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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT — GLEN LIGON
Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is an artist living and working in New York. Through his work he pursues an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art. He is best known…
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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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IN MEMORIAM — JOE OVERSTREET
My paintings don’t let the onlooker glance over them, but rather take them deeply into them and let them out—many times by different routes,” the artist Joe Overstreet once said, describing viewing experiences that can be variously harrowing and exhilarating. “These trips are taken…
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LEONARDO DREW : CITY IN THE GRASS
Madison Square Park Conservancy has commissioned Leonardo Drew to create a monumental new public art project for the Park opening this spring. Marking the Conservancy’s 38th commissioned exhibition and the artist’s most ambitious work to date, City in the Grass will present a topographical view of an abstract cityscape atop…
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WARDELL MILAN: PARISIAN LANDSCAPES, BLUE ZENITH
David Nolan Gallery presents Parisian Landscapes, Blue Zenith, an exhibition of new works by Wardell Milan. For his second solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist has created large-scale collages, paintings, and various photo-based works. The term “Blue Zenith” is borrowed from a passage in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1836 essay…
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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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GOVERNORS ISLAND
The West Harlem Art Fund (WHAF) is returning to Governors Island in 2019 with two exhibitions that will spotlight human migration across Asia and then west from Africa to the Americas beginning June 1st. The organization is working with the Eli Klein Gallery based in the West Village, the Aicon…
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ODILI DONALD ODITA
Odili Donald Odita is an abstract painter whose work explores color both in the figurative historical context and in the sociopolitical sense. Odita has said, “Color in itself has the possibility of mirroring the complexity of the world as much as it has the potential for being distinct. The organization…
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NEWS WORKS BY DERRICK ADAMS
Luxembourg & Dayan based in the Upper East Side is pleased to announce Interior Life, an exhibition of new works by artist Derrick Adams, curated by Francesco Bonami. Inspired by a tenet of Catholic theology that describes “a life which seeks God in every- thing,” Interior Life is a…
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PALMER C. HAYDEN
Palmer Hayden, Harlem Renaissance artist and beyond Palmer Hayden’s birth was on November 9th 1890. He was an African American painter whose work became known during the Harlem Renaissance. Born Peyton Cole Hedgeman in Wide Water, Virginia, he was a prolific artist of his era. He depicted African American life,…
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JAMES BALDWIN IS BACK — THANK GOD
Born in 1924 in New York City, James Baldwin published the 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, going on to garner acclaim for his insights on race, spirituality and humanity. Other novels included Giovanni’s Room, Another Country and Just Above My Head as well as essay works like…
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CONGO TALES
Filled with vibrant images that highlight the area’s magnificent flora and fauna, this photographic project, which was three years in the planning and execution, offers an exciting opportunity to learn about nature and the environment and it delivers an optimistic message about trust, cooperation, and conservation for the next generation…
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THE HEAD & THE LOAD
The renowned artist William Kentridge from South Africa, synthesizes elements of his practice to conjure his grandest and most ambitious production to date, commissioned by the Armory. Kentridge works alongside long-time collaborator,Philip Miller—one of South Africa’s leading composers—whose powerful and evocative compositions offer a perfect complement to Kentridge’s feverishly imaginative…
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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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NICK CAVE AT JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY FOR IF A TREE FALLS
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present If a Tree Falls, an exhibition of new work by Nick Cave, bookending the artist’s spring presentations in New York. If Weather or Not (Jack Shainman Gallery, May 17 – June 23, 2018) was the visual manifestation of states of mind, and The…
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CHARLES WHITE AT MoMA
“ART MUST BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE STRUGGLE” “It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. … It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.” Over the course of his four-decade career, White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Americans—what his gallerist and, later, White himself described as…
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ED CLARK — A SURVEY
GALLERY REVIEW BY JOHN YAU I don’t think that I can begin to enumerate all the different ways that Ed Clark is important to the history of postwar American painting. Perhaps I should start by identifying some of the ways he has been left out. As Corinne Robins observed in a 1997…
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FOR OPACITY
Elijah Burgher, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Nathaniel Mary Quinn will be the first museum exhibition for Burgher and Quinn and it follows on the heels of Ojih Odutola’s successful 2017 New York debut at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In the case of each artist, older drawings will…
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SOLO EXHIBITION BY SIMONE LEIGH AT LUHRING AUGUSTINE IN CHELSEA
Luhring Augustine is pleased to present recent sculptures and a new video work by Simone Leigh, marking her first solo exhibition with the gallery. Leigh’s practice is an object-based exploration of vernacular visual traditions from throughout the black diaspora and their intersection with constructions of black female subjectivity, black feminist…
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT — FABIOLA JEAN-LOUIS
The West Harlem Art Fund is pleased to spotlight NYC artist Fabiola Jean-Louis and her Rewriting History Series. These photographs, where the subjects are women of color dressed in European period fashion, are beautifully staged. Embedded in each works are important messages that share a broader narrative. This artist series…
