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Land Art is making a comeback
Earth art, also referred to as Land art or Earthworks, is largely an American movement that uses the natural landscape to create site-specific structures, art forms, and sculptures. The movement was an outgrowth of Conceptualism and Minimalism: the beginnings of the environmental movement and the rampant commoditization of American art in the late 1960s influenced ideas and…
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Fitgi Saint Louis chosen as Community Commissions artist with West Harlem Art Fund
Fitgi Saint-Louis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Harlem, NY. Her work considers the layered and intertwined nature of identity, remembrance and community within African, American and Caribbean cultures. Appearing in paint, textiles and sculpture, her abstracted figures honor the multifaceted ancestry of the African diaspora. With a background in design, Saint-Louis utilizes form and…
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Public Art X Climate Change
On Tuesday, September 24th, organizations representing Lower and Northern Manhattan will discuss resilience in the City. NYC’s open public spaces and parks have been adversely affected by excessive rain and heat. Trees are being compromised by soil erosion, causing some of them to fall over. We are experiencing pools of water in our parks due…
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New Venture
A collective of artists and creative professionals, HUE Design Group seeks to bring more design to open, public places. Bringing public art and design together, will create immersive experiences with compelling narratives. In 2024, our aim is to develop prototypes of benches, chairs, and accent pieces. We will fabricate compelling sculptures and architectural details. Our studio…
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Meet Carlos Mateu
Carlos Mateu, born and raised in Havana, Cuba, has been inspired by a rich culture of art and music since childhood. He studied fine arts at the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Art in Havana, and worked as an artist and designer of international exhibitions. Since coming to the US in 1997, he has…
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Community Commissions
The West Harlem Art Fund has been selected to lead a community commission with NYC DOT. The approved site is 124th Street and Lenox Avenue in the median. Proposal applications are due June 30th. We want artist(s) to incorporate spirit of Harlem, its people and its very diverse history. Below are short posts that artists…
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Peter Mabeo & furniture design
NYCxDesign began this week. And we wish to spotlight an African designer that folks should get to know. Peter Segopotso Mabeo was born in 1971 in Botswana. In 2006, following ten years of working on custom furniture projects in Botswana, he established a brand called Mabeo. The idea of the brand was borne out of…
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Harlem Sculpture Gardens opens May 2nd
April 18, 2024–New York, New York: Harlem Sculpture Gardens is honored to announce the launch of its debut art project, curated to foster joy and beauty within our local community. Harlem will host its first large-scale sculpture exhibition on May 02, 2024, and run through October 30, 2024. A plethora of local public…
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Mexican artist Enrique Sebastian Carabajal
With constructive vocation, since the mid-60s began developing his sculptural language supporting their work with scientific disciplines such as mathematics and geometry, approaching the topology and crystallography. The work of Sebastian is generated to the time when artistic trends such as scientism, minimalism, op-art, pop art, etc. originate, expressed and then with creations like…
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Alfred Conteh, American Artist
Biography Alfred Amadu Conteh was born in 1975 in Fort Valley, Georgia. He attended Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he received a BFA. He received his MFA from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. His mother is African American and his father is from Sierra Leone, West Africa. Many of his works examine his…
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Space Uptown 2024
AHL Foundation is pleased to announce the artists selected for Space Uptown 2024. Co-curated by Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director & Chief Curator, West Harlem Art Fund and Jiyoung Lee, Gallery Director, AHL Foundation. The artists for this year’s exhibition are Ara Ko, Carlos Mateu, Bishop McIndoe, Kai Oh and Kejoo Park. Supported by Manna’s…
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Celebrating Mary Lovelace O’Neal at the Whitney
Mary Lovelace O’Neal (b. 1942; Jackson, MS) is featured in the upcoming Whitney Biennial—curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli—opening March 20. The three paintings by Lovelace O’Neal included in the exhibition—one from her Whales Fucking series (1979 – early 1980s), one from her Two Deserts, Three Winters series (1990s), and one from her newest body of work, The Mexico Works (2021–23)—highlight…
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Gilded Age Women
There is a sizeable gap in the documentation of Black American history. So often, what we see of Black history is limited to slavery and the Civil War or the Harlem Renaissance and the civil rights era. Record of African Americans during the Gilded Age – prospering African Americans – is noticeably lacking, forgotten in the attic…
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Firelei Báez in Residence
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is delighted to welcome Firelei Báez as our artist-in-residence in April 2024. Dominican-American artist Báez has achieved wide acclaim over the past decade for her immersive paintings, sculptures and installations that explore diasporic histories against the backdrop of colonial narratives and conventional ways of seeing, re-working visual references drawn from the…
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Augusta Savage – Our inspiration
I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work. Augusta Savage Born Green Cove Springs, FL 1892 – died New York City March 1962 The career of Augusta Savage was fostered…
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Introducing Carl E. Moore
Protest and Fire by Carl E. Moore Carl E. Moore (b. Canton, MS) lives and works in Memphis, TN as an artist and designer. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Memphis College of Art where he received his BFA and MFA. Artist Statement My work Deals with Color and…
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Chandra Cox – Public artist in North Carolina
Chandra Cox is a practicing artist, image-maker who works in a range of mediums from oil, acrylic to digital media and glass. Professor Cox’s work has been presented in numerous museums and galleries around the country such as the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.…
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I have Always Worked Hard in America — Elizabeth Catlett
Artist Profile Elizabeth Catlett 1915 to 2012 The granddaughter of former slaves, Catlett was raised in Washington, D.C. Her father died before she was born and her mother held several jobs to raise three children. Refused admission to Carnegie Institute of Technology because of her race, Catlett enrolled at Howard University, where her teachers included…
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More than a moment: Major survey of Black figuration opens at National Portrait Gallery London
Curator Ekow Eshun has brought together portraits from 22 leading artists, including Kerry James Marshall and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Stephen Smith 19 February 2024 Claudette Johnson’s Standing Figure with African Masks (2018) Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate. © Claudette Johnson The surge of interest in Black artists following the rise…
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Levy Gorvy Dayan presents Abdoulaye Konaté: Lune bleue
Lévy Gorvy Dayan is thrilled to announce its first New York exhibition with Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté, opening January 16, 2024, at the gallery’s landmark Beaux-Arts-style townhouse. Abdoulaye Konaté: Lune bleue presents richly chromatic, monumental works that unite investigations of form and color with symbolic references drawn from a wealth of sources in West…
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