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new.now. (2024)
In-person
Saturday, March 9, 2024
5–7pm ET
Join the new 2023–25 Hamiltonian fellows in conversation with Hamiltonian Fellowship Manager Anisa Olufemi over how the fellows’ artworks recontextualize cultural, religious, and political symbols and signifiers, across painting, sculpture, photography, and game art.
Kyrae Dawaun: The Irony of Capacity: a Dark Black Comedy
Virtual artist talk
Thursday, January 4, 2023
6–7pm ET
Join Kyrae Dawaun in conversation with Hamiltonian Fellowship Manager Anisa Olufemi over Dawaun’s play on the realist tradition, how his latest body of work offers an array of quotidian abstractions in sculpture, and trials of look-alike jokes via portraiture.
Join Ara Koh in conversation with Fellowship Manager Anisa Olufemi, on how Koh uses clay excavated and shaped with her own hands to create sculpted works that explore new notions of landscape painting.
Join Hamiltonian Artists Fellows and Curator Anisa Olufemi for a discussion on Doing The Work. The conversation will be followed by a brief Q&A and a gallery chat with the artists. Register here.
Join Cecilia Kim in conversation with Fellowship Manager Anisa Olufemi on how Kim’s solo exhibition when the body becomes dust and settles around you contemplates homegoings, remembrance, mourning, and living in the wake of loss. Register here.
Join Matthew Russo in conversation with Fellowship Manager Anisa Olufemi on how Russo’s solo exhibition Practiced Play serves as an extension of his collaboration-informed, inquiry-driven studio practice. Register here.
María Luz Bravo: Glimpse, Gathered
Virtual artist talk
Thursday, April 6, 2023
6–7pm ET
Listen to María Luz Bravo in conversation with Hamiltonian Fellowship Manager Anisa Olufemi, on Glimpse, Gathered, a selection of such moments and observations, directing the viewer’s attention to the more overlooked vantage points of the neighborhood, and the ways in which it often serves as an impartial record of our busy lives, aspirations, and ambitions.
María Luz Bravo (b. 1975, Mexico; lives and works in Washington, DC) is a Mexican photographer whose work highlights major social phenomena, focusing primarily on cities in conflict, political boundaries and community resilience and revolves around the use of space, both urban and architectural, in the contemporary urban landscape. She holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture from Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, Mexico and a Master of Arts in New Media Photojournalism from Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally in the US, Mexico, and Europe. María Luz Bravo’s 2014 series Reclaims was selected to be part of the XVI Photography Biennale in Mexico. Bravo is a 2020–2022 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow.
new.now. (2023)
Virtual artist talk
Thursday, April 6, 2023
6–7pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present new.now., our annual group exhibition debuting the work of Hamiltonian's distinguished 2022–2024 fellows—artists Misha Ilin, Edgar Reyes, Madyha J. Leghari, Abed Elmajid Shalabi, and Isabella Whitfield. Each year, new.now. serves as a snapshot of the five newest Hamiltonian artists’ creative practices, exhibiting the work they plan to expand upon during their two year fellowship.
Listen to Lionel Frazer White III in conversation with Hamiltonian Fellowship Manager Anisa Olufemi, on how he found his footing between the pages of Tina M. Campt’s Image Matters (2012), Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2019), and Brandi Thompson Summers’s Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City (2019) for his solo show Beyond the Frame.
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present Stephanie Garon’s solo show Gold Rush, on view from October 15 through November 26, 2022. Working with core samples extracted from a mine on unceded Passamaquoddly land in Maine, the artist explores notions of labor, permanence, and land claim. Hamiltonian Artists is located closest to the Potomac River and Anacostia River corridors, which contain historical sites of gold mining, panning, and prospecting.
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present Stephanie Garon’s solo show Gold Rush, on view from October 15 through November 26, 2022. Working with core samples extracted from a mine on unceded Passamaquoddly land in Maine, the artist explores notions of labor, permanence, and land claim. Hamiltonian Artists is located closest to the Potomac River and Anacostia River corridors, which contain historical sites of gold mining, panning, and prospecting.
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present Jason Bulluck’s solo show Let’s Believe Brief Utopias, an exploration of liberatory discourses, especially those centered on historically marginalized identities; and the collaborative mapping of safe spaces, especially those offering relief from anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and patriarchal violences.
