{"id":9255,"date":"2022-06-16T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2022-08-19T01:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T01:10:33","slug":"who-writes-history-at-the-artsexchange-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/who-writes-history-at-the-artsexchange-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Writes History?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9255\" class=\"elementor elementor-9255\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3d91bdb6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default qodef-elementor-content-no\" data-id=\"3d91bdb6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2264e4b6\" data-id=\"2264e4b6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d7f10b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d7f10b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>This new exhibition in downtown White Plains foregrounds a more inclusive recounting of the past and present. Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, participating artists explore how images and language (together and independently) shape our collective memory and mainstream narratives.<\/p><p>ArtsWestchester CEO Janet Langsam explains, \u201cWe are story-keepers\u00a0here and have become a repository of voices \u2013 the voices of women, immigrants, minorities, indigenous peoples \u2013 that echoed stories left\u00a0out of history books. This is one of the reasons we call ourselves the Arts Exchange.\u201d She continues, \u201cYears ago, banks were called exchanges, and we house our gallery in the former People\u2019s National Bank. Here in our home, we amplify diverse voices. As a community museum, we collect and reveal our peoples\u2019 pasts as well as\u00a0their future aspirations. Those voices that are most yearning to be heard are the voices in this exhibition.\u201d<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9526\" src=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RIDIKKULUZ_Nerdeen-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RIDIKKULUZ_Nerdeen-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RIDIKKULUZ_Nerdeen-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RIDIKKULUZ_Nerdeen-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RIDIKKULUZ_Nerdeen-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/venumagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/RIDIKKULUZ_Nerdeen.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p><p>Yonkers native Ridikkuluz is one of the artists featured in the exhibition who asks challenging questions about truth and history.<\/p><p>Ridikkuluz is a self-taught, New York-based, queer, Jordanian-American multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, performance and video. His work focuses on marginalized identities and their spaces through figurative portraiture.<\/p><p>\u201cMy work encompasses identity, duality and intense emotion\u2014all while bridging the gap between Western and Arab culture,\u201d said Ridikkuluz.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Other Participating artists in the White Plains show are: Gina Adams, Natalia<br \/>Arbelaez, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, ForFreedoms, Mariam Ghani, Jeffrey Gibson, Mona Saeed Kamal, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Susan Manspeizer, Sana Musasama, Kambui<br \/>Olujimi, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Eric Rhein, Lauren Sandler, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, and Howard Skrill.<\/p><p>Co-curated by Randy Williams, Professor of Studio and Art Education at Manhattanville<br \/>College, this exhibition has an international roster of 21 artists. Williams explains, \u201cThis exhibition not only invites the viewer to experience the practices of these artists, but it also reminds us that we each have our own accounts of history as well. <em>Who Writes History?<\/em> reminds us that history is not a spectator\u2019s sport. The only equipment we need in order to participate and share, is a clear vision of our encounters, past and present.\u201d<\/p><p>Advance registration is required to visit ArtsWestchester\u2019s gallery and can be reserved at www.artswestchester.org\/who-writes-history. The exhibition is on view through July 3, 2022 at 31 Mamaroneck Ave., White Plains, NY. <strong>www.artsw.org\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2610<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new exhibition in downtown White Plains foregrounds a more inclusive recounting of the past and present. 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