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On view through December 19, 2022

Inspired by ancestral lineage and the subtropics, Miami native Mark Fleuridor (2015 Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) creates layered reconstructions of family, friends, home spaces and tropical plants to arrive at abstracted environments that investigate the cycle of life.

Inspired by ancestral lineage and the subtropics, Miami native Mark Fleuridor (2015 Visual Arts & U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts) creates layered reconstructions of family, friends, home spaces and tropical plants to arrive at abstracted environments that investigate the underlying theme: the cycle of life. 

The 2023 YoungArts competition application deadline is October 14, 2022 at 11:59 PM ET (Eastern Time)/8:59 PM PT (Pacific Time).

“Touch of RED” is a new male duet that takes place in a contemporary ring. Its research deals with the allowance of Black men to soften; the power in vulnerability; and the meeting point of two individuals within a boxed space that references a futuristic and voyeuristic gladiator entertainment site in which a heat path between the two performers builds not out of aggression or combat, but with an enhanced, electrifying effeminacy that heals. 

Contact Angela Goding, Senior Director of Advancement at agoding@youngarts.org for information.

The YoungArts New York Gala welcomes over 250 of New York City’s top cultural and community leaders, philanthropists, celebrities and art aficionados to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Temple of Dendur for this annual spring fundraiser.