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ERASURES Exhibition

Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse urban areas in the world. Immigrants from over 120 countries study, work and live in New York’s fastest growing borough. Queens comprises of multi generational immigrant families.

Erasures exhibition is a collaboration between Pushcart Prize nominee poet Rosanna Oh and graphic artist and filmmaker Loide Marwanga. Both artists spent their childhoods in immigrant communities.

Rosanna Oh holds degrees from Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her writing has appeared in Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Unsplendid, The Hopkins Review, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. She also has received scholarships and awards from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, and the Academy of American Poets. A proud Long Islander, she lives and writes in Rego Park, Queens.

Loide Marwanga is a graphic designer based in the Washington DC Metro area. She was born in Nairobi, Kenya, to two scientists. She last collaborated with Rosanna eight years ago as an undergraduate at Yale, where she won the Jonathan Edwards Arts Prize, and the Lohmann Prize for Body of Work in Letterpress Printing. She went on to work with HvADesign, artists Rochelle Feinstein and Sam Vernon, the Museum of Modern Art, Housing Works, and Hilton Worldwide.

The exhibition visually and verbally encompasses the expressive, notional, communicative, and formal aspects of language through poetry informed by the works of Walt Whitman, US Poet Laureates Robert Hayden and Louise Glück.

Erasures will be on view until September 9, 2019.

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