ON VIEW: Affordable Art Fair NYC presents Delano Dunn

Delano Dunn, Procession, 2015,Paper, wallpaper, mylar, gold leaf, shoe polish and resin on board, 46 x 36 inches. Image courtesy of the artist.

In Our Time
March 31 - April 3, 2016

METROPOLITAN PAVILION

125 West 18th Street

New York, NY

From affordableartfair.com:

At each fair edition, Affordable Art Fair NYC dedicates space to an emerging artist or recent graduate. The 2016 edition features New York-based mixed media and collage artist, Delano Dunn, whose work explores racial identity and perception.

His series entitled In Our Time investigates the simultaneity of the 1960’s American space race and the Civil Rights Movement.  The blended imagery of astronauts and civil rights activists create a visual tether between NASA’s expansion of the “American Dream” and the African American struggle for dignity.

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ON VIEW: COPE2

Ben Frost/COPE2 collaboration on wood, 44 x 32 inches. Image via krausegallery.com.

DURABILITY

Featuring COPE2 and Ben Frost

March 21 - April 20, 2014

KRAUSE GALLERY

149 Orchard St at Rivington (LES)

New York, NY 

Krause Gallery NYC is excited to present Legends, COPE2 x Ben Frost.

COPE2: Fernando Carlo (also known as COPE2) is an artist from the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx, New York. He has been a graffiti artist since 1978-79, and has gained international credit for his work. He is now known worldwide as a NYC graffiti legend.

Ben Frost: (born Brisbane, Australia) is a visual artist whose work seeks to challenge contemporary norms and values of Western culture and society. Frost’s hand painted visual work places common iconic images from advertising, entertainment, and politics into startling juxtapositions that are often confrontational and controversial.

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ON VIEW: Pamella Allen

Pamella Allen, Me Mandala, 2014, Acrylic, sand and mixed media on canvas, 31 x 46 inches. Image via tablarasagallery.com. 

Brooklyn-based artist Pamella Allen’s mixed media work Me Mandela is featured in the exhibit OBESSION on view February 5 – March 23, 2014 at the Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

Pamella Allen artist statement:

To create my Mandals, I incorporate my own archetypal images by making reproductions of a selection of my most personal intuitive ink and charcoal drawings (created over the past 20 years) and in effect; re-painting them into the body of the mandala to create a rhythm or a mantra with an inevitable message. In my effort to mirror the ritual and therapeutic uses of the mandala in Buddhist, Hindu and Native American cultures throughout the centuries; I use my own archetypal images, the motion of repetitive form, the written word, color and texture to create a place of “One~ness” for meditation, expression and actualization within the confines of “the perfect circle” to mirror the beauty of the Supernova~ after its devastating explosion.

Ms. Allen will facilitate an artist talk at Tabla Rasa Gallery on Sunday, March 23, 2014.  Click here for more details.

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Get to Know: BRIC Artist Teacher Pamella Allen

ON VIEW: GAY

Cacy  Forgenie, Untitled,  2012,  photograph printed on Fuji archival paper. Edition of 10. Courtesy of the artist.  

Curated by Ivan Monforte

February 5 – May 7, 2014

Opening reception: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 5:00 - 9:00PM

BRONX COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 

LONGWOOD ARTS PROJECT

Hostos Community College

450 Grand Concourse (at 149^th Street)

Bronx, NY

GAY examines the cultural shift that has taken place in identity within the last decade by looking at the production of gay male artists of color from 2003-2013. Through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, performance and text, the artists in the exhibition interrogate, de-construct, embrace and celebrate the gay label. This show contains adult content.

Artists include: David Antonio Cruz, Jose Joaquin Figueroa, Cacy Forgenie, Lawrence Graham-Brown, Imani Henry, Steve Locke, Rafael Melendez, Lucas Michael, Troy Michie, Netza Moreno, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Carlo Quispe, Carlos Sandoval De Leon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hector Silva, Rob Vassilarakis, Charlie Vázquez, Antonio Vicenty and Dorian Wood.

About the Curator: Ivan Monforte was born in 1973 in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. He is the recipient of a UCLA Arts Council Award, a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, a Lambent Fellowship in the Arts from the Tides Foundation and an Art Matters Foundation grant for research in Samoa. He curated the exhibition I Never Meant to Hurt You at Buzzer Thirty in 2006. Monforte currently resides and works in Harlem where he maintains a studio practice and provides HIV prevention education to gay, bisexual and transgender homeless and runaway adolescents.

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ON VIEW: Paul Anthony Smith

Paul Anthony Smith, Untitled #6, Picotage, 2012, 10 X 8  inches.  Image via secristgallery.com.

Works by Paul Anthony Smith are featured in the exhibit New Work from Kansas City on view from June 8 to July 27, 2013 at the Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago.

From Carrie Secrist Gallery website:

Manipulated photographs by Paul Anthony Smith investigate autobiographical, ancestral, and cultural self-identification. For the works in this exhibition, Smith employs a technique called picotage, wherein he uses a ceramics tool to pick away the top layer of photographic images. Referencing African scarification and masking, these tears shimmer as if flecked with glitter. His obscured black figures are abstracted cultural portraits, feeding the artist’s interests in family history and heritage, as well as his broader research into African Diaspora. 

 

Paul Anthony Smith is the recipient of a 2013 Charlotte Street Foundation Visual Artist Award and a 2013 ArtsKC Inspiration grant. Following his debut solo exhibition with ZieherSmith, New York in early 2013, Smith was named by Huffington Post as one of the 30 best Contemporary Black Artists Under 40. He will participate in the Art Omi International Artists Residency this summer and present a solo exhibition at The MAC in Dallas this fall. 

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PREVIEW: Tony Lewis

All photos © 2013 BlackArtistNews. All rights reserved. Tony Lewis artwork used with permission of Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago.

BlackArtistNews previews new works by emerging artist  

Several works on paper by Tony Lewis will be on view in the Statements sector at Art Basel, June 13-16^th.

Statement provided by Shane Campbell Gallery:

Tony Lewis's recent work involves generally spare compositions of graphite letters excised from a self-written text that continues to be manipulated and rewritten on four glued paper panels. The language component, in the case of this project, stems from automatic writing and drawing exercises performed in the studio. Through associative wordplay, the nouns "people" and "color" are loosely organized into a poetic compound sentence. Fragments of that sentence are then transcribed in the form of a five line stanza with all of the letters being articulated in hand-drawn Arial font.  Depending on the drawing, Lewis will isolate particular words, letters, or phrases to shuffle meaning across personal, pop-cultural, political, and aesthetic boundaries. The scale of the drawings and fugitive media amount to expressive, visceral documentation of linguistic erasure and the simultaneously poignant and non-sensical possibilities it permits

  

For more information contact the Shane Campbell Gallery.

ON VIEW: Mequitta Ahuja and Albert Chong

DePaul Art Museum invite for War Baby/Love Child featuring a detail of Mequitta Ahuja’s Dream Region. 

Oil, enamel, acrylic, waxy chalk on paper, 2009. Collection of Greg Shannon.

Works by Mequitta Ahuja and Albert Chong are included in the travelling exhibit War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art currently on view (until June 30, 2013) at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago. The exhibition is curated by Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design and Wei Ming Dariotis, associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University.  

Albert Chong, Portrait of the Artist as a Victim of Colonial Mentality, 1979/2010, 2010.
Photo transfer on marble tiles, 48 x 48 in. Image via warbabylovechild.com.

War Baby/Love Child website