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Harvest: The Art of Standing Together
Fri Sat, June 20-21, 2025: 12pm to 8pm
Sun, June 22, 2025: 12pm to 6pm
Studio 616 NYC
616 E 9th St,
New York, NY 10009
Opening Reception
Thursday, June 19, 2025, 6pm to 8pm
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“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” — Gwendolyn Brooks, in tribute to Paul Robeson
vignette and Studio 616 NYC are pleased to announce the group exhibition Harvest: The Art of Standing Together. On view from June 20-22, 2025 at 616 E 9th St, New York, NY 10009, this dynamic exhibition features 16 New York-based artists whose backgrounds span academic training, self-directed practice, and careers in education and community engagement. Together, their work reflects a shared commitment to creativity, solidarity, and collective expression, inviting people with divergent opinions, perspectives, and life experiences to find ways to connect and embrace their differences through art.
From envisioning fantastical futures built from the wreckage of crisis, to honoring the resilience embedded in tradition and craft, the artists featured in Harvest: The Art of Standing Together collectively explore how connection, whether inherited, imagined, or newly formed, can be a radical act of survival and solidarity. Through layered symbolism, tactile expression, and poetic abstraction, the artworks invite viewers to sit with uncertainty, to celebrate the overlooked, and to confront the illusions of clarity and progress. Whether through acts of remembrance, resistance, or renewal, the exhibition asks: what does it mean to stand together when the ground beneath us is shifting? In navigating grief, chaos, and dislocation, Harvest becomes a call to feel, to reflect, and to reimagine the power of collective care and shared futures.
Harvest: The Art of Standing Together includes work by Anastasia Lopoukhine, Andrea Luper, Celine Lam, Duwenavue Johnson, Ismene Roque, Kathryn Murray, Lindsay Lieber, Magali, A Cult, Maya Ciarrocchi, Nikita Seleznev, Piper Grant, Scott Sherman, Sefa Ozdogan, Serena Buschi, Sierra Orosco, and William Gary.
After meeting in the Fall of 2024, and realizing their common vision of supporting visual artists with a focus on community-building, Studio 616 NYC & vignette decided to collaborate on a group show, in response to the current social climate. vignette is a creative initiative founded by Sophie Collinet that aims to create opportunities where early-career visual artists can connect directly with their intended audience. Studio 616 NYC is a creative space in the East Village of New York City with the intent of bringing artists and audiences together to engage and share thoughts and experiences.
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Rebirthing The Unwanted
December 12-13, 2024, 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
Kinescope Gallery
616 E 9th St,
New York, NY 10009
Opening Reception
Thursday, December 12, 2024, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
vignette is pleased to announce its inaugural group exhibition, Rebirthing The Unwanted. On view December 12-13, 2024 at Kinescope Gallery, 616 E 9th St, New York, NY 10009, this exciting group exhibition features 21 New York-based artists ranging from BFA & MFA students at SVA and Columbia University to some of today's most innovative voices in New York.
The exhibition brings together emerging and mid-career artists who explore the impact of mainstream value judgments on individuals in today's advanced stage of capitalism. Simply put, visual and sound artists whose practice examines how we evaluate objects, people, and places as "junk", "trash", or "dirt" invite us to reflect on our popular moral judgment of taste as "trashy”.
From analyzing objects and memories from our childhood to using discarded materials in artworks to question our perceived value of trash, to critiquing the damage caused by societal norms and overconsumption, the artists featured in Rebirthing The Unwanted successfully assist visitors in questioning the roots of their judgmental system and allow us to re-evaluate the need we feel to discard and renew certain people, places, and objects in our lives.
Rebirthing The Unwanted includes work by Alejandro Valencia, Alex Syrenova, Claudia Shi, Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Emily Glass, Hyunjun Yang, Jada Hairston, José Taborda, Koji Taylor & Aldo Aguilar, Kutay Tufekci, Laureline Edde, Léo Zhang, Magali, A Cult, Marisa Desimoni-Lage, Paloma Dubois, Ridwana Rahman, Ruby Driscoll, William Gary, Yasmin Lindemann, and Yshao Lin.
vignette is a creative project developed by Sophie Collinet as part of her Master's program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is grateful for Dr. Jennifer Lena's support, trust, and opportunity to explore the curriculum of the Trash Art class through a group exhibition. Dr. Lena will evaluate the curation and exhibition statement.