ANGEL ARCHIVES COLLECTIVE
Creative Collective • Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT
Angel Archives is a creative collective and partnership that hosts alternative and inclusive art projects around Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2025 by Emma Long and Audrey Roloff, the group hosts multidisciplinary exhibitions and projects outside of the accepted art world, fostering original and creative dialogue away from profit-focused industries. Our debut show, Angels, was on July 17th, 2025 at Studio 45 in Brooklyn.
OUR MISSION
Angel Archives was born out of a lack of space in New York City for artists to show work outside of mainstream and blue-chip spheres. Our mission is to expand artistic dialogue beyond gallery and museum walls to enrich Brooklyn’s cultural landscape by allowing early-career and underrepresented artists to show their work to the public and be in conversation with one another.Art must be able to exist under the conditions of honest creativity, challenging dialogue, inclusive community, and caring connection. It is fundamental that artists have the ability to share their visions, ideas, and selves without ties to corporate interests and greater structures of capitalism.
EXHIBITIONS
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ANGELS
July 17, 2025
Angels, our debut exhibition, was hosted on July 17th at Studio 45 in East Williamsburg. The group exhibition investigated the concept of the angel: as celestial intermediaries, protectors, and guides, reflecting upon the enduring presence of the spirit after death. Featuring work from 18 artists working within a diverse range of mediums, the exhibition reflected a varied inquiry into personal experiences of grief, sacred presences, and the unseen. Religiosity, purity, sirens, inescapable forces, fluidity, and the unreachable saturate the works.Angels worked through varied interpretations of these limitless figures: drawing upon enchanted dreamscapes, visionary hopes, and personal loss. Artists presented elemental interrogations, sacred symbolism, mundane transcendence, and resistance from the oppressive boundaries of religion. The angel emerged as an unbounded figure: a shifting guide within the tumultuous interior of the artist; a rejection of the binary. The works grappled with the tension of grief, the comfort in spiritual ritual, and the endurance of memory.Featured Artists:
Audrey Roloff, Ashley Walia, Autumn Kidd, Charlie Rudalavage, Claire Porter Manning, EC Brooks, Eden Weinstein, Emma Long, Fiona Murphy, Jade Groobman, Julia Rose, Kaden Bard Dawson, Megan Liz Smith, Sara Carlsen, Sharon Yalan Li, pszygy, and Why? Why Not? Because! Henry Davis and Charlotte Davis.
PRESSFeatured in the Brooklyn Reader
Contact
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