Terrarium Exhibition panel discussion featuring Ruth Jeyaveeran, Patricia Miranda, Tavia Sanza, and Manju Shandler. The artists will discuss marks that are left through history, objects that are passed-down through generations, and the interlacing of craft and humankind’s trajectory.
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Ruth Jeyaveeran is an artist, designer and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries throughout New York and she’s been awarded residencies at La Napoule Art Foundation, PADA Studios, the Jentel Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Currently she's an Assistant Professor of Textile Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has also taught courses textiles and fibers at Parsons School of Design.
Patricia Miranda is an artist, curator, and founder of The Crit Lab and MAPSpace. She has been awarded residencies at I-Park, Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and JV Printmaking Studio, and grants from Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, Anonymous Was a Woman, two ArtsWestchester grants, and a year-long NEA grant working with homeless youth. Her work has been exhibited at ODETTA Gallery, ABC No Rio, and Wave Hill, NYC; The Gallery at UConn Avery Point; the Newport Museum of Art, RI; and the Belvedere Museum, Austria. Her solo exhibition at Garrison Art Center, Garrison NY, in fall 2021 was featured in the Brooklyn Rail.
Tavia Sanza's frenetic use of embroidery explores concepts related to memory and loss. Utilizing a series of traumas and reconstructions the embroidered pieces she creates are consumed by the process of growing larger and more complex. As the layers accumulate the original “era” is buried and can only be seen in pockets of preservation. This constant accretion creates strata that are visible when the pieces are cut. The striations show how each new “era” is built upon the past.
Manju Shandler has had solo shows at The Pelham Art Center, Corte Dell’Arte in Venice Italy, Brown University's Sarah Doyle Gallery, The Hammond Museum, The Honfleur Gallery, The Governor’s Island Art Fair, The Bergdorf Goodman Store Windows and multiple group shows throughout the US, Amsterdam, Berlin, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong. She regularly shows in her community of Brooklyn, NY. The National September 11th Memorial & Museum exhibited 850 paintings from Shandler's 3,000-piece painting installation, GESTURE, in an exhibition honoring the 15th anniversary of this tragedy. She has a B.A. in Performing Visual Art from Bennington College (1995).
