Presented by the Climate Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden, We Can’t Dream Alone is an exhibit of four large-scale reproductions of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Madjeen Isaac installed along the Garden’s perimeter on Washington Avenue. Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future. Her lush urban environments invite us to consider how our relationships to place and to our community make us more resilient to personal adversities, social injustice, climate change, and other challenges.
Isaac’s work is on view outside of the 1000 Washington Avenue entrance of Brooklyn Botanic Garden from early September through late October. It is free and open to the public at all times.
Credit: Sam Burke
About the Artist
Madjeen Isaac is a first generation Haitian-American artist whose practice is grounded in home, diaspora, belonging, and environmental impact. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MA in Art, Education, and Community Practice from New York University. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Smack Mellon, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, and the Frost Art Museum.
We Can’t Dream Alone is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
We Can’t Dream Alone is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Gonna Search the Sky for New Horizons to Unfold, Madjeen Isaac, 2024