October 29 – November 30, 2024
INHERITED SUCCESSION: Instill and Inspire
Work and Reflections by Elan Cadiz
Opening reception: Tuesday, October 29, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Artist’s Gallery Talk: 5:30 p.m.
Élan Cadiz is an interdisciplinary, multi-ethnic, multi-racial, North American, native New Yorker, and visual artist who deconstructs and balances her intersectionality through her creative projects. Élan’s art and practice are grounded in the documentation of her personal narrative through the use of portraiture, domestic and historical imagery.
Cadiz’s artworks explore the ways societal and personal histories overlap and affect individual relationships, power dynamics and identity. The materials she works with are influenced by the subjects she discuss which is why she moves skillfully through mediums, combining and collaging the best materials to convey her visual language.
Cadiz’s intention is to speak to the boundless potential in humanity and ways our pasts can inform our future for the better, despite impediments that arise. Her goal is to have viewers question their condition(s) in ways that bring about helpful inner inquiry and thoughtful discussion.
About the Artist
Élan Cadiz’s formal training began in the High School of Art & Design, New York City. After graduation she was accepted to the Fashion Institute of Technology where she studied Advertisement and Design and Photography for two years. Cadiz graduated from City College of New York City with a BA in Studio Art and Education in 2008. Cadiz received her Master’s in Fine Art (MFA) from the School of Visual Arts May 2018 and received the Martha Trevor Award/ Worldstudio AIGA Scholarship, Paula Rhodes Memorial Award and the School of Visual Arts Merit Scholarship.
Since 2014 Cadiz has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions and she has been engaged in numerous artist residencies.
Cadiz has instructed young people in the arts for 24 years and taught for or was in collaboration with programs/institutions such as the Harlem School of the Arts, Thurgood Marshall Upper and Lower Academies, Harlem Children Zone, No Longer Empty, Cool Culture, Bank Street College, Weeksville Heritage Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Historical Society, Center for Arts Education, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, the Boys Club of New York City, Foster Pride, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, Bridgehampton Museum and more.
December 3 – December 11, 2024
Senior Capstone Exhibitions
Opening reception: Tuesday, December 3, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
January 28 – February 8, 2025
Art + Art History PGTI Solo Exhibition
Opening reception: Tuesday, January 28, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Artist’s Gallery Talk: 5:30 p.m.
February 18 – March 29, 2025
Dane Carlson, “chhyongker enclosure,” 2024, pencil
Dan Kistler, “Disconnected,” 2024, digital photography, 30″ x 30″
Kristin Martin, “Campus Climate Diary: Visualized Temperature + Precipitation Data…” (detail), 2022-ongoing, colored pencil, rhinestones, bias tpe on watercolor paper
Debi Worley, “Fluidity of Thought,” 2023, glass, steel, porcelain, fiberglass, 16″ x 18″ x 23″
Principia College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Opening reception: Tuesday, February 18, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Artists’ Gallery Talk: 5:30 p.m.
April 8 – 17, 2025
25: The Annual Principia College Juried Student Exhibition
Opening reception: Tuesday, April 8, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Juror: To Be Announced
Juror’s Gallery Talk and presentation of awards: 5:30 p.m.
April 22 – May 10, 2025
Senior Capstone Exhibitions
Opening reception: Tuesday, April 22, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.