Photo Courtesy of Garrett Carroll.
Please join us for an artist talk with Sarah Davidson in conversation with Jacq Groves, as part of NARS Entree Encore Alumni series.
October 24th, 6pm
in the NARS Project Space.
Sarah Davidson will discuss their solo exhibition Fingery Eyes, in conversation with artist Jacq Groves.
While they often draw directly from ‘nature’, Sarah Davidson’s works diffract distinctions between embodied self and other through a queer ecological lens: critters and space collapse into one another, suggesting a permeable web. Both the eye and the mind work towards the known--animals, plants, brush marks, lines--but are caught in a space of undoing. A question floats among the forms: who’s seeing who, and how?
Sarah Davidson (they/them, b.1989, Canada) lives and works in New York, NY. They have exhibited their work at Wil Aballe Art Projects (Vancouver), Feuilleton (Los Angeles), Cassandra Cassandra (Toronto), Erin Stump Projects (Toronto), Unit 17 (Vancouver), The Power Plant (Toronto), The New Gallery (Calgary), and Audain Gallery (Vancouver), among others. They hold a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art & Design (2015) and an MFA from the University of Guelph (2019).
Jacq Groves is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ridgewood, New York. Their project-based practice explores relationships between urban and natural ecological structures and complex bodily systems. Their work has been shown in New York-based exhibitions at Essex Flowers, Half Gallery, The Jewish Museum, The Wallach Art Gallery, ChaShaMa, and the NARS Foundation. They have participated in residencies at Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) and NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY). Groves is currently the Foundations Fellow in Arts + Sciences at Pratt Institute. They received a BA from Grinnell College and an MFA from Columbia University.