Studio Cycle: 08 July - 11 September
Private View: Thursday 12 September, 6-9pm
Exhibition: 13 September - 05 October
Cob is pleased to introduce the first International artist to join the Cob Award residency, Nereida Patricia. Working in the gallery's onsite studio until the start of September, the artist will produce a new body of work resulting in an end of residency exhibition opening on 12 September. Further details of the upcoming presentation to follow in the coming weeks.
Nereida Patricia is a visual artist and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. Patricia’s practice spans sculpture, painting, and performance. Her work draws from Peruvian and Caribbean symbolism, as well as autobiographical fragments, to explore gender, race and sexual politics. She is most well-known for her highly detailed glass beaded relief sculptures, which are collaged with concrete and glass dust to create multilayered images in bas-relief that chronicle transformation and power relations of the human and collective body.
Nereida Patricia (b. 1996, New York) lives and works in New York, USA. She studied at The New School and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions include; KISS THE FLOOR, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH (2023); TRAP DOOR, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL (2023); Agony in the Tropics, DUPLEX, New York, NY (2022); Examination Room, Yew Nork Gallery, Chicago, IL (2022); Sea Queen, Bubbles Gallery, Chicago IL (2021). Group and duo exhibitions include; Cálido, Black Brick Project, Brooklyn, NY(2023); I’ve Gone To Look For America, Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Gifted Wings (two-person show), Jude Gallery, Chicago, IL (2023); Boil Toil and Trouble, Art in Common, Miami, FL(2022); I Sing the Body Electric, Dune Alpine, East Hamptons, NY(2022); Group Chat, Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, IL(2021); Disease was my life coach, LUBOV Gallery, New York, NY(2021); The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL(2020) among others.
Vertical Ascent, 2022