Join us on Wednesday, June 10 for the third event of our 2026 season. In collaboration with Epicenter NYC, we’ll be presenting artists Winnie Sidharta and Natalia Nakazawa.
The talk begins at 8 pm at Espresso 77 cafe at 35-57 77th St, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. We invite you to arrive around 7 pm, settle in with a drink and/or food, and grab a seat. Espresso 77 is pleased to offer a happy hour with discounts on draft beer pints, glasses of wine, and wine cocktails till 8 pm.
Winnie will present her site specific installations, tile-making, and collages, alongside her paintings. She will be followed by Natalia who will share her painting, textiles and social practice work.
The event is free, but the purchase of a beverage or food item is strongly requested in support of our venue partner Espresso 77.
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Winnie Sidharta is a painter who currently lives and works in Queens, New York. Her work has delved into site specific installation, tile-making, and collage alongside painting as a way to examine and contribute to the current dialogues regarding the overlaps and divisions between psychological landscape, narrative, and identity. Sidharta has exhibited in galleries and museums in Indonesia, China, and across the United States. She has two permanent site-specific murals in Philadelphia that document the cultural history and personal stories of the Asian American and Afro Caribbean communities that live there. Sidharta has taught Painting and Drawing at various academic institutions and museums in the US and has lectured as a visiting artist at Cornell University, RISD, West Virginia University, Texas Christian University, New England University, University of the Arts,Tulane University, and the Ohio State University.
IG @winnie_sidharta
Natalia Nakazawa is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist and educator working in painting, textiles and social practice. A child of Latin American (Uruguayan) and Asian (Japanese American, yonsei, 4th generation) diasporas, her work is deeply in touch with multi-generational cultural legacies. Natalia’s community-driven projects explore ideas of transnationality, cultural identities, storytelling, archives, and patterns of migration. Blurring the boundaries between education, activism, and art making, each of her projects is based in collaborative processes, inviting participation and collective imagining. In her jacquard textiles series, the artist pulls images from the online open access collections with a focus on objects that embody historical moments of cultural exchange. Nakazawa’s work encourages critical engagement with personal histories, utilizing the familiar, warm format of the tapestry as a means of creating objects that can be simultaneously comforting and disruptive.
IG @nakazawastudio
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