BronxArtSpace

700 Manida Street, (entrance on Spofford )

Bronx, NY 10474 

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Andre Trenier & Lady K Fever: Intersecting Visions 

Curated by Christine DeFazio

October 17-November 16, 2024

Gallery Hours: Thursday & 

Friday 2-6 pm, Saturday 12-5 pm

Opening reception: Thursday, October 17 6:30-8:30 pm

Closing reception: Saturday, November 16, TBD

Art making classes are scheduled for Saturdays 2-4 pm 

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Graffiti writing and muralism in the Bronx is mesmerizing, active, living, ever changing. Oftentimes it preserves the history and culture of the communities and sometimes even educates about social issues. Traveling through the Bronx is an astonishing visual experience. You never know what you will come across. This exhibition features Bronx-based graffiti writers and muralists: Andre Trenier and Lady K Fever. They have collaborated on projects and worked in locations of close proximity throughout the Bronx and beyond. 

Lady K Fever’s large floral paintings are created with fluid graffiti line and brilliant colors. Her mixed media pieces capture and refract light, and smaller assemblages are created with found and personal items. In summer 2023 she created several activations of space with nature, including the Lilac Weekend Community Mural Project at the Bronx Botanical Gardens, creating a Bronx-inspired mural. Lady K Fever’s murals feature earth mother figures, representing the strong matriarchy of the community. In summer of 2024 she collaborated on a tribute to the late Bronx writer TRACY168, creator of Wild Style and pioneer of graffiti writing. Her NYC Graffiti Women’s Festival will be held in Spring of 2025 during Women’s History Month. 

Andre’s work features paintings that originate with abstraction and lively realistic portraits of historical figures dramatically frozen in expressive moments. Andre’s murals highlight and educate on social issues. They include representations of Fannie Lou Hamer, famous Yankees, Muhammed Ali, and the Four Freedoms after Norman Rockwell. Andre invites viewers to consider and be inspired by the life and messages of these leaders. This summer Andre participated in live painting in conjunction with the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project at The Museum of Bronx History and painted at the Graffiti Hall of Fame. Like Lady K Fever, he feels a sense of duty to the Bronx, putting out images that will start conversations that need to be had. 

There is a duality and cohesion amongst public and private work. There is often a struggle between commissioned mural work and what the artist wishes to create in the studio. This exhibition presents the artists’ work on canvas alongside images of their murals. 

Christine recently curated ANNA! And Duster: A Collaborative Exhibition at COPE NYC’s The IW Gallery in Brooklyn; and Vox, Veritas, Vita (voice, truth, life): Graffiti, Street and Pop Artists to catch now, at Stable Gallery, in Ridgewood, NJ. She is the director and curator at Twenty Four River Gallery in Bogota, NJ. She has written articles on the NYC Graffiti Womens Festival, curated by Lady K Fever at Bronxlandia, Tats Cru and ANNA! For UP Magazine of Street Art. She is currently publishing a book on the birth of street art in the South Bronx with Lived Places Publishing. She has painted murals at Bronxlandia, Uptown Grand Central and locally in New Jersey where she is the municipal artist for Bogota, NJ and Secretary for Creative Bergen. She has shown her own art extensively, including the School of Visual Arts, VanderPlas Gallery, and the Bronx Art Space.

The exhibition will include an educational guide with activities. 

This exhibition was made possible in part with grants from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

If you have any questions or require further information, please feel free to contact Sabine Schumacher, Director, IW BronxArtSpace at sabine@bronxartspace.com or Christine DeFazio, Curator at christinedefazioarts@gmail.com