NEWS
Studio Museum in Harlem Residency Program
Oct.1 2012 - Sept. 15, 2013
144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027
FORE
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Nov. 8, 2012 - March 10, 2013
144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027
The Bearden Project
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
August 16 - October 21, 2012
One Dimension
Rush Arts Gallery
July - August 2012
526 W 26th St.
New York, NY 10001
Rush Arts Gallery Residency Program
July - August 2012
526 W 26th St.
New York, NY 10001
ARTIST STATEMENT
Cullen Washington, Jr.
The endless expansive possibility of outer space and its potential mirror image in the equally endless stretches of asphalt in our urban neighborhoods are the primary sites of imagination from my Louisiana childhood that continue to define the spatial parameters of my work.
However, it is the specific immediacy of “place” that is the catalyst for each new work or series of works. “Place” means to me a unique set of physical/cultural/historic fragments salvaged at a particular point in time from my immediate surroundings. Found objects, literary and visual texts, snatches of conversation, gesture, continuous histories, cultural
referents -- all are potential ‘materials.’
A visual dialogue ensues -- between the potential of a boundless cosmo/politan spatial imaginary and a freighted set of sited fragments of the all-too-limited real worlds we inhabit. This is what drives my creative practice.
Studio Museum in Harlem Residency Program
Oct.1 2012 - Sept. 15, 2013
144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027
FORE
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Nov. 8, 2012 - March 10, 2013
144 W 125th St., New York, NY 10027
The Bearden Project
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
August 16 - October 21, 2012
One Dimension
Rush Arts Gallery
July - August 2012
526 W 26th St.
New York, NY 10001
Rush Arts Gallery Residency Program
July - August 2012
526 W 26th St.
New York, NY 10001
ARTIST STATEMENT
Cullen Washington, Jr.
The endless expansive possibility of outer space and its potential mirror image in the equally endless stretches of asphalt in our urban neighborhoods are the primary sites of imagination from my Louisiana childhood that continue to define the spatial parameters of my work.
However, it is the specific immediacy of “place” that is the catalyst for each new work or series of works. “Place” means to me a unique set of physical/cultural/historic fragments salvaged at a particular point in time from my immediate surroundings. Found objects, literary and visual texts, snatches of conversation, gesture, continuous histories, cultural
referents -- all are potential ‘materials.’
A visual dialogue ensues -- between the potential of a boundless cosmo/politan spatial imaginary and a freighted set of sited fragments of the all-too-limited real worlds we inhabit. This is what drives my creative practice.
