Echoes Unveiled
August 2nd – October 19th, 2024
Solo Exhibition by Katya Neptune.
Echoes Unveiled encapsulates Neptune’s two-decade journey as an Interdisciplinary Artist and Independent Curator focused on empowering emerging artists. Neptune founded South Florida based organization, ArtHeart. Through hosting group exhibitions and projects, the artist collective was able raise money and awareness to support orphaned children in Rwanda, Africa and Cap Haitien, Haiti.
A common theme both in her support of emerging artists and in her own art practice, is Neptune’s navigation of mental health. Her work is process-oriented, reflective, and introspective. She explores the complexities of her mental health through a range of mixed-media sculpture, abstract mapping, photography, painting, digital art, and installation. Each medium she employs is carefully, yet often intuitively, selected to reflect her psychological and emotional state. By utilizing personal and intimate visual narratives, Neptune shares her struggle and healing, aiming to normalize conversations around mental health and de-stigmatize mental illness. Noted in this exhibition, the video installation depicts animated mind mappings, mimicking the marks found on the hanging works around the gallery and bringing internal thoughts to life.
Echoes Unveiled is the intimate intersection of Neptune’s heart and mind by honoring the lives of children across the globe, and drawing attention to her mental processes.