04/19/2026
Join us on April 29 for the opening of “Mulberry Bend,” a group exhibition with Canal Street Research Association , David L. Johnson , Sidian Liu , and Paul Pfeiffer .
The exhibition is curated by Dylan Seh-Jin Kim Protocinema Emerging Curator Series 2025-2026, mentored by Mari Spirito , Jessica Kwok , and Christopher Y. Lew , and in collaboration with ISS Storefront for Ideas .
Taking its title from “Mulberry Bend,” a name historically used to describe the area surrounding Mulberry Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown for its bend in the road, since 1755, this exhibition explores the relationship between art’s autonomy, use value, and civic function by responding to contemporary social struggles facing the community.
Emerging from a need to reckon with the public conditions that shape life in the neighborhood, Mulberry Bend considers how artistic practices might generate modes of civic engagement without reverting to the didactic or extractive models that have historically accompanied social practice.
Poster design:
Poster image: , Loiter (James), 2021. Removed standpipe spike.
