BRIDGING DIVIDES Exhibition Collection
The eleven artists in the ‘Bridging Divides’ exhibition bring intentionality and bravery to their work in order to highlight dualities and foster reconciliation.
Through varied media, these artists communicate subject matter via both internal and external manifestations that range from private topics, such as exploring competing states of mind and emotions, to universals, such as the contemporary challenge of traversing tensions between one’s cultural origins and current lived experiences.
Methods include heart-wrenching beauty, realism, and vivid color that seductively span the interplay between art and concept and bely the tension of complicated subject matter ranging from healing anxiety to gender politics. These topics are expressed in overt, transparent styles, and also through symbolic and artistic means including gesture, brushstroke, and mark-making.
"We live in a world that can feel increasingly divided and yet making and experiencing art can bridge differences, heal rifts, and expose truths"
