From Art+Auction (November 2010)
The Global Africa Project exhibition marks the opening of Lowery Stokes Sims’s biggest show since joining New York’s Museum of Arts and Design as curator in 2007. On view from November 17, 2010 through May 15, 2011, the show contains works by more than 100 designers, craftsmen, and artists, categories whose boundaries become increasingly blurred here. The focus is on emerging designers based in Africa or of African heritage, but the show goes far deeper, contextualizing traditional craft practices within the global marketplace, for example. Displays range from a line of furniture made in Senegal by the New York-based Bibi Seck, to the architectural designs of Mervyn Awon, of Barbados, and Andrew Light, of Guyana, to a mural conceived by the artist Algernon Miller and crafted in Uganda from paper beads made of leftover Obama campaign literature. The 264-page catalog (pictured above) to the Museum's exhibition is available on Amazon.com.
Click here for a complete list of artists in The Global Africa Project.
Location:
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
Location:
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
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