Sarah Maple: Thoughts and Prayers

Last night, The Untitled Space gallery opened its latest exhibition, "Thoughts & Prayers", the first ever US exhibition of works by the award-winning British visual artist Sarah Maple. Curated by The Untitled Space gallery director and founder, Indira Cesarine, and on view until February 3rd, 2019, Maple's exhibition is the first of a series of solo exhibitions presented by The Untitled Space throughout 2019 featuring artists with an extraordinary body of work that aligns with the gallery's mission to promote women in art and unique voices that are under-represented.

"Thoughts and Prayers" features many new works, as well as a selection of some of her most notable past works, exploring a wide variety of media including performance, painting, photography, sculpture, collage, installation, and video. Maple's pro-feminist artwork provokes a dialogue with her sharp humor and satirical eye. She fearlessly addresses what it means to be a Muslim in the Western world. Her taboo-breaking artwork fights against censorship as she investigates themes of politics, violence, freedom, feminism, and the ironies of pop culture. She often employs self-portraiture as a vehicle for her narrative, or engages guerrilla-style performance as a means to convey her message.

WHO: The Untitled Space Owner & Curator Indira Cesarine with British artist Sarah Maple, and guests Nick D'Orazio, Brigitte Segura, Sergio Meregalli, Katya Zvereva, Janet Braun Reinitz, Jamie Martinez, Gareb Shamus, Peter and Kim Madigan, Len Walker, Sláinne Linnane, Russell Ragland, Cabell Molina, Sasha Leon, among many others. 

WHAT:  "THOUGHTS & PRAYERS" A Solo Exhibition By Artist Sarah Maple Curated By Indira Cesarine

WHEN: Tuesday January 22nd, 2018

                6pm-9pm

WHERE: The Untitled Space

                  45 Lispenard Street Unit 1W

                  New York, NY

ABOUT SARAH MAPLE:

Sarah Maple is known for her bold, brave, mischievous and occasionally controversial artworks that challenge notions of identity, religion and the status quo. Much of Maple's inspiration originates from being raised Muslim, with parents of mixed religious and cultural backgrounds. Maple graduated with BA in Fine Art from Kingston University London in 2007 and in the same year won The Saatchi Gallery's "4 New Sensations" award for emerging artists. Maple's artwork, film, and performances have been exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions including Tate Britain, The Barbican, AIR Gallery, and The New Art Exchange, among many others. Maple's work has been the subject of documentaries including for ARTE and VPRO. In 2015 she released her first book "You Could Have Done This," a hardback of selected works. The same year she was awarded a Sky Academy Arts scholarship from Sky Arts, which included funding, mentoring and a Sky Arts documentary. In 2017 she gave a TEDx talk in Birmingham, UK on the importance of free speech, titled "The Freedom To Be Challenged." Her work has been featured in numerous international publications, including Vogue, The Guardian, i-D Magazine, The Sunday Times UK, The Independent, People Magazine, Dazed, and the Huffington Post among many others. In 2018 she was invited to make a limited edition cover for Harper's Bazaar's art issue alongside artists including Yayoi Kusama, Barbara Kruger and Linder Sterling. Her artwork is in collections including Soho House, The Hyman Collection and the Ned. Sarah lives and works in Sussex, England.

ABOUT THE UNTITLED SPACE:

The Untitled Space is an art gallery located in Tribeca, New York in a landmark building on Lispenard Street. Founded in 2014 by Indira Cesarine, the gallery features an ongoing curation of exhibits of emerging and established contemporary artists exploring conceptual framework and boundary pushing ideology through mediums of painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video and performance art. The gallery is committed to exploring new ideas vis-à-vis traditional and new mediums and highlights a program of women in art as well as special events aligned with our creative vision.