Carry

Carry is a solo exhibition of work by Marianna Peragallo featuring anthropomorphic sculptures that consider where love is rooted, where endurance and labor meet love and support, and how the world is changed by an accumulation of everyday acts of love. Sculptures that mimic banal household objects like garbage bags, plastic shopping bags, and cleaning supplies dually serve as containers for potted houseplants, becoming supportive structures for continued growth. Mutated beyond the possibilities of the human body to sweep, reflect, and contain, the works become sites of symbiotic relationships that recognize undervalued systems of support that help us rebuild and regenerate from adversity and loss once stretched beyond the confines of what we can contain.

About the Artist:

Marianna Peragallo is a Brazilian-American artist making anthropomorphic sculptures embodying the cross-sections of love, labor, endurance, and support. She has exhibited in the United States, including recent exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Collar Works (Troy, NY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Garrison Art Center, (Garrison, NY), the Border Project Space (Brooklyn, NY), Dinner Gallery (New York, NY), a two-person exhibition at Transmitter Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), and a solo exhibition at Winston’s Los Angeles. She has made public art projects for the New York Restoration Project at the Suffolk Street Community Garden (New York, NY), Art Lot (Brooklyn, NY), and Light Year 56 (Brooklyn, NY). Marianna was an artist in residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony (Woodstock, NY) in 2014, Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists residency (North Adams, MA) in 2019, Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) in 2019 and 2022, and the New Hope Colony Artist Residency in 2021. She was in residence at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program from 2021-2022. Marianna received a BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts, New York.

About the Curator:

Tiffany Smith is an Interdisciplinary Artist from the Caribbean diaspora working between photography, video, installation, and design to create photographic portraits, site responsive installations, user engaged experiences, and assemblages informed by researching histories of representation and themes of displacement. Smith’s practice centers on what forms and defines communities of people of color, in particular; how they are identified and represented, and how they persist. Smith received her BFA from S.C.A.D., Savannah, GA and her MFA from SVA, NY. Her work has been exhibited internationally including a recent solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum of Arts, and exhibitions at New Orleans Museum of Art, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, MassArt, The National Gallery of Jamaica; during Photoville, Photo NOLA, and Spring Break Art Show; and in solo exhibitions at The Wassaic Project, Recess Assembly, Brooklyn, NY, and Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. Tiffany Smith is a recent resident artist at TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in Philadelphia, PA. Smith is a former Co-Director of Ortega y Gasset Projects in Gowanus, Brooklyn, curating Becoming Buoyant in 2021 and Swallowed into the Soft Underbelly in 2022. Smith currently teaches at Pratt Institute, FIT, and International Center of Photography.

Broom, 2022, Image courtesy of Marianna Peragallo