Detail image of recent work at A.I.R. Gallery, 2023. Photo by Leo Ng, courtesy of CUE Art Foundation.
Opening Reception:
worried notes by Keli Safia Maksud
Mentor: Abigail DeVille
Thursday, January 25, 2024 from 6–8 pm
137 W. 25th Street, New York, NY
RSVP
Please join us for the opening reception for worried notes, a solo exhibition by Keli Safia Maksud with mentorship from Abigail Deville. Maksud is one of the awardees of CUE’s 2023 open call for solo exhibitions.
RSVPs to the opening reception are requested but not required. The event is free and all are welcome.
This exhibition will continue until March 16, 2024. CUE's gallery space is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12–6 pm. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience during these times; no registration is required.
Read more about the exhibition here, and see below to RSVP to the opening reception.
About the Artist
Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer working in sound, sculpture, installation, printmaking, and embroidery. Concerned with histories of colonial encounters and the effects of these encounters on memory and identities, Maksud’s practice favors the space of in-between and its threshold — working toward destabilizing received histories in order to expose fictions of the state.
Maksud earned a BFA in Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design University, a Diploma in Art and Curatorial Studies at the New Centre for Research and Practice, and an MFA in Visual Arts at Columbia University. Her work has been shown at Goodman Gallery, ACUD Galerie, Salon 94, Huxley Parlour, the Bamako Biennial, the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Seoul, Galería Nueva, and the Biennial of Contemporary Art Sesc_Videobrasil. Maksud has been awarded fellowships and grants from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Council for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Her writing has been published in and for OCULA Magazine, the Swiss Institute, LEAP Magazine, and A Space Gallery.
About the Mentor
Abigail DeVille (b. 1981, New York, NY) is known for her site-specific installations, sculptures, and performances that conjure vast universes from discarded objects and fragmented archives. In a seemingly boundless practice that transcends codified space, DeVille often sites her dense assemblages anywhere between museums, theaters, public parks, and city streets. By honoring and amplifying the memory of those that once used the everyday components preserved in her work, DeVille urges a reconsideration of what constitutes a historical record and who contributes.
DeVille’s most recent solo exhibitions include Bronx Heavens at the Bronx Museum of the Arts and In the fullness of time, the heart speaks truths too deep for utterance, but a star remembers at JTT, New York, NY (2023). She has also had solo exhibitions and commissions at Madison Square Park, New York, NY (2020-21); Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR (2021); the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (2021-22); Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2018-19); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2017-18); the Whitney Museum, New York, NY (2017); Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2017-18); and The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (2016). Her work has been included in numerous group shows, and she has received awards and fellowships from United States Artists (2018); the American Academy in Rome (2017-18); Creative Capital (2015); Harvard University (2014-15); The Studio Museum (2013-14); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2012). DeVille teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and Yale School of Art. Her work is in many collections, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Kaviar Factory, Henningsvaer; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Pinault Collection; and The Studio Museum (New York). DeVille received an MFA from Yale University and a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She was born in New York and works in the Bronx.