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IFAC Arts and The Yard Lower East Side in collaboration with Joaquin Goldstein present Amelia Shields ‘Suburban Dream’.

‘Suburban Dream’ brings together a cross-section of Shields vibrant paintings and mixed media assemblages. The artworks are imbued with a nostalgic sarcasm and personal symbolic narratives which balance on the edge of what is and what may be on the periphery of escaping the everyday chaotic commute through a longing for home.

The Suburbs…. that sprawling place between the city and the countryside buffered by fields and forests, housing subdivisions, aging shopping malls …