WIND FELLOWS 2023: In Partnership with InLiquid Gallery

This exhibition showcases the stunning contemporary work of artists from diverse backgrounds, bringing them into vivid communication with one another. These conversations contend with profound elements of the human experience, weaving together themes surrounding marginalized identities, femininity, spirituality, and the man - and beast - built worlds that surround us. By exploring these themes through mediums which range from paint and murals to prints and sculpture, the Wind Fellow recipients collectively push the boundaries of medium and message, creating a nuanced platform to ask questions about ourselves and the places we inhabit.

“InLiquid is excited to showcase a new generation of Philadelphia’s talented, diverse visual artists,” says Founder and Executive Director Rachel Zimmerman. “We are especially thrilled to be able to use our platform and resources to support their artistry at a time that is so difficult and devoid of opportunity for so many.”

"My work tells a story that has presence, mystery, and relationship of color euphoria altogether. Currently, movement and memory have been a large inspiration for my figurative and portrait paintings. I’m inspired to create pieces that reflect daily how the body changes and adapts within elements of pleasure, growth, and bliss."

"The purpose of this work is to highlight the intersections of trauma, joy, and liberation I experience as a Brown person and allow for the creation of an impossible space for others who may feel the same. This installation is a recognition, exploration, and acceptance of a constant state of racial and cultural indeterminacy."

"My work is an effort in remembering, belonging, and an exploration of human emotion. It inspired by emotional pain, suffering, connection, spirituality, and the things we most deeply already know."

"My pieces examine the perceived psyche of the modern woman, utilizing ancient mythology and symbolism, creating a dichotomy that tells a new story. I aim to illustrate how we think of womanhood in cultural and historical contexts, and how this thought has both shifted and remained over time."

"When I paint portraits, most of which are of African Americans, the skin tones I choose are made up of various colors. I strive to express the energy or mood that exudes from within them but also the resonating energy that comes from within me. It feels almost like an exchange of vibration or force between artist and subject."

"I reference constructed systems created as a result of human’s yearning to organize the world around us, to grip on things that are ultimately unknowable. I explore pre-existing theories through physical and metaphysical landscapes and examine fossilized or fleeting traces of movement to analyze the different interpretations of this record."

"I have always been fascinated with materiality, resulting in my artistic exploration of various materials, and using them to explore texture, color, and perspective. My work often invites touch and asks the observer to explore it further with multiple senses. The final pieces are composed of tens to hundreds of linear feet of hand painted paper which I crumple, fold and arrange into the final piece."

"I paint as a healing practice to explore queer joy, reconciliation of trauma, chosen family, and the freedom of autonomy. Through paint, I reconstruct a home in which my identity is welcome as I meditate on the impact of trauma on the ebb and flow of my relationships. I build cryptic still lives, secret little love notes, nestled into chromatic elements that hold the naturality, joy, tenderness, simplicity, and heartache of authentic love."