In-person at Smack Mellon
Join us on Thursday, December 2 for an intimate Artist-Led Tour of Sara Jimenez’s installation at Smack Mellon, Roots Burrow Through Stones and Hard Facts, made in collaboration with musician/composer Lau Nau and with contributions by writer/activist Jason Schwartz. This project stems from the artist’s research into Binondo, Manilla’s current Chinatown neighborhood in the artist’s ancestral country of the Philippines. In combination with the sound, the installation takes shape through sculpture, suspended fabric, wallpaper, and flooring onto which the artist has overlaid imagery of textiles from Chinese, Spanish, and Filipinx origins, along with zoomed-in, digitized fragments from photographs of the architecture in Binondo and Intramuros. During this event, the artist will explore the histories and processes that led to the installation’s creation, and she will lead viewers on a guided tour.
This event is free, open to the public, and will be hosted in conjunction with Art in Dumbo’s First Thursday Gallery Walk.
Sara Jimenez is a Filipinx-Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Jimenez received her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design (2013). Jimenez has exhibited at the Pinto Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Rush Arts Gallery, BRIC Gallery, BronxArtSpace, FiveMyles Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum, and Smack Mellon, among others. She has performed at numerous venues including The Dedalus Foundation, The Noguchi Museum, Jack, The Glasshouse, and Dixon Place. She has been an artist in residence at various organizations, including Brooklyn Art Space, Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace, a full artist fellowship to The Vermont Studio Center, the Bronx Museum’s AIM program, Yaddo, BRICworkspace, Art Omi,, Project for Empty Space, LMCC’s Workspace and Bemis (upcoming). She is the recipient of the Cecily Brown Fellowship and has been listed as Smack Mellon’s “Hot Picks” in both 2018 and 2019. Her work was recently acquired as part of the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. She has received grants from NYFA for the Canadian Women’s Artist Award, as well as from Canada Council for the Arts. Jimenez teaches at Parsons the New School for Design, New York University, BMCC, and mentors graduate students at the Vermont College of Fine Art, and the School of Visual Arts. sarajimenezstudio.com
Image: Sara Jimenez, Roots Burrow Through Stones and Hard Facts, 2021, installation detail. Image Courtesy of the Artist.
This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York City Council Member Stephen Levin, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation, Select Equity Group Foundation, many individuals and Smack Mellon’s Members.
Smack Mellon’s programs are also made possible with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and with generous support from The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund of The New York Community Trust, Jerome Foundation, The Roy and Niuta Titus Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Inc., and Exploring The Arts. In-kind donations are provided by Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education.
Smack Mellon would like to extend a special thanks to all of the individuals, foundations, and businesses who have contributed to the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund.
Space for Smack Mellon’s programs is generously provided by the Walentas family and Two Trees Management.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
The artist would like to thank Lau Nau, Ryan O’Connor, Isabelle Schneider, Jason Schwartz, Katherine Weir, Keefe Murren, Gabriel de Guzman.
