About the Exhibition
About the Exhibition
Elevate at 21c presents temporary exhibitions of works by artists living and working in the communities surrounding each 21c Museum Hotel property. Elevate provides hotel guests with unique access to the work of notable regional artists, while featuring their work in the context of 21c’s contemporary art space. To view these works, please stop by the front desk to arrange access to the vitrines on guest room floors.
About the artists:
Brioch
Body & Fold (2019 to 2022), cyanotype with tonic red cabbage and beet extract juice, anthotype with spinach on paper and wood, sand
Using photography and printmaking techniques, Briseida Ochoa aka Brioch depicts the human figure in motion. Inspired by the natural resources of the region, Brioch uses beets and spinach extracts to create prints while using sand to showcase the marks left by the dancers whose movements are captured in these works. This act of using land to depict bodies highlights the stories of diasporic communities: how their absence is felt and how their presence is met.
You can find more of her work at brioch17.com
Amber Imrie
Isolation Can Insulate or Suffocate (2018), archival pigment ink on cotton, batting, sewing thread; vurrum, Glug, Glug, Grrrumm…Creek…Crash, Thump – Man Enters Forest (2018), archival pigment ink on cotton, batting, branches, sewing thread; Between Breaths (2019), archival pigment ink on cotton, batting, sewing thread, stick
Raised off-grid in the Ozark Mountains, Amber Imrie’s work explores rural living through a queer feminist lens as it intersects with gender, domestic life, American culture, and environmentalism.
You can find more of their work at amberimrie.com
Junli Song
From left to right:
Dancer 1 (2021), ceramic; La Danse (2021), pochoir (oil on paper); Dancer 2 (2021), ceramic; Open the Skies (2022), pigment on silk; Fei Ru (2021), ceramic; A Game of Catch (2021), pochoir (oil on paper); Untitled (Seated Figure) (2022), ceramic
Inspired by the ancient Chinese text, Shanhaijing, which describes the vast and varied universe, Junli Song reinterprets these stories through a feminist, diasporic lens. Centering around a female reimagining of the mythological headless deity Xingtian, a symbol of resistance, the artist illustrates the complex, often contradictory realities of existing between cultures, and the continual reinvention of self, which occurs for many who live within these diasporic communities.
You can find more of her work at artsofsong.com
