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SUMMARY:LETTERS ACROSS TIME: LANGUAGE\, CULTURE\, AND STORYTELLING
DESCRIPTION:ART TALK AND EXHIBITIONLETTERS ACROSS TIME: LANGUAGE\, CULTURE\, AND STORYTELLINGWednesday\, January 28th | 7:00pm – 8:30pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nat Surel’s Place: 212 E. 33rd Street in Garden City \n\n\n\nSetareh Ghoreishi’s work as a designer and visual artist focuses on language\, identity\, and storytelling through writing systems—particularly non-Latin scripts. This project explores the intersection of ancient and contemporary writing systems through typographic experimentation. During the residency\,  Setareh Ghoreishi focused on developing a new body of work centered around a self-invented typeface that blends characteristics of Farsi\, English\, and Cuneiform scripts. This process involves hand sketching and digital font design. The result is a series of typographic compositions that invite viewers to reflect on cultural hybridity and communication. The work investigates how language shapes identity\, preserves culture\, and visually communicates across boundaries. \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nSetareh Ghoreishi (Michigan) is deeply rooted in the relationship between language\, culture\, and identity—particularly how these forces intersect through typography. She is a graphic designer and multidisciplinary digital media artist. After receiving her B.F.A. in Graphic Design from the University of Art in Tehran\, Iran\, she migrated to the United States where she currently lives. In her work\, she investigates cultural disparities\, most specifically between the United States and Iran. \n\n\n\n“I am fascinated by the way visual language can act as a vessel for memory\, a tool for storytelling\, and a bridge across cultural and linguistic boundaries\,” Setareh elaborates. “Typography\, for me\, is not just a system of design and letters; it is a living form that carries emotion\, history\, and context.” \n\n\n\nAfter moving to the United States\, Setareh continued her education and acquired an MFA in Graphic Design from Florida Atlantic University and an MFA in Art and Technology from the University of Florida. This led her to make video art installation and use digital technology to explore the role of visual design in the interaction of cultural and social issues. Through the lens of her own experience\, each country’s cultural and social relationships are examined. \n\n\n\n\n\nThank you to Setareh Ghoreishi’s Residency Sponsors:
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/letters-across-time-language-culture-and-storytelling/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition and Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Exhibition & Art Talk: Bold Simplicity
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBITION & ART TALKBOLD SIMPLICITYFriday\, March 27th  |  7:00 – 8:30pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nDuring his residency at Surel’s Place\, Hector Beven immersed himself in the parks\, riverbanks\, and neighborhoods surrounding Garden City and Boise. His practice relies on extended time outdoors\, observing light\, movement\, and the personality of place. He spent long hours sketching and painting along the Boise River Greenbelt and nearby landscapes\, returning to the studio to translate these studies into larger\, more meditative works. \n\n\n\nThis series of paintings embodies the character of the local environment–both the beauty of the natural landscape and also the energy and spirit Hector encountered in daily interactions with residents. “By emphasizing bold brushwork and expressive simplification\, I want each work to feel alive with the persona of its subject\, whether that be a tree\, river bend\, or overlooked corner of the city.” \n\n\n\nThis show presents the paintings created during Hector’s stay and sparks conversation about how an “outsider” artist perceives and interprets Garden City. His hope is that you recognize familiar places in new ways\, opening dialogue about the unique character of your home environment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThank you to Hector Beven’s Residency Sponsors:
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/exhibit-art-talk-bold-simplicity/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition and Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Exhibit and Art Talk: Trash Puppets
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT & ART TALKTRASH PUPPETSThursday\, April 30th | 7:00pm – 8:30pmfree \n\n\n\nat Surel’s Place: 212 E. 33rd Street in Garden City \n\n\n\nDuring his residency at Surel’s Place\, Karl Erickson created a series of puppet-sculptures and experimental animations about waste along the Boise River Greenbelt. He collected trash on the shores of the river and assembled these objects into puppet-like figures. He then digitized them using 3D scanning processes. These digital “trash-puppets” will sing\, dance\, and tell stories of their unexpected journeys along the river\, personifying the entanglements that bring human-generated material into contact with the more-than-human. \n\n\n\nThe Boise River simultaneously connects and separates (Garden City on one side\, Boise on the other!) and is a powerful nexus for gatherings and departures. What do we bring with us to the river and what do we leave behind–materially\, culturally\, politically? Who handles this material\, and whose stories are told or forgotten in the process? The trash-puppets will act as witnesses of these overlooked narratives\, ultimately revealing evidence of a global system in which nothing is truly separate. \n\n\n\nBIOGRAPHY \n\n\n\nKarl Erickson (Tennessee) is an Associate Professor of Digital Art at Rhodes College. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and his BFA from Wayne State University. He was raised in the Detroit-area of Michigan. He makes digital animations\, videos\, installations\, and audio/visual performances. His screen-based work takes place in galleries\, museums\, film festivals and music venues. \n\n\n\nKarl’s art is about recognizing the agency of all the other-than-human entities with which we share the Earth. This includes plants and animals\, as well as machines\, “inanimate matter\,” electricity\, waste\, the macroscopic and the microscopic. The complex systems he uses in his art-making\, from photogrammetry to modular synthesizers to data analysis\, are analogous to the complexity of the ecosystem. \n\n\n\nKarl’s animation Know No Now has been screened at the 2023 LINOLEUM Animation and Media Art Festival in Kyiv\, Ukraine\, Chroma Art Film Festival in Miami\, FL (where it won the 2023 award for Best Animation)\, and the 2023 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival. He has been an artist-in-residence at Hub Feenix in Finland\, The Arctic Circle (twice!)\, Loop Art\, Plyspace\, and Signal Culture. He is a 2025 recipient of a Current Art Fund award from Tri-Star Arts. \n\n\n\nThank you to Karl Erickson’s Residency Sponsors:
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/exhibit-and-art-talk-trash-puppets/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exhibit & Art Talk: Penitent
DESCRIPTION:EXHIBIT & ART TALKPENITENTSaturday\, July 11th | 7:00pm – 8:30pm \n\n\n\nfree \n\n\n\nArtist-in-Residence Camilla Taylor focused their residency on a series of drawings referring to the myth of St. Mary of Egypt. She is depicted covered in her own hair after decades of an ascetic life wandering through the desert. Presumably\, even her clothes disintegrated. Rather than decades\, Taylor lost nearly everything in mere moments. All their artwork and possessions at their Altadena home and studio were destroyed in the Eaton Fire of 2025. They recently curated the group exhibit My House Burned Down at the Track 16 Gallery in Downtown LA\, which closed in June\, 2025\, and in a solo exhibition and catalog at Track 16 Gallery in East Hollywood\, Unkindness\, that dealt with themes of atheist mysticism\, which closed in January 2026. \n\n\n\n“This loss and displacement changed the way I make art\,” Taylor says\, “My work became more fragile and more precious.” However\, hair is a theme they’ve used often as a motif in their work. It is a symbol of the body and a material that is both deeply corporeal and also has near magical qualities in many cultures\, controlled in how it’s cut and worn and revealed. Taylor references hair also as a symbol of femininity\, and their own ambivalence towards it. This will be explored in drawings\, prints\, and sculptures referring back to the myth of St. Mary of Egypt\, and the larger corporeal and quasi magical qualities that hair represents.
URL:https://surelsplace.org/event/exhibit-art-talk-penitent-2/
LOCATION:Surel’s Place\, 212 E. 33rd Street\, Garden City\, 83714\, United States
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