Eleanor Harwood Galley, Catch the interesting events listed through March.

We are ecstatic to have Kira Dominguez Hultgren speak about Intrusions at the gallery on both Saturday, February 1st and Saturday, February 29th, from 1-2PM. Details are below. Also we are excited to share that Kira's upcoming solo exhibition, "I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism", March 7th- April 12th, at the San Jose Museum of Quilt & Textiles, is listed as one of the Six Bay Area shows to see all year. Read the KQED article, “Six Bay Area Art Shows to See in 2020”.  And last, but not least, see installation shots of Intrusions  below and view videos of Kira describing the content and concepts in her works. ???? See videos here View our website for more information on the artists and to view our previous exhibitions. All the best, Eleanor Harwood & Chloe Ghillani +1 415.867.7770 eleanor@eleanorharwood.com  chloe@eleanorharwood.com

Upcoming Events

Saturday, February 1st, 6-8pm - Artist Demo and Q&A Join us for First Saturday at Minnesota Street Project 6-8 PM. Kira will be at the gallery for the first part of her demo, "Become the Loom", where she will be weaving with visitors who stop by and will be answering any weaving related questions. Saturday, February 29th, 1-3pm - Artist Talk and Demo  1-2pm Artist Talk with Kira Dominguez Hultgren on her work in Intrusions in the gallery 2-3 PM: "Become the Loom" Part II. Kira will host a participatory weaving demo for adults and kids on the Atrium Steps in the Minnesota Street Building  Please RSVP for the free event via Eventbrite.

Kira Dominguez Hultgren featured in KQED Article: “Six Bay Area Art Shows to See in 2020”

KQED: SIX BAY AREA ART SHOWS TO SEE IN 2020 by Sarah Hotchkiss, January 2nd, 2020 Kira Dominguez Hultgren, I Was India: Embroidering Exoticism March 4–April 12 San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose “Using two Punjabi phulkaris embroidered by a relative around 1925 as a starting point, Bay Area artist Kira Dominguez Hultgren traces themes of colonialism, contemporary exoticism and craft. Her woven work, large-scale and vibrant, incorporates a variety of textures and materials, including climbing rope, wool, Indian cotton and Chinese silk. If you can’t wait until March to see her work in person, her solo show at Eleanor Harwood Gallery opening Jan. 11.” Eleanor Harwood Gallery 1275 Minnesota Street, Suite 206 San Francisco, CA 94107 www.eleanorharwood.com +1.415.867.7770 #eleanorharwoodgallery#fienartmagazine#fun

In Yonkers New York, catch the First Thursday Gallery Hop!

5:30-7:30 PM February 6, 2020 Every First Thursday of the Month! 2020 Kick-Off! New Artists, New Exhibitions!  Be among hundreds of artists and art connoisseurs next Thursday during the Yonkers First Thursday Gallery Hop of 2020! Discover and explore all-new art exhibitions, meet and develop relationships with professional artists, and dine-in at local restaurants, all while learning about the history and community of the City of Yonkers, New York! Blue Door Art Center is kicking-off 2020 with it's 12th Annual Artist-Member Exhibit, with nearly 50 artists in the same exhibit! The Riverfront Art Gallery is showcasing local artist-in-residence, Shanequa Benitez and her exhibit, Never Conform, expressing Shanequa's embodiment of the beauty of struggle. Urban Studio Unbound & Warburton Galerie announced the opening of their Winter 2020 pARTners Exhibition for Saturday, February 8, but is opening their doors to Gallery Hoppers for a special sneak peek! Their exhibition includes artists from Hewn Arts in Jersey City as their pARTners. Philipse Manor Hall Historic Site introduces artist Art Bonanno and his exhibition, Energy. His exhibition showcases a series of 32 images inspired by the history of the use of energy. The digital artwork series is an abstract interpretation of energy history and is accompanied by an open-source detailed verbal timeline.

Artist: Matt Turov - Sparked Opposites

Blue Door Art Center 13 Riverdale Avenue | Yonkers  ‌  ‌  ‌ The Blue Door Art Center is dedicated to bringing the arts to local communities throughout Westchester that are currently under-served by art programs and exhibition venues. We do this through exhibitions in our gallery, educational programs, workshops, public art projects, poetry readings, performances, and special events.

