Brooklyn-based artist
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Remembering Unity Ribbon 2010
I remember how this wonderful sculpture was presented and then violently destroyed. Art has that kind of power. To invoke fear, joy, curiosity or a feeling of loss. Created by Scherezade Garcia, a graduate student at the time. She was attending City College of New York’s MFA program. Installed on what is now called the…
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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 to explore narrative forms within…
(construct)Clearing, art in open public spaces, Brooklyn-based artist, dance film, Dance Party NYC, Earth Matter, Festival of New York, House Fest Governors Island, Intrinsic Ecologies, public art, Savona Bailey-McClain curator, site specific installation, Visual Muze, Visual Muze Storytelling Residency & Retreat, West Harlem Art Fund
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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 Period, for this exhibition, Roberts…
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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 discourse, histories of radical resistance,…
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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 York–based, multidisciplinary artist, working in…
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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 June 30th in the heart…
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West Harlem Art Fund 