Shadow Dancers

Long Story Short is excited to present, Shadow Dancers, a two-person exhibition featuring the drawings of Brooklyn-based artist couple duo, Cheyenne Julien and Sam Lindenfeld. Julien’s practice explores cultural and collective histories reflected through her own lived experiences. Often derived from memory, Julien’s paintings and drawings portray intimate subjects inspired by her closest relationships and life in New York City. Her work highlights the interdependency of bodies and their contexts, asserting the power of built environments to dictate racial perception. Lindenfeld’s work explores the surreal lying within everyday life within the urban context. Drawing connections between the objects that define a figure’s experience with the environment that shapes their outlook, Sam strives to create images that feel like a snapshot into the climax of an individual’s life. Sam strives to tell a story of contradiction, societal juxtapositions, and human relationships. Sparking a dialogue between the two cities each that artist grew up in, this exhibition focuses on the surrealist experience of existing within an urban landscape. Using the backdrop of Washington DC and New York City, Julien and Lindenfeld challenge the notion of artificial environments. Questioning if these buildings, alleyways, train stations, staircases, street corners act as a form of nature itself for the inhabitants that live within these structures. The interactions between these figures feel as though we are experiencing a phantom and the lines drawn between the intangible and the physical. The images call into question whether or not these scenarios are truly occurring or if they are a figment of the imagination, which is an occurrence all too common living within the converging factors of an urban landscape. Cheyenne Julien (b. 1994, Bronx, New York) lives and works in the Bronx, NY. She received her BFA in Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. She has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Chapter NY, New York; Smart Objects, Los Angeles; and Water McBeer, New York. Julien’s work has also been included in group exhibitions at Hotel Europe, Zurich; Carl Freedman Gallery, Kent, GBR; Anton Kern Gallery, New York; the Schlossmuseum, Linz, AUR; The Jewish Museum, New York; Gladstone Gallery, New York; Public Art Fund, New York; the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York; The Harvey Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC; Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Gavin Brown’s Enterprise/Unclebrother, Hancock, NY; Karma, New York; Loyal Gallery, Stockholm; and White Cube Bermondsey, London. Julien’s work is included in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; RISD Museum, Providence; University of New Hampshire Museum of Art, Durham, NH; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Sam Lindenfeld (b. 1996, Washington DC) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA in Illiustration from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 2019. Sam has had his work exhibited in group shows at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC (2019), Deli Gallery, New York City (2022), Carlye Packer Gallery, Los Angeles (2022), Frenel Morris Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2022), Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles (2023). He has also show work at the Spring Break Art Show fair in New York City (2022) as well as being the recipient for the A.I. - A.P. American Illustrators Award #38 (2019). Sam’s work has been published in Print Magazine (2022) and Juxtapoz Magazine (2021). On top of said spotlight in these publications, Sam has illustrated, designed, and published a collaborative book project titled “Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes” (2020) with longtime collaborator and NY-native musician, Radamiz. This was a project that was also done in partnership with Paradigm Publishing and OuterSpace Press and was distributed through Dover Street Market New York. He has also helped produce and was a contributing artist for "Action and Reaction: Anatomy of the Carceral State” (2020). Sam was a contributing artist to “Life After” (2021), another book published by Paradigm Publishing in partnership with Adidas Skateboarding. Sam Most recently attended the Macedonia Institute residency in Chatham, NY (2023).

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