Exhibition: 12th Annual Artist-Member Exhibition Please join us at Blue Door during February’s First Thursday Gallery Hop to get a taste of our current show, “12th Annual Artist-Member Exhibition”. Enjoy the artworks of almost 50 local artists and feel free to have a glass of wine and light refreshments. See you there! Featured Artists: Jill Austen, Stacy Bogdonoff, Daniel Boyer, Kathryn Buckley, Dorothy Cancellieri, Nan Cao, Chris Chalfant, Demitria Chano, Doris Cordero, Julie Cousens, Richela Fabian Morgan, Rea Feriozzi, Evan Freeman, Diane Garofalo, Enrico Giordano, Patricia Gray, Mary Hardiman, Richard Haas, Carol Herd-Rodriguez, Ysabella Hincapié-Gara, Susan Hoeltzel, Deborah Holcombe, David Humphrey, Jonathan Lessuck, Steven Levine, Jacqueline Lorieo, Amanda Lynne, Kathleen McCarthy Udoff, Frances McGuire, Wendy Naidich, Robyne Marcus, Luis Perelman, Alfredo Ponce, Anne Price, Lee Romero, Roman Sheremet, Lily Schor, Arlé Sklar-Weinstein, Pat Slaven, Silvia Soares Boyer, Matthew Spatz, Debora Solomon, Patricia Stuart, Renee Toback, Matthew Turov, Evelyn van der Wyk, Charles Zigmund, Judith Zucker and, more...

‌  ‌ Artist: Sergio Barrale/ Goodbye Horses, Acrylic on Wood Panel, 12”x12” (3D Painting)

‌  ‌ 16 Warburton Avenue | Yonkers Please note: Warburton Galerie and Urban Studio Unbound have merged. US+U’s strength of purpose is to combine emerging and mid-career artists in a partnership to embrace a wide range of artistic approaches. This unique relationship creates a community of people who learn from each other through shared ideas and common goals. Warburton Galerie is a 4000 sq. ft. space dedicated to bringing the public exemplary art exhibitions via collaborations with curators, art advisors and creative organizations.

Exhibition: Winter 2020 pARTners Exhibition  US+U/Warburton Galerie is pleased to announce the opening of our Winter 2020 pARTners Exhibition on Saturday, February 8, 2020, from 6:00-9:00 PM. For this exhibition, we welcomed artists from Hewn Arts in Jersey City as our pARTners. Featured Artists: Michael Alan, David Alge, Sergio Barrale, Demetrio Belenky, Michelle Renee Bernard, Haifa Bint-Kadi, Shane Bullock, Henry Burgos, Monica Carrier, Scott Dennis, Julia Eisen-Lester, Aljoscha Farassat, Karen Gentile, Alan Haywood, Miriam Hendel, Amanda Ioco, Anna Kiljune, Maria Liebana, Amanda Lynn, Nancy Mendez, Nathalie Mercado, Android Oi, Luis Perelman, Alex Pergament, Guy Stanley Philoche, Richard Pitts, Jill Ricci, Bill Ross, Regina Ruff, Gregory Saint Amand, Charles Sommer, Melissa Starke, Tommy the Animator, Ice-T, Michael Vincent, Roddy Wildeman & Stefanie Wolfson.

Exhibition: Energy Art Bonanno will be exhibiting selected works from "Energy (Thirty-two images inspired by the history of the use of energy)" at Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers. The digital artwork series is an abstract interpretation of energy history accompanied by a detailed online verbal timeline.

Philipse Manor Hall Gallery 29 Warburton Avenue | Yonkers  ‌  ‌  ‌ Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site serves as a museum of history, art, and architecture, and a host to community organizations, educational programs, and special events.

Featured Artist: Art Bonanno In addition to his work as a Creative Director, Filmmaker, Designer, Fine Artist and Educator, Mr. Bonanno has been active in the Yonkers community for almost two decades creating video promoting the downtown waterfront development and providing creative services to local energy, sustainable building, theatre, and senior groups.

Exhibition: Never Conform  Featured Artist: Shanequa Benitez  Shanequa embodies the beauty of the struggle. She grew up in the housing projects in Yonkers, NY and is now focused on creating art through music, film, and painting. She is also a clothing designer, personal trainer and community activist. Drawing inspiration from Nina Simone and Basquiat, her art is a “reflection of the times” and is a way for her to tell her story her own way.

Riverfront Art Gallery Yonkers Public Library  1 Larkin Center | Yonkers | 4th Floor  ‌  ‌  ‌ The Riverfront Art Gallery exhibits contemporary, nationally, and internationally acclaimed artwork.  The mission of the gallery is to stimulate and encourage the study and presentation of fine arts and the public’s interest and participation therein; To foster and support the arts in the community and to serve as a portal to the arts for residents and community members; To create opportunities for the public to encounter and explore art that they might not otherwise be exposed to, increasing access to the arts in the City of Yonkers and surrounding communities.

