Blue Roof Events 2021
Where Black Hearts Become Guardians
Connie Martin Trevino
September 2021
Where Black Hearts Become Guardians is Arts at Blue Roof’s first solo presentation of Los Angeles-based artist Connie Martin Trevino. Through her emergent ceramic forms and
photographic prints, Trevino honors the Black people who, during the middle passage, gave their lives to the deep abyss of the sea rather than be subjugated by their captors. Trevino’s work departs from an imagined transformation/ rebirth/reincarnation that occurred after each person took their last human breath. Through the use of figures of hearts, vessels, and sea creatures, Trevino explores femininity, inequality and the grotesque while confronting cultural and painful her/histories.
On Becoming
Noni Olabisi
October 2021 - January 2022
The work explores and celebrates Noni's journey throughout her residency, as she deepened her relationship with her inner child, God, and play.
The work is deep and moving: bold blues, reds, and yellows tangle and separate across her series of multi-dimensional paintings. In this work, Noni moves coyly between abstraction and representation, hearkening to the complex subconscious well that lives within all of us.
As she says about the work, "On Becoming is about the inner - child becoming visible, full of Light, Love and Imagination."
Blue Roof Residency 2021
