Untitled Video Still from Night Watch film (Norris), Shimon Attie, 2018, Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Opening celebration for exhibitions, Sanctuary City Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City and Ademola Olugebefola: Afrofuturist

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2022 6-8PM

JOIN US FOR THE OPENING OF OUR TWO EXHIBITIONS!

Join artists and curators on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 to open Sanctuary City Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City and Ademola Olugebefola: Afrofuturist.

Sanctuary City: Three Artists Explore the Refugee Experience in New York City is an exhibition that looks at three artists— Shimon Attie, Catalina Antonio Granados, and Zac Hacmon — who investigate the complicated, nuanced, and unique experience of being a refugee in the United States. In the current moment of political unrest and war, looking at the experience of refugees in our own city provides a unique educational and emotional opportunity to understand society a little bit more.

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Ademola Olugebefola is an educator, activist, and multitalented artist. His practice encompasses graphic design, illustrations, theater set designs, printmaking, drawing, free-standing sculptures, and murals, among other artistic forms. Olugebefola played an important role in Harlem’s Black Arts Movement beginning in the mid 1960s with the founding of the Weusi Artists Collective, and he has continued to occupy a significant place in the community’s cultural networks since.

For his exhibition in the hallway gallery at HEHG, two large-scale paintings are in exhibition accompanied by a text written by Howard Singerman, Phyllis and Joseph Caroff Chair of Art and Art History at Hunter College.