Triangle is excited to announce Governors Island Open Studios and Alumni Picnic!
Saturday, September 11, 2 - 5 PM

Nolan Park House 7B.

Open Studios will be indoors, and all guests will be required to wear masks indoors, observe 6 feet social distancing, fill out a COVID-19 tracing form, and show proof of vaccination before entering the building. Ferry schedules and more info on all the great things happening on Governors Island here.

Ariel Kleinberg is a painter and performance artist creating theatrical installations and mythological interventions throughout the city, from the depths of subways to the heights of skyscrapers. She is interested in journeys to the underworld and trances to make humans divine.

Bahareh Khoshooee is a multidisciplinary artist born in Tehran, Iran in 1991, the year the Internet was made available for unrestricted commercial use. She uses digital time-based strategies in presenting work that fuses video, projection mapping, sculpture, text, sound, and performance to explore the un-capturable qualities of her diasporic body, fragmented culture, and transnational identity. Khoshooee has presented her multimedia installations at Baxter St CCNY, The Elizabeth Foundation for The Arts (The Immigrant Artist Biennial), The Orlando Museum of Art, NADA MIAMI 2018, Elsewhere (New York), Housing (New York), and Rawson Projects (New York). In 2018 she attended Skowhegan School of Art and Painting.

Donald Hải Phú Daedalus (b. 1983) grew up in the shadow of the country's largest public observatory—an area so remote and sparsely populated that it served as the first plutonium-processing plant for the Manhattan Project. Shortly after the oldest human remains in North America were discovered near his hometown, Daedalus left to attend the University of Washington, where, coincidentally, the remains were to be held during the decade-long legal dispute between the Kennewick tribe and anthropologists. During that debate, he completed studies in Continental and Applied Philosophy, as well as Interdisciplinary Visual Arts. He makes videos, sculptures, books.

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is an interdisciplinary artist who often stages live and lens-based performances. She constructs narratives with wearable sculptures, drawings, and prints that aim to highlight the lost traditions and stories of her own heritage(s), cultural ideologies and the effects of migration, globalization, and climate change. Using urban and natural landscapes, some of which are culturally significant, she places the audience as the role of witness to her reclaim. Lyn-Kee-Chow lives in Queens, NY and is currently working on her ongoing series, “Junkanooacome," based on the 18th-century Jamaican folk masquerade called jonkonnu.

John Bjerklie was born in Los Angeles and lives and works in Elmhurst NY. Bjerklie’s practice involves a wide range of activities that contextualize the act of making paintings and sculpture. Using in-situ environments as hosts for sculpture and painting, while at the same time being the stage for his multiple actions, Bjerklie uses surveillance cameras and monitors in order to play with the ambiguities of time and space, fiction and reality, live and recorded footage. The SlowHealingTrain is a mobile studio that is intended to create a platform through which the artist who occupies it may observe and interact with the environment and the community in which it sits. The artist who is currently assigned to work in these studios is the character known as BigHat. In the pandemic shutdown of 2020 BigHat set up the SlowHealingTent as an outpost to continue the SlowHealingTrain project. More information on the project can be found here.

Trokon Nagbe’s work examines the migration of his parents' generation from West Africa and assimilation into America. He received his MFA from the Savannah College of Arts in 2004 in the Film and Fine Arts program. His ongoing project examines the organizing spiritual philosophies in sub-Saharan Africa.