Pace Gallery
presents Blackness in Abstraction, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today.
Radiant in his ideas, radiant in his aura, Soulages
presents a blackness of contemplation and works of spatiality, which are magnificently put into perspective by Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin.
New York, NY — Pace Gallery is pleased to
present Blackness in Abstraction, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today.
New York — Pace Gallery is pleased to
present Blackness in Abstraction, an exhibition curated by Adrienne Edwards tracing the persistent presence of the color black in art, with a particular emphasis on monochromes, from the 1940s to today.
In 2015 curator, Adrienne Edwards wrote «Blackness in Abstraction» in Art in America, an essay that cogently explores Adam Pendleton's recent «Black Dada» works and outlines a history of contemporary artists» conceptual visual ruminations, which have
presented blackness in multitudes since the early 1940s.
Not exact matches
ARTNOIR will be
presenting a series of events investigating the theme, Universal
Blackness: The Black Diaspora Experience in the 21st century.
'» [i] For her part, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver has said that Radical Presence intends to «resist reductive conclusions about
blackness» [ii] and to
present a version of performance in black history that transcends traditional categories of music, dance, and storytelling.
Alongside this work, he also addresses racial questions, exploring concepts of
blackness and whiteness and
presenting the prejudices and violence that emerge from a culture of racism.
In this lecture, recorded at the National Gallery of Art on March 4, 2012, Professor Cooks
presents research from her book Exhibiting
Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, in which she analyzes the curatorial strategies, challenges, and critical reception of the most significant museum exhibitions of African - American art in the United States.
She organized the «
Blackness in Abstraction» exhibition and catalogue,
presented at Pace Gallery.
'» [1] For her part, curator Valerie Cassel Oliver has said that Radical Presence intends to «resist reductive conclusions about
blackness» [2] and to
present a version of performance in black history that transcends traditional categories of music, dance, and storytelling.
Dancespace Project
presents: Dancing Platform Praying Ground
Blackness, Churches, and Downtown Dance, 6: 30 pm.
«
Blackness in Abstraction is a form of visual note taking, entirely provisional, experimental, suggestive, and capacious, like much of the art it
presents.»
The conversation was part of an on - going series on art,
blackness and diaspora funded by the Brandeis Arts Council and
presented by the departments of Fine Arts and African and Afro - American Studies, and the Rose Art Museum.
It's a funny term to use, given the show she eventually came up with: «
Blackness in Abstraction,» which assembles a group of monochromatic black works, created from the 1940s through the
present, by artists ranging from Robert Irwin to Carrie Mae Weems to Oscar Murillo.
For his solo show Water Me at Brilliant Champions Gallery in Brooklyn, Abbensetts
presents works exploring his own identity and
blackness, through an approach he dubs «revisionary self - appropriation.»
Her research considers the work of black diaspora artists (1990 -
present) who negotiate radically different conceptions of
blackness.
Sarah Stefana Smith will
present «A Poetics of Bafflement and Queer Affect in the Work of Contemporary Black Visual Artists» «My presentation focuses on the artistic work of contemporary black diaspora artists who negotiate different conceptions of
blackness.
All part of Thomas» Unbranded, the ads originally appeared between 1968 and the
present; Willis has been painstakingly moving through the history of branding, selecting images that portray
blackness or target black audiences.
Beginning with the «Negro Art room» at the 1922 Venice Biennale up to the
present — where representations of contemporary «
blackness» is dealt with by artists such as Kader Attia, Sammy Baloji, Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Wangechi Mutu — «rather than an exhibition about Africa,» says curator Marco Scotini, «The White Hunter is about a construction that the West made of it.»
Works including Toyin Ojih Odutola's The Treatment series of black pen drawing of famous white men like President Herbert Hoover rendered black, Zoe Buckman's feminist Every Curve series of lingerie embroidered with Biggie and Tupac lyrics, and Titus Kaphar's George Washington's Chef oil on canvas painting explore the historical and
present impact of
blackness on the shaping of identity and popular culture.
To Be Young, Gifted and Black also features works that show the duality of
blackness between the hopefulness of the Civil Rights Movement and the
present frustrations of the Black Lives Matter movement.
It's
presented as a cheery team - building exercise, and it's clearly symbolic to them, but there's endless discomfort in the scenes where people act as if it's perfectly normal to pull on a rope that disappears into inky
blackness, with a sense of a monumental unseen presence on the other end.