Fallacy of Edifice is a mutable, large-scale, site-responsive installation that interrogates the histories of architectural structures, honors the land that they are built upon, and imagines the deconstruction of ideologies that are reflected in architecture. Spaces built in the early 20th century and earlier evoke the beginnings of capitalism, a racialized system, industrialization, and colonization. The design, function, and use of a building expresses the way a society operates. Buildings such as factories, old banks, and other structures are reflective of the destructiveness of settler colonialism. The site for Fallacy of Edifice: Cohabitation (AlterWork Studios) is a communal space where artists work in an open studio area and also private spaces with a mission to provide artists with support. This building is an old industrial area once referred to as Dutch Kills which references the flowing streams of water that used to be connected with New Town Creek. The work Fallacy of Edifice: Cohabitation (AlterWork Studios) shares its environment with an idea for making change happen within a system built upon injustice.
Elizabeth Velazquez
Born 1977
Monticello, NY
Teaches in Brooklyn, lives and makes art in Queens, New York
EDUCATION
2013-2016 The Art Students League of New York, Manhattan, NY
2004 M.A. Painting, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2004 Summer Arts Intensive, 92nd Street Y, Manhattan, NY
2000 B.S. Art Education, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
EXHIBITIONS
2018 Fallacy of Edifice: Cohabitation (AlterWork Studios), AlterWork Studios, Queens, NY
2018 Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, Cigar Factory, Queens, NY
2018 Southeast Queens Biennial, CUNY York College, Queens, NY
2017 Artist Co-Op, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
2017 Yeah, That’s What She Said: Motherland, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2017 BackLot Art Festival, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2017 SEQAA & ART&COM Open Studio, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
2016 Yeah, That’s What She Said: Body of Work, Starr Bar, Brooklyn, NY
2016 League Red Dot Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Yeah, That’s What She Said, Babycastles Gallery, New York, NY
2014 NARS Foundation Benefit & Silent Auction, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Yeah, That’s What She Said, Specials on C, Manhattan, NY
2014 League Red Dot Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Small Works Exhibition, Manhattan Borough President’s Office, New York, NY
2013 NYCATA Exhibition, LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, NY
2013 NYCATA Exhibition, Boricua College Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Online Exhibition, Track&Tree Online Gallery
2011 Black and White Show, B.W.A.C., Brooklyn, NY
2010 100 Works on Paper, Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Ready Set Create, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2008 4×6 for Riverspace, Riverspace, Nyack, NY
2008 Borimix 08’, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, NY
2008 Hispanic Heritage Month, KPMG, Montvale, NJ
2008 100 Works on Paper, Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCY
2018 Cigar Factory Residency, Cigar Factory, Queens, New York, NY
2018 Works on Water / Underwater New York Residency, Governor’s Island, New York, NY
2018 The Living Studio 2018 Artist Residency, The Living Gallery, New York, NY, 10009
GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS
2018 New Work Grant, Queens Art Fund, Queens, NY
2016 Jamaica Arts Leaders Program, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens, NY
2016 Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion Program, Soul Fire Farms, Grafton, NY
COMMISSIONS
2018 ReImagine End of Life Festival, Ritual at Washington Square Park, New York, NY
2018 Stacey Robinson: You Never Can Always Sometimes Tell, Installation, Jack, Brooklyn, NY
2018 No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab, Outdoor Installations and ritual performance, CUNY York College, Queens, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Interview by Clocktower Radio, ” QCA’s Creative Conversations.” February 22
2015 Art Students League of New York on Painting, published by Watson-Guptill
2014 Felicia R. Lee, “A Look at Looking Different ‘Crossing Borders,’ at the Brooklyn Historical Society.” NY Times, Dec 2
2014 Cara Buckley, “Rising Rents Leave Artists Out In The Cold.” NY Times, March 14
2013 Interview by Rebecca Norton, “East and Abroad Episode 8: NARS and Signals.” June 11
2012 Interview by Nadia Williams for Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations, BK Hist. Society. Online project, March 12
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2005- Visual Arts Educator, PS/IS 89 Cypress Hills Community School, Brooklyn, NY
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2017- SEQAA (Southeast Queens Artist Alliance), Founding Member, Queens, NY
2016- NYCORE (New York Collective of Radical Educators) Leadership Member, New York, NY
2014 Kara Walker: We Are Here event, Co-organizer for participatory public art project, Brooklyn, NY