Dawn/Tea
- First Light First Tea
How to join:
. May 3 - 10 at dawn, make a cup of tea, look at the sky, and jot down a thorough description of what you see
. Join Artist Jeannine Bardo at Spring Tea on May 11 to paint your observations/remembrances on 4x4 canvases.
. The artist will stitch the works together and show them at our celebration in stand4 Gallery on June 1 and June 2.
You are all welcome to see the work coming together.
Reflections from the artist:
“Each day I try to record the colors and what I see as a way to jog my memory and make me present for a portion of my day. I orient myself with the sky and my garden. I look to the sky every morning I leave my house, but I realized even though I was aware and present and grateful for the beauty I see every day, I could never quite remember this moment. Perhaps I am not meant to. Perhaps to go on living we must keep our eyes open and in order to go on living with pleasure, hope and awe we must see enormous beauty as if for the first time, every time and grateful for the continual gift nature presents to us over and over.
“For the description: make it detailed enough to help you remember the colors, shapes of clouds, light…Here is an example of my description of the early morning sky, dawn’s light: Medium blue with light behind it, a bit more violet as you look up. “
About Jeannine Bardo:
Jeannine Bardo is the founder and artistic director of Stand4 Gallery and Community Arts Center. Bardo is a Brooklyn-born artist, curator, and art educator. She received her BFA in illustration from the School of Visual Arts and completed both a Masters in Art Education and a Masters in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College. She is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on humanity’s connections to the natural world. From January 2018 through October 2018, Bardo collaborated on a DCLA NYC Public Artwork titled Ark for the Arts, a socially engaged artwork that focused on climate change and resiliency in the community of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Bardo has over ten years of experience as a curator in both the public and private realms. Along with her work curating and directing at Stand4 Gallery, Bardo Co-founded BioBAT Art Space and co-curated the inaugural exhibition in January 2019.
In the Spring of 2023, she directed the public art exhibition Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens, curated by Jennifer McGregor, and was awarded a 2023 Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant. This interactive, public, community art exhibition featured over twenty artists from the New York area and consisted of nature walks, poetry events, artist talks, and community interventions in the gallery, and various locations throughout the Bay Ridge community including a film screening at the local movie theater featuring works by local documentary filmmakers.
Bardo is a socially engaged, multidisciplinary artist with a practice that includes drawing, sculpture, painting, storytelling, and place-based installations that explore the nuances that exist in our relationship to the natural world and to one another, such as the injustices and exploitation of land and how this trauma shapes society and our landscape.
She is a lifelong resident of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and a believer in community and collaboration.
