Sifu Sun
Mikey Cabezas
Grace Marie Dewitt
Open October 31 - November 15 by appointment - email info@rhizomedc.org
Soft opening October 31 * 2-7pm * one person/pod at a time
Sifu Sun
Mikey Cabezas: “ticonderoga” is a show of drawings and sculptures that I’ve made within the past couple years. They’re all anecdotal and derived from specific memories, whether recent or from my childhood. As I draw, and my thoughts shift from childhood to the present, the image-rendering changes from playful to lifelike. They are meant to be sarcastic and funny. All of the work will be for sale at the Flea Market hosted by Rhizome DC on November 15th to benefit DC Books to Prisons.
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Grace Marie Dewitt - I use photography, videography, and drawing to redistribute agency and importance to objects and materials. By working in ways that document and honor displaced matter, I attempt to recognize and connect to the past and future of things. I sympathize with materials as a way of piecing together my own ideas about mortality, endurance, worship, vulnerability, worth, inevitability, and humility.
I am moved by the residual kinship that humans share with the materials around them. After evolving from common matter, we now witness a geological epoch that forecasts demise for both living and nonliving things equally. I work in pursuit of a visual language for this interconnectivity, one which elevates materials beyond their relation to humans.
How might an object's experiences contribute to the common story of our existence——how might materials signal a critical narrative of both life and death?
Bio: Grace Marie DeWitt (she/her) is a Maryland-based interdisciplinary artist integrating installation, video, printmaking, photography, and writing. DeWitt received a B.A. in Studio Art and a B.S. in Pre-Veterinary Science from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP), where she also participated in the UMCP Departmental Honors Program: an intensive year of studio practice, curation, and exhibition. Her work was selected for Director's Choice from Viridian Artists NYC and the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts in 2019. She was a finalist for the CyberWire Women in Cybersecurity 2018 Design, and was awarded the UMCP Colonel Wharton Award in 2018 and the Jules Maidoff Award for Artistic Excellency from the Studio Arts College International in Florence in 2016. DeWitt's studio is located in Brentwood, Maryland. https://www.gracemariedewitt.com/