Exchanging Visions
Art Exhibition Created By & Featuring Women + Non-Binary Brooklyn Artists | October 14th - 23rd, 2021
Exchanging Visions is an art exhibition comprised of a diverse group of artists who are creating visions
of our shared future as resident-creators of New York City and the world.
Exchanging Visions is the result of conversations between the curator-artist and several of the artists during the 2020-21 pandemic over Zoom, on rooftops, and in coffee shops in Brooklyn.
Energized by negative press that “New York City Is Dead Forever” these women and non-binary artists turn away from such short-sighted opinions and instead collaborate using their skills, energy, resilience, and passion to refashion and construct the next wave of art that Brooklyn, NYC will be known for.
They realized their experiences as working artists in NYC during this unprecedented time offer valuable inspiration and contribution to the unfolding story of this great city, and the world.
These artists are deeply embedded in and passionate about their overlapping communities, and see Art as a foundational part of the health of New York City’s ecosystem, success, cultures, people, and prosperity.
“Through this event we strive to increase the visibility of Brooklyn's women and non-binary artists across the globe and help to bring more gender equity to the world of art. We are dedicated to featuring living, working artists known, and yet to be discovered, to larger audiences. We are dedicated to diversity, inclusivity, and benefit for all artists. This event strives to provide an environment and space where creativity and community can develop, expand and flourish.”
Location: The Hall BK | Corner of Flushing + Hall Street, Brooklyn NYC
For artwork inquiries and appointments, contact alex@alexandrajamieson.com
THE VISIONING…
It all begins with an idea. Get inspired in 2 minutes with this behind-the-scenes video of the artists made by our photo and video partner VibeXVisuals.
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MEET THE ARTISTS
Cindy Gaston
Cindy Gaston is a Brooklyn based artist that captures the black female experience in America in her work through digital, pastel, painting and multi-media artwork.
Under her brand Sincere Gaston, her most recent collection focuses on her mother’s 1970 migration from the Caribbean to Brooklyn and the tension between pain and triumph. Her work created in the Summer of 2020 during the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement honors black women while liberating the boundaries of what it means to be fully present and fully feel. Gaston earned her B.A. at NYU and studied Fashion with an Art Specialization at the FIT.
Rashida Abuwala
Rashida is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who explores themes of liberation and constraint through painting, craft and textile work. Rashida has been painting and making art from a very young age, and maintains a professional career in social and government reform focused on marginalized New Yorkers. Her artistic practice is informed by her community work and rooted in her experience as a first-generation Muslim woman.
Rashida is a Queens-native and a proud graduate of New York City public schools. She holds an honors degree in studio arts and political theory from Wesleyan University, and a master of science in comparative politics from the London School of Economics. She began her formal study of art at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and continues to study at the Art Students League of New York. She lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn and serves on the board of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective.
Júlia Brandão
Born and raised in Brazil, Júlia Brandão works primarily in textile, installation and performance. Her multidisciplinary practice questions the body in relation to displacement and memory. In creating paintings and sculptural pieces with repurposed fabric, her work investigates the limits and possibilities of the female body in the spaces it inhabits. Reflecting upon the conception of ‘home’ not only as a physical space but also as an imagined one, a mental place of identity, Brandão's work is a representation of the threshold across and in between borders.
In 2018, the artist was awarded a mentorship program from the New York Foundation of the arts. Her work has been presented at NARS Foundation (New York), Jane Lombard Gallery (New York), Galleri Silk (Sweden), Galeria Sé (São Paulo), among others. Brandão currently lives and works in Porto, Portugal where she is starting her MFA in Sculpture at Universidade do Porto.
Lindsay Katt
Lindsay Katt is a Queer, Non-binary Artist, Musician, Painter, Thinker, Tinkerer, Photo Taker, Hugger, Doer, Dreamer, Director, Lover, Writer, Producer…Person.
Known for their broad range of multimedia Work, Lindsay’s music has been featured in shows such as “Castle” “Alias” “Switched at Birth” or SyFy’s “Being human” with Music Videos airing on MTV and Logo; with installations, performance Art, films and Paintings exhibited throughout NYC.
Lindsay Katt’s award winning Art film “The Avant-Gardener” (featuring Heather Matarazzo and Celisse Henderson) is set to be released in 2022.
Awesum Crawford
Awesum is a Bronx-born, Brooklyn-based artist who conceptualizes in a genre she has coined as Awesurrealism. Her works often display ethereal muses beautifully portrayed to dwell within vivid landscapes that set the tone for a story each painting has to tell.
