Closing Event: Something Broke
Friday, November 5, 2021
Silkscreen Station: 4–7 pm
Virtual Performance by Mariela Scafati: 4:30 pm
97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY
Join us next Friday for an event to mark the closing of Something Broke: 2011–Windows–2021 by Mariela Scafati.
$25 requested donation per attendee; free for members of Storefront. Tote bags and t-shirts will be provided; guests can also bring their own (light colored, pre-ironed) items to print. Storefront’s membership program allows us to remain open and is crucial to our ability to present new work in the gallery space and beyond.
Drawing upon the artist’s installation at Storefront as well as her work as one of the founders of Serigrafistas Queer (Queer Silkscreeners), attendees are invited to learn the method of silkscreening in order to print on t-shirts and tote bags with an original design by Scafati (pictured above). T-shirts and tote bags will be provided by Storefront for the event, and guests can also bring their own (light-colored and ironed) cloth items to print on. At 4:30 pm, a live virtual performance, Kamishibai Windows (presented by the artist in person from ArteBA in Buenos Aires) will be screened from inside the gallery space and on Storefront’s instagram at @storefrontnyc.
Please note that in accordance with New York State regulations, proof of vaccination will be required to enter the gallery space.
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About the Exhibition
“A self portrait in reds and pinks,” offers Scafati. Something Broke is a diary of the personal and the collective, in the form of paintings that are both poems and protest signs. It’s a window into the artist’s body as a painter, a teacher, an activist, a queer silkscreener, and – as of recently – a mother. It’s a spectrum of visceral crimsons.
These reds and pinks emerge from the artist’s bonds of affection through activism, and from an entanglement of art, politics, and life. They are windows that frame the subjectivities of a body that seeks to inhabit other ways of being.
Support
With special thanks to Diego Bianchi, curator of the performance program at ArteBA 21.
The silkscreen printing station at this event supports Works in Progress, a nonprofit organization that provides printing services and education.
Storefront’s programming is made possible through general support from BKSK; DS+R; KPF; Steven Holl Architects; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and by Storefront’s Board of Directors, members, and individual donors.