Receive 10% off food and drinks during the First Thursday Gallery Hop.  Stop by any participating art gallery for the discount code. Participating restaurants include:  La Bella Havana Dolphin Francey Brady's Guapo Cocina Mexicana Khangri Sushi Le Moulin X20 Yonkers Brewing Co. Zuppa

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Catinca Tabacaru New York/ Harare: Feb. 1-March 21, 2020.

XAVIER ROBLES DE MEDINA Faya Lobi PRAZ DELAVALLADE PARIS February 1 - March 21, 2020 5 rue des Haudriettes Vernissage February 1, 5-8pm Faya Lobi means fiery love, or love of fire.   In Suriname, it is the Sranan(1) given name for its national flower, the Ixori coccinea, a flowering plant of South-Indian, Bangladeshi, and Sri Lankan origins. Other names it is known by are jungle geranium, flame of the woods, or jungle flame. The faya lobi grows abundantly in Suriname, producing flowers all year, as it does in South Asia. In Suriname, faya lobi became a symbol for love, long lasting and ardent passion. There is a fiery love that burns in the deep heart of the South American jungles. This fire is different from the fires that have burned down and deforested the Amazon(2) – it exists intrinsically, and is passed down to those born in the lineage of resistance. In the northeast Amazon basin, a fiery love welcomed the Ndyuka, now descendants of marooned slaves who for four centuries continuously build resistance and sanctuaries(3). A fiery love– young, revolutionary, resistant, urgent, educated, communal, organized, and united– was living in the bodies of fifteen men(4) who opposed the military dictatorship of Suriname in the 1980s. On December 7, 8 and 9, 1982 in Paramaribo, Suriname, these fifteen men were captured by the militarized forces of the dictatorship, and taken to Fort Zeelandia in Paramaribo, where they were tortured and killed for opposing the military regime. A statue of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands stands in front of Fort Zeelandia; in 1974, she was moved away where she used to stand in front of the Governor’s Palace (now the Presidential Palace), and was replaced with a sculpture of Jopie Pengel by Stuart Robles de Medina. In the archive of the Surinaams Museum exists a photograph of Stuart and a colleague guiding the rope-bound sculpture of Queen Wilhelmina down into her present resting place4. The Queen and Fort Zeelandia mark the land– here lies the brutal failure of empire. Violent structures we deem to be permanent are often rotting and fragile inside, and they can be easily torn down, moved away from the center, if we mobilize and tend to our fiery love. In Xavier Robles de Medina’s exhibition, Faya Lobi, there is a drawing of this photograph of his grandfather and his colleague while the statue of Queen Wilhelmina is being placed in front of Fort Zeelandia. Xavier’s work is a slow excavation, or rather: a conjuring, a resuscitation, a long and extended dedication. I have seen Xavier working; his drawing process is slow and determined. In our conversations, he says he is mostly erasing away. From seeing the way the images progress, it feels like coming upon a clearing after a long dim-lit path. There is a trust in the process, a love for the subject, faith that eventually all will be revealed. I think of the ways we honor and carry our ancestors. We carry (knowingly or not) their promises and efforts to the land, the weights they carried and lifted for us, the paths they cleared for our eventual existence. Sometimes, serendipitously, we will find ourselves tracing their steps and continuing their legacy. It takes love to excavate our history with kindness. To transform our relationship with a ground that has witnessed so much violence. To kiss the earth and swear devotion to a longevity that lasts beyond our lifetime.  With a fiery love, Paula Pinho Martins Nacif

1 Creole language spoken in Suriname. 2 Most recently, the Amazon rainforest burned for two weeks in August 2019. 3 “In these villages ‘obeah shrines like those in Guinea can be seen, ceremonial dances are performed that could take place in Ghana, and the people talk with drums, which are made like Ashanti drums.’», Philip Reno, The Ordeal of British Guiana cited in Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997), 83. 4 John Baboeram, Bram Behr, Cyrill Dvaal, Kenneth Gonçalves, Eddy Hoost, André Kamperveen, Gerard Leckie, Sugrim Oemrawsingh, Lesley Rahman, Surendre Rambocus, Harold Riedewald, Jiwansingh Sheombar, Jozef Slagveer, Robby Sohansingh, and Frank Wijngaarde. Image: Xavier Robles de Medina, Faya Lobi installation at Praz Delavallade | Paris, 2020 #fireylove#fineratmagazine#fun