Artist Talk at XI Art

Join us for an artist talk with contemporary textile artists Carter Shocket and Lovisa Axén among their duo exhibition, We've Been Trying to Reach You. Hosted by Victoria Fry, artist and founder of Warnes Contemporary, Visionary Art Collective, and New Visionary Magazine.

Sunday, October 26th
3:30pm Doors, 4pm Start
61 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11201
We'll have a 45 minute discussion and then open the talk for audience Q&As, followed by mingling in the gallery.

This event is free and open to all. Join us for a special afternoon as we delve deeper into these two artists' work!

Lovisa Axén (b. 1996, Götlunda) is an artist based in Malmö, Sweden. Working primarily with textiles, she explores the fragility of memory—how it blurs, fractures, and reshapes over time. Through pixelation and subtle distortions, her works evoke the spaces between clarity and loss, where what is absent becomes as present as what remains.
In her practice, everyday materials like shirt buttons are transformed into carriers of intimacy and recognition, inviting viewers into a quiet, searching encounter. Without demanding technical decoding, her pieces offer instead an emotional resonance—fragments that ask to be pieced together, but never fully resolved.

Carter Shocket (b. 1995, North Carolina, USA) is a trans and queer interdisciplinary artist from North Carolina living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work includes woven sculpture, installation, street art, tapestry, and other process-based textile art.

Shocket's work explores the supernatural reality that transness evokes. He's interested in how transness breaks what we think of as fixed, and what forms in the opening of those breaks. His current work explores trans time travel, communal care, and connection to community past and present.

Victoria J. Fry is a New York City-based painter, educator, curator, and founder of Visionary Art Collective, New Visionary Magazine, and Warnes Contemporary Gallery. Fry has supported hundreds of artists globally, providing resources and opportunities to help them further their art careers.

As part of her mission to increase visibility for emerging artists, Fry partners with renowned curators and gallerists to facilitate both in-person and virtual exhibitions, and to publish quarterly issues of New Visionary Magazine, a contemporary art publication showcasing artists globally.

Fry has been a guest speaker for the Women’s Caucus for Art in Washington, D.C., Superfine Art Fair in NYC, Photo Trouvée Magazine, The Art Queens Society, and the Huron River Art Collective. She has curated exhibitions for organizations such as Create! Magazine, Arts to Hearts Project, and The Artful Collective, and has served as a juror for the Women’s United Art Prize. She also hosts the New Visionary Podcast.

Fry holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (2012) and an MAT from the Maine College of Art (2014)

She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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