The Kris Waldman Curator-In-Residence Exhibit

Dimensions: 11 x 12 x 1
Medium: gouache and gel pen on watercolor paper
Year created: 2020
Description of artwork: Creatures and beings from all walks of life walking with a shared direction.

Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1
Medium: Digital Photograph, Print
Year created: 2021
Description of artwork: TBD

Dimensions: 8.5 x 14 x 1
Medium: Gouache and gel pen on watercolor paper
Year created: 2021
Description of artwork: Tiny explorers documenting the natural beauty in their colorful community. This piece is a concept illustration for a book idea about two young girls learning to be explorers and scientists by finding wonder in their everyday surroundings.

Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 1
Medium: Digital Photograph, Print
Year created: 2020
Description of artwork: TBD

Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 1
Medium: gouache, graphite, and gel pen on watercolor paper
Year created: 2020
Description of artwork: 28% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from transportation, making it the biggest contributor of greenhouse gasses in the country (Source: the United States Environmental Protection Agency). With another year of so much smog and smoke from burning fuel and burning wildfires, we should reconsider our individual actions AND vote for representatives and policies that will reduce our carbon footprint.

Dimensions: 32 x 28 x 2
Medium: Meranti, Fir Wood
Year created: 2016
Description of artwork: TBA

Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 2
Medium: Graphite on Wood Panel
Year created: 2019
Description of artwork: As a child of immigrants adopted into another family, I have always felt estranged from my cultural heritage. However, I've begun participating in cultural healing work, which focuses on intergenerational trauma. While I do not know my ancestors or biological parents, the course exercises have allowed me to connect with them in ways I never imagined. Some of this involves reaching out to ancestors who were victims of our original familial traumas, but also remembering their resiliency and strength. Like the shiny exterior of a mylar balloon, some emotional struggles stay guarded under an opaque veneer. Grief is a space where time does not exist on a linear plane, where the past is always present, forever looping. Working on this drawing series has been a way for me to reorient myself within the physical world when my internal world feels dominated by overwhelming emotion. My interest in creating this series of work is not only about my specific loss but a desire for collective healing.

Dimensions: 8 x 11 x 3.5
Medium: Discarded 2x4 Lumber, Nails
Year created: 2020
Description of artwork: TBA

Dimensions: 24 x 36 x 2
Medium: Graphite on Wood Panel
Year created: 2019
Description of artwork: The drawing series, Mourning Rituals, is part of a personal mourning ritual I began in response to a profound loss in my life. I conceived this particular series of work as a way to hold space for and give visual form to my grief. Like my other drawing compositions from the last decade, the balloon imagery is a direct reference to the traditional American birthday party and its familiar iconography. The drawings are also a heartfelt gesture of compassion towards others in mourning. Within each composition, the lone subject is a heart-shaped silver mylar balloon whose prototypical shape has been slightly obscured so that shadows and crevices appear upon its flawless chrome-like surface. I chose to work in graphite on wood panel so that the images could be repeatedly built up, and rubbed out again while maintaining the delicate mark-making underneath; a layering of lines and erasure markers on top of one another, much like the process of remembering over a lifetime. While some of the imagery are straightforward representations of a balloon suspended in midair, other images are simply the residual image of a balloon, a memory of its silhouette.

Dimensions: 35 x 21 x 1
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year created: 1996
Description of artwork: The Veiled Presence series of paintings feature women from the Indian sub-continent, either with their backs turned and hair covered, or faces covered. The artist give presence to the women whose identity is revealed by dress and body language. Paintings from this series were exhibited at the national Gallery of Art in India, representing the U.S. in India’s Triennale. The series was also on display at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Diplomats reported being deeply affected by viewing the series as it changed their perception of gender issues in India. Prints of this piece are available, please inquire with the artist.

