Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
A multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator, Shori Sims' (they/them) work explores the anthropogenic slippage between subject and objecthood in the 21st century. Sims centers Black figures in their compositions, revealing them by their portrayal as mythologized subjects within media culture, where their lives and deaths are metaphorized. Their work renders Black bodies and faces in moments of joy, creating afro-utopic worlds that eschew impossibility. Featuring symbols of nature, children, and fantasy creatures, Sims' symbolically dense work melds the joy of discovery with the underlying unease that follows things yet to come, radically emphasizing the unknown nature that pervades historical narratives.