CURRENT exhibitions (45)
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THE MASK AND THE MIRROR
Robert Landy pairs b/w and color photographs taken decades apart of people both known and unknown wearing a classical mask of comedy or tragedy made on his face—and ponders: Do they conceal or reveal the one being observed or the one observing?
Amish in istanbul
Oya Sezer compares a quilt to a harmonious friendship, and explains a Turkish woman’s unlikely love affair with Amish patterns, and how her artistic journey led to her involvement in an international quilt project celebrating the UN’s 50th Anniversary.
Patrins to my Children
Christine Ford’s very personal art portrays—without betraying any of its closely held secrets—her proud heritage as a Romanichal, Roma people who traveled from India centuries ago to live an often itinerant and marginalized existence in the British Isles.
RECLAIMING OUR CULTURE: XAKRIABÁ POTTERY
Indigenous artist Nei Leite Xakriabá’s ceramics reflect the intimate relationship the Xakriabá have with their natural and spiritual environment, and play an important role in their struggle to reclaim their identity after centuries of settler colonialism.
OF GODS & TIGERS
The exuberant paintings of octogenarian Judaiya Bai Baiga depict the lives of her people: India’s Baiga tribe.
UP AGAINST THE WALL, LA!
This unique collaboration with the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles’ former Executive Director Isabel Rojas-Williams traces the changing zeitgeist of LA’s African American community over a period of more than 60 years.
SANCTUARIES OF GOLD
Inspired by European and Islamic illuminated manuscripts, English artist Linda Edwards’s brilliant paintings reveal paradisiacal gardens alive with flora and fauna rendered in jewel-like colors and pure gold leaf.
MEMORY’S MAGICAL MENAGERIE
Woodcut prints of fantastical half human-half animal creatures re-enact beloved memories from artist Tita do Rêgo Silva’s childhood in a small Brazilian town steeped in a mélange of African, indigenous, and Portuguese cultures.
BPM
A mash-up of passions fuel Guadeloupe-born Iro Mushoku’s imagination: Caribbean art, graffiti, reggae & bodysurfing.
STEEL STATEMENTS
This ‘emerging artist’ exhibition showcases 15 young sculptors from Istanbul’s prestigious Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
THE ADVENTURES OF BOXI
Inspired by a pre-Columbian figure, the character in UK-based artist Boxi Trixi’s work is a modern ‘everyman.’
MYTHS OF MY OWN MAKING
American artist Jim Kopp works with salvaged wood to create a singular world of fantastic beings ‘beyond good and evil.’
DRIVEN BY TRUCK ART
Their colorful craft threatened by modernity, India’s truck artists are being encouraged to paint on other surfaces.
FLASHBACKS
Turkish artist Yigit Yazici mined his 90s sketchbooks to create fine art prints that express his trademark love of color.
VIOLATED BOUNDARIES
Exploring sexuality, gender, and trauma, American Larry Ruhl creates iconographic assemblages about reimagined lives.
PLAYING WITH TIME & SPACE
Irish-American artist Gerald (Jerry) Barnes alters images to assemble scenes transcending cultural and historical borders.
BINARY VISIONS
Linda Enfante Lyons’s poignant icon portraits acknowledge her dual Alutiiq Alaska Native/Russian-Estonian identity.
COUNTER NARRATIVES
American artist Pablo Cristi asks, “Who gets to tell whose story?” and interrogates American history, culture, and identity.
PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN
Dementia, aging, death, grief, and guilt. Fueled by personal loss, Ukrainian-British artist Natalia Millman fearlessly shines a light on uncomfortable and taboo subjects in her multi-media and installation artwork.
MEMORY & MEMENTO
American JoAnna Johnson’s poignant photographs are performance art, installation art, textile culture, and feminist statement.
Silk Road Memories
The art of Kazakhstan-based artist Hashim Kurban reflects his proud Uighur ancestry, and a tragically vanishing cultural landscape.
STYLING A LIFE
Ghanaian artist Musah Swallah’s portraits celebrate Black beauty and African Diaspora identities through vivid hairstyles.
UNBOUND BY REALISM
Turkish artist Ayse Keskin Uysal’s Ottoman-style miniatures are in dialogue with a modern sensibility.
