Sunday, Aug 25, 2024
Conversation: Adrien Broom and Merik Goma
About
Please join us for a conversation with Fishers Island's Adrien Broom and Lighthouse Works' Fellow Merik Goma.
In support of their exhibition at the Filling Station, which is on view through the end of the month, Goma and Broom will share insights from their image-making process and explore the role narrative plays in their work.
This is a great opportunity to see the exhibition and hear directly from the photographers!
Artists
Bio
Merik Goma (53) is a New Haven-based photographer and alumni of the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship Program, an arts incubator. Goma builds intricate sets within his studio that he uses both as subjects of tableaux and as backdrops for narrative portrait photography. His technique is painterly in execution, with close attention paid to color and lighting. His work has been shown by Tilton Gallery and is in the collection of Yale University and the Detroit Institute of Art. In 2021, Goma was selected as the Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence by the Amistad Center for Arts & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Website
https://www.merikgoma.comBio
Adrien Broom is an award-winning photographer, set designer, and filmmaker based in NYC and Connecticut. Drawing upon her diverse background in fine and decorative arts, Broom creates intricate, handcrafted sets that transport viewers to fantastical realms, evoking the imaginative worlds of childhood and exploring the contrast between nature and fantasy.
Broom's award-winning work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at renowned institutions across the globe, including the Hudson River Museum, NY, the Edward Hopper House Museum in Nyack, NY, and The Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina in Florence, Italy. Her exhibition, "A Colorful Dream," is touring North America from 2023 to 2026, highlighting her dedication to creating works that inspire wonder and awe in audiences. She has solo exhibitions opening this fall at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT, in spring 2025 at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, CT, and in summer 2025 at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art in Norman, Oklahoma.
