ISCP Talk
March 22, 2022, 6-7:30pm

Ferguson Amo and Tere Garcia in Conversation with Alison Kuo

For this in-person event, two United States-based artists will give presentations about what they worked on during their time in studios and engage each other in a conversation. Ferguson Amo and Tere Garcia who were a part of ISCP’s 2022 Vision Fund residency, will be joined by Arts Residency Manager Alison Kuo. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Ferguson Amo works across various mediums, including hyper realistic drawings, installations, and mixed media. Originally from Koforidua, Ghana, the artist explores contemporary African identity in the diaspora and examines the intricate details of history and experiences of cultural diffusion, and its assimilation, through representation. Through each work, Amo asks “how as an audience, can we move the image of black bodies and ‘blackness’ toward emancipation?” Amo has exhibited work at VisArts, Rockville; Kente Royal Gallery and The Immigrant Artist Biennial, both New York City, among others.

Tere Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, performance, video, and installation. Her art practice has been an important tool to express, heal, and form narratives about her identity and the places where she exists. Garcia has been traveling and working along the United States and Mexico Border, confronting these boundaries that demolish and hinder unity. Garcia has exhibited work at Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb; Lawndale Art Center and Station Museum of Contemporary Art, both Houston, among others.

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This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; Toby Devan Lewis; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodbury Foundation.

6-7:30pm

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Ferguson Amo

Tere Garcia

Ferguson Amo, Mahamoud (LeMomo), 2021, pen and acrylic on watercolor paper, 35 × 51¹/₂ in. (88.9 × 130.81 cm). Courtesy of the artist

Tere Garcia, Anti-Monument - Douglas, Arizona- Agua Prieta, Sonora México, 2020, documentation of performance

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
February 25, 2022, 4–5pm

'Bursting Bubbles' Film Premiere: Director Maliyamungu Gift Muhande Interviews Adjani Okpu-Egbe

For the premiere of the short film Bursting Bubbles, filmmaker and current artist-in-residence Maliyamungu Gift Muhande will interview Adjani Okpu-Egbe, who is also an artist-in-residence at ISCP, and the main subject of the film.

Hailing from differing African contexts and generations, these two activist thinkers will talk about solidarity and current events, including the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations soccer tournament hosted in Cameroon. They will also compare and contrast their personal and professional experiences at home and abroad, within the contemporary art field and beyond.

Adjani Okpu-Egbe is a London-based multidisciplinary artist who uses mixed media, including found objects, to make works that shed light on socio-political and economic issues affecting Africa, its diaspora and reflecting on global social justice. His first solo show in the United States, On Delegitimization and Solidarity: Sisiku AyukTabe, the Martin Luther King Jr. of Ambazonia, the Nera 10, and the Myth of Violent Africa, curated by Amy Rosenblum-Martín, is currently on view at ISCP. Okpu-Egbe has exhibited work at Kunstverein Braunschweig Museum, Germany, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, Kunstpalast Museum, Düsseldorf, among many others.

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande is a Congolese documentary filmmaker and artist whose work explores the global history of the Black diaspora at the crossroads of anti-colonial change and personal creativity. Her work has presented work at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Salt Lake City; black beyond, New York; and Art Island, New York, among others.

This event is supported by Colleen Ritzau Leth; Evelyn Toll Family Foundation; Hartfield Foundation; Johnson Picture Framing & Galleries; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York City Council District 33; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; Tauck Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

4–5pm

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Adjani Okpu-Egbe

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande

Maliyamungu Gift Muhande, Bursting Bubbles, 2021, film still featuring artist Adjani Okpu-Egbe. Courtesy of Maliyamungu Gift Muhande

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

Exhibition

Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

Exhibition

ISCP Talk
February 8, 2022, 4–5pm

Artists at Work: Lisa Rosenmeier on Instagram Live

For this Artists at Work talk, current ISCP resident Lisa Rosenmeier of Denmark will discuss her photography, and recent solo exhibition, Transiency, presented in 2021 at CCA Andratx, Mallorca, with ISCP Arts Residency Manager Alison Kuo.

Rosenmeier creates photographs that are intended to mediate experiences of movement, and tap into a sense of the sublime felt by the wandering artist-traveler. Nearly all of the presentation images depict landscapes of Mallorca, which the artist describes as “magical.” In addition to the photographs and sound works, visitors to the exhibition site could venture outdoors to peer through a telescope that would show them digitally collaged scientific images of planets and auras of rainbow lights overlaid on top of the real mountainous landscape.

A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Tune into the Instagram Live here on Tuesday, February 8 at 4pm EST.

Lisa Rosenmeier studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, and has exhibited at a number of museums including Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark; CCA Andratx, Mallorca; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen; and Exit Art, New York City, among others.

This program is supported, in part, by Hartfield Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

4–5pm

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