Online Event – Sarah Zapata: An instep along the self edge
Press release
Sarah Zapata: An instep along the self edge
Thursday, December 17, 2020
5:00 PM 6:00 PM
Online Event. RSVP is required for this event, RSVP here.
Through a practice of textiles and foot erotica, Queer|Art|Mentorship Literature Fellow Sarah Zapata engages elements of control and performativity to create immersive fantasies. Please join us for a studio visit and conversation exploring Zapata’s work and writing she has been developing throughout the past year.
This event is part of the 2019-2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship Annual Exhibition, curated by current Fellow Anthonywash.Rosado and titled ARCANUM, open from October 29, 2020 through January 7, 2021. The exhibition will present across multiple formats and locations, including a virtual gallery and public outdoor performances throughout New York City, new work by graduating Fellows of the 2019-2020 Queer|Art|Mentorship program: Brian Gonzalez, Patrick G. Lee, María José Maldonado, Felli Maynard, Olaiya Olayemi, Sarah Sanders, and Sarah Zapata.
Learn more at https://www.queer-art.org/arcanum.
About Sarah Zapata
Sarah Zapata makes work with labor-intensive processes such as handweaving, rope coiling, latch hooking, and sewing by intersecting theories of gender and ethnicity with pre-colonial histories and techniques. Making work with meditative, mechanical means, her current work deals with the multiple facets of her complex identity: a Texan living in Brooklyn, a lesbian raised as an evangelical Christian, a first generation American of Latin American descent, a contemporary artist inspired by ancient civilizations, an artist challenging the history of craft as “women’s work” within the realm of art. Zapata’s work has been exhibited at the New Museum (NY), El Museo del Barrio (NY), Museum of Art and Design (NY), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (NY), Boston University (MA), LAXART (CA), amongst others.
