Monday July 12, 7pm ET
Artist Talk: Ezra Wube
Online via live-stream
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Please note: Tonight’s Artist Talk with Ezra Wube will be taking place ONLINE ONLY due the current Flash Flood Watch in effect in NYC through morning. The event will be live-streamed on this page.
Microscope is very pleased to present an artist talk with Ethiopian-American artist Ezra Wube in connection with his current solo exhibition at the gallery “Darkness,” which has been extended through August 7th.
The discussion will be focused on Wube’s works on view including his most recent single-channel video “Darkness”; the 2020 stop-motion animation “Una Favola Vera (A True Fairy Tale)”; the multi-screen video installation “Shoes Box” from 2018; selections from a series of photographic UV print on aluminum works “Palindrome” (2015-2021); as well as their relationship with his wider artistic practice.
In “Darkness,” Wube draws attention to the gradations within seemingly opposite concepts such as lightness and darkness; here and there; and then and now. Language and literary devices are also used as contents and references.
Immigration, history, and the idea of home as a synthesis of familiarity and memory that co-exists parallel with reality, unconnected to time and space are among Wube’s recurring themes.
The discussion will start promptly at 7pm ET online via live stream on this page. A Q&A with the audience will also be open to the online audience via live chat.
More information about Wube and his solo exhibit “Darkness” is available here.
Please note: The gallery is limiting the in-person capacity to 30 audience members. Proof of vaccination for Covid-19 and masks are required.
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Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian-American artist whose works frequently reference the notions of past and present, the constant changing of place, and the dialogical tensions between “here” and “there.” His works have previously appeared in solo exhibitions at The Africa Center, New York, NY; The High Line, New York, NY; The Fulton Street Transit Center (MTA), New York, NY; Time Square Arts Midnight Moment, New York, NY; Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY; Oakland International Airport, Oakland, CA; Addis Atelier, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia, among others. His work has also been exhibited at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Rush Art, New York, NY; Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY; “Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju, South Korea; 21st Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo Brazil; and the “Dak’Art Biennale”, Dakar, Senegal, among others.
Wube has received numerous grants, residencies and other awards including the Emerging Artist Grant Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY; AIM Fellowship, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Van Lier Fellowship, New York Fondation for the Arts (NYFA), Brooklyn, NY; “Open Sessions Program,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY; LMCC Residency Program, New York, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; Triangle Arts Association Residency, Brooklyn, NY; The Substation Artist Residency Program, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and others.
Ezra Wube currently lives and and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received his BFA in painting from Massachusetts Collage of Art in Boston, MA in 2004 and his MFA in Painting, Combined Media from Hunter College, New York, NY in 2009.