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5:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Exhibition Celebration for Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art
Join the Lehman College Art Gallery at an opening for the exhibition that will be on view at the Lehman College Art Gallery from Valentine's day through April 28.
Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings and photographs that illuminate both individual and universal stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community.
The exhibition, which gathers the work of almost 50 artists, opens in two New York City galleries in February 2023−Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx from February 14 to April 23 and La MaMa Galleria in Downtown Manhattan, from February 18 to April 6. Each venue offers works that explore the power and significance of intimate queer familial, romantic, and sexual relationships.
From cheerful, romantic expressions of love to depictions of non-traditional nuclear families, the artwork of these LGBTQIA artists highlights the bond between them as art creators, and those with whom they have the closest ties. The LGBTQIA artists often move from celebrating their love to proclaiming a place for queer people within a larger society. Lushly beautiful, their art creates a series of nuanced and reflective, but largely positive narratives, and love’s transformative impact on both the human experience and the artistic process.
Reserve here:
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2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Nikki Giovanni Speaks on... James Baldwin and Beyond
Lehman College proudly presents world-renowned poet and activist Nikki Giovanni. In advance of the College’s opening of James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” she will speak about Baldwin and beyond and share her newest poetry.
Tickets available at:
http://tinyurl.com/BaldwinBeyond
Location: Lehman College Studio Theatre
Choose "Tier 3" for free student tickets. Some seats will watch via livestream. | |
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8:00 AM - 8:00 PM | IT Open Center
Hours of Operation
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Fri: 8:00am – 4:00pm
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6:00 PM | Suneil Sanzgiri: Artist Talk + Screening
This lecture by artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri unpacks and explores questions and themes around decolonization, identity, diaspora, and cross-continental solidarity. Through his lens-based practice, Sanzgiri’s experimental films and installations blend multiple layers of 16mm film, CG animation, desktop aesthetics, and archival manipulation to gesture to tensions, possibilities, and replications of what we find when we search for ourselves in the remnants of colonial histories. Sanzgiri will invite students to think through methodologies employed by various interpretations of “the essay film” and ultimately workshop with students' ways of thinking that seek to produce a series of questions about their own work.
Meeting ID: 831 2049 9479 / Passcode: 996457
Bio: Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, and filmmaker. His work spans experimental video and film, essays, and installations, and contends with questions of identity, heritage, culture, and diaspora in relation to structural violence. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017. Sanzgiri’s work has been screened extensively at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Camden International Film Festival, IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Punto de Vista, Viennale, LA Film Forum, e-Flux, 25 FPS festival, and has won awards at BlackStar Film Fest, Open City Documentary Festival, VideoEx, Images Festival, and Chicago Underground Film Festival as well as Special Jury mentions at the European Media Arts Festival and Iowa City Docs.
Sanzgiri was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City, a Flaherty NYC co-programmer in 2020 - 2021, a resident of the Pioneer Works Studio Residency in Spring 2021, an inaugural fellow of Sentient Art Film’s Line of Sight fellowship, and a MacDowell Fellow in winter 2021. His work has been supported by grants and fellowships from Creative Capital, the Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, Wave Farm’s Media Arts Assistance Fund, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art. His work has been written about in publications such as Film Quarterly, Art in America, and was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in Filmmaker Magazine’s Fall 2021 Issue.
Sanzgiri is currently working on his first feature-length work, focusing on the bonds of solidarity that developed out of resistance to the Portuguese empire between India and Africa.
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