At the Bronx Biennial, the Promise of New Voices
Nytimes reports that the Bronx Museum’s AIM Biennial, titled “Forms of Connection,” favors modest ambitions and the nurturing of new voices over producing a sweeping statement about contemporary art. The biennial serves as the cap to the museum’s Artist in the Marketplace fellowship, a 45-year program that offers yearlong professional development in practical matters such as financial literacy, archive maintenance and time management to prepare emerging artists for the realities of a career in art.
Organized by Patrick Rowe and Nell Klugman, the seventh edition includes 28 artists from New York, Florida, Israel, South Korea, Cuba, Peru and New Jersey. Works address identity, migration, resiliency and diasporic memory, and range from Jennifer Teresa Villanueva’s elegiac cyanotypes and Motohiro Takeda’s burned-wood dinghy to Jordan Corine Cruz’s votive-wax bench.
United States, Bronx, New York