Join us from the comfort of your own home for an online celebration of new exhibitions, artists, and ideas.
Stop by online for a virtual exhibition tour and talk with Target Gallery Solo Exhibition artist Tai Hwa Goh and an introduction to Post Grad artists Ashley Llanes and Luis A Navas-Reyes. The night culminates with the featured Late Shift event: a special “Art & Allies” conversation with 2018 Post Grad resident artist Lyric Prince, 2016 Post Grad resident Dani Smith, local activist Lexie Gruber, and Adriel Luis, Curator of Digital and Emerging Media at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
Schedule of Activities:
- 7:00 – 7:05 pm: Introduction
- 7:05 – 7:20 pm: Target Gallery: Tai Hwa Goh Solo Exhibition Tour and Talk
- 7:20 – 7:30 pm: Post Grad Residents: Introducing Ashley Llanes and Luis A Navas-Reyes
- 7:30 – 8:25 pm: Featured Late Shift Talk: “Art & Allies”
- 8:25 – 8:30 pm: Closing Remarks
About the “Art & Allies” Panelists
Lyric Prince
Born and raised in Richmond, VA, Lyric Prince received her B.A. in Fine Arts from Saint Joseph’s University, and has completed a M.S. in Science, Technology, and Society from Drexel University in Philadelphia. Her practice is project-specific: it includes writing on science and art, crafting digital installations, creating paper sculpture, and completing large-scale drawings/paintings in live settings. She currently lives and works in Northern Virginia.
Dani Smith
Dani was born in Monterey, California, and received her BFA from the California College of the Arts in the California Bay Area and a Masters of Fine Art at The George Washington University in Washington D.C.
Using figurative painting and conceptual portraiture Dani’s studio practice will illustrate examples of modern black female misrepresentations, its various forms of consequences, as well as executions of resistance against prevailing ideologies.
Through personal experiences of racial trauma, Dani hopes she can provide a voice to anyone who has felt marginalized or has been victimized through misrecognition while broadening the space allowed for women of color to define and tell their own stories.
Dani is currently living London, England where she will start Ph.D. program in Visual Culture this fall where she will analyze the extent in which art can be sociologically constructed to ignite a psychological process within art patrons that transforms prejudiced perspectives while concurrently functioning as a tool for social re-conditioning and political protest.
Adriel Luis
Adriel Luis is a community organizer, artist, and curator who believes that our collective imagination can make a reality where we all thrive. His life’s work is focused on bridging artistic integrity and social vigilance. He is a part of the iLL-Literacy arts collective, which creates music and media to strengthen Black and Asian American coalitions; is creative director of Bombshelltoe, which works with artists to highlight marginalized communities affected by nuclear issues; and collaborates with dozens of artists and organizations through his curate and design engine, Phenomenoun. Adriel is the Curator of Digital and Emerging Practice at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, where he advocates for under-served communities to be treated and represented equitably by museums and institutions. He and his team has been curating Culture Labs — an alternative to museum exhibitions, built on community-centered beliefs.
Adriel has curated shows at the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building in Washington, D.C., Silo Park in Auckland, and an abandoned supermarket in Honolulu. His writing has appeared in Poetry Magazine, the Asian American Literary Review, and Smithsonian Magazine. He has spoken at the Tate Modern, Yale University, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the China Academy of Fine Arts. His performance venues include the Brooklyn Academy of Music, SXSW, the John F. Kennedy Center, and the American University of Paris. He has a degree in human sciences from UC Davis in Community and Regional Development, with a focus on ethnic studies.
Lexie Gruber
Lexie Gruber is passionate about re-imagining government services that serve as lifelines for Americans. Lexie currently works as a management consultant in the Health and Public Service at Accenture. In this role, she works with government agencies use modern technology and innovative design practices to improve how the government serves and interacts with citizens. Lexie also serves on the advisory board of Children’s Rights, a national legal organization that works to reform the U.S. foster care system. Outside of work, Lexie is a classical pianist and avid outdoorswoman.
