Curated by
February 4, 2023
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February 22, 2023
Leonardo Madriz
February 3 - 22, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6-8pm
Screenings:
February 3, 6:30 pm
February 9, 6:30pm
February 22, 6:30pm
NARS Main Gallery
In Can’t Forget, Dying to Know, the first solo exhibition by Leo Madriz, there’s a notion that lineage is mandatory but holding on is a choice––stories for the sake of home. A letter to the artist’s late father, presented as an expanded cinema installation, grapples with loss and entanglements of blood, place, and time. Assemblages of home remnants accompany the letter, asserting that history is personal, grief is redemptive, and belonging is a story.
About the curator:
Jessica Duby is an independent curator focused on art’s utility in social, environmental, and cultural diplomacy. Based in Brooklyn, NY, her curatorial practice focuses on intersections of contemporary art, ritual, and politics in service of belonging and equity. She studied Arts Politics at NYU Tisch and her undergraduate degree is in Art History. Her current work is informed by earlier professional experience at the Smithsonian Institution.
About the artists:
Leo Madriz (b.1987, Louisiana) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NewYork. He holds an MFA from CUNY Hunter College (NY, 2021) and a BFA from Louisiana State University (2010). Can’t Forget, Dying to Know at NARS Foundation (2023) is the artist’s first solo exhibition. Recent group exhibitions include CURRENTS New Media Festival 2022: Circuits, Parallel Studios (Santa Fe, 2022); Light and Shadow, Longwood Gallery & BCA (NY 2022); Lucky to Be Here, Bronx Council on the Arts (NY, 2021); Heaven, 205 Hudson Street Gallery (NY, 2021); Orphans of Painting II, Ethan Cohen KuBe (NY, 2019); and Waiting for the Garden of Eden, White Box Gallery (NY, 2019). His work has been featured by Hyperallergic and in a spotlight by Hauser & Wirth.
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