"UNAPOLOGETICALLY HERE" OPENS AT THE HAMPTONS FINE ART FAIR FEATURING ARTISTS ROSSANA ROMERO AND DESTINY BRANAY
SHEER centers the art and stories of multicultural creative women and non-binary people of color globally and holds space for creatives of color to explore the intersecting identities that make us who we are.
SHEER was pleased to present “Unapologetically Here” at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair featuring artworks by Destiny Branay and Rossana Romero. Destiny Branay is an emerging self-taught oil painter who is dedicated to using her practice as a vessel for communal healing and empowerment for the Black community employing a star motif in much of her work which is symbolic of the light that exists in Black people that refuses to be dimmed. Rossana Romero is a Colombian visual artist who through the mediums of oil paintings and paper mache sculptures, combines portraiture and landscapes to explore the rich narratives and folk tales of both South America and the United States combining Western European and Indigenous mythology.
Photos from the Hamptons Fine Art Fair opening night captured below by Nabila Wirakusumah.
Photographed by Avery Savage
As part of our ongoing collaboration with The Shed to spotlight artists from the Open Call: Portals exhibition (June 27–August 24), SHEER spent time inside the immersive installation of visual artist, writer, and producer Marwa Eltahir: 99 Names: My Liberation Is Tied To Yours.
Her installation creates a sacred, sensory space for reflection. Modeled after majlis-style communal seating found along sub-Saharan caravan routes, the work invites audiences to rest on woven rugs beneath sheer white curtains, surrounded by sound, stillness, and prayer. A projected film plays in a loop, opening with the Azan and unfolding into spoken word narration and original composition.