Out of Sight, Out of Mind theArt of Storytelling by Ekaterina Sky at Carnegie Hall October 22, for NYC Climate Week . See details below

 The art of storytelling by  Ekaterina Sky brings Climate Change into focus. Art is a powere way to convey the importance of sustainability on planet earth!!!  

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Impact Artist Ekaterina Sky Brings Climate Storytelling to NYC Climate Week Impact Artist Ekaterina Sky. Nobody thinks the forest fire 10,000 miles away has anything to do with them. Until it does. Your water is contaminated. Your neighborhood is underwater. Your house is on fire. Suddenly, you care. Impact Artist Ekaterina Sky arrives at NYC Climate Week taking on one of the biggest challenges facing the climate conversation: out of sight, out of mind. If it isn’t your home, your water or your air, how do you make it matter? Ekaterina has built her work around closing that gap. Her art has taken her to COP30, the United Nations global climate summit, and to the stage at Carnegie Hall. Now she brings that work to NYC Climate Week as a speaker at the Transformative Impact Summit. Ekaterina Sky takes “out of sight, out of mind” and brings it into the room. Inside every Prayer for the Earth painting is something you can’t see: a handwritten prayer for the planet, sealed beneath sustainable 24 karat gold leaf. The series will take center stage October 22, when Ekaterina brings Prayer for the Earth to Beverly Hills for an exclusive, invitation-only exhibition. As an invited panelist at the Transformative Impact Summit, Ekaterina will tackle why artists are becoming an increasingly important voice in the climate movement and the role art can play in turning awareness into action.   Ekaterina is available for commentary on: •      Are we speaking the wrong language about climate change? Ekaterina speaks 4 languages, but calls art her 5th and most powerful. Can art break through where statistics and headlines don’t? •      Have we become numb to catastrophe? Fires, floods, disappearing forests. Ekaterina takes the opposite approach, using beauty instead of fear to make people stop and pay attention. •      What happens when the problem feels too big to matter? Ekaterina turns an overwhelming global problem into something one person can actually do, including a model built around planting 165 trees per person. •      What is art actually for? Can a painting do more than hang on a wall? Ekaterina is using art as a starting point for participation, conversation and action.             Works from the Prayer for the Earth series, finished in sustainable 24 karat gold leaf. #nycclimateweek,#ineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com#sunstormfineartmagazine.com#fineartclimate#fineartun, #fineartearth,

Monica Ikegwu returns to exhibit `Rea in Red~ At Band of Vices. September 19-October 17, 2026. Changing up the color landscape of viewing another others1

 My Opinion: Monica Ikegwu removes color as the identifying premise in her portraits. She presents "Faces" to be discovered as the landscape she in her subjects. though a red lense.  This interesting and innovative concept allows the painter and viewer to exchange a spontaneous connection with each personality displayed. Jamie Forbes, Publisher Fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com, and SunStormfineartmagazine.com

MONICA IKEGWU Read in Red 19 September — 17 October 2026 Opening & Artists Reception Saturday, 19 September, 2-5pm Exhibition Walk-through with Monica Ikegwu Saturday, 19 September, 3:30pm (no rsvp required) Monica Ikegwu, RED JOSHUA, Oil on canvas, 12 x 8.8 in, 30.48 x 22.35 cm, 2026 Band of Vices welcomes Monica Ikegwu back for Read in Red, her fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Monica first exhibited with Band of Vices in 2018 as part of & Introducing. Since then, she has participated in several BoV exhibitions, including We’ve Always Been Here (2019), Masterpiece (2020), GAZE with Tommy Mitchell (2021), They Might Be Giants (2022), Duo (2023) and New Growth (2025). For Read in Red, Ikegwu presents 43 portraits rendered almost entirely in shades of red. “For these works I wanted to know what happens when others see Black people not for their race, but just as a person,” Ikegwu says. “No focus on skin color, just the person.” Monica Ikegwu, RED MILDRED, Oil on wood panel, 5.5 x 4 in, 13.97 x 10.16 cm, 2026 By moving away from natural skin tones, Monica removes one of the first visual distinctions we often use when looking at another person. “You can’t see who has dark skin, who has light skin, all you see is their face,” she says.  Red then takes on another role. For Monica, the color carries a wide range of emotional associations. “Red is one of the few colors that has a vast spectrum of emotion,” she explains. “Love to hatred, passion to anger.” Many of the subjects are presented with restrained or neutral expressions, leaving room for viewers to bring their own associations to each face.The exhibition consists primarily of intimate 5.5 × 4 inch oil paintings on wood panels, along with three larger oil-on-canvas portraits. Together, the works create a series of individual encounters connected through a single palette. Monica Ikegwu, RED TRAE, Oil on wood panel, 5.5 x 4 in, 13.97 x 10.16 cm, 2026 “We’ve known Monica’s work since 2018, and it has been meaningful to see how her practice has developed over the years,” says Terrell Tilford, Founder and Creative Director of Band of Vices. “There has always been a strong sense of discipline in the work. With Read in Red, she is approaching portraiture from a slightly different place and asking us to think about what we see first when we look at another person.” Ikegwu earned her BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Cincinnati Art Museum and Art Gallery of Toronto. Her work is also held in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Petrucci Foundation and Muskegon Museum of Art. “With these 43 portraits, we hope you are able to experience these individuals not through the lens of race, but through the full range of emotion found in color.” Read in Red is presented concurrently with the group exhibition, Hey, Sis.   Checklist Request - Read in Red Press Release - Read in Red Please Note Our Location   Band of Vices is located in the Historic Downtown Los Angeles Arts District. Located at 1700 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 371, south of the 10 freeway, ample free parking is available in the south parking lot (1800 S. Santa Fe Avenue), adjacent to the building. Our neighbors in the building include Vielmetter, Nicodim and Patricia Sweetow galleries.  For all sales & media inquiries, please contact HELLO@BandofVices.com   Band of Vices - DTLA 1700 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 371, Los Angeles, CA 90021

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