After, Other, and Before

After, Other, and Before

Franconia Sculpture Park presents a group exhibition curated by Emerging Curators Institute Fellow and 2021 Franconia Fellow, Kehayr Brown-Ransaw.

This exhibition presents works by diasporic artists that confronts, challenges, reconciles, and recontextualizes the settler colonial identity and “other” identity marker placed on people of color.

After, Other, and Before opens in the Mardag Gallery at Franconia Commons on Saturday, September 25, 2021 with a public reception from 4pm-6pm. The exhibition will be accompanied by a virtual discussion with the curator and participating artists on Tuesday, November 9th at 6pm via Facebook Live as part of Franconia’s “Dinner & Discussion” lecture series. After, Other, and Before will run until December 31, 2021.


ARTISTS
Timothy Manalo is a sculptor and installation artist born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is influenced by personal stories and aesthetics of migration and diaspora. Manalo holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from OCAD University (Ontario College of Art and Design University, Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA), and Certificate in Museum Studies from Tufts University. He is the recipient of a 2019-2020 Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship at SMFA at Tufts and is a 2021 Emerging Artist-in-Residence at Franconia Sculpture Park.
 

Nico Sardina is an experimental animator and screenprinter from San Diego, California, currently living and working in the Twin Cities. Sardina holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Animation from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and is an operating member of the People’s Library. Their work focuses on non-hegemonic sections of identity, drawing from their lived experience as a transmasculine Filipino, and how those sections are expressed. Their work is influenced by their formal animation education, subverted to work in a fine arts space.
 

Beau Tate is a non-binary trans-masculine installation and video artist and musician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin working in Minneapolis. Tate holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Fine Art Studio with an emphasis in Printmaking from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Kieran Myles-Andrés Tverbakk is an artist from Houston, Texas, currently living and working on Dakhóta land (Minneapolis-St. Paul). They create mixed media artwork exploring dichotomies within their experience as a first-generation Mexican-Norwegian-American who is also non-binary transgender. Their interests lie in how we as humans divide ourselves socially, politically, and physically.

Image: Nico Sardina, Frame from Trick Run Ran, 2017


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