PhxArtist Talks /// Sama Alshaibi: Generation After Generation and the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards

Mar, 30, 2023

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PhxArtist Talks /// Sama Alshaibi: Generation After Generation and the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards

PhxArtist Talks is an ongoing series featuring local, regional, and nationally acclaimed artists, providing behind-the-scenes footage and uncovering the stories behind many of the featured works in PhxArt exhibitions.

Sama Alshaibi

For this episode, we spoke with Sama Alshaibi, the 2021 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award recipient. Alshaibi’s photographic imagery, video, and installation, on view in her exhibition Generation After Generation through May 14, 2023, interrogates the social codes found in images, texts, and artifacts to question the construction of history and its impact on a speculative future.

Chris Vena

For this episode, we spoke with Chris Vena, one of the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients. Vena’s painting series, on view in the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards exhibition through May 14, 2023, discusses how his recent body of work examines the loneliness and unease of life experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gloria Martinez-Granados

For this episode, we spoke with Gloria Martinez-Granados, one of the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients. Martinez-Granados’ work The Uncertainty of Higher Education, on view in the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards exhibition through May 14, 2023, reflects on her own experience growing up and living as an undocumented immigrant through digitally manipulated personal documents and photos.

Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez

For this episode, we spoke with Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez, one of the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients.  Collaborative work Kanekalon Forest, on view in the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards exhibition through May 14, 2023, explores the evolution of material culture, including hair, jewelry, and textiles.

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Sama Alshaibi: Generation After Generation and the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards