Look This Way
Presented by Art Lives Here at JVS Project Space
181 East 108th Street Ground Floor
New York, N.Y. 10029
Participating artists:
Cheryl Aden
Heather Cox
Jose Soto
Curated by Connie Lee
Saturday October 8, 2022 – Saturday November 5, 2022
Opening Reception:
Saturday October 8, 2022 | 2:00 – 5:00 pm
The gallery is open Thursday – Sunday 2:00 – 6:00 pm
Art Lives Here is thrilled to be back at JVS Project Space presenting a new exhibition featuring three collaborating artist members. Look this way is an exhibition that takes photography beyond its expected boundaries with sculptures and assemblages that create an unexpected dialogue. In a culture inundated with images the artists are exploring how visual art informs our perception of essentially everything.
The exhibition features Jose Soto’s, Aurora 2017, which has been exhibited only once before at the 2017 Occupy Museums - Whitney Biennial. Soto works with photography, video, sculpture and installation to transform the complex visual structures found in nature. His practice is grounded in the aesthetic strategies of Formalism, Minimalism and the principles of Gestalt. He invites the viewer to consider his or her own perception of the natural landscape.
Cheryl Aden is a fine art photographer and a bit of a rebel. Aden challenges the traditional notion of what is considered a beautiful object by exploring visual dichotomies. She captures ordinary things as if they were extraordinary. Her images convey life in all of its glory and the inevitable decay that binds the human experience to the natural world.
Heather Cox is a multidisciplinary artist trained as a photographer and a sculptor. Look This Way features works from her ongoing series “Roundels” which she began in 2020. Cox alters snapshots and vintage photos by cutting/sewing/gluing/stapling them into pointillistic sculptural forms. They hang from the ceiling and protrude from the walls creating compelling colorful shapes that require a closer look.
Cheryl Aden, Iced Rambutan.
Cheryl Aden
New York, NY
b. Beardstown, Illinois 1950
Heather Cox, Photo and Staple Collage
Heather Cox
New York, NY
b. Hammond, Indiana 1966
Jose Soto,
Terminalia: Sculptures of Light
Jose Soto
New York, NY
b. San Sebastian, PR 1976
Elan Cadiz, Scaffold Project
Portrait of Connie Lee
Connie Lee is an independent curator, public art leader and the founder of Art Lives Here, a non-profit arts organization that advocates for cultural equity. Creating opportunities for under recognized artists, Women, LGBTQIA+, AAPI, and BIPOC artists and also providing access to art in communities that are often excluded by bringing quality public art installations, exhibitions, performances and educational programming to people where they live, work and gather with friends and family. The organization is currently working collaboratively with approximately 50 artists from New York City, the United States and beyond.
JVS Project Space was created in response to the high demand for studio and exhibition space by Julio Valdez Studio, LLC. The street level gallery is located in East Harlem with artist studios above. Artists, curators and collectors gather here in support of the uptown arts community.
Exhibition Programming:
An art workshop for young people, between the ages of 9 and 12 who live in the East Harlem neighborhood where the gallery is located. Taking place on 3 consecutive Saturdays, participants will work with each of the artists and will be given an opportunity to create their own work which will be installed in the hallway gallery and on view during the closing weekend of the exhibition.
Workshop dates:
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Saturday, October 22, 2022
Saturday, October 29, 2022
2:00 - 4:00 pm.
The youth workshop is sponsored by Carol Paik, Collaborating Artist member of Art Lives Here
Founded in 2013 by artist Julio Valdez, JVS Project Space provides NYC exhibiting opportunities and other services for emerging artists by artists.