Triangle is excited to announce Dumbo Summer Open Studios

Thursday, July 28th, 6 - 8 PM

Featuring Eva Davidova, Stephanie Acosta, Isaac Pool, and Kaarlo Stauffer.

All guests will be required to wear masks, if you have any questions please contact mail@triangleartsnyc.org.

Eva Davidova explores behavior, ecological disaster, and the political implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Disrupting and challenging a singular narrative, she combines ancient mythology with the current technological moment to address the impending ecological catastrophe. Davidova’s practice involves research, performance, 360 video and 3D sculpture, game engines, participatory Virtual Reality, and interactive, site-specific immersive installations. She works with the human gesture and expression as a way to “mix” with, and disrupt technologies, and use the failures in these technologies to reclaim them. An important part of her practice is involving people to discuss seemingly disparate, but strongly interwoven and urgent global issues in performative dinners and collaborative projects addressing the suicidal inaction on ecological disasters and the outsourcing of cruelty.

Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum, Everson Museum, Albright Knox Museum, MACBA, CAAC Sevilla, and La Regenta. Her latest solo exhibitions were at ISSUE Project Room and the Instituto Cervantes in New York.

Stephanie Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, and organizer who places the materiality of the ephemeral at the center of their practice, questioning meaning-making and manufactured limitations. Blending performance with studio research they facilitate processes to create fleeting performances and material worlds that examine perception in shared experiences. Acosta has collaborated with Alexis Wilkinson on the curatorial experiment Sunday Service and the dark times talk show Apocalypse Talks, along with multiple performance creations with Miguel Gutierrez, and a wide array of artists. Recently their solo exhibition Good Day God Damn focused on themes of multi-crisis making and radical hope.

Isaac Pool's approach is rooted in a promiscuous crossing of disciplines including performance, sculpture, and poetry. They have roots in punk performance and nightlife and first performed in clubs as a teenager wearing costumes made from trash alongside songs and videos produced in their parents’ basement. Pool's work challenges limits of identification and embraces fantasy as a tool for self-determination and social survival – a way of rerouting shared dissonances into assemblages of belonging. Their work is both materially engaged within the social dimensions it occupies and perversely sentimental, embracing and questioning feminist criticality with humor and ambivalence.

Kaarlo Stauffer is a Finnish artist living and working in Helsinki. Stauffer’s figurative paintings are based on old family photographs, often containing autobiographical and nostalgic connotations. The work aims to open up a kaleidoscopic view from the past, replacing real life characters, spaces and objects with vague propositions. Stauffer utilizes the non-verbal dimension of images, summoning gestures that are "mute" but poetic. Stauffer’s focus has moved toward the possibilities of painting itself and what kind of ideas and moods can be expressed via traditional and organic media.