May 18, 2024 - August 17, 2024
Citizens of the globe are in motion – leaving, coming, going, staying.
“All Who Wander” is Rockaway Artists Alliance’s Summer 2024 Exhibition juried by Eto Otitigbe, Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Art Department at Brooklyn College (etootitigbe.com). The artwork on display in the gallery responds both literally and in the abstract to a comprehensive notion of travel and human movement.
“Not all who wander are lost,” but perhaps some are. So much of one’s life can be defined by how and why we went from Point A to Point B – and everywhere in between. From youthful road trips on shoestring budgets, to stressful business trips that leave us wondering ‘Is this what I worked so hard for?’ Destination weddings, gap years, second honeymoons, hiking the Appalachian trail – documented in social media feeds by the likes of experienced elders and those just starting out. Flights leaving behind cartels and war, migrations, refugees, the search for desperately needed gallons of water stashed in the shade of saguaros.
Through widely varied circumstances – survival, exploration, healing a broken heart, starting over, having the privilege of being able to take a break, and more – we relocate ourselves physically and often spin our nternal axis permanently.