Opening Reception: Remnants of an Advanced Technology by Alisha B Wormsley
Mentor: Joeonna Belladoro-Samuels
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Please join us for the opening reception for Remnants of an Advanced Technology, a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh-based artist Alisha B Wormsley, with curatorial mentorship from Joeonna Belladoro-Samuels. The exhibition, presented at CUE’s gallery space (137 W. 25th Street) is the first solo show by the artist in New York City. During the opening reception, Li Harris, Jasmine Hearn, and Jamila Raegan—artists and longtime collaborators of Wormsley’s—will each host a ritual offering to bless the Children of NAN archive.
The show will remain on view until October 22nd, 2022. Attendance during gallery hours (Wed-Sat, 12-6 pm) is free; no reservations are required.
Read more about the exhibition here, and RSVP below.
About the Offerings
Li Harris, Jasmine Hearn, and Jamila Raegan, artists and longtime collaborators of Wormsley’s, are all part of the Children of NAN archive. They have inspired Wormsley immensely through their craft, practice and love. At the opening reception, each of the artists will host a ritual offering to bless the Children of NAN archive.
Lisa E. Harris (Li) is an independent and interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, creative soprano, performer, composer, improvisor, writer, singer/songwriter, researcher and educator who makes time and space to dream.
Jasmine Hearn is an interdisciplinary artist, director, choreographer, organizer, and teaching artist who develops and shares solo and ensemble dance theater performances rooted in the facilitation of creative spaces for remembering, feeling, and imagining.
Jamila Raegan is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses inequity and violence–a marker of her personal and cultural experiences–and creates works that provide a space for mourning and collective healing.
About the Artist
Alisha B Wormsley (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural producer. Her work contributes to imagining the future of arts, science, and technology through the black womxn lens. She challenges contemporary views of American life through whichever medium she feels is the best form of expression: creating an object, a sculpture, a billboard, performance, or film. She thrives in collaboration.
Wormley’s work has been exhibited widely, most recently at the Oakland Museum, VCUArts Qatar, Speed Museum, Artpace, Times Square Arts, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Over the past few years, she has created several park designs and public art initiatives in downtown Pittsburgh. She also created a public program called There Are Black People In the Future, which gives mini-grants to open up discourse around displacement and gentrification. In 2020, she launched an art residency for Black creative mothers, Sibyls Shrine, which received support from the Heinz Endowments.
Wormsley’s newest project, D.R.E.A.M. A Way to Afram, created with longtime collaborator Li Harris, was awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. She has also received fellowships from Monument Lab and the Goethe Institute, the Sundance Interdisciplinary Grant, and the Carol Brown Achievement Award, among others. Wormsley has an MFA in Film and Video from Bard College and is currently a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
About the Mentor
Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels is a Director at the Jack Shainman Gallery where she manages artists within the gallery roster including Hank Willis Thomas, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Nina Chanel Abney and Meleko Mokgosi, among others. Belladoro-Samuels is also the founder of We Buy Gold, a roving gallery that presents exhibitions, commissioned projects, and public events. The project seeks to encourage the dissection and deconstruction of structures of power by artists working in a cross-section of media.
She is on the curatorial team of The Racial Imaginary Institute, which seeks to change the way we imagine race in the U.S. and internationally by lifting up and connecting the work of artists, writers, knowledge-producers, and activists with audiences seeking thoughtful, innovative conversations and experiences. She is also a member of the National Advisory Council of the Center for Art and Public Exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
Previously, Belladoro-Samuels was a Founding Director of For Freedoms in 2016. For Freedoms is the first artist-run Super PAC in the United States, and uses art to inspire deeper political engagement for citizens who want to have a greater impact on the American political landscape. It accomplishes this mission through civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States.
Access Notes
This event is free of charge. Water and other beverages will be served. CUE Art Foundation is wheelchair accessible. There is an all-gender, ADA compliant, single-stall bathroom in the gallery. The closest wheelchair-accessible MTA subway stations are Penn Station and Herald Square. If you have additional access questions or needs, please contact info@cueartfoundation.org.