new.now. (2023)
About
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to present new.now., our annual group exhibition debuting the work of Hamiltonian's distinguished 2022–2024 fellows—artists Misha Ilin, Madyha J. Leghari, Edgar Reyes, Abed Elmajid Shalabi, and Isabella Whitfield. Each year, new.now. serves as a snapshot of the five newest Hamiltonian artists’ creative practices, exhibiting the work they plan to expand upon during their two year fellowship.
This year the group exhibition sorts through various systems of order/disorder, grappling with what is left. New technologies emerge, languages are lost, oceans rise, and empires fall. Through video, sculpture, digital collage, performance, and installation, each artist engages a shared line of inquiry: what remnants do we hold on to, and attempt to make new? what gets shoved under the rug, rather than thrown away for good?
The predominantly multinational group of artists—who now reside in the region between Richmond and Baltimore—are also breaking new ground in the history of Hamiltonaian Artists’ fellowship program. We look forward to presenting works that, in conversation, reflect various areas of common ground across diasporic perspectives, from Guadalajara, Mexico, to Lahore, Pakistan.
The 2022–2024 Fellows were selected by an independent jury of arts professionals—Thomas F. James, independent curator and Executive Director of the Last Resort Artist Retreat; Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, visual artist, Hamiltonian Artists alumnus, and Assistant Professor of Art & Digital Media at Marist College; Ada Pinkston, multimedia artist, educator, and organizer; Siobhan Rigg, artist, writer, professor at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, and resident artist at Red Dirt Studio; and Adriel Luis, artist, curator, community organizer, and Curator of Digital & Emerging Practice at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Los Angeles.
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February 4–March 11, 2023
Thursday–Saturday, 11–6pm
Hamiltonian Artists
1353 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
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Opening reception
Saturday, February 4, 5–7pm
Artist talk
Thursday, February 23, 6–7pm
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