Our latest Feature follows Jeffrey Meris as he and NXTHVN Curatorial Fellow Claire Kim connect Meris’ ongoing routine of “self-care Saturday” and his studio practice. Started amidst the chaos and violence of last summer’s Black Lives Matter protests and the COVID-19 pandemic, Meris’ practice involved setting aside time each week to pursue activities related to his own mental and physical well-being, whether that was cooking, exercising or caring for plants.
In our latest installment of Feature videos on the NXTHVN 2020-2021 fellows, we follow Esteban Ramón Pérez, an interdisciplinary artist from the Los Angeles area. Raised in his father's upholstery shop, Ramón Pérez incorporates materials from his youth, including leather and embroidery, to create monumental paintings such as Como La Flor (Toreado), 2021.
Our latest Feature on the 2020-2021 NXTHVN Fellows centers on Allana Clarke. In this video, watch Clarke discuss her sculptural works built of cocoa butter and hair bonding glue, materials that are not only related to Black personhood, but have historically been used to force fragmentations of self as a means of subscribing to Western standards of beauty.
Our second Feature on the 2020-2021 NXTHVN Fellows centers on Alisa Sikelianos-Carter. In this video, Sikelianos-Carter examines her multi-media work Meet Me on The Other Side (2021), through the lens of her role as a world-builder and mythology-maker.
