The Armory Show 2022

 Wave Pool exhibited at The Armory Show for the 2022 edition September 8th-11th at the Javits Center in New York City. 

The Armory Show is a galvanizing force in the art world, presenting works from around the world with the top galleries and museums presenting.

Over 240 leading international galleries from over 30 countries will be presenting. Wave Pool was the only gallery from Ohio and the only gallery from the Midwest outside of Chicago exhibiting. Wave Pool was one of only 11 not-for-profit galleries exhibiting this year.  

Wave Pool finds ways to make contemporary art accessible, interactive, engaging, and necessary for all communities. To this end, we are creating a space for reflection, exhibiting prayer rugs by Baseera Khan, community-generated power figures by Vanessa German, and photographic prints by Lorena Molina. The objects on view consisted primarily of our Welcome Editions, specifically the newest two editions that were completed in 2022 and 2023.

Welcome Editions are limited edition art objects designed by nationally recognized artists and fabricated at least in part by refugee and immigrant women living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Often functional, affordable and always collectible, the editions appeal both to collectors of contemporary art and those seeking to support refugees and social justice. Editions have been created with artists Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, Caroline Woolard, Pedro Reyes, Terence Hammonds, Jeffrey Gibson, Vanessa German, and most recently with Baseera Khan. The works have resulted in the providing work and training for over 30 local immigrant artisans. 

The editions have each garnered attention and acclaim in their own right: the gun flutes produced with Pedro Reyes performed at the March for Our Lives in Cincinnati in 2017 and have since performed with Yo-Yo Ma in Chicago; Caroline Woolard’s tea cups were on display at the Contemporary Arts Center; the capes and blankets produced with Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson were featured at a special event in New York with Mitchel Innes & Nash; and the Cincinnati Art Museum has collected and displayed one of the platters produced with Terence Hammonds.  

Profits from Welcome Editions feed back into sustaining community programs at Wave Pool and funding future editions.