NEW YORK: TARIKU SHIFERAW

Maps and Borders

June 5—August 30, 2025

PRINT CENTER NEW YORK
535 WEST 24TH ST
NEW YORK, NY

From printcenternewyork.org:

Drawn from the artist’s longstanding engagement with abstraction, Tariku Shiferaw’s new lithography project Maps and Borders expands his inquiry on the grid as a spatial organizing mechanism. In Shiferaw’s multimedia practice, the chain link fence is a metaphor for the horizon line, or the systemic structures that organize–and often separate–peoples, geographies, and ideas. In Maps and Borders, a chain link fence is sandwiched between layers of paper pulp, upon which multiple layers of ink coalesce in dark, swirling colors, evoking constellations in the night sky. These prints, made in collaboration with the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Lafayette College, form part of Shiferaw’s series Mata Semay, meaning “night skies” in Amharic. In these works and others, Shiferaw merges cultural fragments and historical narratives of the African diaspora and legacies of modernism.

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