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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT MARTHA JACKSON JARVIS
Martha Jackson Jarvis was born in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1952. She spent her early childhood in the south and moved to Philadelphia when she was thirteen. Jackson Jarvis studied her freshman year at Howard University where she benefited from the influence of artists such as Elizabeth Catlett and Lois Mailou…
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GORDON PARKS: HALF AND THE WHOLE
Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce Gordon Parks: Half and the Whole, on view at both gallery locations. As a photographer, film director, composer, and writer, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a visionary artist whose work continues to influence American culture to this day. In collaboration with the Gordon Parks…
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MAVIS IONA PUSEY
African-American artist Mavis Iona Pusey was born in Kingston, Jamaica on September 17, 1928, and grew up in the small rural village of Retreat. Her aunt taught her to sew and by the age of nine, Mavis was designing and making her own clothes. Throughout her youth what she wanted…
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BASKET CASE II
ARTISTS Ifeoma Anyaeji, Delaine Le Bas, Alexandra Bircken, matali crasset, Tapfuma Gutsa, Sebastian Herkner, Michel Paysant, including collaborations with Eric Gauss and Justin Langlands. WEAVING COMMUNITIES Binga Craft Centre, Bulawayo Home Industries, Lupane Women’s Centre, Zienzele Foundation, STEP Trust CURATORS Raphael Chikukwa, Chief Curator, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Christine Eyene,…
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JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE ASSEMBLAGE ARTIST
John Outterbridge, a sculptor who made the stuff of everyday life his medium, crafting found objects into assemblages imbued with history, has died at 87, according to New York’s Tilton Gallery, which represents him. No cause of death was given. Outterbridge’s sculptures often feature objects scavenged from the streets…
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MEET LARRY ACHIAMPONG
Larry Achiampong’s solo and collaborative projects employ imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance and sound to explore ideas surrounding class, cross-cultural and post-digital identity. With works that examine his communal and personal heritage – in particular, the intersection between pop culture and the postcolonial position, Achiampong crate-digs the vaults…
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TITUS KAPHAR NAMED ONE OF THE TOP ARTISTS IN 2020
At Gesù Church in Brussels, Maruani Mercier Gallery presented recent works in which Kaphar incorporated Renaissance-era religious iconography. Displayed on the flaky and at times graffitied walls of the deconsecrated church, a painted deposition scene shows Jesus’s body shrouded in black tar, and a portrait of a Black man is…
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ONE MONTH AFTER BEING KNOWN IN THAT ISLAND
‘One Month after Being Known in that Island’ is the inaugural exhibition of the Basel H. Geiger Cultural Foundation’s new permanent space. Commissioned by the Caribbean Art Initiative and curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel and Pablo Guardiola, the show brings together paintings, drawings, films, audio works and installations by 11…
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CLOUD HOUSE — PUBLIC ART FOCUS
A MEDITATIVE, SELF-CONTAINED ECOSYSTEM Cloud House’s simple re-creation of the water cycle illustrates our dependence on such systems, and its interior space is designed to encourage reflection on our connection with food and weather and our ability to address climate stability. In Farmers Park—Springfield, Missouri’s largest farmer’s market—a permanent, fluffy-looking…
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YINKA SHONIBARE WITH EARTH KIDS AT JAMES COHAN GALLERY
“The wild is far from unlimited. It is finite. It needs protecting.” – David Attenborough James Cohan is pleased to present Earth Kids, an exhibition of new sculptures by Yinka Shonibare CBE, on view from December 4 through January 23 at the gallery’s Lower East Side location at 291 Grand…
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New Program
Covid 19 revealed that many Americans wanted to connect more with nature, people, and meaningful activities. For years, the arts community has been trying to engage the public. It wasn’t until we lost those connections that people rallied to save them. The West Harlem Art Fund is developing two Public…
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JORDAN NASSAR NEW SOLO EXHIBITION
James Cohan is pleased to present I Cut The Sky In Two, an exhibition of new work by Jordan Nassar, on view from October 23 through November 21 at 291 Grand Street. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan. Jordan Nassar’s hand-embroidered works address intersecting fields of…
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ANILA QUAYYUM AGHA AND HER FOCUS ON LIGHT
Anila Quayyum Agha (b. Lahore, Pakistan) received her BFA from the National College of Arts, Lahore and an MFA from the University of North Texas. Recent solo shows include the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, National Sculpture Museum in Valladolid, Spain, The Dallas Contemporary Art Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum,…
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BIPOC AS CERAMISTS
Kevin Snipes was born in Philadelphia, but grew up mostly in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a B.F.A. in ceramics and drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994. After leaving grad school at the University of Florida in 2003 Kevin has led a seemingly nomadic artistic life, constantly making…
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FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM PRESENTS JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE
Jonathan Lyndon Chase has lived and worked in Philadelphia his whole life, receiving his MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 2016. Chase has received numerous awards from PAFA and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and was recently announced as a 2019 Fellow by…
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THEASTER GATES IN NEW YORK
It’s not really about the material. It’s about our capacity to shape things. — Theater Gates Theaster Gates is finally in New York! Gates’s first-ever solo exhibition in New York. Gates’s oeuvre is among the most conceptually and materially rich in contemporary art, anchored equally in the canons of art…
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT COLLINS OBIJIAKU
Collins Obijiaku is a young, up-and-coming artist from Kaduna, Nigeria. His work is a celebration of blackness through elegantly constructed portraits. Gazing at his paintings is to be transported into a world where black people exist for themselves, innately elegant and unfazed by the world and its never-ending problems. There…
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WHO IS GIO SWABY?
My work revolves around an exploration of identity, more specifically, the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. I am interested in the ways in which this physical identity can serve as a positive force of connection and closeness, while also examining its imposed relationship to otherness. Giovanna Swaby is a Bahamian artist,…
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NICK CAVE UNTIL
To learn even more, you can now sign up as a member and get special videos, information and invitation to special events. Nick Cave: Until was curated by Denise Markonish, MASS MoCA and organized for the Momentary by Lauren Haynes. The exhibition was organized by MASS MoCA and co-produced with…
