Opening Reception – Untold Stories

Untold Stories
April 15 – June 10, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 15, 2pm-5pm
Free to the Public
Rockland Center for the Arts (RoCA) continues its mission of inspiring the
community through new and diverse forms of contemporary exhibitions, all
free to the public. During the month of April, RoCA will bring together
three artists whose art conveys life stories of ecological issues,
immigration, and humanity.
Untold Stories, curated by Mary Ting for the Emerson Gallery, brings
together fragmented memories, dreams, whispers, whimpers, trauma,
historical and contemporary chaos which are woven together, dissected, and
reassembled in the works of Tara Sabharwal, Mary Ting and Yeon Ji Yoo. Time
is at once present, past, future and the site is here, there, elsewhere and
nowhere. These works are much more than collages, drawings, paintings,
prints, books, sculpture, and photographs – they are evocations of loss;
desperations; relics, shrines; and reckonings. Likewise, they are also
rebirths; devotions; divinations, odes to nature, wonder, life; and newly
revised contemporary translations of old stories. These Untold Stories are
the artists’ pilgrimage into the hauntings of war, immigration, politics,
gender issues and ecological collapse.
The paintings, drawings and prints of Tara Sabharwal are intuitive in
process -a melding of the unconscious self and the raging global migration
crisis. Tara has also curated many exhibitions on the theme of migration.
Tara was born and educated in Delhi, India and resides in New York.
The drawings, installations and books of Mary Ting reflect on Chinese
cultural history, trauma, grief, and the loss of nature. Mary teaches
environmental justice and does research on the wildlife trade. Mary is an
American born Chinese, who also studied and worked in China.
The sculpture, photographs and collages of Yeon-Ji Yoo are infused with her
childhood memories, family struggles and reconstructed narratives. Yeon Ji
has a graduate degree in fine arts and also environmental science. Yeon Ji
spent her early childhood in rural South Korea before immigrating to the
United States.
Please join Rockland Center for the Arts for the exhibition opening artists
reception on Saturday, April 15th, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibit will be on
view through June 10th, open Mondays – Saturdays 11am – 4pm, (closed
Sundays). Free to the Public. For more information call (845) 358-0877 or
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RoCA gratefully acknowledges support for its programs from The Rea
Charitable Trust, ArtsWestchester, Sarah and Stephen Thomas, The Richard
Pousette-Dart Foundation, M&T Bank, The M&T Charitable Foundation, The
Dorothy Gillespie Foundation, Walter Cain & Paulo Ribeiro, Kantrowitz,
Goldhamer & Graifman P.C., QuietEvents, the Estate of Joan Konner, Lighting
Services Inc.,, the Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation, Zaklin Family
Charitable Fund, The County of Rockland, Art Services Group, RoCA members,
donors and business members.
RoCA’s programs are made possible, in part, with funds from the New York
State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and
the New York State Legislature. Funding is also made possible by the County
of Rockland.