RED HONEYMOON

Sat Jun 26 2021 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

220 Front St | New York

RED HONEYMOON
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Something Blue invites you to Red Honeymoon:
A group exhibition evening centered around processes of becoming and change.
About this Event

Performance by Ali Asgar Tara (They/Them) , experimental animations by Alexandra Zevin (She/Her), and open studio with Ella Goodine Richardson (She/Her). Open studio space made possible by Chashama. @chashama


Artists Bio:


Ali Asgar Tara(They/Them)

Born in 1991 in, Bangladesh; Ali Asgar Tara is a non-binary (they/them) artist from the Bengal Delta. As a transdisciplinary researcher, artist, activist, and scholar Ali’s hybrid practice utilizes body, space, and personal narrative (archive/language/history and identity) to create political, site responsive, and community base cross-disciplinary collaborations.

Ali's original work has been featured, exhibited, and staged across the world including the 2014 and 2016 Dhaka Art Summits, the 2016 Kolkata International Performance Festival, the 2014 Dhaka Social Art Festival, and the Asian Art Biennial. Asgar has been exhibited and showcased in Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago, Space Gallery in Portland Maine, Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, Bullet Space, Panoply Performance Lab, Dixon Place, Bronx Academy of Art and Queens Museum in NYC, 7d11 Online performance festival, Trinitite square video and Onsite Gallery in Toronto, Asian Art Initiative in Philadelphia, City of Asylum in Pittsburgh and in many other major North American experimental performance spaces.

Ali's work has been reviewed by critique Hans Ulrich Obrist, Platform such as CoboSocial, and appeared in newspaper publications such as Dhaka Tribune, The Daily Star, The Daily Beast, Pittsburgh City Paper, Voyage Chicago. Asgar has shown their work as a visiting artist at the University of Maine, University of Connecticut, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Ontario College of Art and Design – OCAD, and University of California in Berkeley.

Asgar has earned a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and recently an MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago-SAIC, IL, USA.


Alexandra Zevin (She/Her)

I am a Brooklyn based interdisciplinary artist who often works collaboratively with social justice themes. I earned my MFA in painting at Columbia University and my BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I have exhibited in the U.S. and internationally at such venues as Cynthia Broan Gallery in New York and Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. I am a core member of People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street, a collective that helps front line communities to amplify their voice. I also co-facilitate But a Shadow of Myself, an intercultural project in which artists in New York and Cairo collaborate. I am the design coordinator for Sing in Solidarity Chorus. In 2016, I facilitated a collaborative project called Shadowing Our Waterways, sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council. Community members in New York and Cairo studied local waterways, made puppets and videos about them, and drew collaboratively.

The short animated videos in this exhibition are rooted in my studio practice, incorporating imagery from a range of time periods and texts: children's encyclopedias, comics, newspapers, children’s science texts, etc. They are often made in collaboration with political groups that I take part in, or address social justice issues that are important to me and my comrades.

The Luxury You Deserve, Our Fuel Oil, A Song of Souls Along Gowanus, and Animal News: No North Brooklyn Pipeline all address environmental justice issues. A Fierier Music Falls deals with immigration and policing as oppression. A-C-A-B is based on a musical composition by Josh Feintuch and addresses police violence and racist policing structures.


Ella Goodine-Richardson (She / Her)

Ella Goodine-Richardson is an artist and designer based in New York City. Every incident endows a structural intimacy that acts like a story or picture.

Ella is devoted to the care and wonder that comes from these very real and relevant parts of our lives. Ella yearns to divine the sculptural content of the past in an exacting iteration. The thongs and camisoles made become refracted emanations; they appear as if engraved in a watery mirror- a place where someone can experience their own sensuality and excitement. All the ritual and ceremony of garment-making throughout history has been in some sense an act of service. There is inarguably an ethic of care in a craft that is as necessary as the needle and thread. For Ella, making lingerie retrieves and ransoms a historical tradition.

something blue is a lingerie and bridal shop by Ella Goodine-Richardson in the heart of the Seaport district. The store and its contents are inspired by the beautiful rivers and sea waters surrounding the island of Manhattan, the unceded territory of the Lenape. Designer Ella Goodine-Richardson describes, “These waters, like all water, are the most precious thing on Earth. Stories evoking water have besotted the world since life first sprung from it. Who hasn’t drunk deep such vivid enchantment?”

In her collection, something blue, vintage silks, and linens become one-of-a-kind undergarments and epithalamium. Every piece is hand-sewn custom to her client’s form in-house. The sculptural elements of each object retrieve the illusory, seductive capacities of water: “another’s ecstasy, another’s melancholy”. Goodine-Richardson says “With all its metaphor and subterfuge, water simply sustains life. Perhaps water contains some ineffable, original pleasure?” Over the course of three months, Ella will welcome visitors to something blue as a way of celebrating spring, fine silk, and exploring the history of water in this historical neighborhood.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

220 Front St, 220 Front Street, New York, United States

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