in New York, Jason Haam in Seoul, South Korea, ParisConcret in France, and the Bowdoin Museum in Brunswick, Maine, among others. Meyers holds a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from the California College of the Arts.
Nadia Liz Estela is an interdisciplinary artist born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Newark, NJ. Estela’s work examines how identity is constructed through migration and memory. Her mixed-media pieces, which often incorporate textile and sculptural elements, reference the different layers of migration, including uncovering that which is often invisible. She keenly explores the aspects of life and society - its norms, morals, and indoctrinated labels that we know exist but do not acknowledge. It asks about the journeys that we have made both collectively and individually; how we navigate our social and cultural capital; how have we arrived here; what are the implications of our biases; how do we profit from those imbalances; and how do all these strata make a whole or keep it separate. Her work is the tableau where these contradictions visually exist on the same plane.
Estela’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries including the Montclair Art Museum (Montclair, NJ), Luo Zhongli Art Museum (Chongqing, China), Torpedo Factory Art Center (Alexandria, VA), and American Medium (New York, NY). She received her MFA from Montclair State University in 2018. Prior to that, she attended Rutgers University-Newark and Parsons at The New School for her undergraduate studies.
Linn Meyers is an American, Washington, DC-based artist whose paintings, drawings, and site-specific works use repetitive applications of line and color hand-drawn on a variety of surfaces including paper, vellum, mylar, and gallery walls. Each piece begins with a single mark—a line that
traces a predetermined framework of circles, or a simple singular gesture. This first stroke defines the direction in which the entire image will evolve—each line a direct response to the mark made just before. These marks amass to create an image, which is both still and moving, ordered and chaotic, both pointing toward perfection and also wholly imperfect. At the core of the work is the artist’s own relationship to time: learning how to move back and forth between natural time, measured time, and
subjective time.
Meyers’ works have been shown in public and private venues, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California, the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Drawing Center in New York, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, Sandra Gering Inc in New York, Jason Haam in Seoul, South Korea, ParisConcret in France, and the Bowdoin Museum in Brunswick, Maine, among others. Meyers holds a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from the California College of the Arts.
Schedule | Jun 10 (Fri) 2022-Jul 2 (Sat) 2022 Opening Hours Information
Reception for artist Jun 11 (Sat) 2022 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Koki Arts http://www.kokiarts.com/  | ||||
| Location | 1F Rose Bldg., 1-15-2 Higashi Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0031 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 4 at JR Bakurocho Station, 3 minute walk from exit A1 at Bakuro-yokoyama Station on the Toei Shinjuku line, 6 minute walk from exit B4 at Higashi-nihombashi Station on the Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3865-8650 | ||||
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