NEW YORK, NY.- Part of what has intrigued generations of readers about the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud is that he’d written all his great works by the time he was 21 – time will tell with this group of exciting emerging artists! There is a special raw quality to this work where the elements of their time and their age come in to play. It is a fun and engaging group exhibit of great diversity, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, photography, and video, with works gathered from around the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, giving a wide-ranging snapshot on early talent in all its freshness before it is manipulated for better or worse by teachers and the market.

Artists include: Cole Bilik, Ewan Creed, Catalina Covacevich, Kira Dunkley, Rebecca Finley, Charlotte Fox, Atlanta Japp, Ainsley Kass, Sophia Klebnikov, Talia Kirsh, Evan Sebastian Lagache, Anna Lee, Lola Loening, Jessica Lu, Kathryn McLane, Smantha Peck-Sanders, Nora Peachin, Lily Pinchbeck, Livy Porter, Ajani Russel, Willa Schwabsky, Ellie Start Manos and Atticus Wakefield.

Speaking of Rimbaud, Daniel Mendelsohn in The New Yorker wrote, “The sixteen-year- old went on to make an assertion that Graham Robb, in his idiosyncratic yet magisterial 2001 biography, refers to as the ‘poetic E=mc2’: ‘Je est un autre’ (‘I is someone else’). His insight, plain perhaps to us in our post-Freudian age but startling in its time, was that the subjective ‘I’ was a construct, a useful fiction—something he’d deduced from the fact that the mind could observe itself at work, which suggested to him that consciousness itself, far from being straightforward, was faceted. (‘I am present at the hatching of my thought.’) He suddenly saw that the true subject of a new poetry couldn’t be the usual things—landscapes, flowers, pretty girls, sunsets—but, rather, the way those things are refracted through one’s own unique mind. ‘The first study of the man who wishes to be a poet is complete knowledge of himself,’ he wrote in the letter to Demeny. ’He searches his mind, inspects it, tries it out and learns to use it.’”

Thanks to Rush Arts, Willa Schwabsky, Atlanta Japp and Kathryn McLane for their introductions of fellow artists and support of this exhibit!