Judith Ornstein
Judith Ornstein is an artist known for her abstract imagery and use of unusual materials such as mylar, homasote and corrugate. Her work spans a range of media, from sculpture, painting, drawing and collage. She graduated with an MFA from Yale School of Art and BFA from PCA. Ornstein first exhibited at Willard Gallery in a 2 person show with Susan Rothenberg. She had several solo shows at Willard Gallery and has also had solo shows at Vibeke Levy Fine Art (NYC), 718 Gallery (Brooklyn), Cirrus Gallery (LA, curated by Richard Armstrong) and Douglas College Art Gallery (Rutgers NJ). She has been included in group shows at Willard Gallery (NYC), Baskerville & Watson (NYC), H.F. Manes Gallery (NYC), Antoinette Torrens Gallery (NYC), Amos Eno Gallery, Kavanaugh Gallery (Ill) and Las Laguna Gallery (CA), BWAC (Brooklyn) and more. Ornstein has received numerous awards for her work including 2 NEAs, a Tiffany Foundation Award, Creative Arts Public Service Award and a Ford Foundation Grant. She’s represented in various museum and private collections including the Albright Knox Museum, Vassar College Museum and the Cooper Hewitt Museum. Her work has been on the cover of the Paris Review and reviewed in Artforum, Arts Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, GQ, Village Voice, Vast Art Magazine, Alkali Art Magazine and more.
Alexandra Jamieson
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1975, Alexandra Jamieson is a watercolor and multimedia artist whose paintings have earned acclaim for their blend of natural, astronomical, and urban elements. Having worked in watercolor since 2009, Alex's work has been featured in the Mona Niko Gallery in Mission Viejo, CA, The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, the Kunstraum Gallery in New York City, The Clio Art Fair, and was awarded a Merit Award in the Art Room Gallery Open Show 2020. Alexandra was awarded a City Artist Corp grant in 2021, and Exchanging Visions is her first foray into curation.
She creates commissioned “meditation portraits” for private clients around the world. Alex is a third-generation artist, and was the co-creator and co-star of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me. She has been featured in Oprah Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Good Morning America, CNN, USA Today, and more.
Samantha Ramsahai
Samantha, founder of VibexVisuals, specializes in capturing vibrant, visual images in modern yet timeless styles, exciting and captivating, focusings on exhilarating unforgettable moments and emotion. Samantha uses her years of experience, skills and knowledge to ensure your photos are exactly the way you want them to be. Photography is a lifelong passion for Samantha and this is reflected in the stunning images she produces.
Sabrina Mendoza
Sabrina Mendoza is a Venezuelan fine artist currently residing in Brooklyn, New York. She dedicates her art practice to raise awareness about the socio-political turmoil in Venezuela. The artist uses her work as a platform to expose how international and national power structures have caused Venezuelans' quality of life to be negatively affected. A recurring subject in her work is how political propaganda has contributed to the polarization of the country. Portraits of Venezuelan citizens and regions of the country are often referenced in her work to celebrate their existence and cultural relevance.
Catalina Toro
The artist’s energy flows through her work in a confident yet emotionally responsive fashion. The artist's unique history reflects in her perspective. Born in 1978 and raised in Colombia, Catalina has lived in NYC since 1998.
Entirely self-taught in art, mentored closely, and assisting top NYC Artists, she immersed herself into the arts and their history. Catalina has nurtured and developed a style that blends her love for figurative art and the abstract, art theory, and history with the potency of mythic symbolism. Her current work reflects her heritage and the rich cultural milieu of contemporary New York, passing each through the prismatic lens of her exacting eye and questing spirit
Working within a wide range of mediums – painting, portrait painting, and drawing compositions capture the essence of a moment through the use of Impressionists, Expressionists, and post-Modernist techniques. Each line moves with abundant feeling and intention.
Stephanie Powell
Stephanie Powell is an interdisciplinary artist who works in video, photography and sculpture. Her recent exhibitions have been at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA; Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY; Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand; Sgorbati Projects, NYC; Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; and Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts. She has received grants and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, apexart, the Jerome Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council. Her written and art work has appeared in apexart’s journal and Flaunt Magazine. Powell received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2001 and her BFA in Studio Art from the University of Oregon in 1996. Stephanie was born in Yokosuka, Japan and raised in Portland, Oregon and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York where she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Photography at Pratt Institute.
E Leifer
E Leifer started apprenticing working artists in 1980 at age 10 and they have continued to incorporate painting into as many aspects of their life as possible. Having worked for many years as a muralist, a scenic artist and fine artist, they are currently the head designer for Play Out Apparel in NYC and design all their fabric prints in acrylic and watercolor.
Tif Wolf
Tif Wolf is a self-taught artist who comes from three generations of multimedia artists—and yet never made visual art until spring 2019. Tif discovered painting abstracts as a form of meditation, without forcing an outcome. Although the results are fluid forms, she only uses tools such as palette knives and scrapers, no brushes.
She is inspired by creating a space for expansiveness within the self, and how skies can provide such a space, whether viewed in highly-populated cities or the sparsely-populated countryside.
Before becoming a painter, Tif worked at Viacom in television operations, performed as a drummer in the queer rock band Triple Creme, and she also studied and taught martial arts and self-defense for 20 years to women, non-binary, and transpeople.