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NYSS Projects @ DUMBO: Sleeper is a Player, works by Artist-in-Residence Erica Newton
March 28, 2023 · NYSS in DUMBO

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