Afro-Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes has created a site-specific outdoor installation for her first-ever institutional solo in the United States, featuring sculptures rich with color and rhythm suspended from the branches of a tree on Storm King’s Museum Hill. Gomes’s intensely tactile sculptural works merge found objects, textiles, and organic materials, drawing upon Afro-Brazilian traditions and her personal history. Inside Storm King’s galleries, a survey of sculptural works spanning the artist’s career will reflect the depth and evolution of her creative practice. From richly textured fabric sculptures to assemblages of wood, wire, and thread, Gomes meditates on resilience, vulnerability, and the power of reclamation.

The exhibition is co-curated by Nora Lawrence, Executive Director, Storm King Art Center, and Larry Ossei-Mensah, Independent Curator, with Adela Goldsmith, Curatorial Assistant, Storm King Art Center.

This exhibition is made possible with major support by Roberta and Steven Denning and the Hazen Polsky Foundation, with lead support by Jennifer Brorsen and Richard DeMartini, Agnes Gund, Lipman Family Foundation, and Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust, with support also provided by Mendes Wood DM and Pace Gallery, and supported in part by Girlfriend Fund and The Coby Foundation.  

This project is supported through a Market New York grant awarded by Empire State Development, and I LOVE NY, New York State’s Division of Tourism.