Elizabeth Colomba
April 15, 2025 - May 17, 2025
VENUS OVER MANHATTAN39 Great Jones Street
New York, NY
From venusovermanhattan.com:
Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to present Elizabeth Colomba, the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition provides a comprehensive look at Colomba’s distinctive approach to figurative painting, featuring a selection of new and recent paintings and works on paper—most of which have never been shown publicly.
Opening on April 15th, the exhibition foregrounds Colomba’s engagement with historical, mythological, and allegorical subjects, centering Black women as protagonists in painterly traditions from which they have long been excluded. The show coincides with the ongoing installation of Colomba’s Armelle (1997) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—one of several recent prominent showcases of her work, which also include a cover for The New Yorker and a permanent commission for the Park Avenue Armory’s entrance hall. In conjunction with the exhibition, Venus Over Manhattan will publish a richly illustrated catalogue featuring a new conversation between Colomba and the artist Wangechi Mutu.
Colomba’s work serves as a critical intervention into the Western art historical canon. Employing the aesthetic conventions of Old Master painting, she centers Black women in her compositions, portraying them with dignity and self-possession. Influenced by Renaissance and Baroque traditions, her meticulous technique supports a fearless revisionism that insists on Black representation across historical and symbolic registers. “Beauty is democratic—it shouldn’t be a privilege to enjoy beauty,” Colomba has said.
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Opening on April 15th, the exhibition foregrounds Colomba’s engagement with historical, mythological, and allegorical subjects, centering Black women as protagonists in painterly traditions from which they have long been excluded. The show coincides with the ongoing installation of Colomba’s Armelle (1997) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—one of several recent prominent showcases of her work, which also include a cover for The New Yorker and a permanent commission for the Park Avenue Armory’s entrance hall. In conjunction with the exhibition, Venus Over Manhattan will publish a richly illustrated catalogue featuring a new conversation between Colomba and the artist Wangechi Mutu.
Colomba’s work serves as a critical intervention into the Western art historical canon. Employing the aesthetic conventions of Old Master painting, she centers Black women in her compositions, portraying them with dignity and self-possession. Influenced by Renaissance and Baroque traditions, her meticulous technique supports a fearless revisionism that insists on Black representation across historical and symbolic registers. “Beauty is democratic—it shouldn’t be a privilege to enjoy beauty,” Colomba has said.
For more information, click here.
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