making the invisible visible
October 31, 2019 – January 3, 2020
Curated exhibition at The Temple
as Hexus Collective
Image documentation by Erynn McConnell
Featuring works by Faith Wilding, Suchitra Mattai, Mary Grace Bernard, Xuna Eternal, Eileen Roscina, Wyatt Scott, Laura Beacom, Viviane Le Courtois, Andi Todaro, Tya Anthony, Todd Herman, Lesley Craig, Catherine Nelson & JJ Austin, Julio Alejandro in collaboration with Hexus Collective, & Michael Sperandeo.
The exhibition emphasizes the altar as a vehicle for ritual exchange between humans & the divine. By presenting contemporary altars as platforms of resistance, altar-makers illustrate the potential of the altar as a tool for reclaiming power and agency from mainstream institutions. The exhibition also reflects the banishment of magic & magic practitioners to the margins of society & the forced development of secretive practices. Thus, featured artists are presented with the opportunity to negate this secrecy, while also revealing the concept of alterity, or “otherness,” in their multiple interwoven identities.
2015
Ink & acrylic on paper
A series of sixty-five works
Video documentation by Brighton Linge
Image documentation by MG Bernard
Revised: 4/15/24; 5/12/24; 5/16/24
2015: Sixty-Five Roses Challenge, Mid-City Theater, New Orleans, LA
2015: Sixty-Five Roses for Cystic Fibrosis, Amanda Sibley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
A two-month long project to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis. All funds earned from artwork sales were donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.