Wednesday June 4, 2025 | 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Location: Brooklyn Art Cluster
540 President St, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (map)
Please join us at the open studios event of the 2025 RU residents – Yakira Ament, Laura Lewis, David Monnet. This will be an opportunity to discover new works in progress developed over the course of their residencies, and a preview of their group show next month organized at the RU House on Governors Island that will be curated by Eglė Ambrasaitė.
Yakira Ament‘s liquid drawings and clay reliefs reflect internal visions and dreamscapes that she realizes in charcoal, ink and water, as well as sculptural forms of emotional encounters and expansions through mud.
David Monnet‘s extended painting practice systematically combines vector-based abstract forms and realistic elements on a single canvas. These new works introduce a new variation of this dispositive: a dispersed arrangement of these diagrammatic structures across multiple canvases.
Laura Lewis is working on a new body of large-scale paintings for a major institutional solo exhibition in Canada in 2026. Influenced by film noir, this work focuses on the figure in interior spaces, questioning how objects and interiors inform and portray identity through a phenomenological lens. The figures in this work disrupt conventional boundaries of the body through multiplicity, repetition, and scale.
About
Yakira Ament is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the intimate dialogue between the physical body, the emotional realm and the environmental influences shaping our inner worlds. Her visionary practice unfolds as a continuous journey of internal research, crafting immersive spaces that invite both visual and emotional engagement. Working primarily with clay, charcoal, water, mineral stones and bronze, Yakira explores the alchemical relationship between materiality and emotional transformation.
David Monnet is a Swiss visual artist primarily focusing on painting and sculpture. His work is regularly exhibited in Switzerland and abroad and is part of both public and private collections. Through his “meta” approach to painting, he seeks to deploy a composition that reflects on and questions the creative process itself. His works are part of an introspective dynamic in which the canvas becomes the stage for self-reference, positing painting as the subject and medium of its own interrogation.
Laura Lewis is a queer visual artist originally from Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia) currently based in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada). Her conceptual figurative painting practice explores questions concerning psychosexuality, the multiplicities of self, and nuances of the human condition. Laura investigates flesh through paint. She researches themes of psychosomatic conflict, vulnerability, systems of collective consciousness, the multiplicities of self, and the nuances of the human condition.
This program is supported by Artis, AVV, ARTS VISUELS VAUD and SERAC, Service des affaires culturelles du Canton de Vaud and Canada Council for The Arts.
