ISCP Talk
March 29, 2022, 6–7:30pm

Lizania Cruz and Zachary Fabri in Conversation with Alison Kuo

For this in-person artist talk, ISCP 2022 Vision Fund residents Zachary Fabri and Lizania Cruz will give presentations about their recent work and engage each other in a conversation. They will be joined by Arts Residency Manager Alison Kuo. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

Zachary Fabri is an interdisciplinary artist that complicates boundaries around studio research, performance, and socially engaged practice by immersing himself in environments such as Target stores, the Trump Hotel, and the streets of Brooklyn. Employing conceptual strategies and context specificity, he utilizes drawing, photography, video, performance, and sound to create discourse around issues of equality, representation, justice, and the dismantling of systemic oppression. Fabri has exhibited work at Sharjah Biennial 2019, United Arab Emirates; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, among others.

Lizania Cruz uses audience participation to investigate notions of being and belonging within the public sphere. Using objects such as books, zines, installations, happenings, video, and photography, she invites a diverse range of communities to co-create collaborative artworks. Through research, oral history, and active participants, the projects she develops aim to highlight pluralistic narratives about migration and race. Cruz has exhibited work at Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha; El Museo del Barrio, New York; and CUE Art Foundation, New York City, among others.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Visitors to ISCP are required to show proof of vaccination for COIVD-19 and to wear face coverings at all times.
All visitors are required to maintain social distancing, keeping six feet from anyone not in their party.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

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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Lizania Cruz

Zachary Fabri

Zachary Fabri, lorem ipsum 1877 Martin Delany, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)

Lizania Cruz, Gathering Evidence: Santo Domingo & New York City, 2021, books, posters on rice sacks with stamp letters, installation view at CUE Art Foundation, 2021. Photo by Adam Reich

Current and Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio

Through January 20

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Sujin Lim: The Land, Dark and Muddy

Through February 7

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Exhibition
March 24–May 27, 2022

Sharon Norwood's Drawing Room

Sharon Norwood’s Drawing Room is the first solo exhibition in New York by artist Sharon Norwood, curated by Dr. Petrina Dacres, ISCP’s 2022 Jane Farver Memorial Fund resident.

Norwood works with several media including painting, printmaking and ceramic. Drawing inspiration from the shape of Black hair, her work’s starting point is often a curly line. In her abstract prints and paintings, she intertwines organic lines to act as gestural markings; in her ceramic sculptures and installations, the curly line surfaces in interwoven geometric shapes. Norwood’s formal gestures symbolically reference the Black body and its relationship to politics of labor, beauty and race.

In this exhibition, Norwood uses her own hair as material for the first time. A wall installation features two cast statuettes of African American boys, connected by a silver chain necklace. Norwood’s hair is encased in a resin ring on a gold necklace that hangs from the arm of one of the figures. The figures’ molds were found by the artist in Savannah, Georgia, leading Norwood to conclude that there was once an industry of Black craftsmakers who sold their decorative objects to a largely African American community. The minimal and intimate work in the exhibition offers recognition of an unacknowledged history of Black artisans in the United States, and connects Norwood’s own experience as an artist and maker of objects to that tradition.

Click here to download text by exhibition curator Dr. Petrina Dacres (PDF).

Sharon Norwood is originally from Jamaica and migrated to Canada as a child. She creates works that exploit the decorative intentions and joy of mark-making and gesturing, disrupt the White gaze and other passive notions of viewing “the other,” and question standing narratives and systems that shape how identities are understood. In recent years, she has explored the intersection of the Black body and decorative arts by translating her drawings onto porcelain objects. Norwood has participated in a number of residencies and fellowships including at McColl Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Hambidge Center, Georgia. She has exhibited work at The Museum of Washington and Lee University, Lexington; Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami; and Tempus Projects, Tampa, among others.

Dr. Petrina Dacres is an independent curator and founding member of Tide Rising Art Projects, an organization created to support and promote contemporary Caribbean art and film, where she serves as its resident Curator and Education Director. Her work and research focus on Caribbean art; African diaspora art; public sculpture and memorials; and memory studies. Dr. Dacres has organized exhibitions at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New York; The National Museum, Jamaica, Kingston; and National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, among others. She is Head of the Art History Department at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, and the 2022 Jane Farver Curatorial Resident at ISCP.

Sharon Norwood’s Drawing Room is supported in part by Jane Farver Memorial Fund; Hartfield Foundation; 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 State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Four visitors are allowed in the galleries at a time, and appointments are required. Please write to info@iscp-nyc.org to schedule an appointment.
All visitors are required to maintain social distancing, keeping six feet from anyone not in their party.
Masks or face coverings are strongly recommended but not mandatory.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

Opening Reception: Mar 24, 2022, 6-8pm

Open Hours: By appointment Monday–Friday, 10:30am–5:30pm.

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Adornments is the central work in the exhibition. It is a maximalist still life table installation consisting of an assortment of found objects and ceramic sculptures. Embroidered and manipulated fabric provide another textural layer. A detail photograph of the installation shows bright gold hoop earrings and chains laying on top of black and white fabric and lace. Strands of red thread are loosely wrapped around two green ceramic flower stems that are also intermingled with the jewelry; the red string continues throughout the image drawing our attention also to her ceramic teacup decorated with with the artist’s signature curly lines and to a part of her sculpture of a lock of curly hair. The work brings together Norwood's conceptual interest in the presence of Black bodies and labour in the histories of the decorative arts and in the intimate and public spaces that we take for granted.

Sharon Norwood, detail, Adornment, 2022, mixed media fabric and ceramic installation, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist

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
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.

By visiting ISCP, you agree to abide by the following health and safety policies. Please make sure to plan ahead for your visit.

Visitors to ISCP are required to show proof of vaccination for COIVD-19 and to wear face coverings at all times.
All visitors are required to maintain social distancing, keeping six feet from anyone not in their party.
Hand sanitizer will be available for visitors.
If you have fever, chills, cough, muscle pains, headache, loss of taste or smell, or think you may have been exposed to COVID-19 prior to your visit, please contact us to reschedule.
An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other infectious conditions exists in any public space where people are present. Those visiting the International Studio & Curatorial Program voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19, other infectious conditions, and other hazards that may be present in a public space.

6-7:30pm

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