Awakening, a concept of a renaissance or a rebirth of a season or change. In my opinion, I have been painting such meaning and such concept throughout my entire artistic career. My work which is being submitted for this particular project is in

Sonomi Kobayashi - Infinity Bubbles

Apr 9th, 2021 2m 54s

I strive to express our lives by painting abstract bubbles that change shapes every moment. We are experiencing an interesting time of change and it seems a big change but nothing is the same ever. Let go of fears of changing. See omnys

Kim Sandara - Don't Whistle, You'll Wake up the Spirits

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 32s

This series of paintings explores my identity with Lao music vs. American music. I always related my synesthesia to queer escapism, creating a space for myself that didn’t exist when I was growing up. It’s through that acknowledgment of queer

Xian Eley - Emergence

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 31s

Born in Nanjing, China, but raised in New York City, I have always felt like a hybrid. While I identify with my adoptive family, I am still intrinsically drawn to Asian culture. Perhaps it's a search for my true identity. The process of creatin

Taeesha Muhammad - We The People

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 32s

Awakening, in terms of my art practice, has always been a word I would use to describe my journey thus far. As an African American, the discovery of self is a deep awakening. We as a population have to learn who we are as we go along, because i

Sofia Brunetti - Among Flowers

Apr 7th, 2021 3m 10s

“Renaissance and Rebirth.” The two things I, for the most part, thought about when bringing this piece to life. The Italian Renaissance was a period of cultural, political, and so-called artistic “rebirth.” During this time, classical philosoph

Ryoko Endo - Good News From The South

Apr 7th, 2021 3m 3s

Most of my paintings are reflective of and are inspired by the rhythms and continual rebirth of the universe. My art begins when I experience emotions, seasonal changes, and the surrounding environmental consciousness. Awareness of such emotion

Patricia Gordon - The City In My Dreams

Apr 7th, 2021 3m 18s

As a writer and artist, I’ve discovered the beauty of the fact that there are times when art offers a meaningful, visual interpretation of thoughts and emotions that words simply cannot express. My art is an adventurous exploration in which col

Paola Bermudez - FEARLESS

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 25s

Fearless represents to me the way I want to live my life. It came to me almost as a gift to myself, at a moment when I needed it the most. And when I say “came to me,” it is because when I start painting, I don’t know what is going to happen. I

Michael Anthony Pegues - Sit Down and Look at Ancestor II

Apr 7th, 2021 1m 54s

I began to express myself by putting all of my emotions on paper at the young age of six; even at this age I was best to communicate my feelings with crayons in my hand. I also gained an early appreciation for volunteering my time to better the

Melika Dave - Joseph

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 14s

I use my expressionistic approach to painting to tell the story of the New Yorkers I love and appreciate. It is important for me to capture my neighbors, to capture the strength, solidarity and resilience of my community and to speak to the pul

Mark Venaglia - Lisa Sfumato

Apr 7th, 2021 3m 43s

1972, I was cutting high school classes to visit my grandmother’s sister and brother-in-law on Washington Square West, the segregated area for Italians who’d moved on up. As impatient as I recall becoming, I’m now so grateful for every Original

Lola Flash - Have Mercy

Apr 7th, 2021 3m 45s

In this self-portrait series entitled “syzygy, the vision”, I am speculating about Black cultural conflict, through the lens of Afrofuturism. My soul is hopeful that our future plight, will be divine, yet heavy on my mind, is America’s mass inc

Marj Kleinman - Qween Jean on the Stonewall Stoop

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 40s

Qween Jean is a West Village icon. The co-founder of weekly Black trans liberation protests at the Stonewall Inn, she rallies for trans rights and condemns the ongoing killings of transgender people. Jean leads with “radical love” — a protestin

Leslie Jean-Bart - The Prayer

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 47s

Being my mother’s caretaker, who suffered from dementia for over a decade, has been one of the two major factors that have been powering my creativity and my overall view of life these last few years. The second is the magic of the ocean, and i

Marcello Rudofsky - Self Portrait

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 22s

This image is pen and ink on paper and acrylic paint on a poster board. It is a self portrait made during the pandemic. Being away from school for so long gave me the confidence to try radical things like this hairdo. For much of 2020 I was alo

Kevin Kinner - Gays Against Guns March

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 24s

The images that I capture are already snapped in my minds eye. Subliminally influenced by the masters of street photography and abstract expressionists, I strive to communicate a mood with images that draw the viewer into the frame. “Gays Again

Kevin Byrd - The Gathering

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 13s

I’m a self-taught expressionist artist that depicts images and form with various mediums. As an artist, I feel it is my obligation to paint the everyday struggle of our communities. I feel that my art should always reflect positive images on my

Kate Fauvell - Keep Using Your Bullhorns and Your Ballots

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 42s

As a native New Yorker, I’m accustomed to change. Over the course of my lifetime, its residents have transformed the city more times than I can count. That experience informs my art. I believe all things change and make art that alludes to this

Joseph Laurro - Offerings & Red Coral

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 31s

Painting for me often develops through working out ideas and impulses, responding over and over again with the paint- being a conduit. Anything is possible. "Offerings and Red Coral" came about by my contemplations of water (especially ocean wa

Gary Buckendorf - Make Do #33

Apr 7th, 2021 3m 13s

Every day I awaken to a task in which process offers renewal. I get the materials and the marking tools. I screw the canvas or tape the paper to the wall and start like I'm doodling. With the first mark the rules become apparent; “ don't put i

Fukuko Harris - Bright Celebration

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 14s

Colors, shapes, and the idea of taking a ride into compositional spaces drive my creation of mixed-media paintings, sculptures and works on paper. Generally non-representational, my works convey something I have witnessed, sensed or otherwise e

Daniel Um - Private Moon & Stay in Memory

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 22s

Repetitive movement is the first step of meditation. The harmonic relationship between the rhythmic strokes and colors provides clarity within the spectator’s mind to meditate on their emotions without having a confining worldly connection. I n

CURATORIAL STATEMENT By Norma Krieger and Susan Davis-Eley

Apr 7th, 2021 3m 15s

Susan: Welcome to Art on the Ave NYC, Greenwich Village, A Public Arts Initiative. My name is Susan Davis-Eley. Norma: My name is Norma Krieger and we are the curators of this exciting exhibition. We are honored to be part of a dynamic team, le

Erica Jones - The Bench

Apr 7th, 2021 2m 44s

Two years ago I spent two months in Asia. I learned a lot about family-oriented, culturally rich, and hospitably natured communities. During the pandemic in NYC, I’ve spent countless hours walking in parks, not traveling, seeing little of my fa