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The young artist is also steadfast in her support of charitable organizations, among them Avalon, New Jersey's Helen L. Diller Vacation Home for Blind Children; last night saw de Forest take part in a special
painting session at the Ocean Galleries, where she worked
together with students to create a piece of artwork to be donated to the Diller Home.
The five artists in the first
session, which began January 3 and lasts until February 12, are Carrie Beckmann, a watercolorist who
paints directly from nature and can normally be found working in the Conservatory; Danielle Durchslag, who is using cut and layered paper to represent Wave Hill's natural surroundings; Sabrina Gschwandtner, who has covered her studio floor with 16mm - film strips (some found stock and some she's shot at Wave Hill) that will be sewn
together to create illuminated quilts; Nick Lamia, who is experimenting with plein - air drawings as a source for multi-dimensional abstractions; and Adam Parker Smith, who has been busily
painting colorful, wall - sized assemblages of plants and flowers based on observations at Wave Hill.
Together, their works introduce numerous critical, political, aesthetic, and material threads that run throughout the exhibition, in works such as Stan Douglas» compelling six - hour meander into an Afrobeat jam
session in Luanda - Kinsasha (2013), the late Kwakwaka» wakw artist, activist and hereditary Chief Beau Dick's celebrated performative masks, Nick Cave's enchanting Sound Suit (2015), borne from the horrors of racialized violence, to Latifa Echakhch's sculptures and
paintings that reconcile personal narratives against broader cultural or nationalistic norms and expectations.
He and the artist Morris Louis had «jam
sessions,» in which they
painted together and bounced ideas off one another.
Before each art jam
session, the area is set up with easels and canvases, which
together with all necessary
paints, brushes and aprons, are provided by the company.