We've been alerted to under-the-radar curator Heather-Marie Davis and now note her new show The Occidental Artist at NURTUREart in the still white-hot Williamsburg area of Brooklyn.
Davis, an independent curator and artist in her own right, teaches at the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia and has been hitting on themes of exoticization, dislocation, racial stereotypes, and disobedience for the past several years. Says Davis, "My work is a result of internal family racism, reactionary revolutions, interracial relationships, and miscegenation." Davis holds an MA from SAIC and has been curating in small venues since 2002.
The Occidental Artist treats similar themes, specifically focusing on artists who reference cultures outside of their own ancestral or personal identity. The artists in this exhibition are Aileen Bassis, Katherine Daniels, Yuji Hiratsuka, Tamar Hirschl, Vandana Jain, Jason Lujan, Franky Laude, Alice Mizrachi, Sophie Sanders, and Karen Tam. This exhibition is a NUTUREart Emerging Curators' Program collaboration and runs through June 10.
