Sleeper is a Player, works by Artist-in-Residence Erica Newton 

April 21 – May 20, 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, April 21, 6 – 8PM

Sleeper is a Player showcases new small works on plaster and large paintings on canvas by current DUMBO Artist-in-Residence Erica Newton (MFA 2022). In these works, Newton interrogates the dynamics of material and image memory, grappling with the thresholds of landscape and built environment, internal and external life.

Last time I entered the hill and saw the artificial light source  found it 
 made of long fluorescent tubing and a little painful on the eyes    feeling of exposure   contained, it was unkind light   outside it was joyous and still raining 

The double source   of the moon way off   making the horizon   a certain glow and then from behind, the artificial      the colors bright in a patch just beyond my reach 

Then there are the fleshy moments of disruption and revelation of surface and matter   the X points  unseen  developed into familiar not quite memory  – Erica Newton