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Artist talk and exhibition walkthrough with Diana Sinclair moderated by Ehime Ora
Wednesday, June 18th, 2025
Image courtesy of Diana Sinclair.
Image courtesy of Ehime Ora.
Plato is proud to have hosted an artist talk with Diana Sinclair and a walkthrough of Threaded Blue, the artist’s solo exhibition. Sinclair will be interviewed by Ehime Ora, an Edo-Urhobo Nigerian writer, artist, and priestess of the Ifá & Orisa tradition and the author of several books on healing and ancestral veneration.
Diana Sinclair is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Jersey City, NJ. Her practice examines Black identity, water and memory through lens-based media, printmaking and installation. Engaging both historical inquiry and material experimentation, she explores the spiritual and physical dimensions of water as a site of trauma, resistance and transformation. Sinclair was a resident at Silver Art Projects at the World Trade Center, New York, 2024-2025. Her work has been exhibited at PLATO (New York), All Street Gallery (New York), Residency Art Gallery (Los Angeles) and Naranjo 141 (Mexico City). She was awarded the Gemma Projects Inaugural Curatorial Grant (2023), and her public installation Reflections was on view at Rockefeller Center (2023–2024).
Ehime Ora is an Edo-Urhobo Nigerian writer, artist and priestess of the Ifá & Orisa tradition who has dedicated her life to facilitating ancestral connections, generational healing and personal alignment for people who need it the most. She is the author of Ancestors Said: 365 Introspections for Emotional Healing, which she independently published in 2021 and re-published through Hay House in July 2023. Her second book, Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices, was released on November 5th 2024 through Hay House.
Deborah Brown in conversation with arts and culture journalist Laura van Straaten
Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
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Image courtesy of Benny Krown.
Image courtesy of Lynn Savarese.
Plato is excited to have hosted a conversation between artist Deborah Brown, whose exhibition, New York Stories was on view in the ground floor gallery June 20 – August 24, 2024, and arts and culture journalist Laura van Straaten.
Laura van Straaten has interviewed people in the visual, performing and literary arts from more than a dozen countries for The New York Times and T, New York, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, W, Town & Country, and The Hollywood Reporter, and many of the top English-language culture publications and websites in the U.S and abroad. She enjoys talking to people about ideas, intentions and processes and how creative projects across the arts come to fruition, often against many odds.
Deborah Brown has lived and worked in New York since 1982. She received a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University. Brown’s work is included in museum and private collections around the world, including the ICA, Miami, and the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine. Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, AVENUE, Forbes, CULTURED, Vogue México y LatinoAmérica, Larry’s List, Vogue Hong Kong, Juxtapoz, Artillery Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, Artnet, Galerie Magazine, Houston Chronicle, The Denver Post, Madame Figaro, Hyperallergic and ART-Das Kuntsmagazin.