Home on Top of My Head
2011
Acrylic on Canvas
3′ x 6′
Push-Pull
Dumbo Arts Festival (Dumbo, New York)
In Partnership with: IAP New York Foundation for the Arts
ABOUT THE PROJECT
PUSH-PULL features sixteen international multidisciplinary artists brought together by NYFA’s 2010 Mentoring Program for Immigrant Artists, who currently reside in New York while preserving strong cultural backgrounds.
A three-day celebration of the arts, the DUMBO Arts Festival brought spontaneous performance, site-specific sculptural interventions, international video art, and large scale projections to the waterfront neighborhood of DUMBO, Brooklyn for a one-of-a-kind art happening. The DUMBO Arts Festival gave emerging artists the unique opportunity to experiment in the public domain, as artists and audience alike explored every corner of DUMBO’s post-industrial landscape. Presented annually since 1997, the festival grew from a grassroots effort to bring DUMBO’s artists out of their studios and onto the streets into the nation’s largest urban forum for experimental art, eventually attracting over 200,000 visitors for one vibrant weekend each fall. Thousands of artists participated in the festival over the years.