NewCrits invites you to our third Second Tuesday Artist Talk with David Brooks at 8pm.

DavidBrooks is an artist whose work considers the relationship between the individual and the built and natural environment. His work investigates how cultural concerns cannot be divorced from the natural world, while also questioning the terms under which nature is perceived and utilized. Often displacing infrastructural frameworks to draw comparisons with natural processes, his sculptural interventions are more enacted than constructed – better read as performative scenarios than disembodied compositions.

NewCrits invites you to our second Second Tuesday Artist Talk with Heidi Lau at 8pm.

Heidi will be in conversation with artist, Ajay Kurian. Karaoke will follow.

Heidi Lau is a New York City based artist who grew up in Macau. Her primary materials are paper and ceramic. In her research-based work, Lau explores nostalgia, memory, and the creation of history. Taoist cosmology influences much of her work, as do folk superstitions and Macau's colonial history. Lau is particularly interested in burial chambers as a transitional space in which a body teeters between personhood and objecthood.

NewCrits invites you to our first Second Tuesday Artist Talk with Jade Kuriki Olivo aka Puppies Puppies at 7pm.

DJ set by the artist will follow

Jade Kuriki Olivo aka Puppies Puppies is a conceptual, performance and installation artist. Her work often draws on the emotional resonance of found objects and shared experiences to explore existential themes like love, intimacy, mortality, power relations and states of being. Until 2018 her works were created anonymously – the name Puppies Puppies revealed neither gender or origin, nor whether a group or just a single individual was behind the pseudonym. Stepping away from this unattributed artistic persona became central to of a series of works beginning in 2018 that coincided with the transitioning of the artist to Jade Kuriki Olivo. In the years since, her activist practice and commitment to the rights of BIPOC transgender, gender non conforming, two spirit + minorities has increasingly become a focal point in her artistic work. In recent years, Kuriki Olivo has used exhibition invitations to draw attention to issues surrounding this community, as well as inviting artists to exhibit either alongside her or in her place.