Left: Dana Robinson, Dark and Lovely, Our Kind of Hair Coloring Will Do Beautiful Things to Your Kind of Hair, 16 x 20 inches, Acrylic on panel.
Right: Maya Varadaraj, Raj, and What She Wanted to Say, 60 x 48 inches, Acrylic on canvas.
On Being: Teen Artist Workshop
Sunday, May 1, 2022 from 1-3 PM
92 Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
Ages 13-18
To register for this workshop, please click here.
Join 2021-2022 A.I.R. Fellow Dana Robinson and Maya Varadaraj to learn more about their exhibition On Being—on view at the 92nd Street Y’s Milton J. Weill Art Gallery through May 9, 2022—and discover how to transform ready-made materials into unique artworks. In this collage workshop you will alter a variety of printed material like magazines, books, newspapers and more. Through this process, we will discover unexpected relationships, the fun and freedom of making art, and the power we have to use the themes in media to express ourselves.
On Friday, April 29 at 5 PM, Robinson and Varadaraj will present a conversation moderated by On Being curator Stephanie Baptist.
Register for the talk here.
The 92Y Art Center faculty, adult and special exhibitions are supported by Catherine Hannah Behrend.
This event is co-presented by the 92nd Street Y and A.I.R. Gallery.
Dana Robinson is a Brooklyn based multimedia artist. She uses a variety of materials such as fabric, paint, vintage materials, and other found objects to investigate questions of Blackness, womanhood, and ownership. Conversations of Dana Robinson’s eclectic collection have been covered by publications such as Vice, Ain’t-Bad, NY Mag’s Vulture, and It’s Nice That. Since 2008, she has been in more than 70 shows across the United States and abroad. Most recently, What Comes After, a show at the Wassaic Project upstate NY and The Meeting Point, a curatorial collaboration between Regular Normal and ArtNoir in New York’s Meatpacking District. She was an artist in residence at Stoneleaf Retreat, and a fellow at AIR Gallery in 2021. She has three upcoming solo shows at AIR Gallery, Haul Gallery in Brooklyn, and Fuller Rosen Gallery in Portland. She is also looking forward to her residency at Wassaic Project in 2022.
Maya Varadaraj is an interdisciplinary artist. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Apparel Design from the Rhode Island School of Design before completing a Master’s Degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Varadaraj’s work has been exhibited internationally at Vitra Design Museum, Museo Del Disseny Barcelona, Nature Morte, Aicon Gallery, Sakshi Gallery, Salone De Mobile, Mana Contemporary, and Medium Tings among others. She has been featured in publications such as Juxtapoz, Platform Magazine, and We Make Money Not Art.