SENSE 2017 | AiOP - Art in Odd Places

– ABOUT –

Erika deVries

Erika deVries is a mother, artist, teacher, and fairy tale teller and believer. She works in photography, performance, neon, video and handcraft to create embodied experiences. Her neon works are handwritten transcriptions to her children and family, which crystallize moments when language and meaning coalesce. Erika teaches at NYU.

www.ErikasWonderlands.net

Beloved

Multiple sites along 14th Street

Oct 12 – Oct 15

This project pays homage to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beloved Community,” and his global vision that all people share the wealth of the Earth, where poverty, hunger and homelessness are not tolerated, and where an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood replaces racism and discrimination. This piece is about collecting the handwritten transcriptions of the word. Lynda Barry, describes handwriting as one of the last places that connects us to drawing in this age of digital devices. The works in this project are in the handwriting of residents of Lower Manhattan, the beginning of the series of open-ended “drawings”.

FlowerSchool New York, 213 W 14th Street

Rags-A-GoGo, 218 W 14th Street # A

Alchemical Theatre Laboratory, 104 W 14th Street

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