Through Mesmerizing Mandalas Featuring Pink Handsewn Petals, Chain Links, and Vintage Linens, The Artist Explores The Dualities of Tenderness and Strength
(NEW YORK, NY — October 27, 2022) — Times Square Arts, the largest public platform for contemporary performance and visual arts, is pleased to present MENDED by multidisciplinary artist Zoë Buckman for the month of November as part of the organization’s signature Midnight Moment series. MENDED is presented in partnership with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
Midnight Moment is the world’s largest, longest-running digital art exhibition, synchronized on over 90 electronic billboards throughout Times Square nightly from 11:57pm to midnight. This year, Times Square Arts is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the Midnight Moment series with a roster of all women artists until April 2023.
To celebrate Buckman’s Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts will host a live performance on November 11 beginning at 11:15pm in Duffy Square featuring music by Dave Guy and Homer Steinweiss, culminating with MENDED. QR codes located around Times Square will link to the soundtrack.
Through a multidisciplinary practice including sculpture, public installations, ceramics, and photography, Buckman examines identity, trauma, grief, and empowerment with a decidedly feminist approach. Confronting gendered violence as a subject matter, Buckman utilizes contradicting materials highlighting the differences between soft and hard, feminine and masculine, and intimacy and aggression. In MENDED, kaleidoscopic visuals weave together imagery and motifs found throughout Buckman’s work - footage of boxing gloves, domestic textiles, metal chains, and florals. The resulting video allows the viewer to participate in the swing from chaos to introspection, feelings often accompanied by the various stages of grief.
MENDED is an adaptation of work originally created for Loss Tapes, a collaborative digital series in which Buckman has continued her exploration of the assorted qualities of grief and power in the female experience. The original iteration of the work features an accompanying score by Dave Guy and Homer Steinweiss, whose rich tones of horns, percussion, and vintage synths infuse the escalating visual sequences with the feel of a victory march.
ABOUT ZOË BUCKMAN
Zoë Buckman was born in 1985 in Hackney, East London. She studied at The International Center of Photography (GS ‘09) and was awarded an Art Matters Grant in 2017. She has shown in solo exhibitions at Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles; Papillion Art, Los Angeles; Project for Empty Space, Newark; Garis & Hahn Gallery, Los Angeles; and Milk Gallery, New York. Group exhibitions include Camden Arts Centre, London; The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York; Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; The Tarble Arts Center, Illinois; Goodman Gallery, South Africa; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Unit London; NYU Florence, Grunwald Gallery of Art Gallery, Indiana University; The Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia; The National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta; and The National Museum of African-American History & Culture, Washington, D.C.; The Visual Arts Center of New Jersey; The Centre Regional D’Art Contemporain, Sète, France and Smack Mellon, New York. Public art installations include For Freedoms “50 State Initiative”, “Inaction is Apathy” billboard at 21c Museum Hotel Bentonville, Arkansas and “Champ” at The Standard, Downtown LA with Art Production Fund. Buckman currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
ABOUT PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY
Inaugurated in 1999, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is a leading contemporary art gallery that represents a diverse roster of emerging and established artists. Since moving to its current premises on Heddon Street in 2011, the gallery has focused on the representation of female artists, who now account for 90% of the programme. Renowned for its emphasis on institutional acquisitions, the gallery is proud to have placed significant artworks in museum collections worldwide.
ABOUT TIMES SQUARE ARTS
Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, collaborates with contemporary artists and cultural institutions to experiment and engage with one of the world's most iconic urban places. Through the Square's electronic billboards, public plazas, vacant areas and popular venues, and the Alliance's own online landscape, Times Square Arts invites leading contemporary creators, such as Mel Chin, Tracey Emin, Jeffrey Gibson, Ryan McGinley, Yoko Ono, and Kehinde Wiley, to help the public see Times Square in new ways. Times Square has always been a place of risk, innovation and creativity, and the Arts Program ensures these qualities remain central to the district's unique identity.
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