stephanie santana: PHA x ace hotel new york artist in residence (AIR) exhibition VIP patron & press preview

Stephanie Santana, Artist in Residence with Ace Hotel New York. Photo: @shawninglima

PHA welcomes PHA Patrons and supporters to a special exhibition preview and artist walkthrough of Stephanie Santana’s Spatial Awareness, part of Ace Hotel New York’s AIR Program in partnership with PHA.

Wednesday, December 11
6:00 – 7:00 PM
VIP Patron & Press Preview
Ace Hotel New York
Refreshments will be offered
This preview is open to all PHA Patrons. Guests are invited to stay for the Public Exhibition Opening to follow (7:00 – 9:00 PM)

In partnership with Ace Hotel’s Artist in Residence (AIR) Program, PHA is pleased to co-present Stephanie Santana’s Spatial Awareness, a layered multimedia exhibition that explores interior worlds, mythologies, navigational tools, and resistance strategies of African diasporic origins. Featuring new works created while in residence at Ace Hotel New York, Spatial Awareness draws upon Santana’s written observations in addition to personal photographs captured during walks through Brooklyn and sourced from family archives to explore the intuitive link between the material and spiritual realms. Photographic images, patterns, and marks are layered and sequenced into cartographic forms that evoke the subversive methods of survival necessitated by both recent American history and our current reality.

Stephanie Santana constructs mixed media textile works and print editions that explore interior worlds, mythologies, navigational tools, and resistance strategies of African diasporic origins. Rooted in the responsive encounter with archival material while engaging with the languages of quilting, printmaking, painting, and collage; her practice seeks to unearth useful information and alternative spaces of self-definition.