NYC Salt Presents "We've Seen So Much From These Heights" by Devin Osorio @Moleskine Boutique Moynihan Train Hall
🎉 Get ready for an evening brimming with creativity and community vibes as NYC Salt proudly presents:
"We've Seen So Much From These Heights" by Devin Osorio @Moleskine Boutique | Moynihan Train Hall! 🎨✨
Join us on September 5th, 2024, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT, at the Moleskine Boutique at the heart of Moynihan Train Hall, 382 9th Ave Unit 130, New York, NY.
We will be showcasing and selling 64 hand-illustrated Moleskine notebooks, along with two original pieces on paper and special prints created by Devin Osorio specifically for this occasion.
The 64 notebook installation will be hand-painted with acrylic paint and decorated with hand-painted palm motifs. Osorio aims to focus on the histories of Washington Heights by nodding to the Wecquaesgeek people's ways of using their neighborhood and contrasting it with the Dominicanness seen now. Merging the interior with the exterior, the real with the fantastical/spiritual, and the past with the present, Osorio hopes to find connections between themselves and their communities.
For almost 20 years, NYC Salt has used creativity to inspire a young generation of diverse artists to be excellent in their craft.
Devin Osorio (1993) was a part of NYC Salt's first cohort of students in 2005 in Washington Heights. They is a multi-disciplinary artist based in the Lower East Side, New York City. Using shared and self-reflective symbolism, Osorio honors Dominican culture through shrine-like paintings that incorporate plants, animals and glyphs to create a visual vernacular of and for the Dominican American community.
Osorio’s work has been exhibited in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, London, Miami, Mexico City, and Madrid, at galleries including Calderón Gallery, Wave Hill, The AHL Foundation, REGULARNORMAL, Sotheby’s Institute of the Arts, Adhesivo Contemporary and Charlie James Gallery. Osorio has been included in auctions with the Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo del Barrio. Osorio earned a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.
Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to celebrate the launch of "We've Seen So Much From These Heights"
For the opening night, Chef Molly O’Driscoll and Robbie Ginsberg are working together to create a selection of foods that question the many ways in which New York City’s food pathways have been controlled to create unhealthy living conditions for its inhabitants from the 18th century to the present day. Honoring the indigenous foods of this land, they will delight and show guests how we can tap back into those food sources. Dietician, Nutritionist, and Community Leader, RD. Melanie Zuniga will also elevate our senses through a mixed cocktail that manipulates Sassaphras to connect to our health and well-being through the calling of joy and community.
Also using an ethnographic lens for this project, compositional duo Christian Rodriguez and Sahiba will reveal a collection of pre-made songs that combine their anthropological and historical research that showcases the evolution of New York City, recalling the rural while honoring our current urban landscape.
Overall the night will be a celebration of culture and history, allowing multiple artists from various mediums to answer the same question:
What is the history of this place and how are we connected to it?
Mark your calendars, invite your friends, and join us for an unforgettable night.
See you there! 🌆🎉
About NYC Salt:
NYC Salt is a 501c3 nonprofit photography program. Our mission is to engage, inspire, and empower youth from underserved, predominantly immigrant communities in New York City.
We help them reach their full potential and develop a sense of agency, belonging, and integrated identity through the lens of a camera.
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