Abstraction=
Freedom
Turkish artist Dilek Degerli’s abstract expressionist paintings express anxiety, struggle, compassion, and beauty through color.
A LIFE IN CLAY: A RETROSPECTIVE
Follow the trajectory from functional to sculptural in the 45-plus-year output of American artist-potter and educator Darby Ortolano.
PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG (IRANIAN) WOMAN
Intimate self-portraits reflect the thoughts, anxieties, and dreams of an artist navigating the realities of growing up female.
SYRCLE: A FASHION STATEMENT
The title reflects Turkish-Syrian fashion designer Dalia Khaddam’s dual inspirations: Syria’s war and recycling.
KARAGÖZ (AS ART)
The archetypal Turkish ‘everyman,’ and shadow theater hero, Karagoz is beautifully rendered by puppet makers and artists.
SYRIA ON MY MIND
Four Syrian diaspora artists celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Kirkayak Kultur, a refugee organization creating cultural bridges.
ONCE UPON A TIME
Using a fairytale language, Turkish artist Senay Ulusoy’s art is a critique of contemporary life, with a special emphasis on the condition of women.
I DREAM, DRAW, WEAVE & TOUCH
Inspired by the Aegean and Mediterranean’s colors and cultures, Turkish artist Ufuk Girgic weaves stunning natural-fiber tapestries.
CONJURING IN GLASS & CLAY
Inspired by Byzantine tesserae and Gaudi’s clay tiles, American artist Robert Sherman’s collages reflect his life and times.
The Native Lens
Native American photographers tell the complex stories of contemporary Native American life, beliefs, pride, and challenges.
GEOMETRIES OF HOPE & HORROR
UK artist/doctor Sally de Courcy’s intricate sculptures of cast objects narrate stories of human suffering and strength.
IMAGINED OTTOMANS
Turkish artist Alper Demirci’s in-depth knowledge of history breathes life into his (mostly) fictional portraits.
EVOCATIONS OF GLORIES PAST
Turkish artist Ayhan Algur transposes figures from Anatolia’s ancient cultures to canvas, fabric, ceramic plates, and jugs.
ONE FOOT IN TRADITION…
Visually rooted in tradition, Comanche artist Eric Tippeconnic depicts Native Americans as resilient, thriving, and modern.
FORGED & FABRICATED
The monumental sculptures of American artist John Medwedeff reflect a blacksmith’s sensitivity to steel’s malleability.
STITCHING TOGETHER ORDINARY LIVES
Inspired by a batch of family letters she found, UK artist Maria Walker’s mixed media work portrays 1920s working-class life.
LOOK PRETTY, BE QUIET & OBEY
Finding her authentic, rebellious voice in her 60s, Alaskan painter MaryBeth Printz narrates personal stories of fear, hope, and victory as an antidote to her restrictive upbringing in rural southern America.
ROOTED IN THE HOOD
Based on American-Greek artist Anna Angelidakis’ award-winning book, stunning photography and intimate prose celebrate New York City community gardens miraculously transformed from abandoned lots and ‘needle parks.’
THE +1 MUSE
IZEV, a Turkish foundation supporting individuals with mental differences like Down syndrome, imagines what would have resulted if accomplished young men and women with one extra chromosome had inspired Renaissance masters.
A TRIBUTE TO ARIF BUZ
(1957-2022)
The Hairdresser-Painter of Ayvalik
Arif Buz’s work reflects more than four decades of observing life in the Turkish Aegean town of Ayvalik’s At Arabacilari Meydani (Horse-cart Drivers Square). Though unsentimentally focusing on “broken people” (to quote Arif), his work is full of empathy.
Sofreh
Masoud Babkhani’s mesmerizing paintings masterfully blend ‘folk’ and ‘fine’ art to preserve and vitalize the lost art of the sofreh—a special type of kilim once woven by the women of Iran’s nomadic Qashqai tribes—and simultaneously honor his familial roots.
Landscapes of Conscience
Pakistani-Canadian Rabia Rizvi’s jewel-like landscapes in the style of 16th- and 17th-century Mughal and Persian miniatures express through symbol and color her passionate reaction to the contemporary horror and injustice she sees in the world around her.