Uptown

ALL THAT REMAINS

Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling

898 St Nicholas Ave

New York, NY 10032

On view Mar 12 - May 25

Friday, 10am - 5pm Saturday - Sunday, 10am - 3pm

Artist(s)

All that Remains, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Cecilia Chueca is a group exhibition that focuses on artists that construct beautifully rendered abstractions in which color takes center stage to awaken emotions often connected to personal histories, in which the notion of culture and society prevails. Artists: Leslie Hewitt, Liz Deschenes, Kevin Umaña, Yiyo Tirado, Amanda Martinez, & Lucia Koch

Selected Works

Kevin Umaña

Kevin Umaña (b. 1989) grew up in El Salvador and Los Angeles. He earned his BFA from San Francisco State University in 2014 and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Initially focused on geometric painting, his practice has expanded to ceramics. His recent “hybrid paintings”—glazed ceramics on painted canvas—explore the history of the Pipil people, Indigenous to western and central El Salvador, where his family originates. These works blend conflicting styles: biomorphic and geometric, matte and sheen, order and mess. They evoke childhood memories—landscapes, beaches, plants, building materials, food, and religion.