First Thursday Exhibitions & October Programs
In-Person Happenings at Blue Sky
Sep 29 - Oct 9 2021
Wednesday, September 29: Meet & Greet with Richard Brown
5:30 - 6:30 PM at Blue Sky. For the health and safety of the artists, Blue Sky staff, and attendees, we are limiting the number of attendees at the talk. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
To launch our Blue Sky Book Club, we invite you to a “meet and greet” with the activist and photographer, Richard Brown, as he shares some words about his recently published memoir, This Is Not For You, (OSU Press), our inaugural “Book Club Book.”
Limited copies of the book will be available for purchase at Blue Sky. The book is also available at Powell’s and Amazon. Richard will be available to sign books.
Manal Abu-Shheen, Upside Down, Beirut, Lebanon, 2021
Noelle Mason, Backscatter Blueprint (Vientra de la Bestia), 2020
First Thursday, October 7
Join us for extended evening hours from 6 - 8 PM.
Join us as we celebrate the opening of Manal Abu-Shaheen’s exhibition, Maping Utopia, and Noelle Mason’s exhibition, X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility.
Blue Sky is pleased to announce Mapping Utopia, an exhibition of photographs by Manal Abu-Shaheen. Mapping Utopia is a selection of landscape and street photographs from Manal Abu-Shaheen’s ongoing series based in Beirut, where she was born. Shot on location, this series began with exploring advertising and urban construction, two of the driving forces of Beirut’s economy.
Blue Sky is pleased to announce the 2019 Critical Mass Solo Exhibition, X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility by Noelle Mason. X-Ray Vision vs. Invisibility is a body of work about the phenomenological effects of vision technologies on the perception of undocumented immigrants. The images used in this series were collected from the Border Patrol and border-watching vigilante websites.
Noelle Mason, Backscatter Blueprint (The Deposition), 2020
Thursday, October 7: Artist Talk with Noelle Mason
5 - 6 PM at Blue Sky. For the health and safety of the artists, Blue Sky staff, and attendees, we are limiting the number of attendees at the talk. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Noelle Mason (American, b. 1977) has shown nationally and internationally including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Orlando Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. They are the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant, Jerome fellowship, Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant, the Florida Prize for Contemporary Art and the Southern Prize. They hold a BA in both theatre and fine arts from the University of California, Irvine and received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Noelle currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Art at the University of South Florida and is the Founding Director and Curator of Parallelogram Gallery in Tampa, FL.
Manal Abu-Shheen, Dukkan, Beirut, Lebanon, 2021
Saturday, October 9: Artist Talk with Manal Abu-Shaheen
11 - 12 PM at Blue Sky. For the health and safety of the artists, Blue Sky staff, and attendees, we are limiting the number of attendees at the talk. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Manal Abu-Shaheen (Lebanese-American, b. 1982) was born in Beirut and currently lives and works in the Bronx, NY. Her solo exhibitions include 2d Skin, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY; Theater of Dreams, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ; and Beta World City, LORD LUDD, Philadelphia, PA. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY Old Westbury, NY; The Society of Korean Photography, Seoul, Korea; Queens Museum, NY; and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY. She is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship Grant, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, A.I.R Gallery Fellowship, and AIM Residency at the Bronx Museum. Abu-Shaheen holds a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and M.F.A in Photography from Yale School of Art. She teaches at The City College of New York.
New COVID policies at Blue Sky
To support the safety of our visitors, artists, staff and volunteers, beginning October 4, 2021, Blue Sky requires proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or proof of a negative COVID-19 test (within 48 hours) to visit the gallery, for all guests 12 and older. This is also our policy for any scheduled events, which require pre-registration. Regardless of vaccination status, masks must be worn when inside the gallery.
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