JODIE LYN-KEE-CHOW "The Calling of the Light: The Mystic Powers of Tathagata"

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow "The Calling of the Light: The Mystic Powers of Tathagata"

performance - Thursday November 6th 2014 7:30pm

The term, Tathagata is often thought to mean either "one who has thus gone" or "one who has thus arrived".
It is another name for the historical Buddha, Siddharta and replaces the pronouns, “I or myself”. Here the artist, Lyn-Kee-Chow
performs a ritualistic and transient experience using lights and visual imagery of the lotus flower.

*This performance is interactive.

Biography

Born in Manchester, Jamaica, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow is a multidisciplinary artist with a BFA (1996) University of Florida (NWSA), FL and an MFA (2005) from Hunter College, NYC.

Her work has been shown internationally at venues including Exit Art (NYC), Rush Arts Gallery (NYC), Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY Old Westbury (NY), Queens Museum of Art (NY), Third Streaming LLC (NY), MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts) (NYC), Art Museum of the Americas (Washington, DC), Grace Exhibition Space (NYC), Panoply Lab (NYC), Open Contemporary Art Center in Beijing, China, and GIMPAF (Gwanju International Media Performance Arts Festival) Gwanju, South Korea.

She is a Rema Hort Mann nominee and a 2012 NYFA Fellow in Interdisciplinary Art.

Her work has been reviewed by publications such as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, The Washington Diplomat, Daily Serving, Hyperallergic, Artinfo, The New York Art World, and Newsday.

Lyn-Kee-Chow often explores performance and installation art from a feminine perspective and draws from the nostalgia of her homeland, the commodified imagery of Caribbean primitivism, folklore, fantasy, consumerism, spirituality and nature’s ephemerality.

She lives and works in Queens, NY.

Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow photo credit: Maria Fernanda Hubeaut

About Stephen Romano Gallery

Stephen Romano Gallery is a new addition to the DUMBO arts community, having opened its doors in April of 2014. Prior to opening the current gallery, Stephen Romano was a private art dealer for 10 years specializing in masters of self-taught and visionary artists such as Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Charles Dellschau, Bill Traylor, Darcilio Lima, and many others. The Gallery's most recent exhibition "William Mortensen: American Grotesque""is being well received and reviewed extensively.

Stephen Romano has been a participant in many art fairs including PULSE, Art Now, The Outisder Art Fair and The Metro Show.

In 2013, Stephen Romano produced a seminal 330-page monograph on Texas visionary artist Charles Dellschau designed by Marquand Books and distributed by DAP. The book generated several positive reviews from a wide variety of publications such as Bookforum, Raw Vision Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, Antiques and the arts and Design Observer among many others. With an introduction by Stephen Romano, the book features the final published essay by renowned art writer Thomas McEvilley, as well as contributions from the founder of The Museum of Everything James Brett, and the curator of Smithsonian Museum of Aerospace, Thomas Croutch. In the same year, Romano also published the first ever post-mortem retrospective catalog of works by Darcilio Lima and most recently a catalogue of a previously unknown photographic series from 1925 by William Mortensen"A Pictorial Compendium of Witchcraft," with an introduction by A.D. Coleman. Most recently, Stephen Romano Gallery had the honor of publishing a catalog of works by artist Pavel Kraus with an essay by David Ebony as well as a catalog of new works by Chinese artit Lu Zhang withan essay by Robert C. Morgan..

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