Jul
23
to Oct 1

What the Cards Say by Victoria Martinez

Opening Reception:

Co-Prosperity Catskill - 391 Main Street, Catskill, NY

Saturday, June 23 6-9pm

(July 23-September 30, 2022) Public Media Institute is thrilled to present a new exhibition of works by Chicago-based artist Victoria Martinez at Co-Prosperity Catskill. Martinez will be in residence in New York making in the weeks preceding the exhibition, staying in Windham, NY with Public Media Institute partners Fictilis. She’ll be working toward major solo exhibitions of her work at the Chicago Cultural Center and Produce Model Chicago, as well as exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and Museo Universitario Del Chopo in Mexico City.

Co-Prosperity Catskill is a nonprofit gallery founded in Spring 2021 as a satellite space for Public Media Institute, whose primary activities take place in Chicago, IL. Since then the space has welcomed artists from upstate, the midwest and beyond in an effort to promote exchange and amplification of emerging and mid-career artists. Look forward to exhibitions from Jeffery Gibson’s studio and Oakland/Puerto Rico-based artist Sofia Cordova in the fall of 2022.

About the Artist:

Victoria Martinez is an interdisciplinary artist who honors her Mexican-American ancestry through textile-based projects including painting, installation art, and printmaking. Her work is inspired by public art, architecture, and the urban environment.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the Yale University Art Gallery, the National Museum of Mexican Art, the University of Chicago Arts Incubator, Northwestern University, and through the Perrotin Gallery viewing salon. Her work has been supported by The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Research Fellowship and The MacMillian Center Field Research Fellowship through Yale University, the Actos de Confianza Grant through the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), the Career Development Grant through the American Association of University Women, and a travel grant through Theaster Gates Rebuild Foundation. Martinez holds a BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in Painting and Printmaking.

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Apr
15
to May 15

Baby Get Closer

The Opening Reception will take place on Friday April 15th from 4 - 8 pm. The show will be open for visitation every Saturday 12 - 5 pm until May 15th.

This show will highlight the work of Sahar Carter (multidisciplinary artist), Brandon Hartley (Sculptor), Rashad Heagle (photographer), and Immanuel Williams (multidisciplinary artist). They will be displaying works in conversation with the concept of the life, death, and rebirth of love in interpersonal relationships.

About the Artists


  • Sahar Carter is a multi-disciplinary artist, performer, and writer hailing from Oakland, CA, Miami, FL, and currently takes residence in Annandale-On-Hudson, NY. Their work generally takes inspiration from afflictions of love, afflictions of theory, and the psychological undercurrents of racism as it appears in the body. Contradictions abound. In Spring of this 2022 they should be receiving their B.A. from Bard College and plan to move to New York City proper, like every other 22 year old in the country.


  • Brandon Hartley is a New York based interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with ceramics, emulating the way that children view the world & their improvisational method of creating with an irreverence for what is deemed appropriate or correct.


  • Rashad Awesome Heagle is a photo-based artist born and raised in Miami, Florida and currently based in New York City. Heagle provides his work as a source of intimacy, solace, and light. His intimate (yet arresting) portraits blend fine art and documentary photography to capture scenes around him in a new light.


  • Immanuel Williams is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer born and raised in Albany, NY. Their work currently focuses on documenting and archiving their family's history. Their work articulates and responds to oral histories passed down from elders, as well their own childhood memories.

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Feb
26
to Mar 27

I Wanna Be You Anywhere

391 Main Street, Catskill, NY

I Wanna Be You Anywhere is a two-person show curated by artists Juan Arango Palacios and Nicholas Zepeda, featuring their own works. Viewing hours are Saturdays 12 - 5 pm, no appointment is required.

I Wanna Be You Anywhere is an exhibition featuring prints, drawings, and installation work by Chicago-based artists Juan Arango Palacios and Nicholas Zepeda produced during a shared residency at the Macedonia Institute in Chatham, NY.  Zepeda’s attention to domestic spaces paired with Arango Palacios’ fantastical world-building set the stage for a tale of queer becoming, told through a set of collaborative drawings and individual projects.

Both drawing inspiration from their favorite music, these artists unapologetically indulge in their vulnerabilities by referencing emotional lyrics and their own childhood memories.

Although distinct in their own playlists, the two share a clear a dedication to drawing. One that can be traced to a pictorial structures course they both attended at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 

In the fantasy of Arango Palacios’ work, characters from Latin American folklore are brought to life through the lens of contemporary queer culture. Make-up wearing tattooed characters yield swords, and are guided by the magical lyrics of Cumbia and Reggaeton music. 

Zepeda presents a new series of of text-based yearning and installation from a practice interested in the performance of sharing autobiographical work, and not leaving your apartment.

About the Artists:


  • Juan Arango Palacios was born in Pereira, Colombia, and was raised in a traditional Catholic home. Their traditional upbringing was cut short by a series of migrations that their family took seeking a better future. The family moved from Colombia to southern Louisiana where Juan’s sense of identity and belonging began to be skewed by their lack of knowledge of the English language, their unfamiliarity with American culture, and their internal struggle with a queer identity. Living in other parts of Louisiana and Texas, and being further subdued by the conservative culture in which they lived, Juan continued to live with a constant fear of their own identity throughout their youth. Juan graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has found a safe-haven within the queer community in Chicago.

    @juuuanitx
    www.jarangopalacios.com


  • Nicholas Zepeda (b.1999) is an artist from Chicago’s southwest neighborhoods working with drawings and paintings. Recently including video and installation, Zepeda is focused on how presentation influences autobiographical work, and how it can be used for expressive gestures.

    “The drawings have always been about self-discovery, but they’ve become progressively more about fear. There was the subject of not really knowing a correct way to interact with your environment that felt a lot younger to me, but now there’s this growing concern of what it means to try really hard anyways.”

    Zepeda graduated with a BFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he received a nomination for the Yale at Norfolk Summer Residency program. He recently completed the Ox-Bow Longform residency in Michigan, and attended a residency in Chatham, NY at The Macedonia Institute. Zepeda will have an upcoming solo-exhibition in Norwich, UK with Moosey Art in summer 2022.

    @nicholaszepeda
    www.nicholaszepeda.com

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