Metal Point Workshop with Tamia Alston-Ward | 10.14.22

BGX Gallery | 192 Front Street NY, NY 10038 | 5:30pm to 8:30pm

10.14.22 | METALPOINT WORKSHOP 

Join BGX for a metalpoint workshop lead by guest artist Tamia Alston-Ward. Tamia is a Philadelphia-based Fine Artist and Illustrator. She is a draftsperson primarily working in Metalpoint and Pen & Ink.

Artist Statement: I see myself as a scribe. The record-keeping between the subject and I is the act of artmaking. As a scribe
transcribing the spoken word, I too have an obligation to depict each subject with a sense of urgency and
respect given that my time with them is ephemeral. The purpose of my work is to encapsulate the ways in
which we work within and against the societal, artistic, and material confines we inevitably find ourselves
in. As a scribe, each piece is a documentation, and the medium a vehicle for communication. My current
practice explores Black Material Culture, what brought Black bodies to their place today, who played a
role in objectifying us, and how we objectify ourselves. After researching and educating myself on this
Material Culture, my pieces serve as a visual marker of each subject. I hope that my work creates a
dialogue around how far we have come and how much left we have to go in working through identities we
never created, yet were created in. These pieces are a meditative act on my identity, with each line a
conversation with the history of Blackness

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*Segments of the experience may be live-streamed to and/or recorded.*