Arcade Project Curatorial is pleased to present Skye Cleary's Open Studio: But What Do You Think of My Work? Cleary is an MFA student who supports herself through exotic dancing. She makes paintings that examine the intersections and tensions between these aspects of her life, labor's precarious nature, and the cost of education in the art world. Rather than indebt herself for life with student loans, Cleary has found a way to fund her education, and while the market doesn't compensate her for her artwork, it does for her body. The question "what do you think of my work?" applies equally to both worlds she inhabits: snap moral judgments about the nature of sex work and aesthetic judgments of her paintings are among the many possible responses. Like any artist, she wants her work to stand independently but worries that people might not take her art seriously because of her survival gig and relying upon her looks to make a living. Cleary is opening her studio to the public, exhibiting some new work hoping that she can begin to see the fruits of her artistic labor.

About Skye Cleary

Skye Cleary was born in Cincinnati and currently living and working in Brooklyn. She supported herself through college by dancing and continues to maintain and inform her art practice as she works towards her MFA. She has exhibited her work at Friday Studio Gallery and Satellite Art Show New York in 2019, among other venues.

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About Lisa Levy

Lisa Levy is a conceptual artist, comedic performer, and (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist. She has exhibited at many venues, including The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, The Pulse Art Fair, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and many galleries and art fairs. In addition, her artist multiples are for sale at Printed Matter, Open Editions, and Fuse Works. Levy's work has been covered with feature stories in numerous publications such as the New York Times, The London Times, Time Out New York, The Daily News, The Daily Beast, and The New York Post—as well as many other art publications such as Artnet, Hyperallergic, Whitewall, and ARTNews. She also hosts a weekly radio show, Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh*t, on Radio Free Brooklyn.

About Sharilyn Neidhardt

Sharilyn Neidhardt (b. 1970, California) is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is a co-founder of the groundbreaking transcender art group, a guest curator at Incubator Studio Gallery, and a member of Maggot Brain collective. Neidhardt's work is primarily concerned with the elation and alienation of urban living. Sharilyn is an avid cyclist, loves midnight movies, and speaks only a little Mandarin. Her painting cycle Subway Series will be the subject of a solo show at La Côte Lapin in Williamsburg in June 2022.

About Arcade Project Curatorial

M Charlene Stevens founded Arcade Project in 2015 as a digital art zine with hopes of moving into print. Working with Roman Kalinovski, she launched a nomadic gallery, Arcade Project Curatorial, during the lockdown period of the early pandemic. The gallery produced online exhibitions, a talk series, and the occasional pop-up show when COVID would allow. In March 2022, Charlene and Roman inaugurated their permanent space in Bushwick with an exhibition of works by Chun Hua Catherine Dong. 

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Special thanks to Pumps for providing a venue for Skye's photoshoot and to photographer Reven T.C. Wurman.