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Art Exhibit by Kevin Kelly
Miriam Elhajli is a folk singer, composer-improviser, and musicologist whose work is influenced by the rich musical traditions of her Venezuelan, Moroccan, and North American heritage. Elhajli currently lives in New York City where she performs and works as a researcher at The Association for Cultural Equity founded by Alan Lomax. Elhajli's sophomore album "The Uncertainty of Signs" was released in February 2022 on her independent label Numina Records.
Kevin Kelly was born in upstate New York and graduated from Pratt Institute in 1982. He has been living and working in Brooklyn since 2006. He has shown his work across the United States, including New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Santa Fe and Westport. His work is in numerous collections including Simon Cowell in Los Angeles. His piece Solar Powered Cell Phone Charger was installed in Brooklyn Bridge Park as part of the 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival. Kevin’s work is also in numerous public spaces including the NYU Medical Center. He completed a commission for a 13 foot high version of his dice double helix sculpture entitled Double Down in 2018. His 10 meter high permanent outdoor sculpture DodecaCaryatid was installed in Markham, Ontario in December 2015. Kevin’s sculpture has also been featured in films and network TV shows such as The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Duplicity, Arthur, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Remember Me. His piece Venus 3.5 was displayed at the Cube Art Fair in Chelsea in June 2018 and is based on Canova’s The Three Graces, representing three standing women, and reflects the artist’s love of geometric forms interplaying with the human figure.
Live at the Archway is an annual series of free concerts and interactive visual arts programming in the unique setting of the Dumbo Archway, one of the only covered outdoor spaces in New York City. Founded in 2015, the series reflects the neighborhood’s diversity and commitment to the arts, and showcases a broad variety of music, dance and visual art styles. Programming consists of a headlining act on stage at 6:00pm including music and dance in a diversity of genres, and a Dumbo-based visual artist’s solo show in a pop-up Gallery, also in the Archway.
