May 16 - June 29, 2024
Reception: May 31st 7-9pm

Honfleur Gallery presents auxilium continuum: reframing, a group exhibition (re)constructing support as a fluid and matriarchal practice that relies on collaboration and generativity.

For this exhibition, five contemporary women-identifying artists practicing in the greater Washington DC area were each provided stipends to create an artwork of their choosing – without any creative, conceptual, or practical limitations – in exchange for their participation in unfiltered conversations about their experiences with support (and lack thereof), inequality, and discrimination in their art careers, and how they imagine/desire art spaces and publics to evolve in the future.

Curated by Marta Lola Staudinger, auxilium continuum: reframing is both a seed and a field study. It initiates dialogue around under-investigated aspects of feminine energy (creation, intuition, fluidity) in the arts marketplace by gifting the participating artists time, space, and financial compensation to create freely. As a result, with deep reverence for practice and process, artists Ceci Cole McInturff, Rania Hassan, Jean Jinho Kim, Leah Lewis and Nicole Salimbene respond using a variety of media to present individual expressions of current needs and/or themes in their practices.

Concepts that intersect across the artists’ artworks and the exhibition’s composite offering include radical unity, hospitality, nourishment and collective care, rest and regeneration, matriarchs and mother lines, traditions of craft (predominantly created by women), resilience, women gathering, exchange, and the need for boundaries and protection.

This exhibition is sponsored by the 2023 Honfleur Women in Arts Program Curator Grant and ARCH Development Corporation.

auxilium continuum: reframing curated by Marta Lola Staudinger is on display at Honfleur Gallery May 16 - June 29, 2024. Located at 1241 Marion Barry Ave SE, Washington, DC 20020. Open Thursday- Saturday from noon to 5 pm or by appointment. A public reception will be held for the artists on Friday, May 31st from 7-9 pm. An artist and curator talk will be scheduled; date/time TBD. Press inquiries should be directed to info@honfleurgallerydc.com. Inquiries for art purchases should be directed to jason@archdevelopmentdc.org.