Category: Brooklyn
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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…
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West Harlem Art Fund co-presents Horses Full of Steam
Director & Choreographer Hilary Brown-Istrefi Dancers Sabrina Canas, Maira Duarte & Joey Kipp Composer Mahsa Matin Visual Artist Heather Weston Art Historian & Narrator Savona Bailey-McClain Horses Full of Steam will premiere as part of the Trisk Presents’ Spring 2023 Season, June 8-10 at Trisk Theater in Greenpoint, Brooklyn; followed…
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Presenting Tanika I. Williams
Since the start of the pandemic, only during summer months, the West Harlem Art Fund hosts a residency with artists from NYC and around the country on Governors Island. Visual Muze is a unique storytelling residency and retreat. It provides visual artists, performance artists, multi-media designers, and writers the opportunity…
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Simone Leigh represents US @Venice Biennale
Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art today in conjunction with the US State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs confirms that sculptor Simone Leigh will represent the US at the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale, which is to take place April 23–November 27, 2022. Leigh is the first African American woman to…
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Gabriel Rivera Natural Dyeing
The art and craft of natural dyeing is a practice that yields beauty in both process and result. Every piece of naturally dyed cloth is it’s own unique creation, irreproducible. Natural dyeing is a combination of knowledge, skill, and openness to surprise. It also requires a good amount of patience,…
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Brand New Heavies
Brand New Heavies, an exhibition curated by Racquel Chevremont and Mickalene Thomas—collectively known as Deux Femmes Noires, brings together monumental work by Abigail DeVille, Xaviera Simmons, and Rosa-Johan Uddoh. Each artist has produced a new, site-specific installation that combines video, sculpture, and architecture, and comprises natural, industrial, and found materials.…
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WHO IS HONOR TITUS?
Honor Titus (b. 1989, Brooklyn, NY) is an American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. Painted in a range of dark, luminous jewel tones, his paintings often depict faceless figures in minimal urban landscapes, reflecting the sense of isolation and loneliness that results from a condition of anonymity in the…
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CITY OF WATER DAY INSTALLATION
New York, NY… The West Harlem Art Fund is proud to present for City of Water Day, Brooklyn-based floral designer Joshua Werber. Werber will “flower bomb” an outdoor sculptural work adjoining Building 10B on Governors Island in Nolan Park. Joshua Werber’s installation “Goals are Fluid” is a site specific reaction…
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A THOUSAND PLATEAUS: CHRIS BERNTSEN, CAMILLE HOFFMAN, KAMBUI OLUJIMI, AND PATRICE RENEE WASHINGTON
Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York, is pleased to present A Thousand Plateaus, a group exhibition curated by Hank Willis Thomas with Daphne Takahashi, featuring new works by Chris Berntsen, Camille Hoffman, Kambui Olujimi, and Patrice Renee Washington. The title draws upon the 1980 philosophical text A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari which examines the idea…
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DERRICK ADAMS AT MARY BOONE
Mary Boone Gallery on Fifth Avenue presents New Icons, an exhibition of new paintings by DERRICK ADAMS before the gallery closes. New Icons is a series of large-scale, vivid and minimal oil paintings created through a combined process of CNC machined painting and the artist’s hand. Multiple thin layers of…
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MALIK ROBERTS: BLK & BLUE
Blk & Blue explores the topic of mental illness in communities of color. Roberts’ work often spotlight contemporary social issues: by breaking down formal elements in his paintings, the artist creates compositions, which convey the complexities and tensions typically masked by his subjects’ physical appearance. Inspired by Picasso’s Blue…
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THE MISSING, LOS DESAPARECIDOS
Displaying for the first time are new works by Jorge Luis Rodriguez. The Missing, Los Desaparecidos is a wall sculpture made out of papier mache with one hundred painted figures. The series presented by the West Harlem Art Fund on Governors Island for the exhibition Early Encounters,…
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
Founded by Touria El Glaoui in 2013, 1-54 is the leading international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora with annual editions in London, New York and Marrakech. Drawing reference to the fifty-four countries that constitute the African continent, 1-54 is a sustainable and dynamic platform…
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DERRICK ADAMS NEW WORKS
Tilton Gallery presents Derrick Adams’ newest body of work, Figures in the Urban Landscape through January 6th, 2018. It will be his fourth solo show with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held Wednesday, November 8th from 6 to 8pm. Derrick Adams is a New…
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JARDíN DE LAS SEMILLAS
An ecological phenomena has been occurring gradually around the globe. The incorporation of street art & graffiti with botanical materials. The results are quite spectacular because it’s interactive, living…
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CHIMACLOUD IN TIMES SQUARE
The works by artist Saya Woolfalk are breathtaking. Amazing, interactive, colorful (to say the least), digital and ALWAYS inviting. Curator Savona Bailey-McClain will interview Saya Woolfalk about her journey and artistic practice. The interview will be available online starting Friday evening after a live broadcast. ChimaClouds is on view through…
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WELL HELLO AFRICA 1:54
One continent with 54 countries. That’s what behind the art fair. The fair is located in Red Hook which took a long on this community but perseverance won the day and we have a fine art show. Above is a sampling of works with great artists represented by galleries around…
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WEST HARLEM ART FUND & WBAI RADIO ARE OFFICIALLY CULTURAL PARTNERS
The West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF) has officially partnered with WBAI Radio, and the two organizations intend to produce and broadcast a number of live performances & public art events throughout the NYC area. Coupled with the radio show State of the Arts NYC, hosted by Savona Bailey-McClain,…
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CALL FOR MUSIC ON STATE OF THE ARTS NYC
The Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund is now the Host & Producer for the new radio show State of the Arts NYC. We have been using as our musical theme Lovely Day by Bill Withers. And now, we will look to include original music from NYC…
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COMMUNITY SCREENING OF ELLIS DIRECTED BY JR
The Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund in collaboration with WBAI FM Radio will host a community screening of the short film Ellis directed by the artist JR and starring Robert DeNiro on Friday, November 13th in Brooklyn. The evening will begin with the permanent launch of the show, “State…
