March 21, 2024
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Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist based in London and New York. She earned her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University; MA in Art Education from New York University; and MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, the Virginia A. Myers Fellowship at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies including MacDowell, Bemis, Yaddo and LMCC Process Space. Smith’s recent exhibitions include her first solo museum exhibit, Monuments to an Effigy at the Queens Museum in NYC and a site-specific commission for the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in 2019. Alexandria currently has a solo exhibit, “Memoirs of a Ghost Girlhood: a Black Girl’s Window on view at the Currier Museum of Art (NH) and recently had a solo exhibit, “Pretend Gravitas and Dream Aborted Givens” at Gagosian Park and 75 (NYC). Alexandria is currently Head of Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.
Elizabeth Colomba was born in France and raised in Épinay-sur-Seine, from parents of Martinican descent. She lives and works in New York City. Elizabeth received a degree in applied art from the Estienne School of Art, Paris and also studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Drawing on Old Master techniques and sensibilities, Colomba’s incredibly detailed and rich paintings reclaim mythological, historical, and allegorical narratives from the long- standing legacy of portraiture. Her love of storytelling from a young age carries over into the paintings she does today, newly placing and lauding the Black figure into a pictorial narrative form from which it had been historically omitted.
Monique Long is a writer and independent curator based in New York City with experience in curatorial and program development across the United States. Her collaborations include institutions such as the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, and Guild Hall in East Hampton. Her exhibition, When the Children Come Home, is a solo presentation for David Antonio Cruz, currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. Long has contributed to arts publications widely, often writing about contemporary art, personal essays, and fashion history. She is also working on a book about Philadelphia and contemporary art.
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