Catharine Clark Gallery returns to The Armory Show with a Focus section presentation – Booth F24 -- of works by Arleene Correa Valencia and Stephanie Syjuco. Selected by Candice Hopkins, Director and Chief Curator of Forge Project, galleries in this year’s edition of Focus feature solo and dual artist presentations that tell under-represented stories by tethering material, image, and form in unexpected ways.
Correa Valencia and Syjuco came to the United States as young children, and their projects for The Armory Show reflect on migration and citizenship through an expansive artistic vocabulary – painting, textile, and drawing for Correa Valencia; textile, sculpture, photography, and printmaking for Syjuco. Through their layered, rigorous, and often poetic work, Correa Valencia and Syjuco invite us to consider how we care for displaced people; how we tell the complex histories of communities outside of those in the dominant narrative; and how we can better uphold the promises of the American Dream
