Saturday October 1 * 7-9pm * MASKS REQUIRED * RSVP
Come celebrate the opening of four new exhibits at Rhizome!
Lucas J Rougeux - The Soul, Gravity-Guided, to Black
Nami Oshiro - Idolatry of the Ugly
Adrien Picquenot - Expressions
After the birth of her first child, Kanchan Balsé began painting to channel intense postpartum feelings and to contest the unrealistic and harmful expectations society places on mothers. Blending figurative and abstract elements, she works intuitively to create images that challenge romanticized depictions of family life and society.
Lucas J Rougeux explores themes of sexuality, queerness, spirituality, astrophysics, and the intangible unknown. His work has been inspired by astrophysics, light, sensation of the body, the queerness of identity, religion, and poetry. True to his interdisciplinary education, Lucas utilizes a multitude of media including oil and watercolor paint, ink, charcoal and graphite, spray paint, performance art, installation sculpture, textiles, and printmaking.
Nami Oshiro is an artist based in the Washington DC-Metro area. She makes drawings, paintings, and comics. Her work plays with absurdities experienced by people with unique relationships with societal constructs like race and gender. Viewers have described her art as "trippy," "unsettling," "nihilistic," and "very upsetting to my friend Daniel."
Adrien Picquenot arrived in DC from France a few months ago, for a post-doctoral research position. Concurrently to his academic career, he maintains a diverse artistic production, ranging from the direction of stop motion or live action short films and music videos to painting and modeling.