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Self Care

Adriana Amaris
On view: February 4 – 18, 2021

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Closing Reception:
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Please join us in celebrating the opening of Self Care on February 18th at 6:30 – 9 p.m. in the Sewall Sculpture Studio! This event will feature Amaris live-tattooing two voluntary clients as well as themselves. Complimentary refreshments from Thai Village and refreshments from Rice Coffeehouse will also be served. We hope to see you there to celebrate student art, our gallery, and the first show of the Spring semester!

We highly encourage registration for contact-tracing purposes. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at sleepycyborggallery@gmail.com 

About the Exhibition

Self Care is a two-part art exhibition comprised of a live tattoo show, as well as work inspired by the art of tattooing. The show explores tattooing as a form of self-care; a sort of ritual that relies on trust between the tattooer and the tattooed one that results in an inherently unique, permanent art. As part of the live tattoo show, the artist will demonstrate the entirety of the tattooing process as they tattoo two volunteer clients, as well as themselves. From stencil preparation to cleaning and bandaging the finished tattoos, viewers will be able to take a look into the often mysterious world of tattooing. The second collection of mixed-media art examines how the artist, themselves, conceptualizes tattooing. Rather than invoking the grittiness that is sometimes associated with tattooing, Amaris demonstrates the softer, more human-centric side of tattooing.

About the Artist

Adriana Amaris is a multi-media artist whose work emphasizes the necessity of self-care. They have honed their unique craft of tattooing to present the gift of self-expression to others, but they also specialize in sculpture, watercolor painting, and digital media. They are a senior at Sid Richardson College and are originally from Fort Myers, Florida. This is their first solo exhibition.

As Yeast: Bodies in Space

Christine Gjoerup, Catherine Hettler, Sumin Hwang, Rachel Kim, Abigail King, Alissa Kono, Meghana Nadella, Nini Nguyen, Alfonso Pelaez Rovalo, Kinsale Reilly, Anastasia Romanova, Laura Semro, Blaise Willis, Maggie Yuan

 

On view: November 12 – 21, 2021

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Opening Reception:
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Please join us in celebrating the opening of As Yeast: Bodies in Space on November 12th at 7 – 8:30 p.m. in the Sewall Sculpture Courtyard! This event will feature exhibiting artists in conversation, as well as a live DJ set by @thenewperfect. Complimentary empanadas from the Empanada Factory and refreshments from Rice Coffeehouse will also be served. We hope to see you there to celebrate student art, our gallery, and the final show of the Fall semester!

We highly encourage registration for contact-tracing purposes. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at sleepycyborggallery@gmail.com 

About the Exhibition

As Yeast: Bodies in Space presents new work from the 2021-22 cohort of Visual and Dramatic Art seniors on the Studio Art track. This multimedia collection of paintings, drawings, photography, and prints draws from 14 distinct practices to collectively challenge and complicate what it means to occupy and define bodyhood — its corporeality, its aging, its fluidity, its imminence, and its demise. Together, these works embrace porousness across spatial boundaries to build expansive and hypertextual frameworks of processing and navigating bodily movements through and beyond this temporality. As Yeast brings each senior’s work into a unified space for the first time.

This exhibition is made possible by funding from the Rice Visual and Dramatic Arts Department, The Student Activities President’s Programming Fund, and Guayaki Yerba Mate.

Posters designed by Maggie Yuan, Alfonso Pelaez Rovalo, and Anastasia Romanova (left to right).

 

All proceeds from merchandise sales go toward supporting Rice Mutual Aid (@ricemutualaid on Instagram for more information).

be water, my friend

Magdah Omer

in collaboration with Preston Branton, Nia Howze, Ava Johnson, Gordan Liu, and Braden Perryman

On view: October 15 – 24, 2021

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About the Exhibition:

“This is what it is, okay?
I said empty your mind
Be formless
Shapeless
Like water
Have you put water into a cup?
It becomes the cup
You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle
You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot
Now water can flow or it can crash
Be water, my friend”

– “One Inch Punch”, YĪN YĪN

What do water, birds, flower, their stems, and fish have in common?
They embrace Change. Rise with it. grow and swim Free.

 

About the Artist:

Magdah Omer is interested in how embodying fluid, intuitive, sensual practices affect perceptions of identity’s limits. They mainly use acrylic paints (& sometimes leftover tea, hair dye, and other potential found materials) on transparent, reflective, wooden, or skin canvases to journal expressions of (changes in) identity. They are a senior at Baker College — this is their first solo art exhibition.