Community Arts Grantee: JH Art Talks

Location: Espresso 77
35-57 77th Avenue
Jackson Heights, NY 11372

7:00 PM - Doors open (happy hour until 8pm)
8:00 PM - Presentations begin

Please join JH Art Talks for an artist talk on Wednesday, April 17 at 8 pm at Espresso 77 cafe in Jackson Heights, NY, as they open their 2024 artist talk season!

Artist Hon Eui Chen will present a short talk about their embroidery work. Hon will be followed by featured artist Marcy Chevali, who will discuss their glass sculptures.

Event will also be live streamed via JH Artist Talks' FB page.
 

Marcy Chevali is an artist based in New York. She has shown work in galleries and artists’ spaces including Queens Museum of Art, Noyes Museum, Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Aicon Gallery, AIR Gallery, and Gallery Aferro, and with organizations such as South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, ABC No Rio, Project for an Empty Space, 4heads and Peculiar Works Projects. She has attended numerous residencies including Playa, Edward Albee Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Kimmel Harding Nelson, and Urban Glass. In 2021 she was awarded a Ron Desmett Memorial Award for Imagination With Glass from Pittsburgh Glass Center. She has received grants from the Queens Council of the Arts) and FST Studio Projects. Using materials including glass, wire, yarn, thread and pencil, her work addresses absence, temporality, intimacy, distance, fragility, strength and the tension that can exist between disparate themes. She often uses the net or grid in her work because of its ability to expand and for its ambiguity, it can be threatening like a fishing net or reassuring like a safety net.

Instagram @marcychevali

Hon Eui Chen. “Born in a refugee camp between Cambodia and Thailand, I moved with my family to Mississippi at the age of eight. Growing up, my identity was informed by my sense of belonging and not belonging to the southern culture in Mississippi. As my memories of my childhood on the Thai-Cambodia border become more and more faint as the years go by, the need to remember, to retrieve those childhood memories of a past life, has remained a constant drive in my work.
 
In my current body of work, I explore the reverie of time and the idea of home. The subject of home is an abstract concept and the motivational force for my studio pursuits. Using yarns and a needle, I stitch landscapes to convey themes of identity, memory and longing. The concept of journey and memory are embedded in the current series of embroidered paintings.
 
My work seeks to simulate the impermanence of memory, the fleetingness of its existence, creating forms that translate the mind’s formless but living past into physical material and sensation and transforming space that poetically simulates a timeless place for recollection and dreams.” 

Instagram @honeuichen____
 

April 17th: Marcy Chevali and Hon Eui Chen
May 15th: Daniela Gomez Paz and Max Benjamin Sarmiento
June 12th: Micki Watanabe Spiller and Sam Ita
Additional dates and artists TBA

For more info, visit: https://jharttalks.com