Aleena Evangelista

July 14 - August 1

Artist Aleena Evangelista (b. 2001) is showcasing a collection of their newest works in their first solo gallery show, Big Home.

These characters, their “claybies” = their clay babies.

Aleena’s process is informed by their childhood experiences and reimagining those feelings of them into tangible objects. These characters provide comfort and a sense of recreating their home that best aligns with their development and path today. Claiming their feelings through these subjects is a cathartic practice as the artist explores how to best allow space for all their emotions so that there is an imagined place to nurture and transform them into something new.

And this is what Aleena wrote about the show:

BIG HOME:

A collection of imaginary memories...

is a series of multi-medium work inspired by the innocence of human emotion and recollection.

“What do you remember from your childhood?”

Among those memories, what details were lost, and what was left behind?

What memories have we imagined to be real in replacement of those we wished to forget?