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South African artist James Delaney
James Delaney is a multidisciplinary artist with a current focus on sculpture and art as a tool for placemaking. Standing at the intersection between art and landscape, James creates pieces that bring their surroundings into relief, highlighting how the spaces we inhabit, be they city streets, wild spaces or man-made parks, affect and are affected…
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Serge Alain Nitegeka | Configurations in Black
Marianne Boesky Gallery 509 West 24th Street Through March 8, 2025 Deploying the visual language of minimalism and geometric abstraction, Serge Alain Nitegeka reappropriates modernism’s formal preoccupations with color, line, and space to examine the lingering effects—both personal and political—of forced migration. Drawing on his own history as a refugee, Nitegeka erects—at times quite literally—barriers,…
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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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Tribute to Renaissance artist William H. Johnson
Born 1901, Florence, South Carolina Died 1970, Central Islip, New York Born in a small South Carolina town, William H. Johnson left for New York at seventeen and enrolled at the National Academy of Design in 1921. Though he originally intended to become a cartoonist, he won acclaim as a painter, leading to a…
African sculptures, Black migration, enevive Nykolak, expressionis landscapes, Harlem, Harlem art, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance artist, Holcha Krake, National Academy of Design, NYC, painter, Paris, portraits, primitive paintings, sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Sweet Chariot, Swing Low, vernacular style, William H. Johnson, WPA, WWII
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The movement of Cecilia L Botchway
Cecilia Lamptey-Botchway is a Pan Africanist performance artist, sculptor, textile designer and a painter: Cecilia sees the African metaphysical universe as the inspiration for her paintings. Her art largely reflects her interrogation about Womanhood, Blackness and the Divinity of the African woman! As an active participant at the Ouidah Festivals in the Republic of…
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Chidinma Nnoli debuts in Chelsea
Read a recent article in the New Frame about the artist Chidinma Nnoli. The first paragraph described her work as poetry. And when you view her work, it’s very evident. There’s a quiet beauty to her paintings laced with layers of flowers and layered to provide texture. To see women so dark is very striking.…
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Jamaican-born Charles Campbell wins Canadian top prize
Charles Campbell, a visual artist who was born in Jamaica, is the winner of the 2022 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award, which brings with it a $15,000 grant. Campbell is a painter, sculptor, and performance artist based in Fernwood who has been working in multiple disciplines for some 30…
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Aksiniya Misyuta British Artist
Employing techniques from different fields, Aksiniya Misyuta veers between figurative and abstract imagery, though avoiding depictions executed in pure abstraction. Often rendered with cubist attributes, the emerging artist‘s works are characterized by a geometrically stylized approach that conveys magnetism submerged in a dystopian environment. Without clear facial features, her obscure figures become articulate with the…
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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 is an affective connection between…
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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, currently based in Vancouver. She…
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SHANEQUA GAY ATLANTA ARTIST
Shanequa Gay, an Atlanta native, received her AA in Graphic Design and Fashion Marketing from the Art Institute of Atlanta (1999), a BA in Painting from The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), summa cum laude (2015), and an MFA at Georgia State University. Gay was one of ten selected artists for OFF THE…
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GET TO KNOW NELSON MAKAMO
Artist Nelson Makamo, born in 1982, is best known for his portraits of children from his native country of South Africa. He was born with a natural artistic talent that took him to Artist Proof Studios in Johannesburg to study print making. Makamo’s most distinguished exhibition to date was the 2006 Ten Years of Printmaking:…
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YAMOU ABDERRAHIM — ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
BIO Born 1959 in Casablanca, Morocco Lives and works between Paris and Thannaout in Morocco. In 1978, Abderrahim Yamou, known as Yamou, left Casablanca and studied biology and sociology at the University of Toulouse, and then at the Sorbonne in Paris. At the same time, he studied history of art and design. He moved to…
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