Hamiltonian Artists × The Kreeger Museum: Unexpected Occurrences
In-person artist talk
Saturday, July 30, 2022
1:30–2:30pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists and the Kreeger Museum present Unexpected Occurrences, a contemporary response to a modern collection, featuring the work of Hamiltonian Artists’ seven current fellows—Amber Eve Anderson, Maria Luz Bravo, Jason Bulluck, Joey Enriquez, Stephanie Garon, Madeline Stratton, and Lionel Frazier White III. The exhibition includes new works in video, mixed media, sculpture, photography, encaustic, printmaking, and painting installed throughout the museum.
Join Hamiltonian Fellow Amber Eve Anderson and Fellowship Director Tomora Wright next Thursday for a virtual artist talk on Anderson’s solo show Something Worth Doing, a playful reflection on the objects with which we surround ourselves and the comforts they provide, both physically and psychologically.
Madeline A. Stratton: We Were Here
Virtual artist talk
Thursday, March 3, 2022
6–7pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists is excited to present an artist talk for Madeline A. Stratton: We Were Here. In this exhibition, Stratton deviates from domestic ideals of design and functionality and uses unconventional approaches to produce improvisational architecture. Hear from the artist in conversation with Fellowship Director Tomora Wright the installation, the materials and the motifs, of her eccentric domestic world.
Hamiltonian Artists: new.now. (2022)
Virtual artist talk
Thursday, January 20, 2022
6–7pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present new.now. (2022), our annual group exhibition debuting the work of Hamiltonian's five distinguished 2021–2023 fellows—Kyrae Dawaun, Cecilia Kim, Ara Koh, Samera Paz, and Matthew Russo. The exhibition will be on view from December 18, 2021 to January 29, 2022. There will be an Artist Talk on January 19 at 6pm and a closing reception on January 29 at 4pm.
Hamiltonian Alumni: Empirical Evidence
Virtual artist talk
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7–8pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present the exhibition Empirical Evidence, which highlights the work of five Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship alumni: Selin Balci (2012), Billy Friebele (2014), Rachel Guardiola (2018), Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann (2011), and Jing (Ellen) Xu (2019), who investigate complex human relationships with living systems, the known versus the unknown. As we find our way facing a new normal living with a global pandemic, it seems appropriate to reflect on our history and let our imaginations runs wild in predicting the future.
Luke Ikard and Joshua Gamma: Sometimes, We Remember Our Bedrooms
Virtual artist talk
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
7–8pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present the opening of Sometimes, We Remember Our Bedrooms, with Hamiltonian Fellow Luke Ikard in collaboration with Joshua Gamma, both at momentous junctures in their lives, revisiting the bedrooms of their youth. Through the playful combination of distorted domestic objects, playground equipment, and a time-warped soundtrack of memory, the artists create an installation and sculptural sound piece that recalls their childhoods and knowingly recreates an inaccurate representation of a past home.
Ikard explores the additive and subtractive nature of bunk beds as his language of longing. By fusing the intimate, fraternal space of the bunk bed with the public commons of the playground, Ikard plays with childhood conceptions of familiarity and safety. The fragmentary, fort-like domestic structures of Sometimes, We Remember Our Bedrooms function both as objects of play and places of rest, existing in the liminal space between mourning one's childhood familial relationships and the hope of constructing one’s own future.
Gamma’s contribution to Sometimes, We Remember Our Bedrooms consists of a compilation of cassette sound and image collages made by the artist as a kid. Composed of song snippets, radio static, local commercials, sermons, and various oddities, these cassette works provide an idiosyncratic glimpse into the pre-internet, pre-corporate-FM-takeover airwaves of South-Central Louisiana. The revisited work finds Gamma, a new father, digging back into his childhood archives—reflecting on the excitement of discovery and genreless freedom afforded by the playful practice of his youth, and on the profound cultural exchange that radio can be untethered from bland monoculture.
Kaitlin Jencso: We Miss You
Virtual and in-person artist talk
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
7–8pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present Kaitlin Jencso’s new installation We Miss You, comprising over 1,000 images taken since January 1, 2020. Through scale and repetition, Jencso surveys a year of lost time. The installation features large-scale photographs and an overarching installation of snapshot-sized photographs—a comprehensive archive of communal and personal loss and longing.
Hamiltonian Artists: new.now. (2021)
Virtual artist talk
Saturday, February 13 2021
6–7:30pm ET
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to partner with Culture House to present our annual group exhibition new.now. (2021), debuting the work of Hamiltonian's five distinguished 2020–2022 Fellows, María Luz Bravo, Jason Bulluck, Joey Enríquez, Stephanie Garon, and Lionel Frazier White III.
