Insight Sunday with Arcmanoro Niles
Arcmanoro Niles, esteemed East End visual artist and visionary, joins us as our August Insight Sunday speaker. Included in This Land: Considering The American Landscape, Niles has created a unique painting specifically for the exhibition. Niles invites audiences to see deeply into the work, learn about his process, and gain insight into the wellspring of his creativity. Following the discussion there will be a Q&A and the audience will then be led upstairs into the gallery to view the work in person.
A painter known for working with vivid and bright hues, Niles’s new painting is reflective of how much landscape has become a part of his practice. He says, “I began to realize how important my relationship to nature was. In this painting I wanted to capture the feeling of the day ending looking out into the fading sky, an attempt to connect and reset watching the sunset, contemplating what tomorrow might bring.”
As a visual artist, Niles creates paintings that expand our understanding of traditional genre painting and portraiture. His work he offers a window into seemingly mundane moments of daily life—a child seated at the table for breakfast, a man about to get into his car, a couple in their bedroom—with subjects drawn from photographs of friends and relatives and from memories of his past.
Niles’s work included in This Land offers viewers a window into a present day reflection and the hope of what lies in the future. Stop by during our exhibition hours, Thursday – Monday, 11 AM – 5 PM to view the work in person.
