Constellations
By Jill Beth Hannes & Neeraj Sebastian
September 26 - October 6, 2023
Reception: Friday, October 6th | 6-8P
More About Constellations
Constellations is a two-person exhibition by Jill Beth Hannes and Neeraj Sebastian that brings together photographs, paintings, and collages that explore how the concepts of home, memories and myths come together in the formation of inter-generational identity.
Through the landscapes where we live and build structures come the imagined ideas of what we perceive as home. How do these ideas of home live within us and how are they continually reimagined and interpreted? The actual spaces that we inhabit have their own histories: people who lived in houses before us leave traces behind, seen and unseen by the current inhabitants. Narratives of the family, when they are passed down, create the space to tell our stories of imagined and actual homes, ancestral homes, the place of new homes, and the journeys that bring us to them.
This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a Division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, The Arts Council of Winston-Salem, and Forsyth County, and ArtsGreensboro.
More About the Artists
Jill Beth Hannes (b. 1987 Honolulu, HI) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator focusing on photography and film. She received her BFA from the Academy of Art University and her MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has taught classes at Guilford College and UNCG. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the Annenberg Space for Photography, the Weatherspoon Art Museum and Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, France. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
www.JillBethHannes.com / @jillbethhannes
Neeraj Sebastian (b. 1989 Puttur, Karnataka, India) received a BS in Biological Sciences from Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA and an MFA in Studio Art from UNC Greensboro. His work has been exhibited at GreenHill Center for NC Art and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC; Prince Street Gallery and First Street Gallery in New York, NY; and has been featured in New American Paintings. He is a recipient of North Carolina Arts Council's Artist Support Grant. He currently lives and works in Bar Harbor, ME, where he is a faculty member at College of the Atlantic.
www.neerajsebastian.com / @involuture
