I DON'T MIND:
a solo exhibition by Grace Rosario Perkins
JULY 28 — SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12— 7 PM, and open later on 2nd Saturdays for Georgetown Art Attack
* please contact us for ADA access to the building, or to make a non-Saturday viewing appointment: [email protected]
I DON'T MIND is a solo exhibition by New Mexico- and Bay Area-based artist, Grace Rosario Perkins, showcasing recent work made from an Indigenous and punk ethos. This body of abstract artwork in progress broadly explores themes of landscape and autobiography, using methods and processes of layering, erasure & redaction.
Artist Bio, CV, List and Price of Works in Exhibition
Curated by: Natalie A. Martínez
Writer in Residence: Bojan Louis
Iłná’áhótįł, a poem in response to Grace Rosario Perkins' work
Public Programs:
Opening reception with the artist
Saturday, July 28, 5 — 7 PM
Open Studio time with the artist at the gallery-
Tuesday, July 31-Thursday, Aug 2, 1-4pm.
Closing reception and reading with Bojan Louis: September 8th, 6-8pm.
__________________________
Artist Bio:
Grace Rosario Perkins (b. 1986, Santa Fe, NM), is an Albuquerque and Oakland-based artist who has spent most of her life living between city centers, as well the Navajo Nation, and the Gila River Indian Community. Her work examines cultural dissonance, disassembling and rebuilding personal history through explorations with color, abstraction, and language. Perkins’ practice, which includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, and performance, is highly collaborative and often made with family members such as her father Olen Perkins, and artists from her indigenous and DIY communities. She was a founding member of Black Salt Collective, a group of women artists of color that worked to amplify black and indigenous voices through curatorial projects, publications, and performance. Perkins has lectured at venues such as Mills College, Pomona College, UC Santa Barbara, Occidental College, the San Francisco Public Library, Real Time and Space Oakland, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. She has been an artist in residence at Facebook HQ, ACRE, Varda Artists Residency, Sedona Summer Colony, White Leaves, Kala Art Institute, and was nominated for the Liquitex Painter's Residency and Tosa Studio Award at Minnesota Street Project.
Writer in Residence:
Bojan Louis (Diné) is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and Poetry Editor for RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities. He teaches various composition courses at Arizona State University’s Downtown Campus. His first poetry collection is Currents (BkMk Press 2017). In August 2018, Louis's debut book, "Currents" received the American Book Award for Poetry from the Before Columbus Foundation.
a solo exhibition by Grace Rosario Perkins
JULY 28 — SEPTEMBER 8, 2018
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12— 7 PM, and open later on 2nd Saturdays for Georgetown Art Attack
* please contact us for ADA access to the building, or to make a non-Saturday viewing appointment: [email protected]
I DON'T MIND is a solo exhibition by New Mexico- and Bay Area-based artist, Grace Rosario Perkins, showcasing recent work made from an Indigenous and punk ethos. This body of abstract artwork in progress broadly explores themes of landscape and autobiography, using methods and processes of layering, erasure & redaction.
Artist Bio, CV, List and Price of Works in Exhibition
Curated by: Natalie A. Martínez
Writer in Residence: Bojan Louis
Iłná’áhótįł, a poem in response to Grace Rosario Perkins' work
Public Programs:
Opening reception with the artist
Saturday, July 28, 5 — 7 PM
Open Studio time with the artist at the gallery-
Tuesday, July 31-Thursday, Aug 2, 1-4pm.
Closing reception and reading with Bojan Louis: September 8th, 6-8pm.
__________________________
Artist Bio:
Grace Rosario Perkins (b. 1986, Santa Fe, NM), is an Albuquerque and Oakland-based artist who has spent most of her life living between city centers, as well the Navajo Nation, and the Gila River Indian Community. Her work examines cultural dissonance, disassembling and rebuilding personal history through explorations with color, abstraction, and language. Perkins’ practice, which includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, and performance, is highly collaborative and often made with family members such as her father Olen Perkins, and artists from her indigenous and DIY communities. She was a founding member of Black Salt Collective, a group of women artists of color that worked to amplify black and indigenous voices through curatorial projects, publications, and performance. Perkins has lectured at venues such as Mills College, Pomona College, UC Santa Barbara, Occidental College, the San Francisco Public Library, Real Time and Space Oakland, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. She has been an artist in residence at Facebook HQ, ACRE, Varda Artists Residency, Sedona Summer Colony, White Leaves, Kala Art Institute, and was nominated for the Liquitex Painter's Residency and Tosa Studio Award at Minnesota Street Project.
Writer in Residence:
Bojan Louis (Diné) is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and Poetry Editor for RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities. He teaches various composition courses at Arizona State University’s Downtown Campus. His first poetry collection is Currents (BkMk Press 2017). In August 2018, Louis's debut book, "Currents" received the American Book Award for Poetry from the Before Columbus Foundation.