Waves / Passaic (immigration and history) (2019) PART 1
EIRINI LINARDAKI

Muralist Eirini Linardaki completed a multi site mural that addresses how waves of immigration during its 350 plus years of history have shaped the City of Newark. You can walk her mural Waves / Passaic (immigration and history) on Treat Place or check out her collaboration with Discovery Charter School, Raise #3 on Beaver St.

Using the counterpoint of the great Passaic and Hackensack Rivers in Newark’s origin story, Linardaki illustrates these “waves” with patterns and fabrics from the many cultures that have called Newark home, beginning with the Lenni Lenape peoples. The theme of immigration throughout her projects is illustrated by the concept that many fabrics and fabric patterns we often associate with one culture were actually introduced by another. While we may identify certain patterns with their “origins” within specific ethnic groups, in reality, the majority of traditional patterns are an ever-changing story that illustrates the exchange between cultures during waves of immigration.

About the Artist:
Eirini Linardaki was born in Athens, she has lived in many countries where she develops public art projects involving local communities, especially through workshops on accessibility and multiculturalism.

In her work, she uses archival material in order to incorporate historic imagery and social change history in her discourse and anthropological design in her work. She creates then collages, paintings, designs, animations, and drawings. She had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the world and several public commissions in Athens, Paris, New York, and Newark, NJ.

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