Closing Party for the Port Chester Arts Festival + Exhibition Reception for "Long Transmission"
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Join us for the opening reception of our exhibition and the closing party for the 3rd-annual Port Chester Arts Festival!
Opening Reception May 31 (7-9 pm)
The opening of the exhibition coincides with the 3rd-Annual Port Chester Arts Festival: www.portchesterarts.com
On View May 31 - June 28
***Open by appointment only or during public events. Schedule your visit at: https://www.neptuneinjune.com/visit
33 New Broad st, Port Chester, NY
Enter through the main double glass-door entry at 33 New Broad st.
Port Chester is an express stop on the Metro North, roughly 45 minutes from Grand Central. The exhibition space is located one block from the train station.
Exhibition details at:
www.neptuneinjune.com/events/long-transmission-exhibition
Full Exhibition Text:
Long Transmission features large-scale installation, sculpture, photography, video, printmaking, poetry, drawing, and audio art from 8 artists based around the U.S. Messages linger as residue—in spaces, objects, lineage, and subconscious memories—shaping how we understand our past and navigate our present. Abandoned sites, often the byproducts of late-stage capitalism, serve as silent warnings for future generations. Ancestral tools and symbols encode instructions for survival, waiting to be unlocked through a relationship to one's contemporary body. Like a game of telephone, each generation relays the protective traditions learned by distant kin. In the digital age, messaging apps like WhatsApp extend transmissions across borders, carrying sacred counsel from family and echoing the wisdom once passed through touch, voice, and ritual. This exhibition examines the ways messages persist, whether grafted over landscapes, carried down generations, embedded in materials or whispered through technology.
Gary Sczerbaniewicz’s installations and sculptures turn abandoned architectural spaces into messages—remnants of past events layered with religious symbolism, Cold War silence, and esoteric mythologies—revealing an uneasy cohabitation of “official” history and conspiracy. May Elian works between sculpture, painting, and poetry, giving form to stories of trauma, languages of love, and antiwar messages. Her work channels messages that often go unheard, and the psychological landscapes of PTSD, through the use of vessels, text-infused images, and icons that traverse borders.
Through drawing and sculptural intervention, Liam Ze’ev O’Connor's work explores and shifts narratives around the intricate tapestry of Jewish identity in America. Their featured installation transmutes a traditional melody, giving way to silence and letting ambient sounds become part of the viewer's experience. Pilar Lagos’ printmaking process uses fragmented imagery and impermanent materials to express the impossibility of fully conveying a message. Her work reflects the ever-changing nature of memory, identity, and life with chronic illness.
Andy Van Dinh uses carbon paper and clothing patterns as a direct link to the ideas of translation, transition, evidence of absences, and his experiences with the Vietnamese Diaspora. Jose D. Trejo-Maya's poetry engages the spectral remnants of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition, tracing the disappearance of language as a rupture in time and intergenerational memory.
Betty Yu weaves together multimedia storytelling and community-based practices to unearth buried family histories, recognizing that acts of resistance can start with your own ancestral roots. Meanwhile, she examines the protective silences and generational amnesia often shaped by trauma. In collaboration with Daylight Books, we are pleased to feature Yu’s work, from her recently published photo book, Family Amnesia. Malda Smadi’s large-scale installation considers the use of traditional Syrian embroidery in tandem with modern technologies that both carry familial wisdom across geographies and time, illuminating the cyclical act of re-rooting as a message of endurance recorded in the body. The work incorporates laborious methods that speak to a fidelity to memory, and spaces of respite and caretaking.
This exhibition's space is generously provided by Ravikoff Property Management.
About Neptune in June
Neptune in June, formerly known as Ice Cream Social art space, is an artist-run curatorial and community project based in Port Chester, NY. It bridges emerging artists with the national art industry while strengthening local conversations and opportunities in the arts. Neptune in June curates exhibitions locally and across the U.S., offers free interdisciplinary public events, and provides educational programs to schools and families throughout Westchester County.
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