ALTERCRIT

PUBLIC CRITIQUE
Saturday, May 18th, 2024 | 6-9PM

AlterWork Studios invites you to participate in a unique exhibition and critique opportunity, AlterCrit 2024. AlterCrit began as a free, online, multidisciplinary group critique in February of 2022. In conjunction with the 2024 LIC Arts Open, AlterCrit will return on Saturday, May 18th. Four multi-disciplinary artists will be exhibiting their work. Visitors are encouraged to provide the artists with feedback on the exhibited work.

AlterCrit is a safe space to talk about work, ask questions, brainstorm, grow and receive constructive feedback, suggestions on how to improve, change, push boundaries, etc., as well as a place to meet other artists and network.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

DIANA ALSIP
“I work in color film photography (I occasionally mix in digital tools but the end always results in a piece of film). My projects center around concepts of memory, working through family and generational trauma, and collective identity, and have been shown in Musee Magazine, at Review Santa Fe 2022, and the top 200 for Critical Mass 2023. I'm currently working on a photo book around my mother's battle with pancreatic cancer; I've been working on it for about 2 years, and I find that with such a personal subject it's been helpful for me to have outside input. I am currently working on finalizing an edit, in order to make a book mock up.”

MARY L FALCO
”Thanks to “The Artists Way”, I am returning to my practice of art after recovering my health in 1994, then giving birth to our son in 1997 and raising him for 20 years.  Currently, I am studying woodworking at Makeville Studios, Brooklyn, NY.  After multiple studies at the Art Students League; Rhino 3D Software 2024, Assemblage with Heather Hutchinson and Mariano DelRosio, 2022 - 2024, four years of study in realism at Decorus Atelier, Brooklyn, NY I now feel somewhat ready to display my work.  My questions are multiple.  Is color required?  Are my Assemblage pieces mocks or pieces of art?  Am I ready to go public?  How do I go public?  My long-term goal is to take my dancing lines (doodles I have done for years) and make them into sculptures.”

DARREN GAINZA
”My name is Darren and my passion since I could remember has been making cool art. I love to paint and dabble in new mediums. I grew up in Astoria so it would mean a lot if my first event was here! If I had to categorize my work I would best describe it as surrealism. I haven’t had a crit since college and it would be an absolute pleasure to get feedback from the local art community.”

JULIA JUSTO
”I'm an Latinx artist of Indigenous-Italian ancestry. Using strategies drawn from education, research and community activism, I invite participation and collective imagining. My projects involve the creation of textile-based works centered on storytelling. It records my original ethnicity through the use of traditional indigenous methods such as weaving and abstract and geometric patterns. I share the experiences of marginalized people such as working-class immigrants who send me photos of themselves to create my projects. The medium of embroidery allows me to include the concept of repetition often found in manual labor, addressing notions of visibility related to immigrant labor in the U.S. Through the exploration of ideas of visibility and inclusivity for underrepresented voices, I seek to bring attention to personal stories of people often invisible to society while envisioning a more tolerant, connected and interdependent future.”