Dimensions: 35 x 21 x 2
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year created: 1996
Description of artwork: The Veiled Presence series of paintings feature women from the Indian sub-continent, either with their backs turned and hair covered, or faces covered. The artist give presence to the women whose identity is revealed by dress and body language. Paintings from this series were exhibited at the national Gallery of Art in India, representing the U.S. in India’s Triennale. The series was also on display at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Diplomats reported being deeply affected by viewing the series as it changed their perception of gender issues in India. Prints of this piece are available, please inquire with the artist.

Dimensions: 31 x 19 x 2
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year created: 1997
Description of artwork: The Veiled Presence series of paintings feature women from the Indian sub-continent, either with their backs turned and hair covered, or faces covered. The artist give presence to the women whose identity is revealed by dress and body language. Paintings from this series were exhibited at the national Gallery of Art in India, representing the U.S. in India’s Triennale. The series was also on display at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Diplomats reported being deeply affected by viewing the series as it changed their perception of gender issues in India. Prints of this piece are available, please inquire with the artist.

Dimensions: 9 x 26 x 1
Medium: Reconfigured "Congratulations Banner," Glue, Wood, and Pencil
Year created: 2018
Description of artwork: Felicitations are terms that are meant to express good wishes. This series of drawings repurpose lettering from “Congratulations” banners to reveal words that communicate what happens after a celebration. If the party is over and support is gone, what remains?

Dimensions: 82 x 71 x 1
Medium: Acrylic and Ink on Paper
Year created: 2018
Description of artwork: Color Study is a transcription of thinking into an act of seeing Latinx. This work was made at the same time as I was researching Latino/a aesthetics and considering how new identities may surface from former aesthetic practices, and challenge “binary” reasoning.

Dimensions: 5 x 7 x 2
Medium: Ink on Paper
Year created: 2017
Description of artwork: White ink print on brown craft paper, cut to the scale of an open passport and wall mounted, according to the clinical growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to an approximate height (49 inches) for an 8-year-old child.

Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 1
Medium: Digital Photograph, Print
Year created: 2018
Description of artwork: In this photo from an improvised dance in front of a full house audience at Green Street Studios, Cambridge, dancers Laquimah VanDunk, Janoah Bailin, and I were directed to act upon our not our first, but our second impulses. Dancing this directive, photographer Ellen Maynard of The Fleet captured a quick moment of my silent screaming towards the audience to show my normally suppressed emotion.

Dimensions: 5 x 7 x 2
Medium: Digital Photograph, Print
Year created: 2018
Description of artwork: I performed in the retirement concert honoring my former professor, Susan Laurie, who taught me improvisational dance. I was honored to return to my alma mater with Saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra in our Buzz duet. Dancer/choreographer Jessica Roseman and saxophonist and composer Jorrit Dijkstra have been collaborating improvisationally in Boston for four years. Roseman and Dijkstra dialogue with sound, rhythm, touch, weight, expression, and space to compose abstract, theatrical stories together. Their ongoing improvisational exchange Buzz draws as heavily upon both free improvisation practices in music and in dance, as it does on relationship dynamics and awareness. The duo practices being fully present with each other, and while at play discover new manifestations of that presence. In their trusting partnership, each artist’s creative inquiry pushes the other to together expand their limits of performance. “Buzz” inherently explores the politics of our identities in space together. What does it mean for a white Dutch American man and a biracial Jamaican American Jewish woman to share the stage? How do we communicate as equals?

Dimensions: 12 x 18 x 1
Medium: Digital Photograph, Print
Year created: 2020
Description of artwork: This dance prioritizes what are still, even in the 21st century, essentially private realms of the female experience. Through a healthy and embodied, rather than idealized, representation of mature womanhood in my dances, I engage the audience’s imagination: Who are we today? How am I connected to what I see? How do I feel about it? This sort of inquiry is relevant to a much wider sector than the fine arts and performance world. "A Brief History of My Belly" intimately invites the audience in to witness the experience of exposing my belly, with all its history. I breathe with the layered emotions, awkwardness, and vulnerability this sharing provokes in me, for all of us together. It considers intimate, personal relationships between my memory and the present, and my body and the audience. This dance prioritizes presence to reveal connections that change over time.