A Private Viewing with Ivy's Projects & ARTNOIR

Join us for a private walkthrough of the exhibition, Empire is Not Forever, at Ivy's Projects on June 17th at 5 pm.
About this Event

Ivy's Projects, Welancora Gallery's project space, is located in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The event will be hosted by Ivy's Projects and ARTNOIR on the occasion of the group exhibition, Empire is Not Forever. Exhibiting artists will be present for an opportunity to discuss their work in person. Capacity is limited, RSVP before spots run out.

About the Exhibition

Empire is Not Forever is a group exhibition guest curated by Alyssa Alexander and Cyle Warner. The exhibition is on view at 410 Jefferson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, and includes work by Jill Cohen-Nuñez, Renluka Maharaj, Pedro Troncoso, Cyle Warner, and Kemar Keanu Wynter.

The exhibition gathers works engaged with the slow unraveling and stubborn persistence of empire. Through painting, sculpture, and textile-based practices, the exhibition considers how the legacy of colonial structures deteriorates unevenly, leaving behind residues in land, language, and the body. The artists in this show trace fragmented geographies, inherited memory, and the psychic weight of history, offering refusal not just as resistance, but as ritual, care, and survival. The exhibition unfolds in tension between decay and endurance, forgetting and remembrance where the past does not stay buried, and the future remains contested.

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About ArtNoir

ARTNOIR started as a group of friends organizing “field trips” to museums, galleries and art fairs around the globe. In it, they discovered the power of numbers and friendship, to make traditionally exclusive art world spaces feel colorful, inclusive and welcoming.

They discovered a passion for ensuring that the next generation of Black and Brown creators, curators, and collectors are connected in community, and contributing to each other’s success. Today, ARTNOIR is a female-majority and black + brown owned, NYC based global collective and 501(c)(3) with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.

ARTNOIR seeks to empower artists, enthusiasts, curators, forward thinking organizations, storytellers, designers and patrons, to explore alternative perspectives to the traditional arts narrative, while leveraging the intersectionality of art and culture to develop new access points for discussion, exploration and collaboration.