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MAY 14, 2022

Caraguatatuba, Brazil

In her series I don’t know where I came from, Navas reflects on the reality of her Brazilian identity and community using painting, photography, and woodcut techniques. She explores the themes of black bodies, the feminine and the maternal. As a black woman and mother, Navas is interested in the metaphysical as a way of understanding the world around her through colors and different perspectives. In her work she seeks answers about identity and a place of origin, the kidnapped memories of the black diaspora. In the form of pictorial memory Navas takes part in decolonial resistance and struggle.

Rochester, New York

Loomis’ artwork is informed by her experiences with small-scale agriculture. Farming, like creating art, facilitates a time of reflection, problem-solving, and often healing. In 2020, Loomis found herself weighted by intense grief after the passing of her favorite person, her grandmother, and found healing in planting and art-making. She found comfort in accepting the processes which were out of her control; the unpredictability of weather, time, plants, insects, pests, mold…etc. Loomis found a muse in farming, finding the aesthetic similarities between plastic and vegetables to be ironic, playful, and joyful. Her paintings offered a time to reflect on those moments of joy and embracing them. Using acrylic and oil paint Loomis plays with layers, pikes, and spontaneous color choices to create depth and luster to the surface of her paintings.

Rochester, New York

Kinz-Thompson investigates the value of creation, the relation between its significance, ascribed value, the profane and sacred. With consideration of historical forms of conveying information, he uses metalwork, calligraphy, paper-making, book-making, and ornamentation to explore these concepts. His tangible visual creations are the result of intense laborious processes in attempts to subvert their perceived value.

Accra, Ghana

Joseph Adibleku [Joblek] is a contemporary Ghanaian artist, born in Accra, in 1985. He has been painting for the past fifteen years garnering the name Joblek, given to him by his teachers and peers. He obtained his degree in painting and graphic design in Ankle College of art and design in early 2000. Within three years, Joblek graduated with a degree in art with a background in graphic designing, textile designing and painting. His imagination takes form in his use of acrylic, oil, and watercolor paints as well as pastels and ink.