Cuts Across

Artists Respond to Lived Intersections

May 4 — 26, 2024

Opening Reception

Saturday, May 4, 5-8 pm

Panel Discussion

Saturday, May 25, 5 pm

Panelists: Francis Dot, Elise Azam Mravunac, Wayne Bund, Chris Ticas, Safiyah Hassouneh, Yuyang Zhang, Forest Svengard-Lang

Moderated by Tammy Jo Wilson
Audio Recording coming soon

Open Hours

Sat-Sun 12-5 pm
drop in or by appointment 

Email info@carnationcontemporary.com
to schedule a visit

Exhibition Statement

When we made the call for this exhibition, we thought that asking for artists to express the complications of living with layered identities would provoke unexpected conversations to emerge. This is true; we hope you will appreciate and engage with these emerging dialogues. What we could not have anticipated is how excitedly and generously these incredible artists embraced the call. We now know that when people gather around the idea of discussing and dissecting the experience of identity, a community forms. It is a community whose connective tissue is the fundamental affirmation of wholeness and whose unifying action is care. We thought that we were asking for the expression of identity, but instead we have gathered artists demonstrating the experience of identity. It is with sincere gratitude that we welcome you to Cuts Across: Artists respond to lived intersections.

Artists

Sally Finch
Frankie Krupa Vahdani
Yuyang Zhang
Dante Carlos
ahuva s. zaslavsky
Nancy Floyd
Francis Dot
M Prull
Hale Ekinci
Chris Ticas
Ebenezer Galluzzo
Jennifer Rabin
Erin Fox
Safiyah Hassouneh
Hyun Jung Jung
Latoya Lovely
Christina Martin
Elise Azam Mravunac
Joshua Sin
Victoria Smits
Ash Stone
Noa Taylor
Wayne Bund
Forest Svengard-Lang

Curators

Michael Espinoza
Pamela Hadley
Marcelo Fontana
Allan Pichardo
Quinha Faria