Please join us on Thursday, June 2, from 5:30-8PM in the opening reception of Bronx Faces at Casita Maria Gallery with Uptown Vinyl Supreme!
Bronx Faces by Antoinette Legnini
Casita Maria Gallery
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, May 26 - Friday, August 19, 2022
Celebration and Artist Talk: Thursday, June 2, 2022, 5:30-8pm
Bronx Faces Artist Statement
Bronx Faces is a collaborative community art project that pairs the stories and experiences of Bronx natives with a personalized mixed media portrait. This information was gathered through an open call with a fixed selection of questions for Bronx natives of varying backgrounds and generations about one’s experience in the borough.
In the open call, Bronxites were asked:
1. Name/Birth Year/Neighborhood
2. What memory stands out the most from living in the Bronx?
3. What’s the best food spot in the Bronx?
4. Describe your favorite order
5. What do you want people to know about your specific neighborhood?
6. What do you want people to know about the Bronx?
7. What did you do for fun growing up?
8. What is your favorite local spot?
The interview answers are paired with a mixed media portrait of the interviewed Bronxite for a complete 'Bronx Face.'
This is a project by a Bronx native for Bronx natives. Bronx Faces is incredibly personal storytelling. It documents a multitude of Bronx experiences through the contextual differences and intersections in time, neighborhood, ethnicity, race, age, and culture. The responses are unedited, thoughtful, difficult, honest, sweet, raw, and funny. This project allows Bronx natives to document their own histories through an unfiltered tongue.