03/11/2020
So thankful. What a gift . 🙏🏽 Much love to my friends and all the incredible artist that surround my physical and digital world. 💎🗽🌹
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Carolina Wheat is cofounder and director of Elijah Wheat Showroom. She has curated numerous political and socially conscientious exhibitions in Detroit, Berlin, London, Chicago, and New York. Wheat is one of the original founding members of the Nasty Women Exhibition movement and continues to work with artists, collectors, and activists internationally. Her professional experience and mentorship inside higher-education includes portfolio development, essay writing and career preparedness. Currently, she collaborates with Artfare as a curator, artist liaison, and exhibition designer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vulture, Hyperallergic, Fast Company, MAAKE Mag, The Brooklyn Rail, The Guardian, and China Daily, among others. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. ———————————————————————————
“As a curator, presenting things with a subjective slant feels like a duty. The greatest potential of having a selective platform for professional artists is a type of one-stop shopping for contemporary socio-relevant curatorial concepts that I fantasize about exhibiting. Scrolling through powerful, well-crafted work becomes a field ripe with imagery that fulfills the craving. I enjoy pushing an intention and finding meaning ‘between’ the works. An outlandish idea I’ve had as of late is putting together a show with the title, Opt-out & Unsubscribe. As I gathered content for this concept, I found inspiration while visiting Artfare artist pages. I already trust that the community is strong. Chosen artists use materials, process and imagery recently uncovered as potentially relevant to today’s motive of individualism within macro/micro-targeted communications. Combining these works creates a semi-narrative that would adhere to a sociological questioning in an intimate multimedia exhibition.” — Carolina Wheat @ Elijah Wheat Showroom
