Miss Universe Program

MISS UNIVERSE

JULIA SEABROOKE GALLERY

NEW GALLERY, NEW ART, ETERNAL THEME Miss Universe March 2, 6-9 PM Julia Seabrook Gallery, 660 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn Contact: @juliaseabrookgallery, info@abeartllc.com Miss Universe, an exploration of the feminine experience through a range of print and photographic media, opens March 2, 6-9 PM, at Brooklyn’s newest art headquarters, Julia Seabrook Gallery, 660 Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights.

The exhibition, which runs from March 2 through April 3, features a diverse cast of emerging and established artists bringing their talent, skills and incandescence to the task of defining what it means to be a woman postmodern, touching on themes of beauty, strength, sexuality, desire, frustration and need.

Taking part in the inaugural show at the JSG space are artists Maggie Holland, Anna Friemoth, Chris Carr, Gabriele De Cos, Lewinale Havette, ABE, Lane Sell, Adam Pitt and Anne McMahan. The show incorporates work from printmaking greats such as Nancy Spero and Emma Amos.

Julia Seabrook Gallery, a division of Abe Art LLC, is owned by Nicole Abe Titus. JSG offers an approachable, nonaligned threshold to the art world for promising emerging artists and a robust growth catalyst for established talent.

NANCY SPERO An American painter and feminist artist, Spero’s expressive work is characterized by its figurative interpretation of sociopolitical and cultural issues, often directly tackling racism, violence, and sexism in contemporary space. “I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity,” she said. (DECEASED)

MAGGIE HOLLAND Raised among goats, sheep, cowboys and cedar trees in Rosebud-Lott, Texas, Holland fell in love with print making while attending Baylor University. She moved to Brooklun in 2016. “I moved to New York in 2016 because I wanted to be openly bi without the social pressures of conservative baptists.

I began making art regularly again late 2020. I returned to printmaking in the spring of 2021 when I joined Shoestring Press.”

ANNA FRIEMOTH Raised among goats, sheep, cowboys and cedar trees in Rosebud-Lott, Texas, Holland fell in love with print making while attending Baylor University. She moved to Brooklun in 2016. “I moved to New York in 2016 because I wanted to be openly bi without the social pressures of conservative baptists.

I began making art regularly again late 2020. I returned to printmaking in the spring of 2021 when I joined Shoestring Press.”

LEWINALE HAVETTE “Intimate but universal in its relevance, my artwork deals primarily with aspects of female identity, including gender and power dynamics, race, religion, and sexuality. It debunks the historical power structure systems that once surrounded me.”

Havette’s work has been featured in exhibitions in museums and galleries in the United States and Europe.

ABE Having grown up in foster care, ABE gravitated towards art at an early age as a means of escape from her realities. Her painting style can be described as abstract expressionism, while her overall art style is conceptual. There tends to be sexual references in her work as well as the balances of power and money.

GABRIELLE DE COS A Spanish-Colombian, multimedia artist based in New York City, de Cos art practice is influenced by her extensive work as a fashion stylist, costume designer, photographer, and set designer as well as her newly developed interests in art and technology. Full of Grace is an exploration of intimacy, youth culture, and gender fluidity from a contemporary lens.