WHY FLOWERS BLOOM

The exhibition explores the work of three emerging US based artists whose mediums are interdisciplinary: from glass painting, textiles to mixed media. Each artist explores themes of identity, history, womanhood and self-determination. The work of these three women explores connections, similarities and differences in subject, the use of medium, technique and ideas that border curiosity in learning, outlook and poetry. In the work of Ghislaine Sabiti, a French Congolese Brooklyn based glass, ceramics, textile artist and painter, we see the exploration of ideas, medium, and techniques while articulating issues of African women in the global world context. In the work of Sika Foyer, a Togolese Harlem based mixed media, installation, sculptor, and fiber artist, the notion of a point, line and creating work via theory is heavily laid in self, identity, history and the composition of stories. Finally, Rosy Petri, African American Milwaukee based fiber artist, whose work draws on history, people’s stories and personal experiences to create narratives in textile and paint. These art narratives of these three Black women artists compose vignettes and draw collages that forge connections between themselves, art and communities; weave and deconstruct social justice issues, tell stories through visual means, while exploring identity as femininity, racial, and linguistic barriers. Programming associated with exhibition can found at Calabar Gallery’s Eventbrite.