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Patch featured Pace University Art Gallery’s latest exhibition in "Pace University Art Gallery Presents The Night Gardener"
Pace University Art Gallery is pleased to present The Night Gardener, the first solo exhibition in New York by Brooklyn-based printmaker Simonette Quamina. The exhibit will be open for in-gallery viewing appointments through November 24, 2020 at the 41 Park Row location. Street-level window viewing will continue through January 17, 2021.
The inspiration for Quamina's new body of work in The Night Gardener exhibit came from one of her frequent late-night writings, "I left my story at the side of the road, carefully tucked away in a green glass bottle of hope." Quamina's artworks collectively function as a bildungsroman, a coming of age story told in layered black and white flashbacks to her childhood moving between Canada, Guyana, St. Vincent, and the United States.
She states: "They are narratives that re-evaluate perceptions of cultural, racial and social norms, while simultaneously challenging preconceived, romanticized ideas of the Caribbean."
