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    Longing for Attachment

    Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27, 2024

    ARTogether and Oakland Asian Cultural Center co-present “Longing for Attachment,” an exhibition curated by Bushra Gill featuring 30+ Bay Area 1st/2nd generation immigrant and refugee artists reflecting on the notion of attachments. 

     

    As immigrants, refugees, and their descendants, we make choices on what to hold onto and what to let go of when moving to another country or culture. Being too attached to a place or way of being can make it hard to form connections to anything new. But our connection to a place is also related to our quality of life and well-being– it links us to neighborhoods and communities where we have lived.  Anyone who has migrated from another country or grown up in an immigrant family knows these attachments run deep and true, not needing to be present to have a prominent place in our hearts.  

     

    We invite you to join us in reflection of our relationships to attachment, and to celebrate these Bay Area refugee, immigrant, and children of immigrant artists.

     

    Exhibition Dates: June 14 – July 27, 2024

    Gallery Hours: Wednesdays through Saturdays, 12 PM – 5 PM 

    Location: Oakland Asian Cultural Center

    388 9th St, Ste 290, Oakland, CA

    Check out the accompanying audio tour for this exhibition, facilitated by the curator Bushra Gill:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FewN3Nu0o8o

    Curator

    Bushra Gill is interested in finding order within the chaos of everyday life through art. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and emigrated to Houston, Texas, with her family as a small child. Drawn to art from a young age, she graduated from Pratt Institute in 1994, with a BFA in sculpture. She spent many years of working as a museum educator at various galleries and museums including The Museum of Modern Art, The Drawing Center and The Rotunda Gallery, while also working as a studio assistant to various artists including Maya Lin, Ursula von Rydingsvard and Maria Elena Gonzalez, as well as a career as a clothing designer and boutique owner in New York. In 2009, she moved to northern California with her family and returned to making art. In recent years, Gill has participated in many exhibitions in galleries across the United States.

    Exhibiting Artists

    Amanda Messina Gerodias

    Anita Sulimanovic

    Bushra Gill

    Christina Xu

    Chupis

    Dion

    Eva Agus

    Ezra Mara

    Fernanda Martinez

    Glish Group (Timofey Glinin & Anastasia Shubina)

    Hargun Mahal Mann 

    Jaide Lin

    Lark 

    León Hernandez

    Leyla Jamil Rzayeva

    Linah Sofi

    Lorraine Lawson

    Mariel Paat

    Martin Rodriguez Serrano

    Michelle Lin

    Narges Valibeigi

    Ngân Vũ

    Nhien Le

    Peter Gee

    Renacimiento

    Ria Sharma

    Russel Arelis

    Salma Arastu

    Shooting Within

    Tatiana Carvalho 

    Ujjayini Sikha

    Vreni Michelini Castillo 

    YouBeen Kim

    Yuting Wang

    Performing at the Opening Reception

    Nadhi Thekkek (@navadancesf) is a dancer, choreographer, and the Artistic Director of Nava Dance Theatre. Nadhi uses the south Indian dance form of bharatanatyam to navigate place, identity, and politics through the lens of her lived experience as a child of immigrants and an unapologetic South Asian, diasporic woman. She reimagines how bharatanatyam can serve marginalized narratives that need to occupy space in the US right now. Her latest work “Rogue Gestures/Foreign Bodies” sources community interviews, historical texts, and poetry to explore the intersections of labor, agency, and belonging in our South Asian ancestry. Through Nava Dance Theatre, Nadhi also produces and co-facilitates the Unrehearsed Artist Residency Program, where South Asian dancemakers create art that challenges the status quo.  For more information on Nadhi, visit www.navadance.org.
     

    Roopa Mahadevan (@roopama) is a leading second-generation Indian classical and crossover vocalist in the American diaspora known for her powerful, emotive voice and collaborative versatility. She leads Roopa in Flux, an ensemble featuring musicians in jazz, soul/R&B, and various global traditions, directs the innovative choir Navatman Music Collective, and sings for leading bharathanatyam/contemporary dancers. She is a soloist on Grammy Award-winning Calling All Dawns, and has been in residence at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Hedgebrook, MASS MOCA, and Ryder Farm. FOr more information visit, www.roopamahadevan.com.

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