As part of Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC, an exhibit at Amos Eno Gallery, Culture Push and Amos Eno Gallery will be co-presenting a panel on practice by recent and current Culture Push Fellows from the Fellowship for Utopian Practice and Associated Artists. Please join Alexandra Hammond, Andrew Ingall, Ray Jordan Achan, and Zain Alam for interactive presentations and a roundtable discussion.
Root Systems: The Legacy of Artist Collectives in NYC is a survey exhibition taking place July 14-30 at Amos Eno Gallery on 56 Bogart St. in Brooklyn, NY, this two-week exhibit features the efforts of artist collectives, including Amos Eno Gallery, ABC No Rio (In Exile,) Southeast Queens Artist Alliance and Culture Push. The show presents a survey of marketing collateral, posters, fine art and oral and written histories documenting each organization’s unique imprint in the New York City art world, Each collective will have a space in the gallery to respond to the theme: legacy of artist collectives in NYC in a manner that is meaningful to their own imprint on the past, present and future of artist communities based in New York City’s five boroughs. The exhibition will be curated by Audra Lambert with curatorial support from CUNY - S. Jay Levy Fellow, Yamile Baez, in coordination with artist collectives invited to show in the exhibition.
Amos Eno Gallery is a nonprofit art gallery providing a full season of exhibits by emerging and mid-career artists working in visual, performance, installation, interactive, and/or digital media/video. Our season is complemented by a diverse series of performances as well as educational and public programs for the New York area. A small community of professional artists runs our nonprofit, whose members are vetted through a rigorous reviewing process by their peers. Amos Eno serves as an alternative, artist-run platform for professional artists in a variety of media, giving precedence to artistic expression freed from commercial restraints. https://www.amoseno.org/events
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
ALEXANDRA HAMMOND, CULTURE PUSH FELLOW
Alexandra Hammond’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, installation and conversational performances. She believes that all beings, objects and Earth inter-are and inter-be. This worldview supports an awareness that our experience of being separate individuals is a result of all-pervading consciousness “seeing itself.” This repositioning of the individual acknowledges that we are part of everything. There is only connection. This perspective calls us to move from extractive modes of operation to caring, maintenance and repairing. Hammond’s paintings are the poetic/pictorial manifestation of this worldview and her installations and performances are its spatial and experiential manifestation.
Hammond holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and BA from NYU’s Studio Art department. Her projects have been shown at Mass MoCA, The Shaker Museum, on the Instagram auction See You Next Thursday, and in New York City, Bangkok, Thailand and Graz, Austria. She is also a creative director, working with individuals, brands and institutions that are part of the regenerative social fabric and economy of the future. https://www.alexhammondstudio.com/
ZAIN ALAM, CULTURE PUSH FELLOW
Zain Alam is an artist and musician of Indian-Pakistani origin based in Brooklyn, NY. Described as “a unique intersection, merging the cinematic formality of Bollywood and geometric repetition of Islamic art,” his recording project Humeysha began during his year working as an oral historian for the 1947 Partition Archive. His work is a project in translation using contemporary pop forms, found sound, and oral history.
Alam’s practice extends his sonic vision into video, performance, and writing. His essays have been published in Miami Rail, Buzzfeed, and The New Yorker, and Humeysha has been covered by the New York Times, Vice, and Village Voice. Alam has recently completed fellowships with The Anderson Center, Marble House, and Harvard University. He is currently at work on a full-length album and the Bed-Stuy Faith Archive.
ANDREW INGALL, CULTURE PUSH ASSOCIATED ARTIST
Andrew Ingall has been working in arts, culture, and community engagement for over twenty years as a curator, scholar, writer, performer, and producer. He received a B.A. from Columbia College and an M.A. in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. His collaborators have included cultural workers, artists, scholars, faith leaders, activists, health care professionals, and funeral directors.
With a background in theater, performance, and museum studies, Andy has organized exhibitions and public programs for The Brooklyn Museum, Electronic Arts Intermix, The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, Wave Hill, and other cultural institutions. His writing and research has appeared in Videofreex: The Art of Guerrilla Television (SUNY Press), Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, and other publications. This year Andy is taking part in LABA NY, a fellowship based at Manhattan's 14th Street Y and part of a global cluster of hubs that includes Berlin, Buenos Aires, and Northern California.
RAY JORDAN ACHAN, CULTURE PUSH ASSOCIATED ARTIST
Ray Jordan Achan (he/him/his) is an Indo-Caribbean, Brooklyn based theater-maker. Ray is the Founding Artistic Director of EXILED TONGUES, a performance collective that provides financial, artistic and collaborative support to artists of the global majority who center diasporic consciousness. Ray's performative work primarily deals with the intersection between racial and climate justice, particularly as they relate to the NYC coastline. He is the recipient of the 2022 NYSCA Individual Artist Grant for his site-specific documentary theater project, "Our Bang for Their Buck: No Pipeline for LNG", and is the recipient of the 2022 Creative Equations Fund from the Brooklyn Arts Council and a commissioned artist with Works on Water for his site-specific documentary theater project, "(Re)Imagining Greenpoint's Green Waters."