Tariqa Waters
Tariqa Waters | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1980 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, Curator, Director of Martyr Sauce Pop Art Museum |
| Style | Installation art |
| Awards | 2016 Conductive Garboil Grant,2018 Artist Trust Fellowship Award,2020 Seattle Art Museum's Kayla Skinner Special Recognition Award, The Neddy at Cornish Open Medium 2020 Award,Seattle Art Museum's 2021 Gary Glant Special Recognition Award,2023 Arts Innovative Award,2023 Seattle Art Museum's Betty Bowen Award |
| Website | martyrsauce |
Tariqa Waters (born 1980) is a multifaceted contemporary artist known for her whimsical larger-than-life fabrications, paintings, self-portraitures and installations. Waters works in varied media- canvas, wood, plastic, ceramics, paint, glass, and photography. Waters’ work has been featured in numerous institutions and galleries including the Seattle Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, Hedreen Gallery, and Pivot Art + Culture. Waters’ work has been featured in issues of Rolling Stone France and Madame Figaro magazines. In 2016, her critically acclaimed solo exhibition, 100% Kanekalon: The Untold Story of the Marginalized Matriarch, exhibited at the Northwest African American Museum. In 2020 Waters’ much anticipated exhibition, Yellow No.5 debuted at the Bellevue Arts Museum. Her celebrated 5 room- blown glass immersive installation, Gum Baby, opened at the Museum of Museums fall of 2022. In the summer of 2023 Water's large scale installation "4th Sunday" exhibited at The Seattle Art Fair and Art on Paper New York. As the founding owner of Martyr Sauce Pop Art Museum & Gallery, located in the historic arts district of Pioneer Square, Waters is dedicated to cultivating artistic space and community. Waters has served in various arts organizations and institutions as well as co-founding Re:Definition gallery at the Paramount Theater in 2015, an on-going partnership with the Seattle Theatre Group redefining historic cultural space. In addition to Waters’ being a featured keynote speaker, Martyr Sauce became a Cultural Partner of the Seattle Art Fair the summer 2017. In the summer of 2021 Waters expanded Martyr Sauce into a pop art museum MS PAM. Waters commissions artists in collaborative works facilitating transformative and immersive experiences through public engagement. In 2022, Waters new innovative chapter "Thank you, MS PAM", an educational and entertaining television show for all ages airs quarterly on The Seattle Channel KCTS9 PBS.[1][2][3] [4][5]
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Richmond, Virginia and having lived in Washington DC, Atlanta, and Sicily, Waters arrived in Seattle in 2012. Waters is a self-taught artist.[6][7]
Career[edit]
Waters opened Martyr Sauce in 2013,[8] as an artist-led gallery and neighborhood cultural institution, showcasing underrepresented artists. In 2015, along with Jonathan Moore, she founded RE: DEFINITION, a gallery at the Paramount Theater bar with the same aim of elevating underrepresented artists, as well as redefining historic cultural space.[7]
Alongside her work at Martyr Sauce and RE:DEFINITION, Waters continued work on her own art. Her solo exhibition, 100% Kanekalon: The Untold Story of the Marginalized Matriarch, opened at the Northwest African American Museum in Seattle in 2016.[7][9]
Waters, curated a highly reviewed group exhibition called Yellow Number 5 at the Bellevue Arts Museum, in Bellevue Washington, held in 2020 and 2021. As Bellevue Arts Museum first Black and Black woman curator, Waters succeeded in the removal of Executive Director Benedict Heywood and held Bellevue Arts Museum board and staff accountable to confront BAM’s racism and other intersectional systems of oppression.[10] In the summer of 2021 Waters expanded Martyr Sauce into a pop art museum MS PAM.[1][2] [11] Waters is recognized as one of Seattles Magazine's Most Influential Artists.[12]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "SAM, TAM, BAM, NAAM, SAAM: Meet MS PAM!".
- ^ a b "Tariqa Waters, a force in Seattle's arts community, expands gallery, curates vibrant show at BAM". 4 November 2020.
- ^ "The creative space in downtown Seattle that celebrates art, music, and culture". 25 February 2021.
- ^ "Tariqa Waters". Artist Trust. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ Fair, Seattle Art (2017-07-18). "Tariqa Waters: 'I Don't Need To Make Any Apologies For What I Do As An Artist'". Medium. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ "Tariqa Waters". Bellwether 2019. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ a b c "RE:DEFINITION - Events". www.stgpresents.org. Retrieved 2020-10-23.
- ^ Graves, Jen. "Best Discovery at Art Walk Last Night? That's Easy. Martyr Sauce". The Stranger. Retrieved 2022-07-09.
- ^ "Full Extension: Tariqa Waters' Personal Art & Style". Seattle Magazine. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ https://openlettertobellevueartmuseum.wordpress.com [user-generated source]
- ^ Thank you, MS PAM
- ^ "Arts: Tariqa Waters". 20 March 2023.
- 1980 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American women artists
- American multimedia artists
- 20th-century African-American women
- 20th-century African-American artists
- 21st-century African-American women
- 21st-century African-American artists
- American women curators
- American curators